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VegaObscura

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I'm looking for a 24" monitor to run my PC (mainly gaming), Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and, hopefully, my Wii on--granted, not all at the same time (what would that be: PiPiPiP?).

I've heard recommentations for the BenQ G2400W and the Gateway FHD2400 (the former because of its relative cheapness and its overall quality for gaming--and the latter because of its impressive selection of inputs and overall quality).

Are there any other monitors I should consider in my quest for a (nearly) lagless gaming experience over all of these consoles?

Anything is appreciated.
 
i don't have a good suggestion, but i would like to warn you that the Office Max 24in soyo that is out doesn't always run 1080. its a good price, and i love mine, but i run at 720. my 360 doesn't work w/ 1080 on the thing.

other than that i dunno squat sorry
 
Extremetech review is naively superficial. With some minor calibration, the picture quality will be much improved (details in the darker areas...)

They also didn't like the fact that there was no card reader or ush-hub and lack a friendly OSD. Those are all personal opinions, and for the OSD, you are unlikely to use it often.

Curently, the L240NM is at 350$ at bestbuy canada. The Soyo is 300$ at Futureshop. Any other 24" are either 200$ more or have TN panels. Scaling of video sources is also really great on the Westinghouse.

Once you look at a P-MVA pannel side to side with a TN, you will understand for sure.
 
I was under the impression that TNs were generally better for gaming. Ghosting (or noticable input lag) really wouldn't be welcome.

I'm not going to be doing any professional work on the monitor--if I need to do anything like that, I'll trust my Macbook Pro's screen to do that job--but this one's mostly going to be for play.
 
Ghosting and response time is a thing of the past...

Only input lag may be a problem on some monitors. Unfortunately, I have no idea what is the input lag of the L240NM.
 
All the reviews I read on it claim that it has less-than-stellar darks, as well.

Do you own this monitor? Can you comment on that?

Anyone else have anything else to offer?
 
If you can get them both via retail I would say either will be good. I stay away from suggesting people use online/remote retailers to get monitors in general.

Ghosting and input lag are non-existent on both these screens. I am not partial to the FHD2400 because A) It's not available where I live > Canada B) I don't like glossy screens, but if you are OK with glossy it looks like a good unit.
Gateway has ironed out the backlight bleed issues to an extent.

Anandtech has a good comparison of different "multi functional" monitors showing their abilities with different resolutions. It looks like the FHD2400 is pretty good with most of them. The only issue with the FHD2400 is the bad out-of-box calibration (which is the opposite of the BenQ, as it has very good out-of-box calibration)

Just make sure you get an extended warranty for it, as it only comes with 1 year.

BTW, the Westinghouse is a good screen, but it has 2 to 3 frames of input lag. The Extremetech review is garbage, as are all their reviews. They know nothing about monitors except to use the ZDNet monitor testing methods which basically tell you nothing. The only thing that they got right was that the monitor does not sleep in HDMI mode. Otherwise they are morons.

regards,

10e
 
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