I second the BenQ's, espcially the FP241. At work I think we have almost every Dell ever made (upto and including 30" TFT's) here and none of them compare to the BenQ in picture quality.
When looking at TFT's, check the type of screen it is. SPVA is the best quality and TN panels are the lowest quality. With a TN panel your loosing out on colour depth etc.
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I'll need to purchase a monitor soon. Things I've learned to consider are:
1- the native screen resolution and a video card that can support that easily enough. So a 24" monitor will need a gpu with some balls
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You can pick up an old Radeon X1950XTX for almost nothing these days and that will power a 24" screen running 1920x1200 with ease, especially if all your running is IL2. Just make sure the card has 512mb of memory because of the texture sizes being loaded into memory.
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2- the quicker the response time (how fast a pixel can change grey to grey, iirc) is preferrable to reduce the chance of ghosting. So if I can find a monitor with a 2ms response time I'm in good shape.
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Beware of some advertising, a monitor that says it can do 2ms is only under specific conditions. If you can find out its average response time under real conditions. It might be more like 8 to 16ms. Cheaper panels that say they can do 2ms might average out allot higher than 16ms during normal operation.
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2- there's something called lag time too. this spec is not mentined in most monitors, but again has something to do with ghosting. maybe it's like low response time
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AFAIK mice and other input devices can cause input lag. Samsung TFT's are notorious for input lag from mice. Some models have upto a 30ms input lag time although I'm sure they have been improving over time because Dell uses Samsung panels and they don't have this issue.
www.widescreengamingforum.com is probably the most comprehensive site in regards to buying a new TFT/LCD. They do the best reviews and since there independant they generally will show every monitors good side as well as the faults. Well worth a look before you part with large amounts of cash.