22" monitor decisions? Sorry...!

Delvis

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Hey guys, in a bit of a pickle here, need to make some decisions on buying a monitor...

I too am after a 22" widescreen monitor....I think anyway, I'm trying to decide really. I'm going from a 19" CRT, my current rig is in my sig...So hopefully it will be able to play the games I currently play at its given native res with preferably no drop in fps...But that probably wont happen.

Is the Iitama E2201W-B1 any good then? I do game a fair bit every now and then....So a decent fps in new games is required.

I have also seen the Samsung 226BW? Comments? There is also the 225BW, which has a lower contrast ratio and slightly higher response time...Would this be THAT noticeable?

Theres also an LG L226WT 22" monitor I have seen, don't know how good that is though.

I'm really stuck, would be nice if I could get a big monitor/telly that I could hook my wii upto as well...But that would probably cost a million =/

Any help guys? Don't really want to go over £200, feedback is highly appreaciated.

Thanks.
 
If your budget is £200, I do not think you are going to get better than the Iiyama PLE2201W-B1, albeit that I believe you may need a little beer money added to that budget... If your main priority is gaming on your PC. Please note the bold B1 variant, as the B2 is not geared up so well for gamers (more ghosting and input lag).

If you can stretch to about £260, after your next payday perhaps, I do not think you can do much better than an Iiyama PLE2403WS... If you want to game on your PC, hook up a 360/PS3 console and have a better sized screen for telly viewing. From the research I have done, which may well be flawed, no other 24" monitor is geared up for gamers as well as this model when on a sub-£300 budget (less ghosting than the B2 variant of the PLE2201W and minimal input lag of upto 3ms).

My mispicked PLE2201W-B2 is on its way back to the warehouse and I hope to have the B1 mid-week next week. I will give a brief review when I can pull myself away from rfactor towards next weekend ;)
 
Delvis said:
Hey guys, in a bit of a pickle here, need to make some decisions on buying a monitor...

I too am after a 22" widescreen monitor....I think anyway, I'm trying to decide really. I'm going from a 19" CRT, my current rig is in my sig...So hopefully it will be able to play the games I currently play at its given native res with preferably no drop in fps...But that probably wont happen.

Is the Iitama E2201W-B1 any good then? I do game a fair bit every now and then....So a decent fps in new games is required.

I have also seen the Samsung 226BW? Comments? There is also the 225BW, which has a lower contrast ratio and slightly higher response time...Would this be THAT noticeable?

Theres also an LG L226WT 22" monitor I have seen, don't know how good that is though.

I'm really stuck, would be nice if I could get a big monitor/telly that I could hook my wii upto as well...But that would probably cost a million =/

Any help guys? Don't really want to go over £200, feedback is highly appreaciated.

Thanks.
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Both of the Iiyama recommendations from UTManiac would get my vote (although, admittedly, I am slightly biased towards those two models).

Regarding the LG model that you quoted, there's a mini-review available on the net, albeit in Chinese, but you can access a translated version here:

http://translate.google.com/transla...v=/search?q=LG+L226WT&start=10&hl=en&lr=&sa=N
 
I've had my E2201W-B1 for a few months now and it's been a great monitor, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone in the market for a 22".
 
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Delvis said:
Is that a good or a bad thing then?
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To answer in one sentence - it depends on what you need to use the screen for?

TN film panels have good response times for games but poor viewing angles (comparatively) and worse colour reproductions (comparatively but you can't see **** in UT3 for example)

Do you want to watch movies or photoshop on it?

sid
 
Well I may watch the odd film once in a blue moon...I hardly ever use photoshop for physical editing of images nowadays =/

I mainly game, but even that is pretty sparse as of late :)
 
Delvis said:
Well I may watch the odd film once in a blue moon...I hardly ever use photoshop for physical editing of images nowadays =/

I mainly game, but even that is pretty sparse as of late :)
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tbh i use 2 LG 226WTQ's atm for gaming and some photoshop

I haven't had colour issues but there is some banding on this LG screen. Viewing angles are poor but i sit dead on so that is fine.

I'm not an expert on 6bit dithering process but it can match 8bit pva panel apparently. I'm expecting badass to come and explain this.

As far as movies go, its again not bad at all as long as you sit dead on.

cost is obviously going to be a deciding factor here

sid
 
I got a Samsung SM-2232BW Pebble this week.
Initially I was suprised at how little it weighed and how poor the stand was. Other than that I am very impressed. No dead or hot pixels and a vibrant sharp image. I have noticed a little bit of afterglow when scrolling through documents but nothing worth moaning about and it is colour dependant.
This is my first widescreen and the added width does make a difference :cool:
 
Personally, Samsung SM-226BW is the only way to go. :D

I'm selling mine but only because I need the desktop space, hence full HD resolution required. Mine's perfect no pixel faults and zero backlight bleed. After calibration it rocks.
 
Another vote here for the Iiyama E2201W-B1. I got one recently and its a thing of beauty once you fiddle the colours. Its my first LCD monitor so I have no basis for comparison but for <£200 you'll struggle to do better I think.
 
Hello again guys, think i've come to some form of conclusion...

Theres two monitors on TWO...But there is two other monitors I like the look of as well:

The Samsung SM-223BW 22" & Acer AL2251W 22" are on this week only..Both are practically identicle reading the specs on here, apart from the Acer being HDCP compatible...If the panels are different, I don't know.

Then there is the Samsung SM-226BW 22" & Iiyama E2201W-B1 22"...are these two defninetly worth the extra money?

One more question...Contrast ratio's...if it better to have a higher contrast ratio in general? As I notice the Iiyama has a 1000:1 contrast over the 3000:1 on the Samsung monitors...Same with the Acer, that only has 1000:1.

Thanks again guys, monitors are really not my subject.
 
I was about to ask that, I'm looking at the 22' samsung screens, whats the difference between the pebble, SM-226BW & SM-226CW models?:confused::confused:
 
I'm just weiry about the whole widescreen thing..Never used one for a start...

But I'm also weiry about the fact of having to upgrade more often due to the odd resoloutions and the whole "native" resoloution thing. As I only upgrade like once a year or so....if that.

Would it be better for me to just get a decent non-widescreen monitor?
 
No other views then guys? I'm just confused now, too many options quite frankly...I don't want to have a bad bottleneck in my system either due to the extra screen area or anything :(
 
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