Yes another one of "those" threads hehe

Guys, i have one of those huge footprint monitors and had resisted changing over to a new monitor on the possibly mistaken assumption that the skinny ones arent as good as the fat ones (how's that for technical speak!)

So, if you were looking for a good quality, larger, gaming oriented etc monitor, what would you recommend?

http://www.benq.com.au/products/product_detail.cfm?product=1561

Benq E2420 HD, awesome monitor and umart have it for $215.

Has Speakers built in, which are pretty average realy, but the best part is it gives you a 3.5mm line out and headphone out, so you can run your HDMI source in from your PC, PS3/XBOX 360 or HD set top box and then hookup speakers to the line out.

Mate has one and uses it for his TV with a HD set top box, for $215 you cant go wrong.

Dell 27" good monitor for the price

If you're a fan of your CRT because of the refresh rate / response / smoothness then I think you should definitely consider going for a 120Hz LCD. I bought a Samsung 2233RZ one ages ago and I'm still very, very happy with it (I suppose I wouldn't mind getting one which was 1920x1080 now).

BenQ, Dell (under their Alienware brand), Asus, Acer and even LG do 120Hz ones now. Samsung currently doesn't offer one I don't think. I believe there's a new one being released this year from them.

And no, I've never used it for 3D :)

samsungs are always good, had my 22" samsung for years and never had a problem

thanks for the tips guys, will check out them out :)

I went from a benq 24" lcd (purchased about 5 years ago) to a asus 27inch lcd about 2 weeks ago...

Very happy - for $380 odd dollars you can't go wrong.

sure mate - its the ASUS VE276Q 27

2ms response, has speakers behind it which can come in handy, inputs are: 1vga, 1dvi, 1hdmi, 1displayport, also has quite a slim bezel to.

No trouble recommending it for gaming.