Iiyama E2201W-B1 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor
- Viewable Area: 22” Widescreen (1680x1050 Resolution)
- Interface: Analog / Digital
- Response Time: 2ms
- 16.7M Colours
- Contrast Ratio: 1000:1
- Viewing Angle (H/V): 170°/ 160°
- Brightness: 300cd/m2
- 3 Years On-Site Warranty with Iiyama
After reading reviews and specs I decided to order an Iiyama E2201W-B1 22" Widescreen, with its main use being gaming followed by general website browing. Also any blurry photos are not the monitor just my bad photography.
It arrived the next day as usual from overclockers. The monitor comes well packaged which seems to be standard nowadays. After opening the box I was left with a screen, stand, dvi cable, vga cable, power lead and a cable clip. Also included is a thick manual, which has some nice information and clear instructions.
Without bothering to read the manual I proceed by attaching the stand to the screen. This is easily done by just slotting the two together, which is followed by a click as the two lock together. To remove the stand is just as easy, releasing the stand via the push button. The stand its self is quite sturdy with metal strips to add strength and also four rubber feet which grip the desk very well. The stand does not have height adjustment but does tilt 20 degrees back and 5 forward, the tilt mechanism is pretty good and tight enough to allow fine adjustments. There is also a form of cable management built into the stand, although this is just a plastic clip but does the job (but i havent bothered to use). The photo below shows the stand.
Next I proceed to attach the supplied DVI cable and power cable. In case anybody wants to know the DVI and VGA cable are around 175cm long. Apart from the DVI and VGA there are no other output/input ports.
The Build quality of the monitor I think is good for the price of the monitor. The stand is stable and looks apart of the rest of the screen. The surround bezel also has a good built quality. Although can always be improved on. Also the blue light to tell you the monitor is on/has a signal isn’t too bright and is on the far right of the casing, as some monitor lights can be annoying or distractive.
After turning the monitor on for the first time I was greeted by abit of backlight bleed on the windows start ups. Although, this wasn’t extreme and I only seem to notice it when the screen is fully black for example the connecting to server in COD 4, and doesn’t show in any part of the game apart from that so I don’t mind too much, unless you play a lot of dark games. Then this may be an issue. BUT after using the monitor for around 24 hours the backlight bleed has pretty much if not totally gone, appart from a small patch in the bottom right corner.
The 1st photo is taken in a completely dark room , the 2nd being in a lit room.
No dead or lazy pixels could be found yet which I was quite pleased about. The preset colours, brightness and contrast were not too good on the factory settings, which seems to be normal on nearly every monitor I have seen. After a little adjustment with the brightness, contrast and RGB this can be easily corrected. If anybody want to know my setting are below. Although, I will probably play around with them for some weeks to come. Also my settings are quite dull as when looking at certain website I don’t wish to be blinded by the glare. Brightness: 35 Contrast:20 Red: 91 Green:81 Blue:89
The on screen display is nicely laid out and is controllable by three buttons on the front of the monitor. The Buttons on the front of the monitor work well and don’t feel cheap, tacky or ruin the look of the monitor.
The picture quality is good which runs at 1680x1050. The text is crisp, although I think it is not as crisp as the text on my 20” LG but there isn’t much in it.
One downside to this monitor is the viewing angles. If sitting upright in your chair in front of it you are ok but when you slouch in you chair as I tent to do after gaming all day the screen becomes significantly darker at the top with a yellow tint. The same applies for all the other angles if you were to move to the left etc. This as a comparison is worse than it was on my other TN panel monitor the LG L204WS 20". So if you are buying this monitor for mainly browsing I may be tempted to look else where.
As mentioned at the beginning the main use for this monitor is gaming. My first TFT was the LG L204WS 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor. After having this monitor for some time I can say it performs well with good colours and reactivity, a good choice if you are looking for a cheaper monitor but after having this for some time I was after a change.
The only game I have tested the monitor with is COD 4 as I pretty much solely play this, so it was my biggest concern. There is no noticeable blurring, ghosting or any thing of the sort and due to the fact that this monitor is reported to have 0 input lag and a response time of 2ms it is very suited to gaming. The image in COD 4 was crisp with good colours, better than my previous LG L204WS. In gaming the poorer viewing angles were not so noticeable if at all. The backlight bleed I reported on the windows start up screens was visible only on the connecting to server screen and a little on the menu screen. Although, the backlight bleed seems to have reduced after using the monitor for some hours, and the next day when booting up the bleed on the windows start up was hardly noticeable if at all.
As many people like to know this monitor is HDCP and for pixel mapping I believe that is a no, but havent looked in to that yet.
The monitor sizes are as follows:
410.5mm total height attached to stand
209.5mm total depth including stand
74mm depth without stand
260mm wide stand
507mm wide including casing
339.5mm high including casing but not stand
475mm wide screen
297.5mm high screen
Positive
Very reactive in games, Good colours, Solid Stand, Good built quality, Clear manual, Comes with all necessary cables.
Negative
Poor viewing angles (slightly annoying on desktop but generally not a problem in games), Some backlight bleed noticed mainly in bottom right corner.
EDIT: After having the monitor for several months now, I never notice the poor viewing angles and backlight bleed that I reported when i first got the monitor. And so several months on I can find no negatives.
