Bit-tech's 20-inch widescreen LCD shootout

The good peeps over at bit-tech have put together a good 'ol fashioned shoot-out of five, 20-inch widescreen LCDs: the Viewsonic 2012W and VX2025, BenQ FP202W, NEC MultiSync 20WGX, and Acer 2032WA. Testing consisted of a battery of objective benchmarks followed by a suite of subjective tests to give a sense of how the flat-panels performed while gaming, viewing flix, and working in Windows. In the end, the Viewsonic VX2025 comes out on top in terms of price/performance (particularly for gaming) just edging out the more expensive, gloss-coated NEC MultiSync 20WGX which was judged to be the best choice for purely non-gaming, desktop work. Shame they couldn't squeeze a Dell 20-incher into the mix, maybe next time.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2006 8:20AM]

Thank you BensBargains.. got the VX2025 on sale last week, for $339. It sold out in like 20 minutes, and the raves for it just makes me feel like it was the best investment I've made in quite a while. Oorah!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2006 9:46AM]

i got in on the same deal, great monitor!

[NCTRNL Posted Mar 31st 2006 9:55AM]

No Apple 20" either? Come on...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2006 10:17AM]

Seriously, no Dell and no Apple? These are probably the two best selling 20" widescreen LCD manufacturers out there, if not the most visible two. How do you leave them out? Silly rabbits.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2006 10:31AM]

How do you NOT include the Dell 2005FPW? That display sets the bar for widescreens.

Bizarre...

[alexwilks88 Posted Mar 31st 2006 10:49AM]

In case any of you weren't aware, Bit-Tech does not simply go out and buy every 20" monitor on the planet and review them- it asks companies to send them one for reviewing purposes and thus will only have a handful of products to test from the companies they contacted. There are plenty of Dell vs Apple monitor reviews out there for you to read over, this simply accounted for the other models that haven't been reviewed quite as much.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2006 1:25PM]

Knock 'em down like dominos!

[Snowdog Posted Apr 1st 2006 9:54AM]

Rather empty review, doesn't cover some of the bigger issues in LCD. I just sold a new dell 24" widescreen and am going back to CRT.

Big issues:
Harsh overbright screen even with brightness at minimum.
Input lag. Not just ghosting by 40ms lag before screen changes. Thing +40ms to all your ping times.
MVA/PVA screen shade shifts with only small viewing angle deflections (10-20 degrees).