Text looks bad

A friend gave me his early 2008 Mac Pro with an older 24" inch Gateway monitor. The picture on that monitor was fantastic, but it burned out a couple weeks ago, so I replaced it with a new 24" Samsung HDTV/monitor combo.

I have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 graphics card installed with multiple HDMI ports. The video is set to 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz (1080p), 32-bit color.

On this new monitor text looks terrible. Video and pictures look fantastic, but texts just really looks like garbage and difficult to read.

At first I assumed it was just the monitor. I only spent about $200 on it so it's not like it's high end or anything. I figured it just couldn't render text very well or something. But when I booted the computer up to run Windows yesterday I was amazed that the resolution on the text was amazing. It was sharp and clear and looked like a totally different monitor.

I tried to change color settings, played with different resolutions, LCD font smoothing, etc., but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make text look good in OS X.

I should be able to get clear text!

2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048 MB