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which LCD's to do Dual Monitors (dual dvi) with?

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MonsterMac

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I'm looking for a 19" monitor that I will buy 2 of and plug both into the dvi ports of my videocard and run them at the same time. I'm a casual gamer (play CS:S sometimes) but mostly I surf the web and do other things. Anyone have any recommendations of some cheaper 19" LCD's that have a decent response time and good color?
 
The Hyundai LD90+ I think is still a great all around monitor, both for gaming and for general PC use.

A friend of mine has had one for awhile, and has no complaints. He recently picked up the Dell's newer model, the 1907, and we sat them side by side to test for an hour or so. His plan was to bring either the Hyundai or the Dell to work, and keep the better one at home. We tried out both FEAR and Far Cry and barely noticed a difference. The Dell (at 6ms) seemed to have slightly better detail in graphics and his Hyundai was very slightly more worn looking, kind of more pale and yellowish, but this was barely noticeable. After about 30 minutes or so gaming we concluded that there was so little difference that it wouldn't matter which one he took to work. He decided that he'd bring the Hyundai to work and keep the Dell at home. But then, I was about to leave, and he was burning a CD for me. He loaded up iTunes to get the files, and guess what - there was a major difference in what was displayed between both monitors! In iTunes when you are viewing all the files, every other file has a more greyish background in the row. We saw the background in the Hyundai, but you could barely see the grey background on the Dell! We tweaked the Dell's contrast, brightness, and image quality, and could absolutely not get that background color to display! Instead, on the Dell all you saw was one white background throughout (not unless you turned the contrast way way down to a ridiculous setting that you wouldn't set to normally). And that turned around both our opinions completely. He's now taking the Dell to work and keeping the Hyundai. Now maybe it's just one bad monitor, but everything about this Dell seemed absolutely great. (It's not "bad" either, it's just obviously not as sensitive to the colors as the Hyundai is - something that was *not* true at all in games. I add that in to say that I'm not knocking the Dell 1907, especially for games)

Consider the Hyundai - I don't have one myself but if I was going dual-monitor 19" LCDs I don't think I'd hesitate much to go with it.
 
thanks for the response. I was contemplating going with that monitor myself but i've heard some horror stories from L90D+ users having neon green lines just popping up on their monitors after a few days/weeks and while it wouldn't be a problem to RMA them the Hyundai service department seems to be lacking (very few employees, takes a while to get replacement, etc). This is such a hard decision, heh, I really need to do some more research I think.
 
I have the LD90+ for about 3 months now and haven't had any problems with it. It is a good monitor for gaming and isn't that expensive.
 
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