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29th June 2009, 20:38 | #1 |
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New monitor suggestions?
I'm looking into getting a new flat screen monitor for my PC. The one I have now is a Samsung SyncMaster930B 19" flatscreen. Its probably 5-6 years old, nothing wrong with it though. I was just thinking of going to a bigger size when I get my new computer, preferably 21" to 23". Is there any particular brand you guys prefer? I was looking at some Acer, Asus, and Samsung models at the local Best Buy store. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
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29th June 2009, 21:20 | #2 |
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Take a look at NEC monitors.
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29th June 2009, 22:10 | #3 |
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Of course compare the specs vs. price for all available stuff. A few months ago I got a samsung syncmaster 2333sw 23" widescreen at Best Buy, it was on sale for about $225 or so, I'm really happy with it. If you have enough comp and video card to run it at high res it's really cool for games and, of couse, planetsuzy!
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Bought a samsung a year ago. A great choice I must say. They have pretty decent monitors.
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29th June 2009, 23:52 | #5 |
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I use an oldish Samsung SynchMaster 710v, and it is fine for my needs. If I wanted to move on, rather than change this monitor for another, I would buy a second identical one, and run them together in a dual monitor configuration.
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30th June 2009, 00:08 | #6 |
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For many years Viewsonic was the popular and well-respected brand, and wasn't exorbitantly expensive. It's probably still a good brand (I haven't heard any complaints about them), but several other brands now rank equally high in customer esteem. Samsung is a very well-regarded brand in both TV's and PC monitors; LG has a similar reputation.
I personally have an Acer monitor, and would definitely buy another when I need to replace my other, older monitor. The Acer is a 22" widescreen model and has terrific picture quality. It runs natively at 1680x1050 resolution, but I run it at 1440x900 since I've got old, tired eyes. Plus I push it to the back of my desktop to free up lots of room in front of it, so the icons and text get a little small that far away. Anyway, Acers are very reasonably priced - my 22" model was $179 when I bought it last year sometime, and I've seen it for around $150 on really good sales. I have to say, though, that nowadays even the lowliest brands (Hannspree, etc) probably have good picture quality. The technology has matured, and there's not nearly as much difference between brands as there was maybe 8 or 10 years ago. With the very cheapest models, you should make sure that you get both DVI and analog connections - I've seen some with only analog. The much more expensive models add HDMI input along with DVI and analog. |
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Thanks for all of the feedback guys, I really do appreciate it.
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30th June 2009, 04:15 | #8 |
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although Dell sometimes get a bad rap for their pcs, their monitors
are really good and always get good reviews(and great prices)look at the specs for their 24" or even treat yourself to a 30". if you pass a newsagent look at a couple of pc mags in the hardware review sections-these can cut to the chase, whereas on the net it can be trickier to avoid the sponsored stuff. |
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As a former Best Buy employee and having gone through 4 monitors in the last 2 years...let me say this: Buy one with a minimum of a 3 yr warranty. I run dual 19" monitors and my first two were Gateway...good discount while I was there...looked nice at the time. Only thing I didn't put a service plan on. One died 13 months out...the other 15. Out almost $400. Moved to LG which had been pretty good while I was there. Replaced one out of the box and just had a second serviced. I'm going to Samsung or Apple cinema displays when these go out. At least these were covered under warranty and promptly replaced.
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I have an Asus lcd that I'm quite pleased with for the most part, in fact its this model here:
http://newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824236052 The only two issues I've noticed with it are some minor "tearing" effects in some games if vsync is off, although this is typical in most larger LCD's nowadays. Enabling vsync and triple buffering in your videocard control panel should get rid of that, and the other is that its very, very bright, the brightest thing in the room in fact to the point where I had to turn mine down to roughly 70% of its brightness/contrast otherwise the rest of the room looks dark by comparison whenever you look away from the screen. The picture "sharpness" or clarity however you want to describe it is superb, there are no blurry areas and mine came with zero dead pixels, it also has a 4:3 gaming mode you can enable for older games that don't support widescreen (I have some games from the 90's that just don't look right in widescreen) Other than this one described above I've also had good luck with LG, anything with their so-called "f-engine" video processor, such as: http://newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824005109 And I even liked my 5-yr old 15" Hanns-G lcd panel, that was perfect for the times as well cept for two dead pixels. On the other hand I did -not- like a Dell panel I had, nor an HP, so I'd steer clear of the "computer" manufacturer brands like Dell, HP, Gateway, Lenovo,etc and get some brand that actually makes monitors, tv's and other computer parts for a living and not as a second thought. |
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