I've been looking for a good gaming monitor on a budget. Any ideas?

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Steven Lee

Specifically speaking, I want them to look good for both games and documents. Because I hear that sometimes good gaming monitors have trouble displaying text right. Anyways my budget is 350, so it can be up to that but not above. Unless the ones above are really worth the extra money. I'd appreciate any help guys.

Answer
Earlier this year Consumer Reports reviewed LCD monitors like they do every year. In the 22" Wide Screen and larger category the winner was the Acer P221w. I had bought that same monitor the month before and I totally agree with Consumer Reports. Excellent display quality both in and out of games.

2500:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio
5ms Response Time
1680x1050 Resolution

You can pick one up here
http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=193176&om_keycode=823003

http://reviews.cnet.com/lcd-monitors/acer-p221w-lcd-monitor/4505-3174_7-32569188.html

For $350 you could probably find some 24" or even 26" monitor but they will not be as good as far as quality. 22" is still very large and you'll appreciate the better picture.

Are these computer specs good enough to run Battlefield 3?

emerican_c

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K (4 x 3.4GHz)

Motherboard: Z77 chipset MB: 4 x DDR3 DIMM, Max 32GB Memory

Memory: 4 x 2GB = 8GB DDR3-1333 Gaming Grade Memory Module

Hard Drive: 500GB 7200RPM Hard Disk Drive

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card

Optical Drive: Blu-ray Disc Rewriter Optical Drive

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

Monitor: Acer 23" Wide LCD Monitor

Are these good enough specs to run Battlefield 3?

Answer
Here you go:

HD7950 BF3 gaming benchmark:

Battlefield 3 - 5760x1200 - High Quality + FXAA-High - 29.2
Frames per Second - Higher is Better


Battlefield 3 - 2560x1600 - Ultra Quality + FXAA-High - 44.7
Frames per Second - Higher is Better


Battlefield 3 - 1920x1200 - Ultra Quality + 4xMSAA - 43.9
Frames per Second - Higher is Better


Battlefield 3 - 1920x1200 - Ultra Quality + FXAA-High - 62.7
Frames per Second - Higher is Better


Battlefield 3 - 1680x1050 - High Quality + FXAA-High - 75.5
Frames per Second - Higher is Better

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/550

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