Mashed my monitor - replacement?

[Rusty]

Hi, got rather angry with something earlier and I have now written off my 15" LCD monitor. Looking to buy a 17" LCD monitor and I wonder if any of you have views on what I should be purchasing? This monitor will be hooked up via DVI and I want to play the latest games (i.e. HL2, Doom3 etc etc...) to a good degree of quality. (Graphics/CPU is fine.)

Do you think this monitor will do:

Scan 17" LCD Monitor

Hopefully some of you techies will give me an idea as I can't play anything on this thing now.

Rhys

 

[mike]

Moved to general chat, as your looking for info.

Will find out tomorrow which monitor i bought for my mates pc. At the moment all i can remember its black 8ms monitor that has a on/off button.

Mike

 

[Ian]

i've not been keeping upto sratch with TFTs but at last i knew, 13ms refresh time was good so 8ms should be great for you. looks like it can handle a nice resolution too.

 

[Andrew]

Most LCDs made by brands you have heard of that have DVI input are very similar. A lot of them use the same LCD and just have a different casing, so you are looking at choices about aesthetics and usability.

Just one thing, reduced response time (8ms instead of 12-18ms) LCDs generally don't have a very wide viewing angle and render colours extremely innaccurately. They are fine for playing games, but useless for design and photo editing.

This roundup of LCDs is relatively unbiased but a bit old:
http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20041123/index.html

And this one is also useful:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/126/17in-tft-monitors/products.html

And remember, computerprices.co.uk is often your friend when trying to save money.

Andrew