Quake3World

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:33 am**

What do you guys think of the Samsung SyncMaster 931B. It will be at Staples on Black Friday day for $130 after Staples easy rebate. My main question is are widescreen monitors more pain to get working correctly with resolutions and whatnot in Windows and in games. Also, it states it has an 8ms responce time, how good is that for gaming?

:EDIT: its a SymcMaster 931B, not 913B

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:56 am**

a budd of mine has this mon from two year ago, i dont know what they have changed.. but asfar as i have sene its an ALLRIGHT tft,

And about the widescreen, NO! alot of the games support Widescreen ( except anythign from EA, thos cuntbags ) and if they dont, there are allways workarounds to make them display in a Res.

take a look at the Samsung 940BW, you wont be disapointed.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:42 am**

Well do you think it is well worth the $60 to go from that 913B to a 941BW on newegg? The only reason I am looking at LCDs is for college next year, and Black Friday sales are always nice.

Correction, it is the 931B, not 913B.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:45 am**

i'd go with the 931 for that price. you're not going to see a difference.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:54 am**

Well in the ad, click here, it says 1440x900 resolution and 4ms responce time. I hope that is the case, and I hope those are at my Staples. I will try to go by Staples sometime before Friday and see what the have.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:48 am**

what's this easy rebate crap?

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:55 pm**

Staples Easy Rebate. They work very well, you go online, enter the SKU and the Easy Rebate number on the receipt and then they send you a check. I went into Staples today and they didn't have the local circular available yet. I looked at their monitors and the only Samsung 19" they have is the 931B, it is possilbe they would get the 941BW for Black Friday sales, but I don't know. They are the same retail price.

Posted: **Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:53 pm**

hm, cool, thx for the info.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:21 am**

Staples...their stuff isn't half-bad but never ever even go near their tech support. You'd be better off throwing rotten tomatoes at your computer than asking Staples for help. Poor me, blew $45 and they never even came up with an answer. I knew the whole time the mobo was at fault and wanted a "professional opinion". All I got was "WELL I NOT KNOW BUT POSSABEL BYU SUM STUFF FROM US LOL HEY BYU NEW COMPYTER RITE KNOW!!!!"

Amidy even told me a funny story about how stupid they really are.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:24 am**

Amidy has alot of stupid stories.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:24 am**

Well he had gone in for a job interview and kept correcting the half-ass manager to the point that he got kicked out of his office

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:27 am**

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:32 am**

Yeah, August old.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:04 am**

Yea, i tend to take Staples with a grain of salt. I buy things there, and their sales and rebates are nice, otherwise I wouldn't consider them a good tech store.

Who all makes a good monitor these days anyway?

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:17 am**

Viewsonic for sure.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:40 pm**

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:Amidy has alot of stupid stories.

its true, i kinda pissed him off to the point where he kicked me out.

and kOS, Viewsonic, and Samsung are the ones that i would go with. Ohh, some LG's are nice.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:12 pm**

What about Phillips, NEC and Dell monitors?

So the 931B at $130 compared to the 941BW at $190 is not worth the price jump that much? I do kinda want widescreen, but the only true factor is the responce time, dot pitch, brightness and contrast ratios.

Posted: **Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:48 pm**

I've got a 17" Philips CRT. I bought it refurbished 4 years ago and to this date is working flawlessly. The image quality is excellent and the maximum refresh rate on 1024x768 is 85Hz. Don't buy anything Dell.

Posted: **Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:49 am**

Captain Mazda wrote: Don't buy anything Dell.

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