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Hello

I’m hoping that there is someone out there who can shed some light on buying a LCD monitor.

I’m looking for a 19” LCD monitor for both Ms Office and gaming, hopefully for about $300 give or take. For general computer use my desktop is set at 1280x1024 while I usually set my games at 1024x768 on my NVIDIA Geforce GT6600.

In the past I have read some articles about some of the issues that come along with LCD monitors. An example I guess would be ghosting?

From what I have read so far some features I need to look for are:

- Stay away from LCD with built in speakers.
- DVI interface preferred
- Feature called Overdrive (Optional? I’m still looking into this)

My first question is this, what other features and settings would you recommend for a decent LCD for everyday use and gaming?

My last question how is your LCD? Would you recommend it?

(For all those who reply to this posting I would like to say right off thank you for your time and help!)

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Why do you need a 19' for 12x10? A 17' gets better results because the pixels are not as stretched as the 19'. For $300 bucks you can get some awesome LCD's. Go for Viewsonic, Acer, or Mitubishi. As for a 17', i recommend this Acer because it has DVI and 6ms response.

now for your questions

ghosting is when the response time is too low(like junk LCD's with 25ms)

You never buy the LCD for its speaker, every LCD has them, you just don use it

DVI(DIGITAL video interface) are preferred because you don't lose quality from converting to analog when the video come out of your GPU. gamers benefit from this since DVI gives better pictures. I assume your GPU has a DVI output right?

I don know what Overdrive is, not important probably

THE biggest quality issue with LCD are the pixels. If you get it shipped to you chances are you are gonna get some dead/defective pixels. It will be noticeable and is very annoying if it is in the center. Most companies require 8+ dead pixel for return or exchange. So look at the warranty. Do not get cheap LCD's because they are worse than CRT monitors.

Now onto general issues and gaming. LCD's produce less eye strain than CRT at smae refreshing rate. NOTE: your LCD brightness should be 300cd/m2 or higher other wise it will be too dark and it will kill your eyes.
For gamers, your response time needs to be 8ms or lower for desirable game play. Most LCD have a native resolution it runs best at (10x7 for 15', 12x10 for 17', 16x14 i believe for 19' and so on) not using the native resolution gets you bad results.

NO, monitors almost never have compatiblity issue with GPU's unless the output and input doesn't match (e.g. DVI and analog needs a converter to make it work)

For your need, 12x10 is good enough unless you want some serious eye candy you can go up in resolution to 16x14 or higher and increase the refresh rate to 70 or 85hz. General rule, higher resolution and refresh rate = more detail and demand on the GPU

My laptop LCD is way too dark and it slaughters my eye

that about covers it, hope it helps

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