altminer
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Item: 2x IBM T221 9503-DG5 (22.2" WQUXGA 3840x2400 IPS displays) + 1x LFH-60 to Dual DVI adapter cable per monitor
Age: 10 years (August 2004)
Warranty: None
Packaging: Big sturdy cardboard box and a ton of bubble wrap (not original)
Condition: One of the monitors has a chipped piece of plastic on the rear frame (i.e. not visible unless you go looking), the other would be a little quieter with the fan replaced (I have a new fan just never installed it). If there's meaningful interest I'll do photos.
Location: Florida Glen, Johannesburg
Reason: Getting married, have to pay for a wedding -- bought 3 of these years ago and these 2 just sit around collecting dust, may as well sell them!
Shipping: At your expense. These are big & bulky; originally I paid R130 per monitor including insurance to post from Cape Town, no idea what it would cost today.
Collection: Strongly preferred. Come see what you're buying.
Price: Make me an offer. I paid R10k each at the time. They cost ~$8,000 back in 2004
Link: IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I love these things. But I've got a wedding to pay for and two of the three are just lying around gathering dust (it does look insanely cool when you have a wall of them at 11520x2400 effective resolution but in practice I find myself more productive with just a single display). Forgive my indulgence:
WARNING: This is not for the faint of heart. If you enjoy playing with rare, badass hardware and fiddling for hours to achieve something very few have, you'll love this. But you need to know what you're doing to get this working properly on your OS, and you need to fully understand the manual I linked to above to set up the various resolutions.
Depending on how you want to set the display up, you may need to update the display's EDID using the process in the manual. If it doesn't make sense to you, stop reading now. Note that I only supply 1x 1 LFH-60 to Dual DVI cable. It supports at most 3840x2400 @ 25Hz with 2x DVI outputs on 1 or 2 graphics cards. 2 such cables supports 3840x2400 @ 48Hz with 4x DVI outputs across 1-4 graphics cards, or you can buy a custom cable that does 3840x2400 @ 48Hz with 2x Dual-link DVI outputs across 1-2 graphics cards. I've heard you can also overclock the refresh rate, some say to 60Hz, but I've never tried. 24Hz is surprisingly usable if you're a radiologist, photographer, artist, designer, animator, film editor etc. Obviously it's not going to make most gamers here happy -- you need to understand that this is a tool for professional medical or graphics work, not for pixel warriors
Modern AMD drivers run this monitor perfectly using Eyefinity, but I've heard that NVIDIA wasn't so great in the past.
I can't be responsible for you lacking the technical capabilities to use this beast to its full potential.
References: List of 4K monitors, TVs and projectors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Age: 10 years (August 2004)
Warranty: None
Packaging: Big sturdy cardboard box and a ton of bubble wrap (not original)
Condition: One of the monitors has a chipped piece of plastic on the rear frame (i.e. not visible unless you go looking), the other would be a little quieter with the fan replaced (I have a new fan just never installed it). If there's meaningful interest I'll do photos.
Location: Florida Glen, Johannesburg
Reason: Getting married, have to pay for a wedding -- bought 3 of these years ago and these 2 just sit around collecting dust, may as well sell them!
Shipping: At your expense. These are big & bulky; originally I paid R130 per monitor including insurance to post from Cape Town, no idea what it would cost today.
Collection: Strongly preferred. Come see what you're buying.
Price: Make me an offer. I paid R10k each at the time. They cost ~$8,000 back in 2004
Link: IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I love these things. But I've got a wedding to pay for and two of the three are just lying around gathering dust (it does look insanely cool when you have a wall of them at 11520x2400 effective resolution but in practice I find myself more productive with just a single display). Forgive my indulgence:
- Most compact, high resolution display available: 22.2", 9.2 megapixel IPS display
- This is nearly 1 megapixel more than current Ultra HD 3840x2160 displays, all of which are at least 27" in size - Highest DPI and best price per pixel for a standalone monitor: 204 DPI
- MacBook Pro Retina displays are 220-227 DPI (15" 2880x1800, 13" 2560x1600) - but you're buying a laptop, and you're getting half the megapixels, and still paying R15-25k- Dell have just *announced* a 27" 5120x2880 display - that's 217 DPI and more megapixels, but larger form factor and it'll probably cost R40k -- if it even gets released at the end of this year- The wikipedia page I reference mentions a 9" 3840x2160 display but that seems to be inaccurate; I could find no evidence it existed, just that Astrodesign provide a 4k *compatible* 9" monitor; in any case those are specialist devices for the movie industry starting at about R500k - 4 independent DVI inputs up to 1920x1200x48hz each
- You can connect this to up to 4 computers/video cards and it will tile the inputs (see p22 & p23 for a full list of supported display modes + tiling options: http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/visuals/usersguidet221.pdf )- As far as I know, no other monitor in production today has this capability (note: for 3/4 tiles, you'll need to buy an extra adapter cable for about 1-1.5k; also see my notes above about resolution + cables required) - Draws 150W -- warms you up nicely on cold winter nights
- Very few people have a T221, and even fewer have the last model, the DG5, with the highest refresh rate -- you'll finally be one of the cool kids and earn the right to use a emote wherever you go with this in your sig rig
- Really, just imagine watching 4x HD movies on your 22" desktop simultaneously, at full resolution, with 3840x240 (nearly 1megapixel) of screen space left over -- it's that good
WARNING: This is not for the faint of heart. If you enjoy playing with rare, badass hardware and fiddling for hours to achieve something very few have, you'll love this. But you need to know what you're doing to get this working properly on your OS, and you need to fully understand the manual I linked to above to set up the various resolutions.
Depending on how you want to set the display up, you may need to update the display's EDID using the process in the manual. If it doesn't make sense to you, stop reading now. Note that I only supply 1x 1 LFH-60 to Dual DVI cable. It supports at most 3840x2400 @ 25Hz with 2x DVI outputs on 1 or 2 graphics cards. 2 such cables supports 3840x2400 @ 48Hz with 4x DVI outputs across 1-4 graphics cards, or you can buy a custom cable that does 3840x2400 @ 48Hz with 2x Dual-link DVI outputs across 1-2 graphics cards. I've heard you can also overclock the refresh rate, some say to 60Hz, but I've never tried. 24Hz is surprisingly usable if you're a radiologist, photographer, artist, designer, animator, film editor etc. Obviously it's not going to make most gamers here happy -- you need to understand that this is a tool for professional medical or graphics work, not for pixel warriors
Modern AMD drivers run this monitor perfectly using Eyefinity, but I've heard that NVIDIA wasn't so great in the past.
I can't be responsible for you lacking the technical capabilities to use this beast to its full potential.
References: List of 4K monitors, TVs and projectors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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