New Monitor Time

[Down the Pub]

the time has come to look at a new monitor as my current crt is beginning to play up.

looking for ideally (if there is such a thing)

22" screen as my gfx is only an 8800gts/320.
DVI preferably or Dsub or both , would like to do away with the converter on the back of my card.
£150 max maybe could sqeeze a little more - lower if you can find it.
and must not have a hint of silver on it - call me picky but printer/ext drive and k/b are all black, even the cable modem is black


so what can you guys come up with for price & performance, and i'm gonna look at getting it over the weekend.


just had a look and found this http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/22-Ii...x10502ms-DVI-D, any good? from past use they were solid monitors.




completely off track, but if anybody is after some retro looking ram have a look at these nice little numbers http://www.crucial.com/uk/promo/Dual...?cpe=UK_Banner , and at those prices i might be having a punt.

[Caspar]

How about this?

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[icestar2]

I got an email from Aria this morning about thier specials this week. They have alot of monitors which can be seen in the following link. Some 22" and black as you said and most under your budget. Take a look and see if anything intrest's you. There's 3 pages worth

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Monitors/

[CycoSymz]

must not have a hint of silver on it - call me picky but printer/ext drive and k/b are all black, even the cable modem is black

Call me picky but the link to the monitor you posted has a big silver bar all the way across the bottom

[Down the Pub]

Originally Posted by Caspar

How about this?

nice, but i fear that the rainbow sides would interfere with my feng shui of blackness , also i'd advise not to use that after a few beers or the room will be spinning with multi-colourness - and that's before you have to stick your head down the bog

---------- Post added at 18:46 ---------- Previous post was at 18:44 ----------

Originally Posted by Flange

Call me picky but the link to the monitor you posted has a big silver bar all the way across the bottom

i stand corrected , didn't notice that first time - having just had a 6 hour drive back from the devon/cornwall border after a hours work.


p.s. what about fat black marker pen

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=34004

Full HD and is meant to be DVI also

http://www.trustedreviews.com/displa...sive-Review/p1

[Down the Pub]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=34004

Full HD and is meant to be DVI also

http://www.trustedreviews.com/displa...sive-Review/p1

not a bad review that zing, and having read it it seems you get what you pay for - but get a bit of quality thrown in the bargain. as for the odd things that they picked up on, no height adjust - well an adjustable bracket will do and as for the black/grey issue (which i think i'd not really notice all that much) you could do worse.

[Down the Pub]

well in the end i added a couple of pound extra and got the 2209HDS, and thus far am impressed with it. still getting used to it as having to concentrate on a wider screen and not a square crt. and actually looking from side to side is starting to hurt