It will be the Dell. (Plus 2Gb of Dual channel ram).

The NEC is now out of stock where Im going.


Dave.

Too late but nevermind:

Another recommendation for Viewsonic here!

Although I have to say - if youre really wanting a monitor for gaming then Id pick a 19". Even if there are some 20" monitors that quote fast response times, Ive never seen one that compares to the best 19" screens sadly.

Also, for gaming, the 19" has the advantage of the lower native resolution. My 20" is a 1600x1200 panel driven by a GF7800GTX and too many modern games force me to run my screen out of native res.

Ive heard that there is ghosting visible on the dells, 16ms is quite slow indeed!

quoted response times are an indication of the screen generation and not actually related to the actual response speed suprisingly enough.  You wont find many screens with response times even remotely close to the quoted values.

The bigger the screen, the slower the response time, the worse it is for games, so you really need make a comprimise between how much you want a mahoosive screen, and how much you need fast ghost free games.

If response times were accurate (i.e. the time it takes for a pixel to update) then it would make no difference how big a screen was.  It would still take that amount of time to refresh wether it was a 1 pixel screen or the size of europe.


Best way to judge is to go on personal opinions.  I cant actually see any ghosting on these screens on movies, tv, football games, world of warcraft, etc although going on what Punkd said its probably apparent on things like counterstrike (never checked tbh).  Short version is - ignore given response times - theyre utterly meaningless.


Just a fyi - I can run most games I play at reasonable settings and 1920*1200 on my old PC without too much trouble (xp3500, 1 gig ram and an ati x800xt).  On this screen size just make sure the screen youre getting can transform images to HDTV resolutions in case you ever want to hook it up to a console etc.

depends on how far away you sit from them.

I use a pair of 19" crts at work for coding @ 1600x1200 on each but im not far away from em.

at home im nearly 2 1/2 - 3 feet away from the screen on only run at @1280x1024 on a 21".

rule of thumb anything over 23" premotes eyestrain.

think about it, its fugging big. having had to work 14 hours straight for the past 4 days with an a4 graphics tablet my eyes and my f**king wrist is killing me.

why cant they give me an a5 pad an a "19 monitor.

They do say w**king will make you blind, obviously no good for the wrists either.