Joined on 11/21/07
Best budget monitor
Pros: First off, it's an IPS with white-LED back lighting and even though it is a 6-bit e-IPS panel it still looks beautiful and has extremely low display lag which makes it an excellent IPS gaming monitor (0.6ms input lag average, 6-17ms total display lag). The fact that it's an Ultrasharp means it comes with Dell's Premium Panel Guarantee which is a nice bonus.
Cons: The only thing that holds this monitor back is the fact that it's 6-bit and not 8-bit so it isn't true color but rather uses dithering to achieve looks similar to a true 8-bit IPS but you should know that already if you're in a market for an IPS LCD. Don't hold it being 6-bit against it, though because you would only ever notice if you did professional graphic design or Photoshop editing.
Overall Review: It's 1920x1080 and not 1920x1200 but that was my choice to buy a 16:9 monitor instead of 16:10. Newegg does sell the 16:10 version of this monitor if you're looking for it; the model is U2412M. Only reason I didn't get the 16:10 was the price. However, I'm so glad I bought this display, my last samsung LCD TN panel cost me almost $350 and is absolutely ugly compared to this IPS panel.
Really?
Pros: Awesome little device, very convenient for trade shows.
Cons: I've owned this device for a long while now so when I saw it was selling on newegg I had to laugh a bit. I don't know if it's still like this but square used to send you one of these for free if you asked for it; since they make their money back off transaction fees.
Overall Review: I don't see the point in having to pay for one of these.
Correction to below review.
Pros: Haswell microarchitecture.
Cons: Lack of HT.
Overall Review: Just to correct the other reviewers this CPU does not have Hyper-Threading (HT). This means it is actually closer to a Haswell Core i5 except with 8MB cache vs. the i5's 6MB.
In response to marcelo v.
Pros: Good price to performance ratio.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: Marcelo, the AMD drivers don't officially support Vista as it's one of the least used Windows OSes and doesn't make financial sense for AMD to upkeep a driver for it.
To the person with 3 DOAs
Pros: Thermal Armor. High end ASUS board.
Cons: None.
Overall Review: If you're on your third board and it's also "DOA" it's likely that something else is keeping your system from working (PSU, RAM, CPU, etc.) or you're somehow managing to kill the board every time you install it. That or you're seriously unlucky.
@AGX
Pros: Gigabyte VLIW4 card.
Cons: End of life graphics card.
Overall Review: AGX, the fact that this card got deactivated has nothing to do with Gigabyte. AMD, the company that makes the GPU that goes into all Radeon graphics cards stopped producing the Cayman core that is used on the 6970/6950 because they have been producing their 7xxx series cards for all of 2012. So any 69xx card should be hard to find and expensive. So if you have an issue, take it up with AMD, it's not Gigabyte's fault. Also, I'm amazed that this card is even reactivated right now (although it probably will be deactivated again).