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Thread ID: 94847	2008-11-14 11:50:00	Choosing an LCD Monitor	WarNox (8772)	Press F1

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720238	2008-11-16 12:40:00	I got the gigabyte ga-x48-ds5 motherboard for $337 :) I will make a post tomorrow with pics etc of this new computer I built today. Now just need to find a screen because right now its connected to a 17" crt (not even flatscreen) and its just sad! I will have a look at those BENQ monitors right now.	WarNox (8772)
720239	2008-11-16 21:07:00	Brands dont actually matter, the panel in the screen matters much more. (copied from one of my previous posts) You can check which panel a certain screen has here: www.tftcentral.co.uk TN: Lowest cost, worst viewing angles and colour reproduction, low image processing lag. Apparently best for fast paced gaming, worst for image editing and professsional work where colour accuracy is important. TN panels can only display 262k colours natively and use dithering to display 16.7m. *VA (MVA, PVA, S-PVA): Middle of the road, better viewing angles and colour reproduction, typically highest image processing lag (as high as 64ms!). Typically best black levels and contrast. Can display 16.7m colours but unfortunately (or fortunately if you're a design professional) most newer panels of this type are wide gamut, meaning sRGB images are oversaturated in non colour managed applications. Can suffer from slight horizontal contrast shift (like TN's vertical contrast shift, but not as obvious) IPS (S-IPS, H-IPS): Most expensive technology, viewing angles and colour reproduction almost as good as (or even better than) that of a CRT, medium image processing (between 20-40ms). Almost all are wide gamut (which is a disadvantage, or an advantage depending on how you look at it). No contrast shift, so they are just like a CRT in terms of viewing angles. All panel types have similar response times so ghosting is not really a problem anymore. Although some panels use overdrive, so you get a 'negative' ghosting effect, depending on the background eg on the TN (viewsonic 22") I'm using now, there is a slight ghosting trail, which isn't noticable on my IPS screen. So in this instance, TN has worse ghosting than IPS, even though the TN has a "quicker" documented (5ms for TN, 6ms for IPS) response time.	utopian201 (6245)
720240	2008-11-17 01:08:00	1 4850 will struggle with 24"LCD, 1912, best go for 22"LCD 1610..	SolMiester (139)
720241	2008-11-17 02:16:00	QUOTE=WarNox;I got the gigabyte ga-x48-ds5 motherboard for $337 :) I will make a post tomorrow with pics etc of this new computer I built today. Now just need to find a screen because right now its connected to a 17" crt (not even flatscreen) and its just sad! I will have a look at those BENQ monitors right now. Good work man,great motherboard!!!:thumbs: It's good your doing the reseach on what is the good things to buy for your computer so you get what you want and you know it was the best you could afford at the time,so later on your not dispointed about getting something,for example a stock standard computer bought from a shop and then you get a great game to play on it and it looks like crap on your computer or does not work!!! Oh make sure you get big size harddrives -(500,750,1000) and plenty of ram because they allways come in handy for computers. In my experience movies take up heaps of space followed by games and music for me anyway.:) So yeah post your final list when you have sorted it out,so we can help you out now before you buy things!!!:thumbs: Ps. Also check out the LG range of LCD's they have some nice ones on there website as well.I have a LG L246WH and it has HDMI,Compnent,DVI,2 x USB,and I use it to watch movies on hooked up with HDMI to my pioneer dvd player I do 1920 x 1080p and progressive scan as well with the dvd player and for gaming its great because you can see so much more around you,great for playing RPG's,FPS's,RTS's on. And the really important thing is ....it has a Perfect Panel Warrenty,yeah.:clap	memphis (2869)
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