Monitor Help Please :d

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hello, im looking at getting this monitor http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/124438 because i thought it had a good response time and for the size and everything also it has good reviews everywhere on it, im gonna be playing games on it i juts wanted to know if it was worth the £171 quid? thanks alot.

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ok the price has just gone up :|

[Matt_Zoot]

just checked it out on Overclockers website and they give it praise. Usually very good advice given by them.

And the price is ok on Ebuyer, i'd go for it!

[Krisboats]

hello, im looking at getting this monitor http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/124438 because i thought it had a good response time and for the size and everything also it has good reviews everywhere on it, im gonna be playing games on it i juts wanted to know if it was worth the £171 quid? thanks alot.

Have you got a graphics card good enough to be playing games at that kind of resolution? If you have, i'd assume its got a DVI output on it, which is something this screen doesn't have the capacity for... it can only do VGA by the looks of it. VGA is converted from the digital to analogue format by the graphics card and during the conversion process theres a loss in quality. Also VGA connections can sometimes be affected by the same distortions as CRT monitors (needing a de-gauss function) which again reduces the quality.

VGA is generally fuzzier and far less defined than DVI, with DVI offering much sharper edges and bolder colours.

If your going to be getting a screen of that size you don't want to be having fuzzy edges I'd save an extra £37-39 and get this version of the same screen.

EDIT: Found a good description of what i mean here:

DVI is better than VGA for TFTs because they are digital and VGA is analog. A TFT displayes its picture digitally, pixel per pixel. Via DVI the panel gets data for each pixel, so the picture generated in the graphics card will match exact with the pixels on the panel itself.

Not so with VGA. First, the picture is generated digitally in the graphics card. Then it's converted to analog. In the TFT they will be converted again to digital (=> senseless twice conversion => quality loss), using the phase and the clock, and it'll be calculated which pixel should display what color. As the phase and clock can't be adjusted so precisely that a pixel of a picture generated by the graphics card will be displayed by the appropriate pixel on the panel. Means that the picture will be interpolated a little bit, which again means quality loss.

The electron cannons of the CRT need analog signals, that's why VGA is the best for CRTs and DVI would make no sense here.

For TFTs, DVI is the best. I won't get a TFT with no DVI.

Edited April 20, 2007 by Krisboats

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awesome, thats helped alot. i have a good graphics card (asus extreme ax800xl) and i believe it has dvi outputs, so what sorta monitor would be best for gaming around the 22 inch mark? thanks. ooo and about 200 quid ish.

[Haz]

Samsung, spent £150 on a 20" wide screen which was in clearance.

www.widescreengamingforum.com is a great website, with loads of reviews for monitors, games and other stuff. Check it out there.

Samsung 22" £220, with DVI and all the rest, you will not be disappointed with this monitor.

Edited April 20, 2007 by Haz

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Samsung 22" £220, with DVI and all the rest, you will not be disappointed with this monitor.

I got that from PC world for £210

Great screen, only complaint i have is the stand has gone a bit funny. screen only points varying degress of down now, not up at all, have to wedge it up Is VESA mountable though, so can make a new stand.