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Advice on a 24" monitor for PC/PS3
atkbob
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With the school year nearing an end, I'll soon be leaving behind my 24" Dell 2407WFP and going home to my old NEC 19" CRT. I'm planning to pick up a PS3 for GTAIV and MGS4, and bringing home my desktop to play TF2 and COD4 (I can't take my monitor, I'm actually UPSing my desktop across the country). I was planning on getting a 24" Dell 2408WFP (it has an HDMI port) for my little brother, but being from Canada, the sale just ended, bringing the price up to $730. This seems like a lot to spend on a monitor, but nothing can get in my way of zooming in on Snake's majestic mustache in HD. Are they any cheaper alternatives for a good PC/console monitor with at least VGA, DVI and HDMI ports? I'm willing to spend the money for a good monitor that will last, but I just don't want to unnecessarily overspend.
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better than the dell 2408WFP in pretty much every way
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001263
...my sister has the 22" in model and it's fuckin' sweet. 0 ghosting and the color is brilliant.
Lower response time = Less ghosting on faster paced games, but 6ms isn't bad. You can find 2/3ms response time monitors, but those are usually limited to VGA/DVI only, unless again you want to spend more.
If you're looking at something with a 3000:1 contrast ratio, its most likely a dynamic contrast ratio (the 24088 wfp is) . All dynamic contrast does is basically dim the backlight on certain areas of the screen to make it look darker, and it looks like ass. Most people just disable the dynamic contrast option which drops it back to 1000:1. Higher response times can cause ghosting, but whats even more important than that for games is input lag, the higher the input lag, the longer the delay between something happen and actually showing up on the monitor, the 2408WFP supposedly has one of the highest input lags in a monitor..ever. Which makes it less than ideal for games. So while you might not necessarily want the benq i linked, you definitely don't want the 2408
edit: the other thing to keep in mind is if you see an lcd with a response time under 5 MS, its pretty much guarenteed to be a TN panel, which means horrible viewing angles, so not good for a group of people playing/watching you play
They use different panels, they're both MVA panels afaik (maybe PVA) but they're different. The 2408 is supposed to be quite a bit worse than the 2407, at least according to the majority of people who have gotten them in this thread http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1264046
I actually prefer the Benq 241FPWZ, if you can find one. Same panel as the FP241VW, but it's a plain black bezel with a tilt/rotate base, so you can turn it 90 degrees.
I think there's a newer version with HDMI as well.
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Also, since I doubt the monitor I'm getting will have HDMI, I'm just gonna grab an adaptor. Is there any loss of quality from HDMI to DVI? Everything I read online says they have the same signal, but I don't know what DVI's limitations are.
(Edit: did some more looking, and there's an LG with an HDMI port for $329- agian, Canadian. Me likey.)
http://www.pcworld.com/shopping/reviews/prtprdid,37039204/reviews.html
Samsung is well built,good quality,reasonable price and fanastic warranty (in canada anyhow). Hidef quality,no ghosting no burnt pixels nothing but creamy smooth widescreen CARNAGE!
That Benq monitor is almost $100 more when you choose USD instead of CAD; when there's less than 1% difference between USD and CAD right now.
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To answer your question in spite of discovering the other monitor, there's no signal difference between HDMI and DVI. The video portions are identical, HDMI adds the ability to carry a digital audio signal along with the DVI video signal. I'm using an adapter and it looks fantastic.
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