Looking to upgrade my 550 TI next week. Been wanting to for awhile, as I'm still doing VGA. I've settled on the Sapphire 7870 GHZ edition as my indoctrination into the 1080p world, but I'm undecided on a monitor. Intially, I was sure I was going to go with an Asus 24 inch that had a customer choice award from Newegg under its belt. But at the time I was also considering going with a Sapphire FleX, and running a tri-monitor setup with my 2 VGA monitors, but I've decided, hey, 2 monitors is enough, why not just get a big 27 inch to game on. Only thing is, its coming a bit over what I initially wanted to spend, but yes I'm well aware of the "you get what you pay for concept".
Tentatively, I'm looking at this Asus one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236103
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236091
The 2nd one doesn't have an LED backlight, but other than that it appears to be the same to me. Do I really need a backlight? Professor Wikipedia has a bunch of blah blah blah. I'd like someone to give it to me straight in plain, simple English if possible.
I was also looking at this Planar monitor, TigerDirect has what looks like a pretty nice deal on it, and TigerDirect has decent reviews, but Newegg has the same model (a little more pricey) and they seem to have a lot of reviews with people complaining about dead pixels and troubles with Planar going through the RMA process. I don't know how common dead pixels are, as I've never had one that I'm aware of and I've had several LCD monitors, in laptops, and desktops. Mostly Dell branded (which I'm sure is really made by some other company who just slaps the Dell name on it)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=6610232&sku=P610-2702
If anyone has any of these specific models, I'd be interested to hear about it, or any other monitor recommendations ($300 is my limit however, as its already more than I was intending to spend) 1920x1080 resolution, and 60hz is fine, as I cannot afford, nor am I convinced that 120hz is necessary as I think the better quality mostly comes from the resolution not the refresh rate.
Tentatively, I'm looking at this Asus one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236103
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236091
The 2nd one doesn't have an LED backlight, but other than that it appears to be the same to me. Do I really need a backlight? Professor Wikipedia has a bunch of blah blah blah. I'd like someone to give it to me straight in plain, simple English if possible.
I was also looking at this Planar monitor, TigerDirect has what looks like a pretty nice deal on it, and TigerDirect has decent reviews, but Newegg has the same model (a little more pricey) and they seem to have a lot of reviews with people complaining about dead pixels and troubles with Planar going through the RMA process. I don't know how common dead pixels are, as I've never had one that I'm aware of and I've had several LCD monitors, in laptops, and desktops. Mostly Dell branded (which I'm sure is really made by some other company who just slaps the Dell name on it)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=6610232&sku=P610-2702
If anyone has any of these specific models, I'd be interested to hear about it, or any other monitor recommendations ($300 is my limit however, as its already more than I was intending to spend) 1920x1080 resolution, and 60hz is fine, as I cannot afford, nor am I convinced that 120hz is necessary as I think the better quality mostly comes from the resolution not the refresh rate.