Looking for a new monitor

[Zonder]

Not kept up to date with monitors so not sure what to watch out for. Can anyone give me any tips? Using it for games / development only want 1 screen so prob a 24-27" 1080p also fine don't need super high res

[Herb]

I personally would go with the 27" inch, and of course grab an LED backlit one. I bought 2 of these a couple of months ago and love them. LG makes really nice montiors and the price was right.

[ekt]

recently bought this both at work and home. moderately satisfied.
to my test, 27" was forcing me to move my head left and right to much
of course, ymmv

[Zonder]

@herb
I have a 2 LG 22inch ips panels at work and they are good. Not played games on them though heard they not too good for that, ghosting and such?

@ekt

I was thinking the same thing about 27inch ones would be moving my head around a lot I'm about a meter away from the screen.

I currently have a 19inch 5ms lcd non widescreen (ancient had it about 7 years!) its blow 1 line out on the display though ok in games but really annoying when coding. It's too low res though anyway.

[ekt]

I was thinking the same thing about 27inch ones would be moving my head around a lot I'm about a meter away from the screen.

I keep my monitor at 60cm, so if you stay a 1mt maybe a 27" is fine

the other thing that bugs me is ratio. basically on >20 inch, you can only find 16:9 and 16:10.
they are great for tools like 3dsmax or unity but for code i think nothing beats 4:3

[Zonder]

yeah you really can't buy 4:3 any more in large sizes :S

I think I will go with a 24" that way I can get more screens if needed

anyone played games on the IPS ones?

[Zonder]

I ended up buying this one as I am putting my ps3 onto it as well

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =MO-061-AC

[shadowfeign]

saw a couple people mention 4:3 for coding, but was curious if anyone with 2 monitors has tried rotating one of them 90 degrees to display a longer pages of code? though I suppose you also need a stand that can support it, but most video cards should have the ability. wouldn't really work with single monitor I think, would be a bit weird to try watching movies or whatnot on it.

[Klaim]

Recently I saw in a video a Microsoft developer using 6 screens, two of them were long and vertical.
He was saying that at home he had eight, it's far better.

I really need to get a desktop instead of a laptop...