Well, I bought an AOC 19" monitor for just under $200 and besides the small problem with the break in period (it jitters a bit for the first month) I haven't had a single problem with it after that. It handles just about everything you can throw at it and doesn't give you so much as a whine or a whimper.
Don't worry about the rather long breakin period. I didn't like that much myself, but now that I have the new monitor up and running, I have absolutely zero complaints about the monitor. 🙂