Rawcat
10-08-07, 09:53 AM
Hullo thar ocf. :beer:
Fist of all, right at this moment, i'm sitting behind a 21" CRT screen, wich i'm partly satisfied with. It's however not getting any newer with time, and due to some friend advices i finally decided to give flatpanels a try.
I've been reading alot of stuff about LCD's not being usable for gaming and all, but after looking a little bit deeper, it showed that most newer TN panels are quite ok, and generally are better when it comes to higher resolutions. Saying that, i won't call my preferred resolutions high, as i usually game on 1280x1024 (due to only 3GHz 6600 Conroe, 2x 1GB DDR2@800Mhz and a GF 8600GT) when i need top performance in an FPS. Due to hearing that LCD's are not too keen on upscaling/downscaling i still am a bit uncertain, but i allready decided to get a new monitor, so i need to go the whole way.
Right, i've been looking around on some forums, and this (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158012) thread here inspired me to get a HP Pavlillion w2207 22" (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176079) screen. I went as far as actually ordering the screen allready. Weirdly enough though, right the day after i ordered it, the online store i ordered it from suddenly lost their stock of w2207's and set me to wait 2 weeks more to until they got them again or something. I became upset and canceled my order, but still haven't got my money back, but that's another story.
So, after looking around for a bit more information about hat screen, i found out that pretty much every computer store here in Denmark has suddenly replaced their stocks of w2207's with slightly pricier w2207h's, which i can't really find any information about. So, having virtually no idea about what's going on, i started looking for alternatives.
The ultimate alternative i found yesterday, was the Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW 22" (http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=computersperipherals&type=monitors&subtype=lcd&model_cd=LS22PEBSFV/XAA&fullspec=F). It looks nice, has specs on par with their other new monitors, and is a bit cheaper.
Ironically enough, i couldn't find any user input about it either, again probably because it's a newer model or something. The specs look pretty well and all, but i'd still like to hear if it has any noticeable input lag, backlighting leaks, color/brightness shifts towards the bottom, general looks and all that stuff. Being used to playing fast paced FPS' on a CRT, i quite possibly can't cope with much LCD input lag and stuff like that.
So, what'd ya suggest for a picky wit like me? Are my assumptions on those 2 screens correct, and should i go ahead and buy one of them? Please hurry, i really want to be playing Portal and HL2: Episode 2 on a shiny new LCD.:)
Fist of all, right at this moment, i'm sitting behind a 21" CRT screen, wich i'm partly satisfied with. It's however not getting any newer with time, and due to some friend advices i finally decided to give flatpanels a try.
I've been reading alot of stuff about LCD's not being usable for gaming and all, but after looking a little bit deeper, it showed that most newer TN panels are quite ok, and generally are better when it comes to higher resolutions. Saying that, i won't call my preferred resolutions high, as i usually game on 1280x1024 (due to only 3GHz 6600 Conroe, 2x 1GB DDR2@800Mhz and a GF 8600GT) when i need top performance in an FPS. Due to hearing that LCD's are not too keen on upscaling/downscaling i still am a bit uncertain, but i allready decided to get a new monitor, so i need to go the whole way.
Right, i've been looking around on some forums, and this (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=158012) thread here inspired me to get a HP Pavlillion w2207 22" (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176079) screen. I went as far as actually ordering the screen allready. Weirdly enough though, right the day after i ordered it, the online store i ordered it from suddenly lost their stock of w2207's and set me to wait 2 weeks more to until they got them again or something. I became upset and canceled my order, but still haven't got my money back, but that's another story.
So, after looking around for a bit more information about hat screen, i found out that pretty much every computer store here in Denmark has suddenly replaced their stocks of w2207's with slightly pricier w2207h's, which i can't really find any information about. So, having virtually no idea about what's going on, i started looking for alternatives.
The ultimate alternative i found yesterday, was the Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW 22" (http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/spec.do?group=computersperipherals&type=monitors&subtype=lcd&model_cd=LS22PEBSFV/XAA&fullspec=F). It looks nice, has specs on par with their other new monitors, and is a bit cheaper.
Ironically enough, i couldn't find any user input about it either, again probably because it's a newer model or something. The specs look pretty well and all, but i'd still like to hear if it has any noticeable input lag, backlighting leaks, color/brightness shifts towards the bottom, general looks and all that stuff. Being used to playing fast paced FPS' on a CRT, i quite possibly can't cope with much LCD input lag and stuff like that.
So, what'd ya suggest for a picky wit like me? Are my assumptions on those 2 screens correct, and should i go ahead and buy one of them? Please hurry, i really want to be playing Portal and HL2: Episode 2 on a shiny new LCD.:)