What 19" LCD do you have...

joshmroest

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I am looking to get a nice 19" LCD. I am going to be mainly using it for office apps (web, word, excel, etc.). I also plan on using it for LANs. I have been playing DotA mainly but play some FPS games as well (FarCry, HL, UT04, etc.)

Please post your LCD model and your experience with it in the gaming realm...
 

Fox5

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I have a 19" Hyundai L90D+. I like it, very responsive, great for fast paced games like rtses and say unreal tournament.
Problems: 1280x1024 is a bit of a low resolution for a 19", so jaggies are bad unless AA is used. Most games support AA, but not all, and I think I'd prefer higher res anyway.
It's not widescreen. That's really just personal preference (since I think if you wide screen it, it's equivalent to a 17" widescreen LCD anyway), but there's just something sexy about widescreen.
It's also not an 8bit panel, meaning perfect colors are impossible to get. For most current games, this isn't a problem, even the extremely dark splinter cell series fares well (assuming you don't turn brightness down which will mess up the colors, but at stock brightness there is no noticable banding), however future games could really have problems. I think I would have gone for the 8bit dell widescreen, even if it does have a slower response time and thus may have been more susceptible to blurring. Then again, I've always found blurring more annoying than color banding, human eyes are more sensitive to motion than color anyway.

The main thing the hyundai had going for it is that it was low priced, uber fast, and has a pretty good picture. However, with future games using HDR and other techniques that are highly dependent on correct coloration, there may be problems. Of course, representing games in a non-rgb color space can solve this problem, but I've only heard of one or two devs doing this. (since it also helps with performance)
 

BassBomb

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i have a samsung 915N i like it alot, its cheap end so i dont think you should opt for this unless ur under a tight budget ;)

it doesnt have DVI

8ms blah blah 700:1 contrast... i like it alot... its nice in games i play, HL2/CSS, FarCry, Doom3, played some FEAR on it, BF2 etc... response time is pretty nice in games except when staring at high detail textrues while moving, like in far cry...
 

Ika

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Samsung 914V. got it for 200 bucks on black friday. VGA only, but I can't tell the difference. also no ghosting probs (unless watching a fast action dvd movie). overall very satisfied with my first LCD.
 

aiya24

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Samsung 930B

i love it for games, i mostly play FPSers and its great at it.
 

kmmatney

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The LCD in my sig is pretty decent - actually one of the best 6-bit panels I've ever used. The updated panel from mine is:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824014090

or even faster (4 ms):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824014109

You'd be hard pressed to beat these in terms of price/performance for a budget LCD. My LCD is very good for gaming, and the 2 I linked to have even faster response times.

I also have a 19" widescreen Viewsonic LCD at home, but it is not as good as the BenQ.
 

Machine350

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I have the Viewsonic VX924, the earlier version of the VX922, awesome monitor. I play a lot of FPS and RTS and I'm very satisfied. No ghosting. Colors look a little washed out when you first hook it up, but if you go in to the Nvidia console and adjust the color curve, you can get the colors looking pretty darn good. My $.02.
 

Golgatha

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Originally posted by: aiya24
Samsung 930B

i love it for games, i mostly play FPSers and its great at it.


Me too. I think it is a 6bit with dithering to get 16.7M colors. All the colors are pretty true and it seems to have very deep blacks. Don't notice ghosting at all in games. I still like CRTs better because of their flexibility with resolutions, but the Samsung scales surprisingly well down to at least 640x480. LCDs have come a long way in the last couple of years. I also wouldn't buy a panel without DVI also. The conveniences of not having to adjust geometry or mess with DVI to VGA adapters are worth the $20 cable expenditure.
 

vois2

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I've been using the VX922 for 21 days and I'm really happy with it. As you might know, TomsHardware is now using the VX922 as the standard against which to compare all other 19" gaming monitors. (See their review of Spring 2006 19" Monitors, from month March). I haven't changed any of the monitor's default settings nor have I changed any color settings through the nVidia control panel. It plays Oblivion in particular just beautifully. In no game have I ever seen any ghosting, and the color is only slightly (VERY only slightly) faded from the colors I remember on my CRT. This can be adjusted, though.
 

Dethfrumbelo

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Do you guys sit like 5 feet away from the monitor, because 1280x1024 on a 19" LCD at any respectable viewing distance looks flat out horrible to me. 1280x1024, even on my 19" Diamondtron CRT looks way too grainy and pixelated, shifting jaggies everywhere. The pixels are simply huge, and they're even bigger on your LCDs.
 

Cygnus X1

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Originally posted by: Dethfrumbelo
Do you guys sit like 5 feet away from the monitor, because 1280x1024 on a 19" LCD at any respectable viewing distance looks flat out horrible to me. 1280x1024, even on my 19" Diamondtron CRT looks way too grainy and pixelated, shifting jaggies everywhere. The pixels are simply huge, and they're even bigger on your LCDs.

Maybe your not setting it up properly. I'm at 2 feet from my monitor be it my old crt Dell M991 or my new VX922 and both look awesome, no jaggies.