Are there any Non-TN <€120 monitors?

[Viktory]

Looking to upgrade my monitor to something decently sized (22"+) and non TN, mostly to be used for gaming but I would prefer image quality over response time. Living in central Europe and going to see these monitors is not really an option.

[W4RL0K]

I doubt it, I live in the UK and had a look a while back and the cheapest IPS, PLS monitor I could see was around the £400 mark. It was an ASUS something, not sure on the model sorry. Linus has some brilliant videos if you need any recommendations.

[MuZeVII]

Here you go my friend:

http://www.amazon.fr/LG-IPS224V-PN-Moniteur-HDMI-1920/dp/B0081Y2IHU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357512153&sr=8-1

This is a link to the Amazon Fr website, but I'm sure pricing across the Euro zone will be fairly similar.

The cheaper LG IPS monitors are well regarded as excellent choices for a budget monitor.

Hope that helps!

[Viktory]

Thanks for your replies I will take a look at a few of the lg ips monitors.

[Viktory]

The LG's look like great choices and are definatly my first but i simply cannot find them anywhere, does anyone have any other recommendations?

[Guest]

TN panels are what you want for gaming. Your other options are IPS and VA panels, both of which have slow response times and ghosting issues..

So you have to pick; do you want gaming performance or better image quality? You can rarely have both and it normally costs quite a lot for the privilege.

[Computer Steroids]

Windspeed, I would like to point out that IPS panels nowadays do not have ghosting or slow response times. That is the past. I have a dell monitor with an IPS panel that has an 8ms delay and i have not noticed any ghosting whatsoever, and it's right next to a 2ms TN panel.

The Philips 227E3QPHSU is a cheap 22 inch IPS monitor, if you can find it there.

Honestly, if you want a proper IPS panel, be ready to shell out at least 150 euros if you can't find the cheaper LG ones.

[GoodBytes]

IPS don't have ghosting or response time issues since 2007 (if he consider affordable models). Get with the time.

IPS panels have a very close response time to TN panels.

Here is a 2009 monitor, Dell U2410 with 6ms response time, compared to a lower resolution (so, it should be faster), ViewSonic, 1ms response time monitor. Both 60Hz.

(pictures from TFTCentral, an in depth monitor review site)

As you can see, the U2410 is a bit faster, despite the claims.

And that is considering that the ViewSonic is a basic TN panel monitor, without nothing special, while the U2410 has a color processor, and Look Up Table, both of which slows things down.

Fast response time means no ghosting.