Looking to upgrade screen on my GX620 with UWXGA Panel

I am currently looking up the possibility of swapping screens with a 1900x1200 panel because I personally love high pixel density screens. I don't game much, but I would definitely use the real estate for media creation applications.

I know you can insert a SXGA+ panel (1680x1050) pretty easily, but I might as well get the highest rez panel I can get.

I was wondering if you guys could provide me with some info like what panels are currently found in the gx620. I'm hoping it's an LG panel because that would allow easy swapping without changing the inverter with a LG LP154WU1, which is one of my favored 15.4 UWXGA panels.

Any experience, insight, and comments would be greatly appreciated. I would be will to provide a guided tutorial if I can get this done.

Thanks,

David

 

I heard of a store that sells these. I think its lcds4less in the uk or something (google it). Just look for a LCD that fits your chasis, at the resolution your after.

 

the 620 uses a chimei panel for wsxga. you can use pretty much any 15.4" ccfl but NOT ANY LED ONES lg does make a wuxga but they are hard to find. you would get the LP154WU1 model

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=15...=p3286.m270.l1313&_odkw=15.4"+wuxga&_osacat=0 get one from here

 

hey zfactor, any ideas on where to get a xga matte screen?

 

why do you want xga? but let me look into it.. ill make a few calls.

edit see below just checked my books for you

 

sammy has a few toshiba makes one and lg would be model LP154W01 CHI MEI N154I3-L01 SHARP LQ154K1LA1C among others

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-DELL-E6500-...4a9aa2bfd6&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_567wt_1165

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-COMPAL-FL90...a4de55993&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_2857wt_1165

 

Thank you very much for the replies. Out of curiosity, would you guys prefer glossy or matte? Seeing as how I am mostly using the laptop for photoshop type stuff, matte is the way to go...but i do love the rich., saturated colors that a glossy provides for movie watching. plus, its not like any of these panels come close to more than 50% color gamut seeing as theyre 16 million colors with dithering. so yeah i was wondering on people's personal input on a matte vs glossy panel

see here for some good reading on 15.4 uwxga stuff including specs, installation, and overall discussion:
http://www.lumenlab.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=15376

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=5222519

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3322153

 

I put a LG154WU1 to replace the default wxga glossy panel that came with mine. I used the default inverter. Everything is working fine, the process is pretty straight forward. Remove the screw on the bezel and carefully remove it(I cracked it while doing it...), remove old panel and put new in in its place.

 

@ ayle

thank you for the response. Out of curiosity, how do you like your new screen? is it glossy or matte? what do you do with your msi laptop? ie gaming or productivity stuff.

thanks!

 

It's matte. But watching 1080p movies looks gorgeous. But that wasn't the main reason I bought it. I spend most of my time browsing the web, coding and using Office and I got tired of having to scroll all the time, so on that front the screen is perfect. Gaming wise, the most of the games I can play at native resolution are RTS and Flightsims newer FPSs beside Valve games are just to taxing so I just leave them at 1680x1060 or 1280x800 and they look pretty good at that resolution even with the AA turned off. Or I just plug the laptop to the 42" 1080p TV and play that way. At 720p it looks great but I might upgrade my GPU sometimes in the future to take full advantage of my native resolution.