- Viewable Area: 22” Widescreen (1680x1050 Resolution)
- Interface: Analog / Digital
- Response Time: 2ms
- 16.7M Colours
- Contrast Ratio: 1000:1
- Viewing Angle (H/V): 170°/ 160°
- Brightness: 300cd/m2
- 3 Years On-Site Warranty with Iiyama
After reading reviews and specs I decided to order an Iiyama E2201W-B1 22" Widescreen, with its main use being gaming followed by general website browing. Also any blurry photos are not the monitor just my bad photography.
It arrived the next day as usual from overclockers. The monitor comes well packaged which seems to be standard nowadays. After opening the box I was left with a screen, stand, dvi cable, vga cable, power lead and a cable clip. Also included is a thick manual, which has some nice information and clear instructions.
Without bothering to read the manual I proceed by attaching the stand to the screen. This is easily done by just slotting the two together, which is followed by a click as the two lock together. To remove the stand is just as easy, releasing the stand via the push button. The stand its self is quite sturdy with metal strips to add strength and also four rubber feet which grip the desk very well. The stand does not have height adjustment but does tilt 20 degrees back and 5 forward, the tilt mechanism is pretty good and tight enough to allow fine adjustments. There is also a form of cable management built into the stand, although this is just a plastic clip but does the job (but i havent bothered to use). The photo below shows the stand.
Next I proceed to attach the supplied DVI cable and power cable. In case anybody wants to know the DVI and VGA cable are around 175cm long. Apart from the DVI and VGA there are no other output/input ports.
The Build quality of the monitor I think is good for the price of the monitor. The stand is stable and looks apart of the rest of the screen. The surround bezel also has a good built quality. Although can always be improved on. Also the blue light to tell you the monitor is on/has a signal isn’t too bright and is on the far right of the casing, as some monitor lights can be annoying or distractive.
After turning the monitor on for the first time I was greeted by abit of backlight bleed on the windows start ups. Although, this wasn’t extreme and I only seem to notice it when the screen is fully black for example the connecting to server in COD 4, and doesn’t show in any part of the game apart from that so I don’t mind too much, unless you play a lot of dark games. Then this may be an issue. BUT after using the monitor for around 24 hours the backlight bleed has pretty much if not totally gone, appart from a small patch in the bottom right corner.
The 1st photo is taken in a completely dark room , the 2nd being in a lit room.
No dead or lazy pixels could be found yet which I was quite pleased about. The preset colours, brightness and contrast were not too good on the factory settings, which seems to be normal on nearly every monitor I have seen. After a little adjustment with the brightness, contrast and RGB this can be easily corrected. If anybody want to know my setting are below. Although, I will probably play around with them for some weeks to come. Also my settings are quite dull as when looking at certain website I don’t wish to be blinded by the glare. Brightness: 35 Contrast:20 Red: 91 Green:81 Blue:89
The on screen display is nicely laid out and is controllable by three buttons on the front of the monitor. The Buttons on the front of the monitor work well and don’t feel cheap, tacky or ruin the look of the monitor.
The picture quality is good which runs at 1680x1050. The text is crisp, although I think it is not as crisp as the text on my 20” LG but there isn’t much in it.
One downside to this monitor is the viewing angles. If sitting upright in your chair in front of it you are ok but when you slouch in you chair as I tent to do after gaming all day the screen becomes significantly darker at the top with a yellow tint. The same applies for all the other angles if you were to move to the left etc. This as a comparison is worse than it was on my other TN panel monitor the LG L204WS 20". So if you are buying this monitor for mainly browsing I may be tempted to look else where.
As mentioned at the beginning the main use for this monitor is gaming. My first TFT was the LG L204WS 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor. After having this monitor for some time I can say it performs well with good colours and reactivity, a good choice if you are looking for a cheaper monitor but after having this for some time I was after a change.
The only game I have tested the monitor with is COD 4 as I pretty much solely play this, so it was my biggest concern. There is no noticeable blurring, ghosting or any thing of the sort and due to the fact that this monitor is reported to have 0 input lag and a response time of 2ms it is very suited to gaming. The image in COD 4 was crisp with good colours, better than my previous LG L204WS. In gaming the poorer viewing angles were not so noticeable if at all. The backlight bleed I reported on the windows start up screens was visible only on the connecting to server screen and a little on the menu screen. Although, the backlight bleed seems to have reduced after using the monitor for some hours, and the next day when booting up the bleed on the windows start up was hardly noticeable if at all.
As many people like to know this monitor is HDCP and for pixel mapping I believe that is a no, but havent looked in to that yet.
The monitor sizes are as follows:
410.5mm total height attached to stand
209.5mm total depth including stand
74mm depth without stand
260mm wide stand
507mm wide including casing
339.5mm high including casing but not stand
475mm wide screen
297.5mm high screen
Positive
Very reactive in games, Good colours, Solid Stand, Good built quality, Clear manual, Comes with all necessary cables.
Negative
Poor viewing angles (slightly annoying on desktop but generally not a problem in games), Some backlight bleed noticed mainly in bottom right corner.
EDIT: After having the monitor for several months now, I never notice the poor viewing angles and backlight bleed that I reported when i first got the monitor. And so several months on I can find no negatives.
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). Ill edit the review.
..superb for gaming..only downside is possibly the viewing angles as mentioned