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What are some decent monitors ($200.00 range) these days in the 22 to24 inch range, Anything you have to say will be appreciated.

My current monitor is a ViewSonic VP191b 19". I've had it for a number of years, and now I'm experiencing problems that might be the monitor and might not! However the screen has just about had it anyway.
Can screens be replaced with the existing electronics not effecting anything in a negative way?

I like my Samsung 24" 1080P. Fairly inexpensive, has display port (I'm not a fan of HDMI for monitors), and looks good to me.

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It depends what you want it for. I, myself, have been looking for a new monitor and, since 1920*1200 aren't really made any more, am torn between getting an "HD 1080" running at 144Hz and a 2056*1440 running at 60Hz. I am told by a colleague that the faster 144Hz refresh rate will make games seem more fluid but, since I'm not all that much of a gamer, I am looking seriously at the "2K" screens.
Then there's "4K" but I've been informed that my graphics card (NVIDIA GTX 970) would require settings turned right down to get anything like a good frame rate on that and they still cost a fair bit.

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I have a Dell 2412m. If I was going to get one today I would probably get something like this at first glance:
https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Computer...rds=dell+2412m

IPS = nice viewing angles but a little white shimmer on pure blacks. It has nice colors and viewing angles for the price. It is 16:10 aspect ratio! Mine is 60 hz and that one is probably too. Mine is a 6 bit panel using software trickery to get 16 million colors. I'm not sure if this is 6 bit as well. You have to be very careful with the marketing stuff about these panels regarding 6 bit and 8 bit. The cheaper stuff is probably still 6 bit.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles.../6bit_8bit.htm

Also you gotta make a choice which is more important motion or color reproduction and view angles. Its a trade off or it at least it was the last time I looked. Its been a few years. I don't keep up with technology until I need to get something new. I went from a tn panel to ips and I spent the first evening soaking in the colors from the monitor.

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Thanks, RadicalDreamer, I hadn't managed to find many 16:10 monitors so the Dell is worth a look. I have admit though that that's the kimd of price that Dell now do a 2560*1440 monitor for.

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I've decided to step up to a a better monitor then $200. will get, lets say $350. or so. It will be used for research, movies from Amazon, yahoo, whoever.

One of my main concerns is keeping electricity cost down. Right now I'm using a Geforce GTX 460 graphics card with a Viesonic VP191b monitor, and let Ubuntu control the drivers and updates, not sure I like doing that!

If electricity usage is a big concern, you may want to look at a new graphics card (like Radeon RX 460 or GTX 1050).

I use a BenQ 2411PT 1920x1200 and I really like it. It's an 8-bit IPS panel (not 6-bit dithering). I'm of the opinion that the monitor is one of the main components you interface with daily, so it's worth spending extra money on to get quality.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I also used a VP191b that my mom wasn't using before I bought the BenQ. It was a good value monitor. I think you definitely got your money's worth on yours and I wish mine had lasted that long, but I guess it all worked out for me in the end...

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Thanks for the reply, are the new graphics cards better on electricity but more powerful? How did they do that?

I think the monitors cheat like like the TV tests do. They do follow the test rules but the rules don't actually use real world tests. Like most EPA numbers your mileage will be lower. Without a kill-a-watt meter on it you are kind of trusting their numbers.

As with all electronic stuff, you have to keep it on a power strip or it will just consume power 24/7.

Generally, yes, newer cards will use less power and do more. This is going back a bit but I replaced am NVIDIA 9800 GTX which required a separate PCIE power lead with a GT 640 which ran off the socket power and found it performed pretty much the same using less power. As they shrink the circuits graphics cards do seem to be getting less power intensive for any given performance.
Anecdotally I'm told that AMD cards use more power and get hotter than NVIDIA ones but I can't say for certain as I've always used NVIDIA cards myself as the driver situation seems simpler.

I'm using a used Gateway flat screen monitor that I picked up at my local thrift store for 15 dollars. Here's a picture:

http://www.pineviewfarm.net/weblog/w...2016-10-15.jpg

It's not quite the dimensions you're looking for, so I won't trouble to turn it around and get the model number, but my point is, don't overlook thrift and second-hand shops. You may well find a deal.

I have been looking at new monitors for a while now and "2K" don't look to be as cheap as the should be but "4K" seem to be coming down in price. Annoys me a bit since my 970 was, likely, the wrong purchase and I ought to have hung onto my 640 but that's how life is.

I recently got two Dell U2415 http://accessories.ap.dell.com/sna/p...BUW&redirect=1 monitors - they are 16:10, have matte screen and tilt, pivot, swivel and height adjustments and support and support DDC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel)

My BenQ GL2450HM TN panel that I bought for $169 Can. over two years ago still offers a decent picture quality (skin tones look like skin tones) if one selects RGB(16~235) from its built-in controls. But if I had to replace the GL2450HM now I'd go with the approx. $250 BenQ RL2460HT for its far more adjustable stand and its 1ms Gray to Gray which beats the GL2450HM's 2ms G to G.

Re the recently released nVidia Pascal cards like the GTX 1050, 1060, 1070 and 1080. One would do well to plough through more than a few threads on these cards over at forums.geforce.com. While Windows 10 1607 Anniversary Update in conjunction with some recent nVidia drivers seems to be a primary cause of many of these card's erratic and underwhelming performance, some of the cards themselves are just bad.