Q. Alright finally going to look into getting a led back-light or a normal lcd monitor for my gaming pc felt like I wasting my hd video card with a basic gateway monitor. Well more correctly a friend asked me if I wanted one and which one
Anything I should avoid getting and anything I should look out for. Basically they will be getting it from mcriocenter and looking at something like this
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0360134
I am not sure if such things are good for gaming or such have ati hd 5850 graphics card.
Sorry for any errors or typos. and thanks ahead of time.
So need one with hdmi or dvi?
Would something like this better apart form the built in speakers.
A. I have a samsung monitor myself (also a 24") and it's a great monitor. Samsung is a very good brand in my opinion.Reading expert reviews would always be a good thing, but you would have to find those. Try to find some user-experiances also.
One thing to think about is what to do if the monitor is defect like having dead pixels (often some dead pixels are called acceptable, but if i would see a visible dead pixel on my new monitor i'd be very disappointed) Luckily the 2 lcd-monitors i ever bought (a philips and a samsung) had no dead pixels whatsoever and were of exelent build quality. I stopped using the philips monitor because it was only a 3:4 19" but it's still working, and my samsung is already working for years without any problem. Bad luck can always strike though so it makes sense to way your options in advance, just in case there are visible dead pixels or other problems.
There are a lot of technical details you might want to pay attention to like viewing-angle (especially important if you plan not to sit straight for your monitor) , ghosting (probably non-existant in your monitor would be my guess), contrast-ratio (the strength of the picture in a bright room) powerconsumption (27 watt and 0.3 standby is pretty neat) etc. but since the samsung is about the cheapest 24" monitor on the site and it's a samsung with also some good specs, and is also led backlit monitor, my first impression is that it's a good choice.
The 24" size is a very nice size for on a desk. My monitor still uses the older 16:10 aspect ratio (samsung syncmaster T240) Your monitor might look a bit smaller because of it's (new) 16:9 aspect ratio. Of course you want a full HD monitor which this monitor is. For gaming you probly would use a bit lower resolution and if you are not a complete gaming-nerd that only wants the best of the best im pretty sure you won't be able to find anything wrong with the pictures it wil produce. Although 1920 x 1200 (this is a 16:10 resolution) is the maximum and also recommended resolution for my monitor i run windows in a 1280 x 800 resolution which gives nice big letters but also leaves a lot of space.
The site doesn't say what and how many inputs the monitor has. I think it has no hdmi connector though (a pitty i think, but not directly a reason not to buy the monitor), but it does have an dvi-d or dvdi-i (dual-link) connector (i can see the connector on the pic of the rear of the monitor, together with a d-sub connector, ) . This is strange because the specs on the samsung site only mention d-sub in (vga) and composite video (i think this is a mistake) in: http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/monitors/LS24A350HS/ZA-specs
I think though it's safe to asume there is a digital dvi in (would be pretty weird if there was no digital input at all) and that should be enough although an additional hdmi in (like on my monitor) would have been better. DVI-d or DVI-i can carry the hdmi signal but without sound .This may lead to some more cable-clutter and the need to buy a hdmi to dvi adapter, and maybe an adapter that splits audio from a hmdmi signal, for example.
The lack of a hdmi input may be a very big nuisance if you want to connect several hdmi-devices to your monitor because for instance if you'd have a hdmi tv-tuner with just hdmi out and want to hook it up to your monitor you can only hear the sound if you find an adapter that splits the sound from the signal. I think though that all connection problems are solvable but it would be a hell of a lot easier when there was a hdmi in. The reason for omitting hdmi in wil be the price i think and if you just use the monitor as a simple computer-monitor for a computer with dvi-out and not want to connect a lot of extra devices there should be no problem at all. However it might be worthwhile to look for a monitor with hdmi in and to think ahead very carefully on what connections you want to make especially relating to the fact that hdmi carries sound and dvi doesn't. My monitor for example does have hdmi-in and no speakers but audio out allowing me to hook up my own speakers to the monitor to hear the sound that comes through the hdmi cable. Again: in a simple setup using dvi might be no problem but the lack of hdmi-in can become awkward in some situations.
Notes: you can use the d-sub connector to connect a computer with dvi-i out (not dvi-d but most videocards have dvi-i) using a dvi-i to d-sub (vga) cable or adapter leaving the dvi connector to connect another device like a hdmi-device but without sound:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=244973&CatId=467
(vga may sound old but has about the same picture-quality as dvi or hdmi, especially over a short distance) Hdmi lends itself very wel for switching (using a switch box) and should be the preferred way of making your connections.
27 inch LCD monitor vs 24 inch LED LCD monitor ?
Q. im on a low budget, and cant pick one out, its for my xbox, and laptop
A. Go with the 27".
LED is overhyped. It'll often give you thinner monitors and slightly lower power consumption, but often gives lower maximum brightnesses than CCFL. And it will not give you better contrast in 99% of cases (unless it is true LED-backlit and not edgelit and has local dimming, which most don't).
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