Best 22" for gaming.

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I have tried almost all 24" monitors and have been very dissapointed in quality for the amount of money i spent on them, so if i am going to settle for a monitor, i will settle for a 22" intill better models come out, i was looking at the DELL sp2208wfp for gaming, any other considerations???
 
I have the Samsung 2253LW 21.6"... it does the job for gaming that is.

I'm waiting for a 24" myself, so I got it at Costco. Hopefully, either the 2407WFP-HC drops in price $400-450 shipped, and/or the 2408WFP's kinks gets fixed. HTH
 
22 " monitors are usually poorer in color and quality then 24".

thats the way they make them.
people say the 2407 is good, you can probably get one cheap.
 
I went with a Samsung 2253BW also, but mostly because the 24" operate at such high resolution that many games have a serious frame rate drop. 22" is a good compromise. Unless they are right next to each other you can hardly tell the difference, and I get good frame rates in everything without having to spend money on a new SLI setup.
 
Brantoc said:
I went with a Samsung 2253BW also, but mostly because the 24" operate at such high resolution that many games have a serious frame rate drop. 22" is a good compromise. Unless they are right next to each other you can hardly tell the difference, and I get good frame rates in everything without having to spend money on a new SLI setup.
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Hogwash, my single 8800 GTS 512MB plays all the games I play just fine at 1920x1200. Yeah, if you want to run them max settings at 4xAA or higher you'll need SLI, but otherwise a single card is fine. (I'm happy enough with max setting at 2xAA; certainly a lot better than I could do with my old 7800 GT on a 20" monitor even!)

Anyway, you're forgetting that you can run a 24" monitor at 1680x1050 too for when you really want 100+ FPS. ;) Albeit it won't look quite as good as it's not native resolution for a 24", but if you need that much performance that's probably not that much a concern.
 
farfromhome said:
Hogwash, my single 8800 GTS 512MB plays all the games I play just fine at 1920x1200. Yeah, if you want to run them max settings at 4xAA or higher you'll need SLI, but otherwise a single card is fine. (I'm happy enough with max setting at 2xAA; certainly a lot better than I could do with my old 7800 GT on a 20" monitor even!)

Anyway, you're forgetting that you can run a 24" monitor at 1680x1050 too for when you really want 100+ FPS. ;) Albeit it won't look quite as good as it's not native resolution for a 24", but if you need that much performance that's probably not that much a concern.
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True. I run COD4 multi-player w/ AA and most settings off at 1680x1050. I get a constant 125fps most of the time (30-40+ players). I didn't get a chance to try those settings on the 245BW before sending it back but I did get 80-90 w/ max settings on 1920x1200. But yah, I don't need all that extra detail for multi-player mode. I haven't tried single-player... I just built my rig. So yah, a great vid card will get you umph-age =)

Bottom-line would be I guess, if you just need it for straight-gaming and would be playing lots of fps-heavy games, then a 22" ain't a bad pick.
 
Almost all 22" panels are TN. Which means dark and very light colors will lose alot of Dynamics, I had a hard time planning Doom3, STALKER, and the darker levels of Hl2 on my Samsung 19" TN.

I really like my BenQ MVA based panel.

A quick look here shows that virtually all 22" are TN, except this Lenovo L220x. That looks like a really awesome display, except the brightness is specced a little low :/ but probably good enough.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/panelsearch.htm
 
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