Purchasing an LCD (No Gaming)
 

Hey this is my second thread about my new comp, first one is about the sound card, this one is about the monitor (dont worry it should be my last thread about this crap for a while)
I am looking into getting either a 17 or 19 inch monitor, preferably a 19incher because i want to watch movies on my computer. I have heard about slower refresh rates on LCD's causing ghosting and bluring with games, so I was wondering if this happenes when watching DVDs as well. oh yea and i lied about playing no games, i will be playing some very oldschool dos games on it, and maybe the original C&C games.

The compuer I am building is going to be used for (in this order):
1). Sound Editing and recording
2). Watching DVD
3). Editing pictures
4). Playing old old games like Xcom and Master of Magic and Civ2
Any Brands of monitors better than any others? I have heard that the cheaper LCD's hurt your eyes after staring at them for 2+ hours. Also just from looking at different monitors I find that the sony ones have the sharpest image, but then again i wasnt looking at any phenominal pictures or anything.
And I have to get an LCD because a CRT simply would not even come close to fitting on my desk.

Thanks again for the help

I've never noticed a difference playing games on LCDs; most modern LCD displays don't seem to have refresh problems. The bigger problem for me is that they have a fixed native resolution and some games need lower resolutions for performance reasons, and of course you can't go higher than native. They can display lower resolutions by drawing one framebuffer pixel as multiple physical pixels but it usually looks terrible. These display things are fairly subjective though; for example I can't stand using CRTs running at refresh rates lower than 72-75 Hz but there are millions of people out there merrily running at 60 Hz oblivious to the fact that it can even be changed. The best advice I have is to actually look at the displays doing the tasks you want them to do and decide from there.

dell 2001 fp

http://www.fractalcanvas.net/trentchau/mydesk.jpg

that's me with a samsung 213t and the 2001 fp on the right

I would love to get that 2001fp but its price is 1350 CAD and i can probably only spend 900 CAD on it

try www.gotapex.com when you have a chance. You can get a good price on it.