FS: Two Samsung U70 7" USB LCDs

[GregP]

EDIT: SOLD

 

I bought these new from a vendor in Korea last year, and was using them to export MFCDs in DCS: A-10C with TM MFDs overlaid on top. They're absolutely perfect for that function, but I no longer have a need for them since I've started using Eyefinity and Helios.

 

They have a resolution of 800x480 and connect through a single powered USB plug or two unpowered plugs. Free DisplayLink drivers run the monitors, and I've never had a problem with them, as they continue to regularly update them.

 

I'll mention that one of the monitors has two slight scratches: one about 1/2-inch long on the lower left, the other about an 1/8-inch long in upper right. Both are just cosmetic scratches and there are no dead pixels. It was hard to take good pictures of them because the flash really exaggerates the scratches but you can see from the one where it's plugged in that the lower left one is not visible when the monitor is on, while the upper right one is only slightly visible.

 

I'd like to sell these as a pair, as they really do make perfect MFDs. I paid about $225 last year, and I see that on eBay now they're going to about $190 a pair if you include shipping. I could sell them for $140 shipped, a $50 discount. I prefer Paypal, and I'll send them out the day after I get payment, to anywhere within the lower 48.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 13, 2011 by GregP

[mikewmac]

Greg,

 

I might be interested in these. How did you capture the MFD images from the sim onto them and would it work on both DCS A-10C and BMS 4.32?

 

Mike

[GregP]

Mike,

 

In DCS I had them running using the free SoftTH utility. The main restriction is that you can't be using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire, by aside from that, it's pretty flexible. What specifically is your setup? How many monitors and video cards, and what kind? Once I know that I can quickly figure out how it would work.

 

BMS I'm not sure about ... I know guys have been extracting the MFDs, but I don't know how, specifically.

[mikewmac]

Mike,

 

In DCS I had them running using the free SoftTH utility. The main restriction is that you can't be using Nvidia SLI or AMD Crossfire, by aside from that, it's pretty flexible. What specifically is your setup? How many monitors and video cards, and what kind? Once I know that I can quickly figure out how it would work.

 

BMS I'm not sure about ... I know guys have been extracting the MFDs, but I don't know how, specifically.

 

Greg,

 

My system:

 

i7-2600K @ 4.5 GHz / Asus P8Z68-V/Gen 3 / 8GB DDR3-1600 / 1 Radeon 6950 2GB / 1 23" Acer Touchscreen Monitor / Windows 7 Pro 64-bit / TrackIR5 / Saitek Combat Rudder Pedals / TM HOTAS Warthog or Cougar

 

Mike

[GregP]

OK, so you've got a fairly easy setup to work with; basically you just change your resolution from 1920x1080 to 2720x1080, because you'll be 'virtually' placing the USB monitors to the right of your main screen, i.e. in Windows' display properties screen, you're going to drag the USB screens to the right of your main monitor. Then you need to tell DCS that your entire screen space is the new render area.

 

Then you create a multi-monitor lua file that tells DCS where to render the MFCDs; then you download SoftTH, drop the single DLL file into your DCS directory, and put a SoftTH config file in there with it (I could create both config files for you pretty quickly).

 

And that's it! MFCDs exported to the USBs. Since you'd now be running a larger render area, you would likely see at least some small FPS decrease, but given that you're only running a single screen right now on a 6950, I doubt it would be significant.

 

If the above sounded complicated, it's really not ... I could easily step you through the entire process, and once you figure out how it works, it's pretty simple.

[MTFDarkEagle]

Dang why didn't you put these on sale 2 months ago? :D

[mikewmac]

Greg,

 

Please check your PM's.

 

Mike

[speckfire]

Are they sold?

[GregP]

Yes, just sent them out this morning, sorry.

[AlpineYoda]

I have a pair of U70s for sale as well, if anyone wants them. Let's say $175 plus whatever it costs to ship them to you.

 

Both are brand new -- one is still in its wrapping. In the spirit of full disclosure, I unwrapped the other one and was test fitting it against the MFDs and put a very small scratch in the housing.

 

I was checking out the 8" Lilliputs on Amazon and clicked one too many buttons, buying a pair basically by accident, while I was shopping for Christmas presents. So, now I have 2 pairs of displays and I don't need the U70s.

[pitbldr]

I was checking out the 8" Lilliputs on Amazon and clicked one too many buttons, buying a pair basically by accident, while I was shopping for Christmas presents. So, now I have 2 pairs of displays and I don't need the U70s.

 

Amazon has a great return policy. Had to return several things I bought through them and it was painless each time. :)

[AlpineYoda]

I totally agree on their return policy, but I would rather use the Lilliputs than the U70s. Hence the sale. Given that I bought the U70s from somebody in Korea, they are not readily returnable.

 

The U70s are a tiny bit narrower than the MFDs, while the Lilliputs are a bit larger than the MFDs. So, you spend less on the U70s but lose a tiny bit of viewable area.

 

It was a fortuitous mistake.

[pitbldr]

Ah, I see. :D

[AlpineYoda]

I just listed the Samsung U70s on eBay if anyone is interested:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300639891274