Which one to buy - 19" tft

[KoemanGR]

Hi everyone, I am an owner of a 17" crt dell monitor (1024x768 @ 100hz) for the past 6 years or so, which still runs without a problem but I feel like it's time for the big step forward and join the tft world

I am a GAMER, I do watch films on my pc and of course I spend a lot of time surfing the internet etc etc.

Having read the stickies here, plus lots of other reviews here and there, I can say I am confused. I don't know which monitor to pick from all those models out there.

Ok now to the point. My budget is max 450 euros, which has to be around 300 pounds. The models I've been looking at are:

- Hyundai Q90U
- Samsung SyncMaster 960BF
- Samsung SyncMaster 930BF
- Viewsonic VX922 and VX924
- NEC multisync 90GX²

These all look similar to me on paper more or less so as I said I am quite confused which one to buy. I tend to the Samsung 960BF for some reason.

So what do you guys think? which one is BEST for the purposes I ve mentioned above? Any other suggestions maybe?

I know my thread is not original but spare some of your time please and help me out on this one, the choice is harder than I thought!

Cheers

 

[KoemanGR]

Good luck to you too mate, its quite an investment and I wanna make the right choice without regretting in the future.

I've seen many people going for the Samsung 930BF indeed, but is the 960BF better or not? I gave up on the VX922 because from what I've read the improvements over the VX924 are minor and the price difference is unjustified (+100 euros).

Give us your lights guys cmon

 

[KoemanGR]

Hi guys. Firstly, there is no difference in the panels used in the Samsung 930BF and 960BF, they both use a 4ms TN Film panel from Samsung themselves, and only the design of the monitor varies. The models you have shortlisted are certainly the most popular gamers monitors in the market at the moment. One thing you're going to have to be wary of is the movie playback however. All these modern 4ms, 3ms and 2ms models are using a heavy application of overdrive to improve responsiveness across grey transitions. While this leads toa very good gaming experience, the poor control of this overdrive function can often lead to added noise in movie playback including twinkling and artifacts. TN Film panels are not ideal for movie playback at the best of time since the viewing angles are restrictive, especially in the vertical field, and movie playback can often be quite noisy anyway.

In real terms, there is not much difference between all these models in responsiveness for gaming. The VX922 didn't really offer much real improvement over the VX924 in practice, only on paper and as you've said, it's probably not worth the extra. If you can still get the VX924 before they stop producing it then that would perhaps be a better choice over the VX922, unless you really have to have the latest and greatest spec on paper. The Samsung 930BF and 960BF are both very responsive too, but fall a little behind the VX924 / VX922 in the movie playback department since the overdrive is qutie poorly controlled. X-bit labs recently did a comparison of a lot of the screens with overdrive (RTC) and they favoured the VX924 over the 930BF for movie playback certainly.

I would say that in real use you are unlikely to tell much difference between the VX924, VX922, 930BF and 960BF. they are arguably the fastest models in the market for gaming and i think they would all be good choices. Maybe best just to base your decision on price, looks and features, with perhaps the edge going to the Viewsonic's on the movie playback

hth

the kind of answer I was hoping for to come, cheers mate appreciated!

 

[KoemanGR]

I went to a big shop here in paris today and i ve seen all these monitors from close. Surprisingly enough I was impressed by another model, the samsung syncmaster 913 BM. It had a movie trailer playing on it, and the colours/contrast were stunning, as well as the angles! By the way the vx924 was next to the 930 BF showing the same image, and it looked like the image on the 930BF was more crisp and clear, dunno.

So here I am again to ask you...what do you think of the 913 BM? i cant find anything like a review on the internet

http://www.samsung.com/fr/products/...digital/ls19mjstseedc.asp?page=Specifications

i cant find the model on the UK page on their site.

 

[KoemanGR]

I went for the samsung 930BF finally and i m satisfied with my choice so far. Havent tested many games yet, it sure is different than my crt but I guess I ll get used to it (fps games)

ps: 0 dead pixels

thanks for the help