haydon_peter Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Heres the story, Im sat at my PC surfing the internet listening to some ¡Forward, Russia! when all of a sudden my monitor goes black and dies See this topic. I originally posted asking for help on August 25th 2005 when my monitor originally started playing up, I have been a skank and never bought a new one then today it finally shit the bed and died Currently Im liking the look of this cos its got a nice spec and is cheap, only problem is its on scam.co.uk who I dont wish to give my money unless I have to because they are wankers.Am after either a 17" or a 19", would also consider widescreen although I cant see any advantage to widescreen?Work you magic trials-forum, advise a TFT monitor for me. I would prefer it if the monitor costs approx £150 maximum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nb88 Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-AL1916WAS-Wid...p;s=electronicsIve had that one for about 8 months, so far its been spot on, great spec, i like the widescreen, especially for watching DVDs, basically pretty awesome, and cheap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-AL1916WAS-Wid...p;s=electronicsIve had that one for about 8 months, so far its been spot on, great spec, i like the widescreen, especially for watching DVDs, basically pretty awesome, and cheapThere pretty good, a couple of guys at work got them a while back, if i was getting a new monitor that would be getting my money for sure.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry had to do it due to ticcy's complete lack of decisiveness in not buying a new one every since his old one was on the way out over a year ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry had to do it due to ticcy's complete lack of decisiveness in not buying a new one every since his old one was on the way out over a year ago.It was all good though.So what if it flickered from time to time, made an annoying high pitched whine at times and went a funny pink tint every so often, at least I could still see the display, now its just black and useless HAHAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Splash out tic If you look around you can get 22" widescreens for about £230 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Just tried to order a monitor.I dont have enough money in my current account so mum leant me her credit card, first of all I had issues using her card with my name, after sorting this out I get told the earliest delivery is Tuesday So I am gonna use my dads laptop or borrow a monitor off someone else for the time being, keep suggesting stuff people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'll pray for you that you have no dead pixels. But at a price like that Its quite a big possibility that you will, monitors are put into class, which manufactures dont tell you...Class 1, 2 and 3...4 is scrap. At that price its going to be a class 3, which, if you're lucky won't be a problem, but if you're unlucky have have about 5 pixels out...you're pretty much screwed Some places do a £20ish service charge to check the monitor to make sure you have a perfect one...such a f**king scam, but, so is monitor manufacturing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Dale Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 17" £100 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/104838/rb/2438194315219" £135 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/112912/rb/2438195214820" £180 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/112515/rb/2438195639820" £150 http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/119647/rb/24381956398Just a few quickies to show what sorta prices you should be looking at.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted January 11, 2007 Report Share Posted January 11, 2007 http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-006-BEBelinea 22inch widescreen1000:1 contrast ratio5ms repsonse timeand £189.99 £223.24 inc VAT for 22 inches of screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted January 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 An update for you all.I upped the budget to £200 and chose Samsung. I was undecided between just getting a 'Normal' 19" or spending £10 extra for a 20" Widescreen but in the end ordered this.I am unsure how I will get on with widescreen but should get used to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 Took me an hour to convince tic like it was the way forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmt_oli Posted January 14, 2007 Report Share Posted January 14, 2007 He saw mine and liked it so ordered the same one! thats all im saying lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 I upped the budget to £200 and chose Samsung. I was undecided between just getting a 'Normal' 19" or spending £10 extra for a 20" Widescreen but in the end ordered this.ive got the 19inch version of that, and its really good, mines got a 2ms response time though, but 6 is still fine i didnt have any dead pixels luckily, really nice quality screens, and very compact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 same as above really,i have the 940bw. 19" wide screen and 4ms response.to be honest, when i go on computers with a 4:3 screen now it feels like my eyes are being squashed together. Its weird i know, but wide screen is definitely better. Its easier on the eyes, you have more 'space' and gaming on it looks mint.you made a good choice.My one peice of advice is to not install the magic tune software if it comes with some. Its just annoying and unnecessary. Like if you open a media player, it'll only adjust that area of the screen. So if you click off it for a few minutes the screen will still have a patch that is brighter/darker/higher contrast than the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe' Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 He saw mine and liked it so ordered the same one! thats all im saying lol.did he?warned him not to!bad move tic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted January 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 Monitor arrived today, its huge.Couldnt get it to work at first, for some reason the monitor wont work via DVI but works with the analogue input.If its plugged in via DVI I get an Asus screen and can view the bios but it wont boot into windows.Its got to be a graphics card problem and the monitor does work via analogue so for now I am just gonna leave it, I doubt using DVI would make any noticable differene anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted January 17, 2007 Report Share Posted January 17, 2007 There pretty good, a couple of guys at work got them a while back, if i was getting a new monitor that would be getting my money for sure.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA sorry had to do it due to ticcy's complete lack of decisiveness in not buying a new one every since his old one was on the way out over a year ago. just bought one from staples well good monitors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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