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Recommendations for a new 19" LCD monitor?
For more than a year now I've had to literally kick my old CRT monitor
very hard to make the image appear. This has called for some very athletic moves, but I'm getting older and can't keep doing this forever. And lately the green channel has died, so that everything appears purple. So I'm going to buy a new monitor pretty soon. Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheapish 19 inch LCD monitor? I've seen a few seemingly good offers, for instance the Fujitsu-Siemens X19-1 or the Hansol H950. Would anyone here advice against these? I want to play movies and sometimes fast games on it, so refresh rates are important. But is 20 ms noticably better than 25 ms, as the monitors above have? ADi A715 for instance, is down at 16 ms, would I in fact be better off with a faster 17 inch monitor? |
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Toffly wrote:
For more than a year now I've had to literally kick my old CRT monitor very hard to make the image appear. This has called for some very athletic moves, but I'm getting older and can't keep doing this forever. And lately the green channel has died, so that everything appears purple. So I'm going to buy a new monitor pretty soon. Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheapish 19 inch LCD monitor? I've seen a few seemingly good offers, for instance the Fujitsu-Siemens X19-1 or the Hansol H950. Would anyone here advice against these? I want to play movies and sometimes fast games on it, so refresh rates are important. But is 20 ms noticably better than 25 ms, as the monitors above have? ADi A715 for instance, is down at 16 ms, would I in fact be better off with a faster 17 inch monitor? Define "cheapish". A decent 17" LCD will set you back $400.... LCD's don't have "refresh rates" like a CRT, they have "response time" instead, 25ms will product an acceptable picture for gaming, while 28ms can give you some ghosting, but as the response time goes down, the price goes up.... I'd look at some reviews from numerous hardware sites and base my selection from that, if I were you. MrToad |
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Define "cheapish".
A decent 17" LCD will set you back $400.... Well, I live in Norway, and I still haven't found a reliable connection between prices inn dollars and the price that shows up over here. Translating by the currency rates, the X19-1 is priced at around $660 here, but that's probably not the price in the rest of the world. Maybe we should call it "Low-end-ish" instead... LCD's don't have "refresh rates" like a CRT, they have "response time" instead, 25ms will product an acceptable picture for gaming, while 28ms can give you some ghosting, but as the response time goes down, the price goes up.... Really? There's a visible difference between 25 and 28 ms?? |
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Well, I went and bought me the Fujitsu-Siemens X19-1.
The specs seem good (25 ms response time, 500:1 contrast ratio, 1280 x 1024, 170 degrees viewing agle H and V, 250 cd/m2 brightness) and the price is the best over here at least. I haven't seen the image of it, but I can test it at home and get my money back if I don't like the image. Since it seems to be such a new model (I haven't found any online reviews of it) I can post my judgement of it here later on. |
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