Recommended TFT monitors for gaming - £150 to £200?

Teknobry

Teknobry

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Yeah, the samsung seems better on paper because of the much higher contrast ratio, 2000:1 and 4ms response time.

As said above though, expert opinions needed :D
 
£200 will get you a 20" widescreen (Benq, Dell, Samsung), or a 19" widescreen with money to spare. Don't pay too much attention to Samsungs higher contrast ratio, it's just a paper spec and means they're quoting dynamic contrast ratio rather than static to make their screens sound better. However samsung do make good screens though.
 
Is a widescreen better for gaming over a normal ratio?

I've been using an old 17inch CRT for years, not used widescreen before.
 
I would never go back to a standard screen after having a widescreen.

I just love being able to browse the net and watch a video at the same time comfortably.

I recommend the LG 20" LCD L204WT TCO-03 Black/Silver 1680x1050, 5ms, 2000:1, DVI/VGA. It can be had for £164 online. I have it and it has been perfect.
 
Widescreen is awesome for games :) Pretty much all new games today support widescreen resolutions or can be made to work in widescreen. Check out the list here to see if you've got any favourite old games that don't work in widescreen-

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Master_Games_List_-_A

Generally speaking the cheaper widescreen monitors don't have a 4:3 mode (in other words aspect ratio controls), so if you feed them say 800*600, 1024*768 etc they'll just stretch it to fill the screen and it will look squashed. Couldn't tell you which monitors do/don't have aspect ratio controls though. My Dell 2007 does but that's more like £250.
 
Does anybody else have any other suggestions?

One worry I have about the widescreens is the increased number of pixels. I want the GFX card to last a while so I'm worried about upping the resolution.

Can the 8800 GTS handle that res comfortably? (I want it to handle it well so I know I have overhead spare for future games)

Cheers for any thoughts.
 
From what I've read the 320 mb 8800 GTS is fine up to 1600*1200, so that would include 1680*1050 since it's less pixels, so that would mean 19", 20" and 22" widescreen would all be fine. Ask on the video card forum if you want to be sure though.
 
new hyundai 22" lcd widescreen monitors out soon, id wait to check them out, £195 price tag you cant go wrong.
 
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