Buying a new monitor, LCD or LED?

[Bebopaloo]

Current monitor is going out so am hopefully picking a new one up while they have decent prices due to memorial day sales.



SOO LED or LCD and why? :3

[Bebopaloo]

Bump so i don't miss out on the holiday sale!

[Boyiee]

led are nice cause they are bright and all, but lcd. Try and get an IPS.

[Isiolia]

They're the same thing - LED is just how it's backlit (as opposed to CCFL). Even with that, there's different types of LED backlighting. At the high end, LED can do some nice stuff - but most consumer level ones just have different inaccuracies compared to CCFL.

IPS is preferable in general, but they're also generally more expensive. Monitor isn't really something to cheap out on though - most of us aren't running headless boxes after all.

[Kerberoz]

multiple average monitors >>>>>> 1 really good monitor

[Pikarya]

multiple average monitors >>>>>> 1 really good monitor

Depends on what you do on a regular basis. I could see multi for situations where you task many things like crazy. As for the typical user (games, music, etc.) one is enough in my opinion.

[Ragnell]

I can't go back to having a single screen, I love having two things up makes shit to easier for me

[Sonomaa]

I use multiple monitors, I prefer dell, samsung, and asus brand (all made by samsung as I recall) so they are all good

[Boyiee]

multiple average monitors >>>>>> 1 really good monitor

This isn't true. Go play some games on a 30inch dell IPS, the only thing better is using 3 of them. It is nice (needed for me as well as most) to have a 2nd monitor even if it is a shitty one, to the side for extra space, browsing, etc. But for gaming purposes: 3x 30inch > 1x 30inch > 3x average monitors.

[Kerberoz]

Who said anything about truth? I gave an opinion. So did you. Subjective shit is subjective.

As soon as you exit out of a game and do anything else, that one godly monitor turns into a prison.

[Pandum]

i use 2 27" LCDs from samsung and couldn't be happier

[Boyiee]

Who said anything about truth? I gave an opinion. So did you. Subjective shit is subjective.

As soon as you exit out of a game and do anything else, that one godly monitor turns into a prison.

2560x1600 is hardly a prison. Plus like I said, pair it with a shitty 2nd monitor like the one you are replacing and boom.

[Isiolia]

2560x1600 is hardly a prison. Plus like I said, pair it with a shitty 2nd monitor like the one you are replacing and boom.

2560x1600 is only slightly fewer pixels total than two 1920x1080 monitors - and is more than anything short of that (granted, things wouldn't fit into the space the same). Depending on what other gaming stuff one does, it might be more valuable to have accurate color, or enough space around HD video frames for toolbars, etc.

Kind of relies on what's being dubbed "average" and so on anyway.

[hey]

2560x1600 is only slightly fewer pixels total than two 1920x1080 monitors - and is more than anything short of that (granted, things wouldn't fit into the space the same). Depending on what other gaming stuff one does, it might be more valuable to have accurate color, or enough space around HD video frames for toolbars, etc.

Kind of relies on what's being dubbed "average" and so on anyway.

For the price of a 2560x1600 monitor, you may as well compare it to 3-4x 1920x1080 monitors.

[Isiolia]

For the price of a 2560x1600 monitor, you may as well compare it to 3-4x 1920x1080 monitors.

True, though you could probably get twice as many 1440x900 monitors as that (or more) for a similar cost. Doesn't mean that it's the preferable setup.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with the general sentiment - for example, last month I picked up a couple 23" Dell IPS monitors for my brother, despite them being 1920x1080 and not 1920x1200, because two of them were around the same cost as a single 24" IPS with the preferred resolution.
Point is just more that, if you do have reason to buy a 30" monitor (or whatever), then it does have a lot of real estate on it too. It's not the same as comparing a single high quality screen versus two lesser of the same size.