BF2S Forums List of monitor manufacturers in order of preference

Dell and Samsung > all.

Jaekus wrote:

I was looking at an Asus LED monitor, but now I'm not so sure.

Is it really worth it (LED I mean)? I'm going to be mainly gaming on it.

It's worth it assuming the price difference is not too great.

Jaekus wrote:

I was looking at an Asus LED monitor, but now I'm not so sure.

Is it really worth it (LED I mean)? I'm going to be mainly gaming on it.

ASUS really aren't too good at making anything but motherboards. Some of their stuff is more plastic and flimsy than Acer's equivalents.

More replies please people.

I should probably mention names here.

The ones my local computer parts store has are:

Acer
Asus
BenQ
LG
Philips
Samsung
Viewsonic (I'm pretty sure I should steer clear of this one though)
AOC (not sure about these ones either)

Last edited by Jaekus (2010-04-15 23:16:18)

LG have a few really terrific TN LCDs. Conversely, they also have a whole heap of junk on the market.

Yeah if its TN panels you want (aka the ones you see in stores) then Dell and Samsung is the way to go.  If you want really high end then Dell, HP and a bunch of companies you've probably never heard of are the best

I and most of the tech team will tell you that you should find the best Samsung monitor in your price range. They are as good as it gets in the 200-400 range. If you ever go higher, you should look into Dell.

After a lot of thought (a LOT) I'm leaning towards a BenQ G2222HDL

+
LED
Full HD
HDCP
21.5" (I have a small desk)
36 month warranty
$200

-
No HDMI
Doesn't come with a DVI cable (VGA only wtf)
Tilt only stand (this doesnt' bother me however)

I figure at $200 it'll do for a while until LED is more common and 3D becomes more affordable which should hopefully drop prices in 12-18 months time. It'll certainly be an improvement from my 9 year old 17" LCD.

Jaekus wrote:

After a lot of thought (a LOT) I'm leaning towards a BenQ G2222HDL

+
LED
Full HD
HDCP
21.5" (I have a small desk)
36 month warranty
$200

-
No HDMI
Doesn't come with a DVI cable (VGA only wtf)
Tilt only stand (this doesnt' bother me however)

I figure at $200 it'll do for a while until LED is more common and 3D becomes more affordable which should hopefully drop prices in 12-18 months time. It'll certainly be an improvement from my 9 year old 17" LCD.

If you buy Benq, you're also buying a guarantee that your monitor will fail within four years.

Just keep that in mind.

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

After a lot of thought (a LOT) I'm leaning towards a BenQ G2222HDL

+
LED
Full HD
HDCP
21.5" (I have a small desk)
36 month warranty
$200

-
No HDMI
Doesn't come with a DVI cable (VGA only wtf)
Tilt only stand (this doesnt' bother me however)

I figure at $200 it'll do for a while until LED is more common and 3D becomes more affordable which should hopefully drop prices in 12-18 months time. It'll certainly be an improvement from my 9 year old 17" LCD.

If you buy Benq, you're also buying a guarantee that your monitor will fail within four years.

Just keep that in mind.

Is this just their monitors? It's certainly something I've never seen any evidence of. The only BenQ product I own is my secondary projector, which is now on its 3rd bulb, each having lasted > 3000 hours. It's worked like a dream, despite a lot of abuse (being dropped, having the power lead pulled out while in operation etc.).

The only BenQ products I've ever supported were (~100, I think, it was a while ago now) monitors at a site I used to support. Not one DOA and not one of them failed while I was providing support to this business (nearly a year). To have no monitors fail in their 1st year out of 100 is not bad - but perhaps I've just been lucky with them.

Bertster7 wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Jaekus wrote:

After a lot of thought (a LOT) I'm leaning towards a BenQ G2222HDL

+
LED
Full HD
HDCP
21.5" (I have a small desk)
36 month warranty
$200

-
No HDMI
Doesn't come with a DVI cable (VGA only wtf)
Tilt only stand (this doesnt' bother me however)

I figure at $200 it'll do for a while until LED is more common and 3D becomes more affordable which should hopefully drop prices in 12-18 months time. It'll certainly be an improvement from my 9 year old 17" LCD.

If you buy Benq, you're also buying a guarantee that your monitor will fail within four years.

Just keep that in mind.

Is this just their monitors? It's certainly something I've never seen any evidence of. The only BenQ product I own is my secondary projector, which is now on its 3rd bulb, each having lasted > 3000 hours. It's worked like a dream, despite a lot of abuse (being dropped, having the power lead pulled out while in operation etc.).

The only BenQ products I've ever supported were (~100, I think, it was a while ago now) monitors at a site I used to support. Not one DOA and not one of them failed while I was providing support to this business (nearly a year). To have no monitors fail in their 1st year out of 100 is not bad - but perhaps I've just been lucky with them.

Benqs usually work fine until the caps in the power supply and backlight drivers are shot, and the backlight driver transistors fail due to the ripple. I've fixed over twenty of them bastards due to those two problems. On average, they last about three to four years, and the 22-inchers have started rolling in recently. All with the same damn problems.

Benqs are decent performance for the price if you can handle the cheap feel, but don't expect them to last. If you buy a lot of 100, they'll run fine for a while, but then they will all catastrophically fail, all at the same time.

Bertster7 wrote:

Winston_Churchill wrote:

Yeah if its TN panels you want (aka the ones you see in stores) then Dell and Samsung is the way to go.  If you want really high end then Dell, HP and a bunch of companies you've probably never heard of are the best

Eizo are who you want for really high end.

But they're obscenely priced.

"and a bunch of companies you've probably never heard of"



I'll stick to my somewhat-reasonably-priced-yet-still-incredibly-high-quality Dell IPS panels