19" Monitor Reviews
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- Mel
I'm getting the Samsung 957MB 19"... did lots of research and seems to be the best bang for your buck. Looking for some feedback on this monitor, or others.
Thanks fellow NTers!
- ER0
link it.
- Mel0
http://www.samsung.ca/cgi-bin/na…
plus it got #1 on PCworld Best of 2003...
- ER0
whats the price youre getting?
- Mel0
BTW, I also want to do the dual screens thing... but I have to get a second PCI vcard. Is this gonna fuck up my computer or be buggy at all. I'm getting a cheap ($60) one to add. The guy at the store tells me that it won't do shit, you just asign which monitor is using which video card, and ta-dah! but he could be bullshitting me...
- Mel0
I'm getting it for $360 CAD baby!
- ER0
the video card situation that he described can be that simple but things come up. too many variables to work that way everytime.
anyway, sounds like an ok monitor. ive found some better ones for sure. the price doesnt sound that great if you ask me. what part of the country are you in? i might be able to recomend some alteratives. unless your already into this deal.
- brundlefly0
the LG 19 inch Flattron 915ft will do 1600x1200 @ 87 hertz with my nvidia card....much higher
1280x1024 @ 111 hertz
$400 Cdn
- jox0
frankly, that sounds like a LOT of money for a 19" CRT. I bought two Hitachi 19" (CM721) for $230 each a couple of months ago.
- ER0
i went to Fry's and saw a 19in dell trinitron for around $250 if i remember correctly.
and if you kick in another $200 you could be runnin a nice 22in.
something to consider.
- kodap0
that's a nice deal, ER
- ilmarine0
i place my order for the 959NF samsung. it seems to be even better than MB and the price difference is very small.
as far as i know (and i've done a lot research) the lg 19" is cheaper but samsung actually can outdo it in the herz business (although the difference is very small).
as for dual monitor thingie. buy a decent graphix card (i'm buying MSI Geforce FX 5600) that has a DCI output as well as the regular RGB output. then buy a small thingie that turns your DCI into RGB (with my old Matrox card it was already in the box), and just plug your second monitor into that. the second ones herzes will be lower but people usually use their primary monitor for the important stuff (ie. they look at it more than at the second one).
well, at least this is what i am doing...
- ER0
or you can just upgrade the card you have. i run duals and can do very impresive resolutions off one card. i think it was $129, may have gone down by now. its an nvidia gforce4 titanium 4800 "SE" - 128mb. it has 1 vga, 1 dvi and 1 s-video input.
- ilmarine0
yep, msi geforce fx 5600has those same inputs. the test show that in some cases the last best model (4800???) is better, but it is only better (higher fps) because the fx 5600 uses its cool antialiasing technology that delivers a better image quality.