Hey guys, just need a lil advice.
Planning on odering a TFT. Narrowed it down to these two which i like:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/lcd...#aMO_2d033_2dHY (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/lcd17.html#aMO_2d033_2dHY)
Hyundai ImageQuest B71A 17" LCD Monitor - Black (MO-033-HY) = 176
Xerox XA7-172i 8ms 17" LCD Monitor (MO-002-XE) = £211
Basically what im trying to find out is whether the later is that much better for the 30 or so quid.
I guess it looks nicer?
Or.. is it worth getting somthing else, ive really gone on looks + response time for these two.
Thanks
Dan
why not a 19"? Not much of a jump in price, quite a lot more screen real estate...
Is here much diff between 700:1 and 500:1
QuoteOriginally posted by Red_Thunder@Nov 29 2005, 10:53 AM
Is here much diff between 700:1 and 500:1
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//must resist....//must resist....//No it's no good!Oh about 200:1 :D
Damn! I just can't stop myself doing that
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Nov 29 2005, 11:27 AM
//must resist....
//must resist....
//No it's no good!
Oh about 200:1 :D
Damn! I just can't stop myself doing that
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LOL..
I agree with suicidal monkey... go for the 19" you'll love it more.
hehehe
on the contrast front it depends on how they've elevated the contrast levels. A good TFT will have as black a black as possible (0.3 seems a good value at the moment, where 255 would be white and 0 would be black) whereas a less-good monitor will simply rampup the max brightness to blinding levels. On a general level I think you want as much contrast as you can get within a reasonable brightness setting. //www.tomshardware.com seem to do pretty good TFT reviews?
all the response times quoted in the product descriptions are usually wrong or not comparable with other tfts because of the way they are measured, only get a tft if you need the electricity savings, desk space and or your eyes get irritated by refresh rates. else just buy a nice crt and enjoy the higher resolutions (and generally sharper images) :)
go look for a product you like, then search google with the product name along with "problems" or what ever and see if lots of people are having problems with it or just generally praising it
QuoteOriginally posted by BlastUK@Nov 29 2005, 02:29 PM
all the response times quoted in the product descriptions are usually wrong or not comparable with other tfts because of the way they are measured, only get a tft if you need the electricity savings, desk space and or your eyes get irritated by refresh rates. else just buy a nice crt and enjoy the higher resolutions (and generally sharper images) :)
go look for a product you like, then search google with the product name along with "problems" or what ever and see if lots of people are having problems with it or just generally praising it
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I'd have gone along with that until I got my Viewsonic VX924. Marvellous! And I was using a 22" Mitsubishi prior to that.
Which is still for sale. :(
QuoteOriginally posted by BlueBall@Nov 29 2005, 12:27 PM
//must resist....
//must resist....
//No it's no good!
Oh about 200:1 :D
Damn! I just can't stop myself doing that
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You know what BB, I almost replied the same thing, but I didn't think anyone else would find it funny, how wrong can you be :D
QuoteOriginally posted by BIG-Dewey@Nov 29 2005, 03:56 PM
You know what BB, I almost replied the same thing, but I didn't think anyone else would find it funny, how wrong can you be :D
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It's not funny. Don't encourage him.
i just baught a samsung syncmaster 910mp :D
thats a 19 inch it really is verry nice ,i also can watch telly on my monitor just have to plug in the antenna.
I would suggest that you buy a 19 inch that realy is nice :dribble:
Ordered Hyundi :) arrives 2mo i hope.
QuoteOriginally posted by Doorman@Nov 29 2005, 07:55 PM
It's not funny. Don't encourage him.
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encourage me! encourage me! You know you want to!
clips blueballs ear !
Ow! That hurt! :(
QuoteOriginally posted by Doorman@Nov 29 2005, 03:27 PM
I'd have gone along with that until I got my Viewsonic VX924. Marvellous!
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I'd agree with that. A lot of my mates were getting TFTs and I was all 'naah, they're not good enough for gaming'. Then I got two Viewsonic VP191s (I got so used to having a dual head setup at work on TFTs and home on CRTs that I couldn't go back, and when work gave me 19" ones my 17" CRTs at home looked so tiny... Until I got those at work I was planning on 17" TFTs...). You pay for it, but the monitors are damn good, even at non-native res (which was my main worry). Even midrange TFTs these days seem to be good enough for gaming at native res (In my experience/opinion), but for a lot of the less high-end ones it looks a helluva lot worse than a CRT if running non-native, and at 19" native res is 1280x1024. I didn't want to have to replace my PC every time a game came out I wanted to play but couldn't run native.
Stragely, it seems (to me) that FPS games, even when holding the view still and looking for jaggies and such, look a lot better at non-native res than stuff like, say, Black and White 2. Good thing i'm primarily an FPS gamer ;-)