VP2130b,214T,or 2170NX ?

[martman]

I need help in decideing which is the best monitor.. I am not worried about pricing differences between the 3.. I just need some of the more tech savy folks here to tell me which has the better overall specs for gaming and web surfing. I do wish to stay"square"...lol.. 1600x1200 res.

 

[xtknight]

I'd go for the VP2130b. The 214T is not suited well for gaming based on the reviews I've seen. The ViewSonics are almost always faster. I don't know about the 2170NX (but if it was exceptional you'd probably hear about it).

 

[martman]

I've tried to post a direct link to chiefvalues web site with a comparason but it doesnt seem to want to co-operate..lol

 

[xtknight]

For unknown reasons that site is banned from being linked...

Could you post the URL again (we can just type chiefvalue_com into our browsers and then the path)?

 

[martman]

ok thanks for taking a look



http://product/productcompare.aspx?category=20&CompareItemList=24-002-118,24-001-211,24-116-372

 

[martman]

just put the "chiefvalue.com" before product and after the// (and dont forget the / after chiefvalue.com and before pruduct.. geeze.. maybe I'll get this right in a minute..lol.. sorry.. I hope this doesnt get me in trouble

 

[xtknight]

(I figured the link out)

Take a look at this review which includes all three of those monitors: http://www.desktoppipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175003542&pgno=6

Heck, they all sound pretty good, but from my interpretation of it, the VP2130b seemed to win for response with the NEC slowly behind. From the other Maximum PC review I read, the Samsung was slow. It's hard to know who to trust but given previous trends the VP2130b is probably the best overall since it's fast and had reasonably good image results. They actually all use the same 8 ms (g2g) S-PVA (Samsung LTM213U6) panel, although ViewSonic may have tweaked it to be faster. The NEC had a steep price and I'm not sure it's worth it.

If gaming was a priority I'd stick with the ViewSonic because of that Max PC review, and also because ViewSonic has the fastest monitors on the market these days. The Samsung may edge it out in image quality, although even that is debateable because both use a Samsung S-PVA panel. The Samsungs only had an edge when the competitors used slightly lower-contrast P-MVA panels as far as I know.

If you want to be sure, you could stick with the trusty 20.1" ViewSonic VP2030b (P-MVA), though smaller, it has a finer dot pitch and the same resolution as the 21" monitors. Even then, you may prefer the Samsung 204b (TN) for gaming since TN panels are always overall faster (difference is negligible where the MVA is faster, but the TN is a lot faster than the MVA in some transitions).

You can see comparisons of those two here: http://www.lesnumeriques.com/duels.php?...01&p1=1021&ma2=41&mo2=108&p2=1073&ph=1

Choose under "Etape 3" for different test scenarios. It's generally easy to tell what's going on in the tests. For the color bar ones, lower is better (it has a lower delta from the requested color).

 

[martman]

Thank you very much for your intelligent responce and not talking down to me you have been a great help!