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Topic Starter	Topic: buying a new monitor, narrowed it down to two:
glossy Elite Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 6222	Posted: 03-07-2005 04:32 AM                  any thoughts, opinions, reviews, links, anything relating to these monitors would be greatly appreciated: BenQ FP737S Phillips 170S5FS/100 Both 17" LCD screens, and we're on a bit of a budget so that's what we came up with. anything would be good, i'm leaning a little toward the BenQ at the moment because i've heard good things about them, but i'm not very well versed with this stuff. Thanks
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bag0shite Insane Quaker Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 286	Posted: 03-07-2005 10:35 AM                  Make sure it's got DVI, image quality is sharper using it. Assuming your graphics card has a DVI connector too which it should do if bought in the last 3 years or so. YourGrandpa in RnR can advise on graphics cards, he's always got the newest stuff. I thought he'd told everyone already tho. Guess even he's not perfect
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Dr_Watson Black Magic Joined: 23 Feb 2000 Posts: 22853	Posted: 03-07-2005 02:18 PM                  yeah, its worth the extra few $$ to find one that has a DVI port. and if you shop around i've seen some 17"-ers that have 12ms response times now. i think the two you quoted are both 16ms, which should be fine, however they both are analog D-Sub only for input.
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