Author Topic: Best Monitor (Read 461 times)

Yarbles · « **on:** December 12, 2007, 06:32:33 AM »

I dont know the technical terms but I have 17" square monitor at the moment and am thinking of getting a biger one a 19" square or after that they are all wide screen. Is wide screen better? What have people experienced as best?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #1 on:** December 12, 2007, 06:51:46 AM »

I moved this to hardware as you will probably get more responses.

Charge · « **Reply #2 on:** December 12, 2007, 07:20:40 AM »

I decided to order a wide screen (16:10) monitor but only after I confirmed that in Nvidia drivers you can force a 4:3 resolution so the upper and lower part of your screen will not be cropped but the sides will have black bars where the game screen does not expand.

-C+

wabbit · « **Reply #3 on:** December 12, 2007, 11:59:40 AM »

I've been running the ACER 22" al2216wbd for eight or nine months now, and love it. Aces works just fine on it, although, I sometimes have to lower my view to see some guages, but that hasn't been a problem at all. All widescreens will exhibit this problem...

Mwave has it for $215.00 currently, but check out other sites to find the best price. Since Compusa is going to close it doors in 2008, you might watch their sales, as they've had this monitor on sale a couple of times already.

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/Skusearch.hmx?scriteria=4128426

Make sure you don't go higher then 5ms for any lcd monitor.

Wabbit

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #4 on:** December 12, 2007, 12:22:04 PM »

The Samsung 226BW I have is simply stunning. The new version with wide color gamut is expectedly even better although I haven't seen it in action.

Just note that all LCD panels will suck in DX10 big time as there's no way to force vsync on. The result is horrible screen tearing.

But we all know DX10 is the biggest lie of the decade anyway, it's a step backwards in many ways. Basically they neutered the API by adding higher level code making it easyer for developers but way slower to process and limited functionality.

Curval · « **Reply #5 on:** December 12, 2007, 01:46:33 PM »

I scraped the idea of getting a 30 inch monitor and ended up with a 24inch Dell Ultra Sharp widescreen. So far I love it. Games look incredible on it.