Upgrading from Samsung 226BW to 24"....or 27"....help!

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Hi,

I'm looking to upgrade from my Samsung 226BW to a single 24" or 27" monitor costing no more than £325 (but ideally as cheap as possible) as I want to game using a 1920x1080 (or 1920x1200) resolution. I'll be doing a fair bit of internet browsing and watching movies occasionally as well.

I'm leaning slightly towards a 27" monitor because I'm of the opinion that I'll find text on a 24" using a 1920 resolution a bit small - 1680x1050 on a 22" looks perfect to me.

In either case, I've noticed the BenQ G2420HDBL and Iiyama ProLite B2712 being recommended on here and have found out enough about them to know they'll do a job - but will they be a sufficient improvement over my existing monitor or should I just get someone to hide my wallet?
 
Sweey said:
In either case, I've noticed the BenQ G2420HDBL and Iiyama ProLite B2712 being recommended on here and have found out enough about them to know they'll do a job - but will they be a sufficient improvement over my existing monitor or should I just get someone to hide my wallet?
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Personally speaking, the Benq upgrade from your 22" probably won't justify upgrading the monitor. If you want more real estate i.e. bigger monitor thent he iiyama 27" would be worthy...especially for movies.

If you are serious about gaming in FPS games, then you should into 120hz monitors such as this one.
 
That would be telling! :D

Haha. Well the BenQ will probably impress you with the contrast and brightness and will still seem like a decent upgrade for the price. But it seems you have a little more to spend, so it may be worthwhile investing in a monitor with a 120Hz refresh rate. This makes action in games a bit more fluent and allows you to achieve >60fps if vsync is enabled. As I'm sure you're aware, some games also run faster if v-sync is disabled - you can do this without that annoying tearing (provided the framerate doesn't exceed 120fps and if it does you can just crank the graphics up ;)).

If you do want 120Hz it would be worth seeing what ViewSonic comes out with (hopefully) this April as they will combine 120Hz with an LED backlight. Samsung are also launching at least one new monitor. It's not 120Hz, but it will be a premium display with an LED backlight and hopefully very fine image quality.

I'm going to do a feature on upcoming monitors of the next few months on my website (link in my signature) in the next few days, so keep an eye out :)
 
PCM2 said:
That would be telling! :D

Haha. Well the BenQ will probably impress you with the contrast and brightness and will still seem like a decent upgrade for the price. But it seems you have a little more to spend, so it may be worthwhile investing in a monitor with a 120Hz refresh rate. This makes action in games a bit more fluent and allows you to achieve >60fps if vsync is enabled. As I'm sure you're aware, some games also run faster if v-sync is disabled - you can do this without that annoying tearing (provided the framerate doesn't exceed 120fps and if it does you can just crank the graphics up ;)).

If you do want 120Hz it would be worth seeing what ViewSonic comes out with (hopefully) this April as they will combine 120Hz with an LED backlight. Samsung are also launching at least one new monitor. It's not 120Hz, but it will be a premium display with an LED backlight and hopefully very fine image quality.

I'm going to do a feature on upcoming monitors of the next few months on my website (link in my signature) in the next few days, so keep an eye out :)
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do u think this will lower the current 120hz samsung + viewsonic prices?
 
Sorry if I'm going slightly off topic here, im also looking to upgrade from a Samsung 226BW, i want the 120hz Samsung 2233rz although i have a small question. Can it do 120hz in 4:3 aspect ratio at low resolutions.

Another thing how much would you put the Samsung 226bw up for sale for..

thanks
 
Guys if you want to take a look at some monitors that should be released over the next few months, check my website :). Sorry for saying 'link in my signature'. I meant if you click my name there is a link to my homepage.

As for these releases changing the pricing of existing monitors. That could well happen! In my opinion it will depend how good the ViewSonic V3D monitor is :)
 
Yes. The review system I used to review the 2233RZ had a Radeon 5850 and it was fine. I think the drivers have probably fixed this anyway, but all you have to do is raise the 2D clock speed using a program like AMD GPU clock tool. The problem was that the cards were so efficient and the 2D clockspeeds so low that 120Hz wasn't supported - this is why problems manifested themelves on the desktop etc. but not in games.
 
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