Help, Gaming Monitor?

Hello all and thanks for the help,

Recently i have been trying to find a LCD Monitor that would work for both Gaming purposes, without sacrificing color perfection. The recent review titled "The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: 17" LCDs Reviewed" seemed to bring the Samsung 710T on top, but i was concerned that the 710's use 18 bit color, dithered to 16.2 million colors rather than 16.7 (24 bit). Are there any LCD screens out there that have both a Comparable gaming ability to the 710T but depict color truely (24 bit)? Price isnt to much of a problem i should be able to do anything below or around 900 dollars if need be (to find this type of perfection). My graphics card is the Radeon 9700 Pro all in wonder version so it does use DVI output, the games i play are mostly MMORPG's (City of Heroes, WoW, EQII, etc) but i also play RTS and FPS (and want that type of availability). But i also want to be able to watch DVD's on my computer if i wanted too (not necessarily as multiple people viewing, so angle isnt that important). The other competitors that i was looking at was the Shuttle's XP17 LCD (for its durability, but do any of you know about its color/game performance compared to the 710T), and the BenQ FP71e+ (also reviewed, but they said that it sacrifices functionality for the speed, can anyone elaborate?). The other LCD monitor i was looking at was by Viewsonic and it is the one that they claim to have 8ms Response times (but im not sure what the color quality is, imagine if its 6bit...). Its called the Viewsonic VP171b (found at: http://www.viewsonic.com/products/ [...] es/vp171b/ ). There was also the Viewsonic VP912b (with a 12 ms response time). I know from Tom's guides that response time isnt that big from what the manufacture puts it at, which is why im putting more weight on only the monitors reviewed on this site since they were tested). If any of you have any of these monitors or can answer any of my questions it would be greatly appreciated as i am just starting to learn about what you really judge an LCD on.

Thanks,
Taelvin


<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Taelvin on 01/06/05 11:44 PM.</EM></FONT></P>