Flat Screen Monitor for Games?

I have been looking into a flat screen LCD to get more desk space...
Ih ave a freind who can get me a good deal on an Acer 1912...19" LCD
monitor. But the reviews I saw were a little 'ify' on it.... Anybody
know anything about this monitor or have any recomendations? I want at
least a 17" and would really like a 19" but cost is a serious
consideration.

TIA

I have some freinds who have tried some of the better SAMSUNG monitors, they
said the're still a tiny bit of a trade-off... they are slower than
monitors for sure (I am NOT as picky as they are), and expensive! for the
faster response time ones... biggest hint I was given was contast ratios
(clear/clarity of picture) then response times = kind of equates to speed of
drawing the pixels your vid card pumps out... if you card pumps out 2
screens refreshes before the monitor can draw them, you going to feel like
there is jittery movement you know...

tlgtr enlightened us with:
> I have been looking into a flat screen LCD to get more desk space...
> Ih ave a freind who can get me a good deal on an Acer 1912...19" LCD
> monitor. But the reviews I saw were a little 'ify' on it.... Anybody
> know anything about this monitor or have any recomendations? I want
> at least a 17" and would really like a 19" but cost is a serious
> consideration.
>
> TIA

I have owned a Dell 18" 1800FP for about 18 months now. 1280x1024
native resolution. Aside from web surfing, email, taxes, word
processing, it is exclusively for gaming. When I got mine, LCD's were
really new to the market and concerns were over "Ghosting", due to the
"refresh rate" (it's not refresh rate on an LCD,it's response time
IIRC). I only play racing sims, GPL, NR2003, F1C, GTR, RBR and now NSR.
Never, not once, have I had an issue with my LCD and it's ability to
accurately display any of these titles. Knock on wood, no dead pixels
eithers.

Dell is selling their 20" LCD (1600x1200 res) for around $700 I think,
which is about $100 or so more than I paid for mine a year and a half
ago. I don't what your pricing requirements are, but I'll bet you can a
similar model to mine for $500. They offer lots of other brands as well
as the Dell (Look for the "Ultrasharp" tag) models. Dell always has
tons of sales and coupon offers, so you be able to "buy up" if you time
it right.

Hope this helped.

Darus

"tlgtr" wrote...
> I have been looking into a flat screen LCD to get more
> desk space...
> <snip>

I've been testing the screens that pass through our office (not aimed at
gaming at all) with racing sims and have never really had any issues with
any, other than a lack of contrast on a really cheap Philips 15" model.
However, those with responstimes of 110ms or more really ghost when one
scrolls webpages or other files with a lot of text in them across the
screen.

Jan.
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"Jan Verschueren" wrote...
> <snip>

110ms?? -where'd that come from? -try 38ms and up, think 45ms was the
slowest one we had here.

Jan./bad night, ok? :-/
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Just got a 19" Sceptre monitor for $404 including shipping and it is awsome!
It's the model called Gamer and has .12ms speed.

MILO
"Jan Verschueren" > wrote in message
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> "Jan Verschueren" wrote...
>> <snip>
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> 110ms?? -where'd that come from? -try 38ms and up, think 45ms was the
> slowest one we had here.
>
> Jan./bad night, ok? :-/
> =---
>
>

Racing sims don't seem so piccy, FPS's are ruined by slow response times.
IMO 16ms response time is crucial and 12ms for an FPS. I'm using a BenQ
FP937S and it's fabulous.

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Andi.

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"tlgtr" > wrote in message
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> I have been looking into a flat screen LCD to get more desk space...
> Ih ave a freind who can get me a good deal on an Acer 1912...19" LCD
> monitor. But the reviews I saw were a little 'ify' on it.... Anybody
> know anything about this monitor or have any recomendations? I want at
> least a 17" and would really like a 19" but cost is a serious
> consideration.
>
> TIA
>

I bought this
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/de...xseries/vx910/
from Best Buy recently and couldn't be happier. It's on sale now for $500
with a $50.00 rebate.

16ms response time. No ghosting. Everything looks beautiful.


--
David G Fisher


"tlgtr" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> I have been looking into a flat screen LCD to get more desk space...
> Ih ave a freind who can get me a good deal on an Acer 1912...19" LCD
> monitor. But the reviews I saw were a little 'ify' on it.... Anybody
> know anything about this monitor or have any recomendations? I want at
> least a 17" and would really like a 19" but cost is a serious
> consideration.
>
> TIA
>

Samsung 915N (19-in., 8-12ms response time), he

http://www.cnet.com/4520-10602_1-5618782.html

he

http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-x-1403-x-x-x

and he

http://www.samsung.com/PressCenter/P...106_0000090595

I'm getting one ASAP.

"tlgtr" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> I have been looking into a flat screen LCD to get more desk space...
> Ih ave a freind who can get me a good deal on an Acer 1912...19" LCD
> monitor. But the reviews I saw were a little 'ify' on it.... Anybody
> know anything about this monitor or have any recomendations? I want at
> least a 17" and would really like a 19" but cost is a serious
> consideration.
>
> TIA
>

Slickdeals.net just had a Dell 19" for 370.00