Recommend me a 19" monitor, please

laffin tattie

laffin tattie

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im after a 19" standard monitor peferably with speakers, i am on a budget of £180 if possible, i want to buy in the next couple of days, the main use will be general pc stuff and loadsa web surfin but will want to play an occasional game too. What 19" monitor can you recommend for me to buy and for what price should i be able to buy it for.

I have a Leadtek winfast geforce 6800 limited edition video card, with vga and dvi ports, should i just use vga for monitor connection or is it worth going for a monitor with dvi port.

im going from a 15" laptop monitor so anything should be miles better.

I looked at widescreen but i dont think its for me as i dont do a lot of gaming and i cant see any other advantage.

many thanks
 
laffin tattie said:
....budget of £180 if possible.....
I looked at widescreen but i dont think its for me as i dont do a lot of gaming and i cant see any other advantage.
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For a standard size monitor, you're looking at something like the OcUK Gamer 198YP 19" LCD Monitor - Black/Silver (MO-015-OK) for £170, or the BenQ FP91G+ 19" LCD Monitor (MO-016-BQ) for £187, as other 19" monitors go from £200-£350. Both are 8ms screens, and should do you quite nicely.

I'd also like to point out a couple of advantages of a 19" widescreen, such as the Acer AL1916W (£175). Watching movies, and a lot of newer telly programs on your PC, without the annoying black bars top and bottom, and to be honest, I prefer surfing in widescreen as well now. I'm doing my BTEC assignments on it just now (well, pretending to myself I'm doing them!!!), and it's great being able to fit two readable pages of text on the one screen. This is my first widescreen, and I'm not going back to a regular 4:3 monitor again.
 
could also consider the Neovo F419 or Samsung 913N which are both excellent 19" screens considering the price :) Very popular, have a look in the sticky for info on the 913N and search as there's been a fair amount of recent info on the Neovo too
 
tbh i dont think the widesceen is for me as i wont be watching movies on it so id prefer to stick to standard ratio monitor

i prefer the look of the samsung 913 over the neuvo however the neovo on ocuk says 12ms yet the website says 4ms, does this mean there is a 12ms version out and ocuk aint stocking it?
 
ok thanks for that

i have ordered the samsung 913, reason i wanted silver and it looks sleeker and if i ever sell it on it will probably hold its price better.

compared to my laptop 15 monitor i should be very very happy

thanks for the help
 
Get an Acer AL1916W for only £170 with an 8ms response time your laughing! it a good all round performer i have not had one problem with these so far (ghosting etc in games) It plays BF2 easy.

I have two of these with a dual monitor set up! plus its a widescreen :D

Cant go wrong.

TK.
 
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