24" Monitors

Post by **ADF-BUNGY** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:31 am

I don't want this to degenerate into a pissing contest as to who has the best monitor.

Anyway, after much deliberation and checking available funds in the bank account, I finally joined the 21st century and bought a 24" monitor.

My original choice was the Dell 24" Ultra Sharp @ $799.00.

But in the end I purchased a BenQ E2420HD for $269.00 from UMart. Link --> BenQ E2420HD Monitor

Specifications E2420HD

Screen Size: 24.0"W
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Color: Glossy Black
Resolution: 1920x1080 (getting hard to find a 1920x1200 these days)
Pixel Pitch : 0.276
Brightness: 300 cd/㎡
Contrast Ratio : 1000:1 (DCR:50000:1 )
Response Time: 5ms / 2ms(GTG)
Display Area: 531.36x298.89 (mm)
Display Colours: 16.7 million
Viewing Angle: 170/160 (L/R;U/D) (CR>=10)
Input Signals: D-sub / DVI-D/ HDMI 1.3x2/ Headphone Jack/ Line out/ Line out
Horizontal Frequency (KHz): 24~83 (KHz)
Vertical Frequency (Hz): 50 ~ 76 (Hz)
Video Bandwidth (MHZ): 205 (MHz)
Colour Temperature Settings: Reddish / Normal/ Bluish /user mode
Power Consumption: 65W
Power Supply: Built-in
Speakers: 1.5Wx2
Features: Senseye 3, AMA, HDCP Support, OSD Language : 17 languages
Adjustments (down/up): Tilt Only -5/20 (down/up)
Dimensions (HxWxD) Dimensions: 439.7x581.9x179 (mm)
Weight: Net Weight: 6.0kg
Gross Weight: 7.4kg
Accessories (Standard): VGA Cable, DVI Cable, Audio cable, USB cable, Driver CD

[img]http://www.benq.com.au/images/product/L ... nimage.jpg[/img]

I will post some thoughts after I have used it for a few games. So far, not bad - bang for buck pretty good.

Edit: I double checked the invoice, Monitor $269.00 Freight $20.00, adjusted price above.

Post by **ADF-Dizz** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 1:40 pm

You'll go blind m88y - you'll have to sit on the other side of the room

Post by **Goanna** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:58 pm

I got a new system recently and went with the Dell UltraSharp U2410, and no complaints so far.. took a little while to get used to all the extra real estate

Cheers

Goanna

Post by **Beer** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:10 pm

i have a 23.5 benq and a 24 acer, i find the benq better for my movies and thats about it for me, im not a hard core gamer so as long as the looks good and i still die, who cares about 0.00001milisecond better framerate i cant move that quick anyway.

Post by **FDGStitch** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:28 pm

BenQ is a nice monitor mate.

Fuddster ended up with a BenQ, I was a tad envious.

Post by **OzSquirrell** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:58 pm

Is this one any good? BenQ M2700HD 27"

Post by **ADF-Snake** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:18 pm

Looks nice Bungy! I've been using my old 19" Dell monitor for around 5 years or so i think.. Might be longer but I don't care, It's big enough for me heh.

Maybe down the track I'll look at a bigger monitor but for now this 19" will do the trick for me.

Post by **ADF-BUNGY** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 12:33 am

Snake,
My old Phillips 19" monitor is still going strong. I may hook it up as a second monitor on my sytem. But, I might need a bigger GC to run them both.
I have a ATI 4850 512mb card at the moment.

Squirrell,
A quick search shows the retail price range: $555.50 to $702.00
Not alot of reviews, but, the ones I did find said it performed well (Modern Warfare 2, etc)
Many are using it as a monitor for a gaming console (xbox or ps3) and are very happy with it.

So if the ebay item is legit and the bids don't go up too much in the next week it should be an excellent buy.

Basically the same specs as my 24" just a bigger pixel size .274 to .311.

Post by **ADF-Dizz** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:43 pm

Bouncy bouncy - the eyeballs are getting tired (watching you two guys avatars

to the boobs

Post by **ADF-Snake** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:56 pm

ADF-Dizz wrote:Bouncy bouncy - the eyeballs are getting tired (watching you two guys avatars
to the boobs

Careful you don't hurt your eyes watching all the boobs dizzy!