Today my gateway FPD2185W died. I had it for a few years and all of a sudden it died overnight. My gf's 19" gateway died a year after we bought it out of no where (literally days after the warranty ran out). Consequently I'm not interested in getting another gateway monitor anytime soon.
I work from home and need a good monitor to both play on (fairly hardcore gamer) and code on (web developer). I also appreciate hardware quality so I'm willing to go for a smaller but better monitor.
The lowest I want to go is 19" (any smaller and I lose some convenient screen real estate for working). The highest I want to spend is $200 (ideally lower). I want a low response time (2-5ms), nice picture, and LCD.
I'm stuck though - 19"+ is all I need for my work. So it comes down to gaming... which of these are going to be best for gaming? I've got a geforce 260. I want a 19"+ monitor that gives me the best picture possible under $200.
So, anyone have some advice for what to buy? I'm open to suggestions if the monitors I'm looking at aren't my best options
*edit* sheesh, no replies in 24 hours? Oh well, no need to reply now, I needed to order by tonight so I went with the ASUS. It actually came down to the ASUS vs a NEC for $189 and I decided to go with the ASUS for the cheaper price. I wanna move up to a 120hz monitor at some point in the next few years anyway so no need to spend extra at this point...
Message edited by urnotmega on 04-13-2009 at 08:43:15 AM
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