Getting a new monitor

[janneppi]

I think it's time to ditch the trusty seven years old 19" Samtron for some shiny new 22" or 24" flat thingy. :)

A guy in my office has a pair of 24" HP w2408h's in his desk, that particular monitor won a test in a Finnish magasine this year, but it's not exactly cheap and and the shiny finish makes me a bit cautious.

What else is out there?

I'm mainly going to use it for intraweb and gaming so it would be nice if it's fast enough, or something like that.

[Eki]

What else is out there?


Christian Monitor:

http://www.christianmonitor.org/

[veeten]

oh, stop. :laugh: :p :

Classic Eki. :)

[Eki]

http://puppulausegeneraattori.fi/?a=6


Vaikka osaltamme onkin saatettu syyllistyä laiminlyönteihin, voidaan taholtamme kuitenkin todeta, että tupareissa lattialle pudonnut kämppäkaverin monitori asettaa tahomme tukalaan tilanteeseen ajateltaessa vastuunalaisia kontradiktioita.

[Daniel]

Viewsonic is my personal favourite brand and I also like Samsung as well although apparently the Pebble range is not that great. Philips, LG, Dell and NEC are good as well. Some people like Benq monitors but I find they look really cheap and crappy :p HP is also good but most of the big stuff is for the business market and is prohibitively expensive as you've found out :)

If you can try to check out the model you're buying in a store. Check how bad the backlight bleed is. Backlight bleed will happen on LCD's but if it's really bad it makes it hard to make out things on a dark screen like in an FPS where you're hiding in a corner waiting to batter someone to death with a melee weapon :devil: See below for a example of bad backlight bleed.

http://sean.nickfire.com/e228wfp/IMG_1426small.jpg

Anything with a response 8ms or better will be fast enough for playing games on.