What do you folks think of the ViewSonic VA1912w - 19" Wide Screen LCD?

[dug777]

Well?

Probably used for reasonably regular gaming (paired with a 6800XT (256mb/256-bit)), mainly office/net/DVDs/pr0n etc...

 

[Josh7289]

There's already a thread going here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1793268&enterthread=y

You can look there for some comments from myself and others.

No one who owns the monitor or the other monitors in that thread has come forth yet to talk about their monitor personally yet.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Josh7289
There's already a thread going here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1793268&enterthread=y

You can look there for some comments from myself and others.

No one who owns the monitor or the other monitors in that thread has come forth yet to talk about their monitor personally yet.

i noticed after i posted it But i'm after a specific response for this monitor (since we don't have a big range easily availiable in Perth) and the best way to do this is to have the specific monitor name in the thread title...unlike the other thread...if you get my drift mate

 

[SynthDude2001]

All we really have to go on are the specs (and a few Newegg comments), but it definitely looks like a solid choice for the money. $325 for a 19" 1440x900 monitor with those specs sounds good to me...

 

[Demoth]

By all accounts I have seen, this is an excellent monitor. Not only because it is widescreen and inexpensive, but it seems to have a good response time for a 8 ms screen and a good picture quality plus comes with a DVI cable.

However, buy.com pretty recently was selling this monitor for $280 shipped ($295 base price with a $15 instant rebate and free shipping). Now they are back up to $310, but are out of stock at the time of this post. Newegg in this case seems overpriced at $325 plus shipping, so I would hold off until one of the reputable vendors has it at the sub $290 price point.

For someone on a budget who wants a good quality widescreen, especially if you have a vid card below the 7800GT/X800XT, it's a very nice gaming screen. Because SED is coming relatively soon, I can't see spending $800+ on an LCD when you can pick up something like this for the majority of gamers.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Demoth
By all accounts I have seen, this is an excellent monitor. Not only because it is widescreen and inexpensive, but it seems to have a good response time for a 8 ms screen and a good picture quality plus comes with a DVI cable.

However, buy.com pretty recently was selling this monitor for $280 shipped ($295 base price with a $15 instant rebate and free shipping). Now they are back up to $310, but are out of stock at the time of this post. Newegg in this case seems overpriced at $325 plus shipping, so I would hold off until one of the reputable vendors has it at the sub $290 price point.

For someone on a budget who wants a good quality widescreen, especially if you have a vid card below the 7800GT/X800XT, it's a very nice gaming screen. Because SED is coming relatively soon, I can't see spending $800+ on an LCD when you can pick up something like this for the majority of gamers.

Thanks for the input mate :beer: much appreciated.

 

[kmmatney]

Well, I have this LCD, and while it is very nice for the price, it had a few problems. I ended up giving it to my wife, and she likes it a lot for general desktop use. It felt a little too short for me, but, more importantly, it did not scale properly when I wanted to use non WS resolutions. I had a Geforce 6600GT at the time. My current BenQ monitor scales perfectly with black bars whenever I want to use a non-native resolution. The Viewsonic either stretched everything to full screen, or placed the image off the screen with no way to get it back. This was with DVI. With the VGA connection, when I tried to have my video card set the aspect ratio, the resulting image was completely garbled. This was with 2 separate video cards, one ATI and the other NVidia. Maybe I got a bad one, but I really thought the monitor would scale much better, as I play a lot of older games that do not supprot widescreen.

Edit: For movies, the Viewsonic is pretty sweet, except for very dark scenes. If most of your games support widescreen, then its a very nice LCD.

 

[Josh7289]

Originally posted by: kmmatney
It felt a little too short for me, but, more importantly, it did not scale properly when I wanted to use non WS resolutions. I had a Geforce 6600GT at the time. My current BenQ monitor scales perfectly with black bars whenever I want to use a non-native resolution.

That's not a problem with the monitor you were experiencing. In Nvidia's drivers, there is a setting that allows you to use 1:1 pixel ratio (or whatever you want to use) scaling to put black bars (windowbox) the image for lower resolutions than your LCD monitor's native resolution. I recently bought a 6600GT specifically for this feature on my LCD monitor, because ATI's drivers don't support it, and since I hate any kind of interpolation, I sold my X800GT. Now, with the 6600GT and Nvidia's drivers, all lower-than-native resolutions scale properly to 1:1 pixel ratio scaling.

 

[darXoul]

19" widescreen = way too small in my book.

Vertically clearly smaller than a 19" non-widescreen or even a 18" viewable CRT.
Crap IMHO, also resolution-wise when you have to play 4:3 with bars. Not recommended.