In use

The display is bright and the colour contrast is easy on the eyes. I found that the display was rather slow, especially when scrolling. This is a very minor problem and seemed to go away with time.

The viewing angle of the display is rather small but this is not a huge problem if you don’t slouch when you use your PC. I do, and I found myself moving the display about.

The display did have minor ghosting vertically and none horizontally. The vertical ghosting is unnoticeable unless you are looking for it.

I really loved the things that you can make the display do. This is more a review of LCD Smartie, but anyway. Being able to show the temperatures of either MDM or SmartFan were really cool. As was have a separate screen showing CPU usage, Winamp song name and the time. I found all of these things really useful. You can make the display show one thing when Winamp is playing and another when it isn’t. Displaying RSS feeds is also possible. If all of this isn’t enough, there are constantly more and more plug-ins being made available for LCD Smartie on the internet.

I got the case mounting bracket which is pretty cool and takes up two 5½” mounting bays. The bay mount is made of folded, brushed aluminium. It’s a little weak but you’re not likely to break it unless you are really mad.

It also has a really nice XSPC logo that you will be glad to show off to everyone.

If you are wondering which one to get; the bay mount or desk mount, I suggest that you pick the desk mount. I made the wrong decision and now I have had to make a cardboard version which is SLIGHTY less eye pleasing…