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What colour temperature do you set your monitor at?

~6550°K
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11%
~9200°K
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56%
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33%
 
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Monitor Colour Calibration

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Simple question, pretty much every computer monitor has a setting for colour temperature, what do you set yours at?

My Viewsonic has a custom setting, I found the 6550°K setting to be a bit too red so I used the custom setting and made one that's a tiny bit bluer. My LG monitor is set to the stock 6550°K and it looks just fine for me.
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9200. It looks very nice and was the default setting.
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I usually don't, but if I need to color-calibrate I'll use one of the wizards, or failing that I'll hold up a piece of paper and white-balanced to that.
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You spelled "color" wrong.
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StormTrooperTR889 wrote:You spelled "color" wrong.
No he didn't, and you're a retard. Get off my Internet.

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I set my monitor to 9200.
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StormTrooperTR889 wrote:You spelled "color" wrong.
You live in the wrong country. :P

Custom setting on my monitor, between the 2 default settings but closer to 6550K.
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StormTrooperTR889 wrote:You spelled "color" wrong.
Cease the spamming.
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phongn wrote:
StormTrooperTR889 wrote:You spelled "color" wrong.
Cease the spamming.
Can/will do. Sorry about that.

I'm on my nice little laptop, and I don't bother to fiddle with anything beyond hte res. So it's default all the way for me.
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I calibrate mine for what looks right to my eyes.
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Custom setting, I'd say around 8500K
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Temperature? Can someone for to explaining this for the colours why the temperature is doing?


IOW- what effect does the temperature have?
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Chardok wrote:Temperature? Can someone for to explaining this for the colours why the temperature is doing?
An object's color temperature is the temperature of a black-body radiator with a perceived color the same as that of the light source. Wikipedia article
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phongn wrote:
Chardok wrote:Temperature? Can someone for to explaining this for the colours why the temperature is doing?
An object's color temperature is the temperature of a black-body radiator with a perceived color the same as that of the light source.
Or basically the bigger the number is the bluer the screen gets.
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ARG!!! THanks to you guys I got too curious with that color setting and now my screen's seems all washed out!!! :cry:


These things usually have a reset function somewhere, right?
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If your monitor has an OSD (On Screen Display, for the uneducated. ;)), it probably does.
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According to my monitor, a 19" Hitachi CM715, 9300.
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Hijack question:

MY monitor has recently started making a noticeable high-pitched noise constantly when displaying my desktop or browser, I noticed it's more rponounced when it displays the color white predominantly, and less so with dark colors. Thoughts?


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Post by Meest »

^ What's your refresh rate at? If you are at high res and a refresh your vidcard can handle but not your monitor it can cause problems like that.
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Post by phongn »

Your monitor is poorly made and at certain refresh rates it will whine. Sometimes it'll go away for mysterious reasons, other times you'll have to change it.
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