What Monitor Do You Recommend?

Phillyfan112

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Hi everyone,

So I'm looking for a new monitor to get for gaming. Something that's in the range of 200 to 250 and within the 5 to 1 ms GTG response time. If anything know's of something good for me let me know.

I was looking at:

ASUS VE248Q
ASUS VE248H

And some others.. Now, I am looking at the BenQ XL2420TE but thats 329 dollars..

Any help would be awesom!
 
Solution
I would trust a professional level review from a site like TFTCentral, X-Bit Labs, etc. (including here at tomshardware) more than user reviews, but a lot of monitors don't get reviewed at the professional level.
I recommend you ignore the response times listed in the specifications. That's so poorly defined as to be pure marketing hype. A monitor listed as 1ms response time could have worse ghosting (especially if you count inverse ghosting) than one listed as 8ms response time.
 

Phillyfan112

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alright good to know. But I see on newegg all these different 24 inch and 27 inch monitors from ASUS that look the exact same but some have H and the end and the others have Q.. What does this mean?
 


I agree in part, but often professional reviewers don't use the product enough to report on issues that crop up over time like bleeding or simply dying.

I guess BOTH customer and professional reviews would be ideal.