It's been a while looking for nice and best value widescreen LCD monitor for my future system.
Currently the 22" widescreen LCD seem very popular, and the price is good enough for that kind of size. Unfortunately all the 22" LCD in market now using TN panel, which is inferior in term of color quality and viewing angle, etc. The 20" Viewsonic 2025wm used MVA panel, but it was no longer in production. The BenQ 24 Fb241WZ's specs are very attractive, but with its price i can buy two 22" Samsung 226BW monitors!
List of my hardware below and component marked # is my current prefered choice.
Processor-------------C2D E6600------------------------------#
Motherboard-----------Gigabyte 965P-DS4 1066------------
------Gigabyte 965P-DS3 1066 Rev 3.3------#
------Gigabyte 965P-DS3P 1333----------------
------Asus P5N-E SLI NF650i 1333-------------
RAM-----------------Kingston Value PC6400 DDR2 800(2x1G)
------Kingston Value PC5400 DDR2 667 (2x1G)#
Optical--------------Asus 18X DVDRW Black SATA Light-Scribe-
------Liteon 20X DVDRW Black SATA L-Scribe---#
Hard Drive---------Seagate SATA2 320G 16M 7200RPM-------#
Sound Card--------Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music-------------------#
Speaker---------------Logitech Z-5500 505RMS------------------
------Logitech Z-5400 310RMS--------------------
------Edifier S5.1M 180RMS-------------------------
------Creative Gigaworks G500 130Watts
------Logitech Z-5300 280RMS--------------------#
------Logitech X-530 5.1 70RMS-------------------
Graphics Card----------------------------------------------------------
LCD Monitor------------------------------------------------------------
------20" ViewSonic VX2025WM--------------------
------22" Samsung 226BW--------------------------
------BenQ 24" FP 241WZ Wide-------------------
ATX Casing------------Cooler Master Centurion 5--------------#
PSU-------------------Cooler Master 550w Real Power---------
------Enermax Liberty 500watt-----------------
-----Cooler Master Green Power 500Watt---#
Mouse-----------------Logitech MX518 Gaming Optical--------#
Mouse Pad------------------------------------------------------------
Keyboard--------------Logitech Ultra Slim (Black)--------------#
------Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000----
As you can see i still undecided on display card and monitor. I think i'll wait until first week of May when ATI announces the launch of HD2900XT (competes with 8800GTS as far as i gather now)
Currently the 22" widescreen LCD seem very popular, and the price is good enough for that kind of size. Unfortunately all the 22" LCD in market now using TN panel, which is inferior in term of color quality and viewing angle, etc. The 20" Viewsonic 2025wm used MVA panel, but it was no longer in production. The BenQ 24 Fb241WZ's specs are very attractive, but with its price i can buy two 22" Samsung 226BW monitors!
List of my hardware below and component marked # is my current prefered choice.
Processor-------------C2D E6600------------------------------#
Motherboard-----------Gigabyte 965P-DS4 1066------------
------Gigabyte 965P-DS3 1066 Rev 3.3------#
------Gigabyte 965P-DS3P 1333----------------
------Asus P5N-E SLI NF650i 1333-------------
RAM-----------------Kingston Value PC6400 DDR2 800(2x1G)
------Kingston Value PC5400 DDR2 667 (2x1G)#
Optical--------------Asus 18X DVDRW Black SATA Light-Scribe-
------Liteon 20X DVDRW Black SATA L-Scribe---#
Hard Drive---------Seagate SATA2 320G 16M 7200RPM-------#
Sound Card--------Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music-------------------#
Speaker---------------Logitech Z-5500 505RMS------------------
------Logitech Z-5400 310RMS--------------------
------Edifier S5.1M 180RMS-------------------------
------Creative Gigaworks G500 130Watts
------Logitech Z-5300 280RMS--------------------#
------Logitech X-530 5.1 70RMS-------------------
Graphics Card----------------------------------------------------------
LCD Monitor------------------------------------------------------------
------20" ViewSonic VX2025WM--------------------
------22" Samsung 226BW--------------------------
------BenQ 24" FP 241WZ Wide-------------------
ATX Casing------------Cooler Master Centurion 5--------------#
PSU-------------------Cooler Master 550w Real Power---------
------Enermax Liberty 500watt-----------------
-----Cooler Master Green Power 500Watt---#
Mouse-----------------Logitech MX518 Gaming Optical--------#
Mouse Pad------------------------------------------------------------
Keyboard--------------Logitech Ultra Slim (Black)--------------#
------Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000----
As you can see i still undecided on display card and monitor. I think i'll wait until first week of May when ATI announces the launch of HD2900XT (competes with 8800GTS as far as i gather now)
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