PC Gaming Monitor question

[T1berious]

Hi there,

Time has come to upgrade my ageing 19" monitor and I was after some advice. I'm after a monitor that can happily display 1920 x 1080p, around 22 - 24" and maybe in fullness of time handle additional HDMI \ VGA feeds. Budget is about £150.

Currently play Black Ops 2 and StarCraft 2, My graphics card was pretty good 3 years ago but might upgarde so I've got good 1920x1080 performance.

What do you guys use?

Cheers

Complete monitor N00b

[Odie]

I was going to suggest a 1900x1200 resolution BUT they are well above the £150. :S

1080p for a monitor for me just isnt enough for any size above 19" they just look fuzzy...

Edited by Odie on Wednesday 17th April 11:52

[james_gt3rs]

I've been thinking about buying a new monitor, this website helped me:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/selector.htm

Looking at a 23" Dell IPS screen, dunno if I want it yet...

[scott_i]

I've just bought this week,practically the same as one of these Philips 247E3 only paid 160 euro for it here in germany so can't understand why Amazon want so much for that one I'm a complete noob myself when it comes to these things.I've got it hook up to my laptop with vga and my xbox with HDMI it and although it doesn't seems to mention it about that one mine has built in speakers,the xbox audio sounds just fine through it.

[T1berious]

Cheers for the replies!

@Odie

Do most graphics cards happily run decent frame rates at 1900 z 1200?

I don't mind stretching the budget for something but I do want HD support that way I can slap a console etc through it if the need arises.

Cheers,

T1b

[SlipStream77]

T1berious said:

Do most graphics cards happily run decent frame rates at 1900 z 1200?

It very much depends on the game and the detail settings. What are you hoping to run?

[McSam]

I recently bought an LG E2442V (the V in particular is important, lesser ones lack some ports), a 24" 1920x1080 monitor which has DVI, VGA and HDMI so you could run a variety of inputs. Mine is set up as my PC monitor, but is also used for my PS3. Unlike some you have headphone output so you can route sound from an HDMI input to your speakers.

A really nice-looking and quality-feeling unit that has awesome high-contrast, and I actually have the brightness turned down fairly low because it's quite overpowering sometimes

I paid £137 from an eBay seller a couple of months ago.

[Odie]

T1berious said:

Cheers for the replies!

@Odie

Do most graphics cards happily run decent frame rates at 1900 z 1200?

I don't mind stretching the budget for something but I do want HD support that way I can slap a console etc through it if the need arises.

Cheers,

T1b

Most graphics cards will (what is your PC setup?), alot of modern games will also support resolutions beyond 1080p (farcry 3's max resolution is 2540x2000 iirc), 1080p monitors are currently an artificial cap on gamimg graphics quality (if you dont spend loads on a high quality monitor). Before the 1080p 'devolution' you could buy monitors at beyond HD specs for around £150. Unfortunately HD happened and got us stuck at 1080p, hopefully by the end of the year the new higher standard (i forget what its called and what it will be perhaps its '1440p' but we will see) will be starting to go mainstream.

1080p gave a good increase in performance and an industry standard for TV/Film but PCs and games are capable and have been for years of going beyond that. The challenge with using a blanket resolution for pc monitors is that as the monitor size increases the dots per inch decreases. PC monitors have traditionally been higher resolution than TV's.

TL;DR PC monitors arent TVs that are limited by the current transmission/media resolution.

[Sf_Manta]

http://www.dabs.com/category/computing,desktops-an...

Would recommend looking at Iiyama screens, they're basically Sony ones re-branded and very very good for the price. My old man recently got a 22in widescreen and the picture clarity is by far the best I've seen, well on par with my Panasonic Viera 42in HD Tv.

[T1berious]

Hi guy's

Cheers for tne replies! Right in no particular order:

Currently Play Black OPs 2 ( I say play, more like, move and die, but thats another thread...)

Also like my strategy games, Currently play SC2, DOW, DOW 2 and Supreme Commander.

Rig wise, its a bit of a jack of all trades rig. i7 3.0 Ghz (1155), 8Gb, and a mid range graphics card at the time about 3 years ago.

I'm on an ancient 19" 1280 x 1024 at the mo, but I also use the rig for exam cramming \ studying for certs. Also Run VM's from time to time for Labs, so a bigger Screen would enable me to run multiple VM displays on screen which would be sweet.

The main reason why I also want 1080p support is for console support, I might dabble in one and would rather keep all the gaming stuff in one place rather than encroaching elsewhere in the house.

Man den and all that.

Cheers again for the info so far

T1b

[Asterix]

I'm running an HP 24" that is 1900x1200 which I got a while back before I'd really got into things. Seems I lucked out really. It got great reviews, has a fast refresh rate and hasn't dropped a pixel.

Also really happy that it has a couple of USBs on it which I have the mouse and keyboard to.

When I'm home I'll check what it is and you might be able to pick one up from ebay.

Edit: It might be an Asian/Jap spec model (I'm in Dubai) as many electronics here are.

Edited by Asterix on Wednesday 17th April 16:52

[silvagod]

I've got a couple of these and they are superb...

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Monitors+%26+TVs/24...

[MissChief]

I have an Asus VN247H which has been spot on. HDMI, dvi, VGA, speakers too if you want it and all the cables included.