Any opinions of Chimei monitors?

I found this off-brand 19" LCD with 2 ms response time from bensbargains.net. Anyone have any opinions of, evaluations of, or experience with it? Or does anyone have a link to reviews of the monitor?

I'm interested in something that would do well for general purpose, but I also like to game (currently building a rig with an 8800 GT OC & Q6600 CPU).

I have a 19" CRT monitor now, but it's huge and I'd like to replace it with a smaller profile LCD. Since this is a 19" widescreen, I suspect I'm actually losing some viewing area. Is this true?

Anyway, here's the link to the monitor.

http://www.clubit.com/product_deta [...] =CA4693002

Thanks for your input!

The viewing height of a 19" widescreen LCD monitor will be approximately the same height of a 17" 'regular' LCD monitor. Actually, it should be a little bit more than 17" LCD monitor.

Your 19" CRT monitor is actually 18" viewable, the remaining 1" is embedded inside the monitor's case and that part does not display anything.

You will loose some viewing height, but you will gain more viewing width.

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Chimei is a LCD panel manufacturer in China and they sell their own line of LCD monitors. Similar to Samsung, but LCD panels manufactured by Samsung are superior.

Note: Not all Samsung monitors use Samsung LCD panels. They also use LCD panels made by Chimei in their line of LCD monitors.

I didn't say "viewing height" for a 19" CRT. Measured diagonally, a 19" monitor actually has about an 18" viewing area. Read further down the OP's post where he mentions that he has a 19" CRT monitor.

My 19" Planar PX191's (4:3 monitor) measures roughly 11.5" from the top of the viewing area to the bottom. Roughly speaking a 17" LCD monitor's viewable height would be about 1" - 1.5" less than that of a 19" non-widescreen LCD monitor. That would be roughly the same viewable height of a 19" Widescreen LCD monitor.