Samsung SyncMaster 930B 19 inch LCD Monitor
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- Aspect Ratio: 5:4
- Response Time: Fast (5 - 8.9 ms)
- Contrast Ratio: 700:1
- Screen Size: 19 inch
- Monitor Type: Flat Panel LCD TFT (Active Matrix)
- Family Line: Samsung SyncMaster
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Sweet 19" LCD
Pros
Great image quality, low $, nice looking
Cons
No DVI cable, included software a bit buggy (not needed for DVI)
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
Buy a $35 DVI cable and you have a sweet gaming 19" LCD.
My Viewsonic 19" CRT was starting to die, every once in a while one of the color guns would cut out and I would have a very odd color shift until I whacked the side of the monitor. At work I got a 19" LCD monitor and I was impressed.
I went to BestBuy and looked at their wall of monitors and the LG and Samsung stood out. I do a lot of gaming so I wanted the fastest monitor out there (the LG and Samsung are both rated at 8ms response time). I really liked the LG but it was an additional $180 over the Samsung. The LG had a neat rotation feature which allowed you to rotate the monitor to view things with a "taller" aspect ratio. But since these monitors are not widescreen format the rotation feature is less useful to me.
You really need to actually see the monitors for real before you buy one. (Of course you don't have to buy them where you see them . . .). Keep in mind that this is something that you are going to be looking at for hours on end so don't just trust someone else's review.
The Samsung has the standard 1280x1024 resolution that most 19" LCD's offer. You don't get into the next resolution until 20". The response time is what sold me, and the fact that it has a DVI input option. Some of the lower end monitors only have an analog (DB15) connector. One thing that annoyed me though is that they did not include a DVI cable. This will set you back an additional $35. I would factor that into the total price because that software that Samsung includes for adjusting the analog signal was very unstable on my XP machine. DVI is a better way to go anyway but the buggy software pushed me to get the cable. By using a DVI connector you bypass all the analog stuff that is required for a CRT monitor.
I was a bit nervous about jumping onto the LCD wagon, my Veiwsonic has served me well for over 5 years. My biggest concern was for the non-native resolution issues that LCD monitors have. LCD monitors are manufactured for a specific resolution (in this case 1280x1024) if you send them a signal that is not at that resolution, then the electronics in the monitor have to decide how to fit the image onto 1280x1024. Luckily the Samsung does a great job with 1024x768, this is what I run most of my games at. My ATI Radeon 9800pro is a great card but begins to slow down above 1024x768 (with all the cool stuff turned on). I really can't see any jaggy lines or visual problems with that resolution. So from a gaming standpoint this monitor is great. Just expect to buy a DVI cable.
Bradman
I went to BestBuy and looked at their wall of monitors and the LG and Samsung stood out. I do a lot of gaming so I wanted the fastest monitor out there (the LG and Samsung are both rated at 8ms response time). I really liked the LG but it was an additional $180 over the Samsung. The LG had a neat rotation feature which allowed you to rotate the monitor to view things with a "taller" aspect ratio. But since these monitors are not widescreen format the rotation feature is less useful to me.
You really need to actually see the monitors for real before you buy one. (Of course you don't have to buy them where you see them . . .). Keep in mind that this is something that you are going to be looking at for hours on end so don't just trust someone else's review.
The Samsung has the standard 1280x1024 resolution that most 19" LCD's offer. You don't get into the next resolution until 20". The response time is what sold me, and the fact that it has a DVI input option. Some of the lower end monitors only have an analog (DB15) connector. One thing that annoyed me though is that they did not include a DVI cable. This will set you back an additional $35. I would factor that into the total price because that software that Samsung includes for adjusting the analog signal was very unstable on my XP machine. DVI is a better way to go anyway but the buggy software pushed me to get the cable. By using a DVI connector you bypass all the analog stuff that is required for a CRT monitor.
I was a bit nervous about jumping onto the LCD wagon, my Veiwsonic has served me well for over 5 years. My biggest concern was for the non-native resolution issues that LCD monitors have. LCD monitors are manufactured for a specific resolution (in this case 1280x1024) if you send them a signal that is not at that resolution, then the electronics in the monitor have to decide how to fit the image onto 1280x1024. Luckily the Samsung does a great job with 1024x768, this is what I run most of my games at. My ATI Radeon 9800pro is a great card but begins to slow down above 1024x768 (with all the cool stuff turned on). I really can't see any jaggy lines or visual problems with that resolution. So from a gaming standpoint this monitor is great. Just expect to buy a DVI cable.
Bradman
