Monitors

[Mehta23]

I'm having trouble in deciding what monitor to go for.
I think I want a 24" 1080p for less than

 

[Rolo42]

Dell Ultrasharp for certain.

- The wide colour gamut is beautiful
- The same panel is used in monitors costing a few thousand
- It has height and tilt adjustments necessary for perfect viewing angle and comfort (I don't know why people will suffer continual neck cramps to save a few bucks)
- Inputs galore, may or may not be important
- The extra USB ports/readers do come in handy (not that it was a selling point for me)

Wife and I each have 2709Ws and I have a U2410 and they all still perform flawlessly after 4 years.

Get a calibration tool too. (I have an i1 Display2 but I think that model has been superseded.)

(Yes, I know, time to accept that "budget" really means "It'd be great if...")

Remember that a monitor doesn't antiquate like CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.

 

[Mehta23]

I don't know what antiquate means , but yeah ... I know it's

 

[Rolo42]

Its worth it.

I never see any ghosting and this is my gaming PC and frequently my television.

Check FPS benchmarks (artificial benchmarks don't mean squat) to see if the 670 is really worth it over the 660Ti.

 

[Mehta23]

It's about 10-20 fps more for 60 quid. I'm just thinking the wider bus would be futuree proofing it more ...?

 

[Rolo42]

I would say its worth it but I'm picky about having 60 FPS with the best appearance possible.

cf. SLI Performance: GTX 660 Ti vs GTX 670 | NVIDIA,GeForce,GTX 660 Ti,GTX 670,SLI,Comparison,Benchmarks,Performance,Tests,Olin Coles,SLI Benchmark Performance Test Comparison by Olin Coles: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs GTX 670

Driver improvements (which may make benchmarks outdated/antiquated) don't help.

I reiterate: I can't see regretting spending a little more but I can see regretting not getting better hardware (and GPUs are not now and have never been, "fast enough").

 

[Mehta23]

That's exactly the reason why I will get this 670 and the Dell monitor.

Yes! Monitor's reduced to just under £150.. Reckon I should wait any longer?

Edit : decided to take a plunge. Ordered my Dell Ultra sharp. Hopefully it will take a while to despatch so i have enough time to see whether the price decreases any more.

The G500 mouse at £36 is quite a lot. So I'm gonna wait to see if that goes down ( same for the keyboard)