nec multisync 1765

i was at best buy last night and i saw a new lcd monitor from nec. i'm looking at an lcd monitor and i am wondering what you thing of the technical specs of it good/bad? price is about $550 w/no speakers (thankfully) or usb/firewire on the base (errr).

LCD Module:

17-inch (17.0" viewable image size), active
matrix, thin film transistor (TFT), liquid
crystal display (LCD), 0.264 mm dot pitch,
225 cd/m2 white luminance - typical,
400:1 contrast ratio - typical,
16ms response time - typical

will be used for medium gaming (tron 2.0 & diablo 2)
video card is an ati 128mb 9500 pro


thanks in advance

I too was in Best Buy recently and saw one of these monitors. While the specs seem fairly typical, I must say that this monitor seemed to have the best picture (to my eye, anyway). Did you notice any difference in picture quality compared to the other monitors they had out?

I did some of my own fiddling while I was there, basically running several monitors that I was considering through whatever automatic configurations they had. Even still, the NEC was best when I was done. Can't argue the age issue, though. Don't know how much that affects picture quality, save for giving people more time to mess with settings, meaning I might have missed some. I'm rather tempted to go pick one up and compare it to my CRT (since my video card has dual-monitor support).