So I did my taxes and newegg had sent me a “shit on sale” email the same day. Day before mom said something about moving the hutch on my desk. Didn’t think much about it, thinking if I had a widescreen monitor, I’d need to move it. So I saw some tempting prices, figured out how much I was going to get back and said, hell yeah. I use my computer everyday and I’ve been wanting to make a nice electronics purchase (have been mulling over getting the HD DVD player for the 360) for awhile now. Been wanting a new monitor for awhile so it felt right. Newegg got it to my door in 23 hours.

The Samsung 204BW is a beautiful thing. 20″ widescreen, DVI connection, 1680 x 1050 resolution. After messing with the settings for 45 minutes I got it looking great. This resolution is just nuts, colors are gorgeous and with the cleartype font turned on text is perfect. 6ms response time so it works really well with games, only problem is that older games don’t support this resolution so they look stretched as shit (looking at you Warcraft III). I need to look around and see if there are any hacks out for some games. Company of Heros looks fantastic though, Sim City 4 as well.

I gave dad my 17″ Samsung but his computer just ate it so he needs to order a new one. It’s been a long time coming, that thing is going on 8 years old. Amazing it worked up until yesterday.