Hey guys, I helped at the semi-annual recycling drive conducted by a local computer USERS' group to which I belong and I came into possession of a working Dell 24" LCD monitor. The model # is 2405FPW.

Just a short time ago, I connected it to the VGA port on my computer's AGP NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 (256MB) video card in my Win XP system. The native/maximum resolution for this monitor is 1920 x 1200, which is a good bit higher than any monitor I've ever used with this video card. The highest resolution I've used prior to this is 1280 x 1024.

So far, the monitor seems to be working well; I have not noticed any defects. The screen seemed too bright at first. I found Brightness to be set at 50%; I lowered that to 30 and that seems better. The manufactured date on back is Jan. 2006. It has PIP (Picture in Picture) capability, which is something I have not had before in a monitor.

I'm just wondering how well the video card will handle this monitor. I do no gaming with this machine. It's mainly used for email, MS Office apps, web browsing, and a little photo VIEWING. I have a old computer with that graphics card. And I recently got a brand new monitor of 1920x1200 resolution. My old computer is a 2002 Dell running windows XP Home Edition. The nVidia FX550 I overclocked about 10% (i'm a gamer)

I noticed viewing some websites there's a bit of lag- the video is a bit choppy when scrolling down a web page containing lots of images or flash objects (including videos).
During basic image editing in mspaint, doing things like adding text to a larger-than-screen size image the scrolling is choppy. editing images by adding or moving large piece of image the video is choppy, and sometimes things come to a stop. I don't know if its the RAM, CPU, or video card causing that.
These issues happen on a smaller screen size, 1280x1024, but its much more TOLERABLE.

generally to get the most out of the monitor's performance I recommend a graphics card using a DVI interface, VGA's limit is around 1280x1024. the DVI allows more bandwidth and will improve performance somewhat. That's the standard native resolution for a 16x9, 22" monitor. I've got a 16x9, 19" @ 1440x900 with DVI & VGA inputs. You'll have no issues, but it does take some getting used to the wide screen format. My 2nd computer still used a 17" 4x3 format.Quote from: 10twenty on May 07, 2010, 07:21:59 PM

generally to get the most out of the monitor's performance I recommend a graphics card using a DVI interface, VGA's limit is around 1280x1024. the DVI allows more bandwidth and will improve performance somewhat.

I noticed viewing some websites there's a bit of lag- the video is a bit choppy when scrolling down a web page containing lots of images or flash objects (including videos).

That's the standard native resolution for a 16x9, 22" monitor. I've got a 16x9, 19" @ 1440x900 with DVI & VGA inputs. You'll have no issues, but it does take some getting used to the wide screen format. My 2nd computer still used a 17" 4x3 format.