Which monitor to go with 88000 GTX (and DVI questions)?

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Hi I'm wondering which monitor is a good choice with the GeForce 8800 GTX with a budget of up to £250ish? I bought my build yesterday but see now the monitor I bought (Belinea 22") has no DVI input so am going to be changing it. Now I don't understand DVI too well but I see the GeForce card supports it ( "Dual dual-link DVI supports two 2560 x 1600 resolution displays - HDCP Enabled!!") and it seems the best way to connect the gfx and monitor and is it best to have DVI for future (what is DVI used for basically - I'm a n00b go easy on me)? So a monitor without DVI input is no use to me if I'm buying this card right?

Monitors I'm looking at on OcUK are:

V7 L22WD 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Samsung SM-205BW 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Dell E207WFP 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Or if these are good I might be prepared to wait for these to come in stock (20 or 22") :

Samsung SM-206BW 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor

I've seen it mentioned (on here somewhere) that a 20" is going to be sharper than a 22" because they have the same amount of pixels so in a 20" the pixels are more compact, is this true? What are the pros and cons of 20" v 22" please? I'll be using it for games and general surfing etc.

Thanks in advance for any advice, I've already had great advice on my build from here so far. :)
 
james.miller said:
it would be cheaper to use one of the two dvi>vga converters you get with the card..... i've got a monitor and a sony hdtv connected to my 8800gtx, both using dvi>vga converters:)
Hi sorry not responded sooner, so the GTX (and GTS?) come with the converters then???? Is that as good as having a DVI input on the actual monitor?
 
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