Help choosing a 19"TFT please.

hdl96 · 24 Apr 2006 at 13:20

I just got a 1800xtx and now need to buy a new monitor as i got a crappy 17" crt. I'm looking for a good 19" monitor for both gaming and watching films on, gaming is more important though. It's also got to be £150-200 prefferably around 150. Do you have any recommendations. I've read the sticky at the top but would like some more opinions.

Thanks in advance.

p4radox · 24 Apr 2006 at 18:25

Don't want to hijack the thread, but me too please!

I'm interested in recommendations.

Baddass · 24 Apr 2006 at 18:29

given the somewhat limited budget i think the best choices would be either the Samsung 913N, Neovo F419 or Acer 1916W. If you want a WS format screen then the ACer is a good bet, the Samsung is a little nicer in terms of design (imo) and the Neovo offers an alternative if you prefer that style. All are very similar in real terms and very popular right now for this kind of price

p4radox · 24 Apr 2006 at 18:59

Is the Acer Widescreen a good bet for gaming? Is the resolution widely supported etc? And I take it it's a bit smaller vertically than the standard format 19" monitor? Will it be similar in size vertically to my 17" CRT?

Cheers

/edit: damn, hijacked again - sorry hdl96!

Baddass · 24 Apr 2006 at 19:07

yes, it's of very similar spec and performance to the Samsung 913N and other 8ms generation panels really. Have a quick search there's a few good threads about it. Also a review in the user review sticky

p4radox · 24 Apr 2006 at 19:33

Thanks for your help Badass.

hdl96 · 24 Apr 2006 at 19:47

The 19" widescreen would be a lot smaller vertically than a 17" crt surely? I like the idea of widescreen but i always figured that it would be too narrow at 19" or 20" even. I really want a monitor which would give me the best experience game wise. Eventually i will want to be playing the next gen console games on it aswell.

No problem p4radox!

Thanks for your help.

wellibob · 25 Apr 2006 at 13:44

Widescreen is the way foward, a few newer games support a widescreen resolution, its personal preference really. Ive not looked back since replacing all my screens the the widescreen format 16.10. Games that dont support widescreen, there are a few hacks that will force a wider picture, the others im afraid will get squashed to fill the screen. I kept a standard 19" TFT to play those games that dont support a widescreen resolution. With widescreen monitors, you gain the extra width, its the resolution the actual monitor supports that will limit the viewable area withinin windows.

hdl96 · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:06

I like the look of the acer 19" widescreen but i'm going to have to see it before i buy. I'll go and hunt one down sometime this week.

Thanks for all your help.

p4radox · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:45

hdl96 said:
I like the look of the acer 19" widescreen but i'm going to have to see it before i buy. I'll go and hunt one down sometime this week.

Thanks for all your help.

I bought one, so I'll post back with my views when it arrives

Cyanide · 25 Apr 2006 at 21:56

The Acer's a great monitor, I got mine from OCUK last month.

It's a good, responsive gaming monitor and I haven't noticed any ghosting. Colours look nice and bright and black is black bar a tiny bit of light bleed at the bottom, but it's only visable on game loading screens, not whilst playing.

I had no dead pixels at all, which is the one thing I was dreading as my last monitor (cheap nasty thing) had 5 :eek:

The lack of DVI doesn't matter at all and it works well on analogue with an adapter (came with my 7800GT).

The only issue is some games not supporting WS/native res. but most of the time there's some way to fix it (see widescreen gaming forum). I've yet to find a game that doesn't support it/can be made to support it and games that natively support widescreen look awesome! Especially Oblivion!

For the price this is probably the best monitor you're gonna get.

wilders · 25 Apr 2006 at 23:28

Check out the samsung 913N, its a cracking monitor, Im getting a 2nd Im so chuffed.....

Defcon5 · 26 Apr 2006 at 01:00

wilders said:
Check out the samsung 913N, its a cracking monitor, Im getting a 2nd Im so chuffed.....

I too have this monitor, cant fault it in any way

booyaka · 26 Apr 2006 at 14:21

wilders said:
Check out the samsung 913N, its a cracking monitor, Im getting a 2nd Im so chuffed.....

i'll third it (is that right?) as i have it and can not fault it at all - great gaming monitor - don;t be fooled by it not having a DVI input as the VGA is superb!

p4radox · 27 Apr 2006 at 22:43

So I got my Acer widescreen:

Loving it so far - no complaints whatsoever, although this is my first ever TFT so I'm really all that experienced.

wilders · 27 Apr 2006 at 22:47

Not too sure about the ws screens, they seem very untall - is that a word? Prefer the height a normal screen gives....

Cyanide · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:11

wilders said:
Not too sure about the ws screens, they seem very untall - is that a word? Prefer the height a normal screen gives....

You really don't notice it when there's no non-WS in the room to compare, it's only 100 pixels shorter than a standard monitor and the extra width gives a perception of much bigger size.

p4radox · 27 Apr 2006 at 23:26

wilders said:
Not too sure about the ws screens, they seem very untall - is that a word? Prefer the height a normal screen gives....

I haven't noticed the height being small as I always used my CRT on 1152*864, and now it's 1440*900. The width of it feels so luxurious!