Recently I bought a LCD monitor for my sister for Christmas and as you may have guessed by now it was the Samsung 933BW". Anyway I tested it on my computer to make sure that it was in working order and also to see how good it was.
For starters it certainly looks nicer than my current CRT monitors and is obviously a lot thinner. I have heard that the stand is a pain to get on, let alone off, so I decieded not to attach them. This monitor comes with DSUB and DVI cables and ports. Though the cables are a little short.
When running in its native resolution the quality is fine. The contrast on this monitor is certainly lacking when compared to my el-cheapo CRTs but is good enough not to bother the general consumer.
I decieded run the game "Company of Heroes" on it, to test how the response time was. My eyes couldn't pick up any differneces between it and my CRT. Though my GFX is a bit of a bottle neck in terms of frames per second. Still any problems LCD screens use to have seem to be a thing of the past.
The test did however did reveal one of the problems with LCD screens. Unlike CRT screens who can change their native resolution, LCD monitors can't. While this is a non issue in standard windows it can be a problem if a game (or any full screen application for that matter) doesn't support the native resolution. The result is that the image looks fuzzy which is obviously unacceptable which is fairly ugly and annoying.
One complain I have with this screen is that it didn't do a very good job at adjusting to the current resolution. It didn't like showing black edges when the aspect ratio was smaller than its aspect ratio and sometimes I found it cutting certain parts of the image off.
For $200 AUD, this monitor is fine for standard office work though I really wouldn't recommend it for gamming or any other graphics intensive program.
Cwize
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