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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Motherland on June 06, 2008, 06:30:26 PM
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I'm shooting for a 22" LCD. My choice at this point is a Westinghouse 22" with a 3000:1 contrast ratio and 2MS response time. How's that?
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Sounds similar to the one I just got: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005097
I love mine.
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The Westinghouse I found is only $300 at my local best buy :) They have another Westinghouse that is $330 thats 24", but it's got a 1000:1 contrast ratio and a 8MS response time.
I've got two questions though.
The first one's kinda stupid; it's good to have a HIGHER contrast ratio, correct? Should the ratio be closer to 'infinite:1' or '1:1'? I'm thinking the former but I'm not sure.
Second, I've got 1 NVidia Ge8600 video card; can I keep my old monitor (a 17" HP) and hook up both, or do I need dual video cards for that?
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Higher contrast (infinity:1) is better. At 8ms response you'll likely get blurring or ghositng while gaming. 5ms is the minimum you want. Mine is 2ms and I have no issues whatsoever.
Does your video card have two outputs? If so you should be able to use them both but I'm not sure how using different size monitors works (I've ever only used one).
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I would read reviews on the LCD before purchasing. As Tomshardware reported aobut a year ago, some LCD manufacturers fudge the numbers on the response times. IMHO I've never like Westinghouse LCDs. I generally recommend Dell, Viewsonic, or Samsung...Acer maybe.
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I would read reviews on the LCD before purchasing. As Tomshardware reported aobut a year ago, some LCD manufacturers fudge the numbers on the response times. IMHO I've never like Westinghouse LCDs. I generally recommend Dell, Viewsonic, or Samsung...Acer maybe.
What don't you like about them?
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I went and bought the Westinghouse and it shadows horribly. How's LG?
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I went and bought the Westinghouse and it shadows horribly. How's LG?
Like I said in my first post, I've got an LG and it's awsome. Check the link (in my first post).
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I'm not sure about LG as a brand, but a solid 5 eggs on 100+ reviews can't be wrong, good warranty and specs. What I like about the big 3 are their quality. I'm a graphic designer by trade and those three brands offer excellent quality in color and especially construction, generally offer better warranty as well. I'm generally pretty an*l about monitors as in my profession, what appears on screen needs to be as close to what the the producted is going to end up looking like.
I've seen the one's as Best Buy and have noted poor color response and unimpressive contrast ratios (even though they were rated high). I also look at the base/casing of the monitor. If it appears weak/cheap, what makes me think they're going to put good components inside that?
However, what may be unacceptable to me, may work just fine for someone without as high as standards as me. So, I stress it's just my opinion.
My impression from that LG is that it is pretty good. I try and stay away from sub $280* 22"ers.
* Note this is Newegg prices. Expect to pay $50-100 for Best Buy 'crap'.
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The LG I was looking is advertised 2MS response time & 10,000:1 contrast ratio... I think I'll go with that. The Dell's they have are pretty old, it would seem.... the one I recall looking at was 800:1 contrast and 5MS response.
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This is what I use at work.
UltraSharp 2208WFP 22-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor with Height Adjustable Stand
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-6107
This is their lower end model
E228WFP 22-inch Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-5205
A true 10,000:1 contrast ratio is excellent.
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Acer has put out some good monitors on the market lately. Using a Acer AL2423W currently and am very happy with it, 24" widescreen with 1920x1200 resolution. No ghosting at 6ms, great colors and contrast. In fact it's the best colors and contrast I've seen on a LCD.
My experience with LG products have been bad so I stay away from them with one exception, the LG vacuum cleaner I've got seem to do the job ok. :lol
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Life's Good :aok
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Life's Good :aok
Do you have it (hooked up)?
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Ja.
Great color, no noticeable ghosting, and it's much sharper than the Westinghouse as well.
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They have another Westinghouse that is $330 thats 24", but it's got a 1000:1 contrast ratio and a 8MS response time.
The reason the response time is slow on the 24" is because it has an MVA panel rather than the TN panel that comes in just about every monitor of 22" or less.
TN panels provide great response times (good for gaming) at the expense of poor color reproduction and narrow viewing angles (bad for just about everything). 8ms is pretty average for an MVA panel and I can vouch from personal experience that the 24" Westinghouse handles AH2 just fine. Its actually something of a bargain.
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I have a Samsung 226BW with 2ms refresh and then a HP2007v with 8ms refresh. The samsung is definately clearer in fast paced movement. But... The slower HP screen just blows the 226BW away in color reproduction. The difference in color is bigger than the difference in ghosting so I'm considering my next 26" tft to be on the slower panel.
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Anyone have the 24 inch Dell Ultrasharp with 5ms response times??? Im looking to pick one up for "work"...
Hows the ghosting etc..???
Balsy
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I got a LG FLATRON W2252TQ 22" LCD from best buy for bout $280.00 it has a 2ms response time works realy good.
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There really isn't a whole lot different in flat panels from the big names and the 2nd tier manufacturers any more, especially around 24in and smaller.
My advice is to go to www.newegg.com, and sort Widescreen LCDs by Highest Rating. Among those at the top of the list, find 3-5 at the price you want to pay with the features you want. Then read the user reviews of each one to see what common complaints are, if any. If any model doesn't have a decent number of reviews, avoid it, its probably a new model and that makes it risky. Finally, if you still aren't sure, search for reviews of the models you identified at Newegg on the web at large. I'll tell you this... the pros are will highly recommend the big names like Dell, but in reality I don't think they are much better and a lot more expensive.
I've come to this conclusion by buying monitors for work... they pretty much all look great and I never see dead pixels any more. What I described above is my technique, except I lean more towards cheap end of the scale because the users at work are using office apps, not playing games. Even the cheap LCDs are excellent, I just avoid the bad apples by reading Newegg reviews.