I'm thinking of updating my ancient well used 19" Samsung 950p CRT, which is my second 950p. The first one I bought 2001. The current one I got from the university as they were getting rid of old monitors...it cost me two packs of coffee.
My current rig is rather ancient in itself expect for the video card which is not the best either...
- Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester
- 1 Gb of 400mhz DDR2 ram
- Asus Radeon HD 3650 AGP
I just updated my catalyst drivers and replaced the control panel with ati tool tray. This pretty much doubled AH's frame rate and it is currently between 45-85 fps with 1280x960 res and 2xAA. So I can probably afford a slight drop in fps due to the higher native resolution of these current monitors, but not too much.
I'm thinking of spending around 120-250€. I've done some research of my own but it's always good to hear fresh opinions.
Eizo's 22" FlexScan S2202WSE looks like a real nice monitor with great picture quality and 5 year warranty (on top of my price scale). Eizo builts quality stuff, but they are mostly rather expensive. BenQ seems to have a lot of interesting options on the lower end of my price scale aswell...
One of my requirements is that the height of the picture area should be more than 275mm. I have a habit of getting my nose within an inch from my monitor as I'm shooting and most likely have to place a wide monitor farther away on my desk than my current CRT due to my JS/Throttle-setup. So the vertical dimension of the screen is important. I do realize this is somewhat against this "low enough" resolution requirement I mentioned earlier.
Anyways, open for suggestions here Gents!
