New Monitor

Having recently managed to badger my dad into paying all of his debts to me, I suddenly find myself with an influx of money to spend and a CRT monitor that's managing to take up all the room on my desk.

With some more memory also in the basket, I've got around £50-80 to spend on a monitor.

So! Digging around on misco, which is my dad's preferred site (and it'll be his credit card, as then when misco go bust in three days time just before I get my stuff I can get all my money back or whatever is supposed to happen :P) I discovered this monitor: http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...708&Sku=137284

Am I likely to find anything better for around £60? Is there a 19"+ monitor with DVI conenctor (which this one says it has) kicking around on either ebuyer or misco for less than this? Is there a nice monitor that will let me do whatever that I haven't found yet?

I use my computer primarily for gaming, but also for watching videos, editing videos and doing whatever I feel like doing. It gets used as a testing grounds for one of my friend's batch programs to test compat, but that's about it. About the only thing I don't do is photo editing. :mrgreen:

Woo!

So, just to summarise.

19"+
DVI connector
<£80 (pref <£65, but <£80 is more realistic methinks :P)
TFT/LCD


Anything better or shall I just press the big red button and watch my bank account collapse into nothing again? Metaphorical big red button that is. I don't actually have one to press.

Apart from the fact it's fugly, imho ;), i doubt that you would be able to get much better for less than &#163;80 so push the big red button!!.

Any particular reason you didn't go for widescreen?

This might be a decent buy and although they don't list it on Misco's site it looks like it had dvi and vga inputs from the picture, certainly looks like 2 connectors on the right hand side of the rear picture.

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/...331716&CatId=0

From experience, anything less than &#163;80 on a 19" is asking for trouble and awful quality. LCD's (IMO) need to have more moolah spent on them so they dont suck, especially if you dont want to tear your hair out from the god awful "blocking" that you get when watching videos. (I say that when you compare watching the same video first on a CRT then on a 22" LCD)

Just my 2 cents and something you should bare in mind.

It's &#163;25 off.. so it's actually a &#163;90 monitor that's been knocked down :P

Fugliness doesn't really matter. I play in the dark most of the time, so I can't SEE my monitor.

And no suggestions for something else? Fair does. Guess I'll press big red button then :)

Iv gotta say what i would do is save up the extra &#163;30-50 odd and get a 22", the benefits will be far greater from something like that!