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ASUS 22" Widescreen

The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple,unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
edited December 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I am getting a gamng machine (first one) and I want a good monitor.


First of all, should I get a widescreen? why, why not?


Second, does anyone own the above monitor?
Recommend it?
Love it?

Make sweet sweet USB slot love to it?

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  • corcorigancorcorigan Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    The first thing I notice about Asus LCDs is they tend to not have DVI ports...

    Secondly, according to general forum rumour, 22" monitors don't tend to be brilliant quality, better to go for 20" or stretch to 24". Not exactly sure why, although as 22" tend to only have the same resolution as 20", you do get a lower dpi...

    Big widescreen monitors are awesome. After using a 20" iMac, using a 15" 4:3 LCD is just horrible now. Not enough screen!

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  • The Black HunterThe Black Hunter The key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple, unimpeachable reason to existRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    DVI ports?

    Is that some sort of HD?

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Personally I have a 22" Gateway FPD2275W, and honestly, I love it. Its well known that if someone can complain about something, they will. I run mine at 1680x1050 res and I can't see anything as being low quality about it.

    It also has component/composite inputs, and since I don't have a tv that was another selling point.

    I can't say much about the ASUS 22", but that's my experience with 22" monitors.

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I have a 19" widescreen, and I'll never buy a square screen again. I'm running mine at 1440x900 and loving it. It's great having the extra view area for games.

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  • ViolentChemistryViolentChemistry __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2007
    The Black Hunter wrote: »
    DVI ports?

    Is that some sort of HD?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVI

    It's essentially the new VGA. Most modern videocards primary output is DVI anymore, although they usually include a VGA -> DVI adaptor and/or have a VGA port in addition to the DVI port.

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  • LondonBridgeLondonBridge __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2007
    Widescreen is awesome! Go to a BestBuy and see for yourself.

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  • gneGnegneGne Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    For a gaming system I would recommend a monitor with proven low ms. LCDs advertise with all kinds of lagless terms or say their screen only has 2ms, while this is not true in perhaps most cases. There is a thread that keeps pretty up-to-date information on this however. Linky

    Look under multimedia monitors (these monitors are good enough for gaming trust me). The recommendations I can give you are the HP w2207 (or the w2007 "20inch) or the LG L226WTQ. A very good choice used to be the Samsung 226bw, but they used different panels (from different manufacturers) on this model and some of the panels could cause lag or the colors were off. So with the 226bw it's a panel lottery.

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