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Azcam11

Azcam11

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hi guys,

Well built my new gaming rig and its time to get my monitors. Im after 3x23inch monitors.

im struggling with which monitors to get now, i have read the sticky and to be honest im no better off understanding whats what.

Please could anyone recommened a monitor for me. I have around £450 so about £150 each. I would like around 23 inch with a slim bezel. 3D does not really bother me that much.

Now after extensive searches, im struggling to find a 120mhz monitor below £200. Would i really nead 120mhz? i understand you get better frames rates with a 120mhz monitor?

Im also running 2 x gtx 670 2gb in sli.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Azcam11 said:
hi guys,
Now after extensive searches, im struggling to find a 120mhz monitor below £200. Would i really nead 120mhz? i understand you get better frames rates with a 120mhz monitor?
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You won't find them and the only monitor that comes close to it is displayport only which makes setting up 3 of them pretty much impossible on NVDIA video cards.

A monitor won't improve your framerate, your framerate is how many frames your videocard is able to output. The refreshrate of a monitor is how often it's drawing a picture on the screen. This is why with 120Mhz display movement is smoother, you're seeing a new picture more often so things don't jump over the screen but the step inbetween is drawn as well. Do you need it? I don't know - is it even an option when even the cheapest 120Hz screens are far outside of your budget?
 
if using a 60hz monitor anything over 60FPS you won't notice a difference.

IF you want to see over 60FPS then you will need a 120hz monitor.

I have the Samsung S23A700D I got mine when it was on offer for £199.99 and there was £33 cashback from Samsung. Amazing price on overclockers when I got it.

The only thing I could recommend would be eitehr of these but there going to take you over your £450 budget for 3 of them.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-037-AS&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-164-SA&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=

if your not bothered about the 120hz try either of these

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-183-SA&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=

Also £40 cash back on these makes it an insane deal
 
Thanks for the replys guys.

Axeia said:
A monitor won't improve your framerate, your framerate is how many frames your videocard is able to output. The refreshrate of a monitor is how often it's drawing a picture on the screen. This is why with 120Mhz display movement is smoother, you're seeing a new picture more often so things don't jump over the screen but the step inbetween is drawn as well.
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What i ment was i have 2 gtx 670 sli, would these be wasted on a 60mhz monitor as in frame rates.

passey89 said:
The only thing I could recommend would be eitehr of these but there going to take you over your £450 budget for 3 of them.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-037-AS&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-164-SA&groupid=17&catid=1425&subcat=
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Well i had my budget at around £450 for monitors and i was going to pick up a stand for £200.

I love that samsung monitor, was looking at it yesterday for £228 each. Don't think it supports VESA either so would not need the stand. I could stretch my budget to fit these i suppose. Im going to have to way up not having stand against those rather beautiful monitors. Would also need a hdmi to dvi cable also i see.
 
The ASUS monitor that was linked to isn't 120Hz, it uses an IPS panel. The Samsung requires a displayport connection to get the 120Hz signal to the monitor, 3 monitors, 2 displayports on your videocards.. not gonna work.

I think I read something about the latest generation of NVIDIA's videocard being able to use the ports of both videocards when using a SLI configuration as this couldn't be done on the older generation.. but even if that's true you're still lacking one displayport, if it's not true you'd need two. The adapter that converts dual-link DVI to displayport (search the web for "AT-DP200") is £80+.
3 Samsungs and at least one of those adapter is going to cost you 3 * 260 + 80 = £860,-
That's not going slightly over your budget but almost twice as much, even with the £200 from that stand it's still quite quite a lot more.

Azcam11 said:
What i ment was i have 2 gtx 670 sli, would these be wasted on a 60mhz monitor as in frame rates.
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At Full HD? yes.
The new NVIDIA GTX 660 TI that was released in the last few days is what according to NVIDIA is the videocard to get for a Full HD screen and they're right, it runs everything but Metro 2033 maxed out. The 660 is marginally worse than the GTX 670 and you got two of them.

Want to put the videocards to work? Perhaps it's a better idea to move up in resolution then and get a single monitor with a 2560x1440 resolution such as the DGM IPS-2701WPH
 
Axeia said:
I think I read something about the latest generation of NVIDIA's videocard being able to use the ports of both videocards when using a SLI configuration as this couldn't be done on the older generation.. but even if that's true you're still lacking one displayport, if it's not true you'd need two. The adapter that converts dual-link DVI to displayport (search the web for "AT-DP200") is £80+.
3 Samsungs and at least one of those adapter is going to cost you 3 * 260 + 80 = £860,-
That's not going slightly over your budget but almost twice as much, even with the £200 from that stand it's still quite quite a lot more.
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WHOA, well over budget lol. I could stretch to about £700 without the stand. I would like to be lower ovcourse.

Axeia said:
At Full HD? yes.
The new NVIDIA GTX 660 TI that was released in the last few days is what according to NVIDIA is the videocard to get for a Full HD screen and they're right, it runs everything but Metro 2033 maxed out. The 660 is marginally worse than the GTX 670 and you got two of them.

Want to put the videocards to work? Perhaps it's a better idea to move up in resolution then and get a single monitor with a 2560x1440 resolution such as the DGM IPS-2701WPH
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I dont really want a single screen to be honest. Im a big fan of using the desktop space with multiple monitors. (currently run 2)

120mhz with a slim bezel is quite hard to find. My just blow the money on a holiday instead haha.
 
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