Samsung SM-913N 19"

dakaiez · 16 Feb 2006 at 12:29

Samsung SM-913N or SyncMaster 710N

Well basically looking to upgrade my 17" NEC CRT monitor. I've read the reviews on this and was just wanting to know if this is the best <£200 monitor still.

I play quite a lot of game's and never much of anything else other than a bit of webpage and graphic designing. Would this suit my need's as an avid gamer or would a new model be better?

17" Samsung SyncMaster 710N also caught my eye at 12ms, but im not to sure if this would be good for the games i play - as there was only one review for gaming and it was good. Not to bothered that it's 17" as it's also going to be bigger than my current one.

Now my CRT is very good quality and have no problems with it, just wanting to clear up some space and get a monitor with a native rez of what i use and also something easier on the eyes after long periods.

Thanks,

v1bez.

pieman109 · 16 Feb 2006 at 12:53

I got my 913N set up yesterday and it replaced a 17" hitachi TFT. I'm well pleased with it so far. Colours are more vibrant, picture is very clear, NO ghosting in games that I can see. It may only have an analogue input, but the picture is as good as a DVI (the hitachi was DVI) and I can't tell the difference. No dead/stuck pixels, easy to set up (I just turned it on and thats it) All I had to do was turn the brightess down a bit. Games like BF2, FEAR, Generals, Quake4, COD2 etc look stunning (to me anyway), For the money I don't see any better screen meself but that is a subjective opinion. You won't be disappointed with this screen.

WILD9 · 16 Feb 2006 at 14:04

^ What he said, I love mine

badbob · 16 Feb 2006 at 14:47

hmm noticed SM-930BF is on week offer. Not sure whether to go for 4:3 or 16:10...mainly gaming and windows.

Anyone have dual displays, one of each ratio?

dakaiez · 16 Feb 2006 at 14:58

badbob said:
hmm noticed SM-930BF is on week offer. Not sure whether to go for 4:3 or 16:10...mainly gaming and windows.

Anyone have dual displays, one of each ratio?

I'd have looked at getting that too, but have a max of £200 to spend and nothing more.

badbob · 16 Feb 2006 at 15:08

I would really to stretch out the extra £30 to get the DVI connection. It'll have better picture quality, if you don't have DVI ATM when you do buy a new card you can then use it...you're stuck with analogue otherwise.

DVI does look considerbly better with DVI. Why get a decent screen only for you to add additional A-D conversions? It's like with CRT they're great with VGA.

dakaiez · 16 Feb 2006 at 15:56

badbob said:
I would really to stretch out the extra £30 to get the DVI connection. It'll have better picture quality, if you don't have DVI ATM when you do buy a new card you can then use it...you're stuck with analogue otherwise.

DVI does look considerbly better with DVI. Why get a decent screen only for you to add additional A-D conversions? It's like with CRT they're great with VGA.

Yeh i know what your talking about, but in my case i really can't justify the extra £30-40 for a monitor just due to DVI. Also from reviews ive noticed a lot of people saying the difference although it's there it's very minimal.

So that's also swaying me to not spend another £40 for a DVI connection although people state their own opinions and everyones is different.

v1bez

pieman109 · 16 Feb 2006 at 17:13

badbob said:
I would really to stretch out the extra £30 to get the DVI connection. It'll have better picture quality, if you don't have DVI ATM when you do buy a new card you can then use it...you're stuck with analogue otherwise.

DVI does look considerbly better with DVI. Why get a decent screen only for you to add additional A-D conversions? It's like with CRT they're great with VGA.

Believe me, there is no discernable difference between analogue and digital inputs on this monitor that I can see, and if there are they are so negligible as to not worry about. This was one of my concerns also when choosing a replacement monitor, but happily, there were totally unfounded. Also bear in mind I replaced a 17" hitachi TFT that was using the DVI input for the past three years, so I was well used to the picture quality (and these hitachi screens were VERY good).

Hussman · 16 Feb 2006 at 17:30

This is a great monitor...go for it!

dakaiez · 16 Feb 2006 at 20:04

What about this one then?

Samsung SM730BF 17"

Seem's pretty good, although the 19" would be cool, a size a 17" would also be cool and they only do the same rez's aswell but has 4ms too.

Baddass · 16 Feb 2006 at 22:16

plenty of info on the 730BF in the sticky and replicated here:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/guides/samsung_730bf.htm

Tbh, it would be better to get a 19" screen as the extra size is really nice for general use and more immersive in games. For the sake of a 4ms on paper, i dont see the point in getting the 730BF or maybe even the 930Bf. The screen might be marginally more responsive, but it really isn't much, and i doubt the average user could tell anyway. The 913N is still an excellent screen as has been said above