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Samsung SyncMaster 172W LCD Monitor Review
Author: Jakester
Date Posted: July 13th, 2003
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Bottom Line:
LCD Monitors continue to improve picture quality, brightness and viewing angles, we got hold of the latest Samsung SyncMaster 172W LCD Monitor and put it to the test. Find out how we rated it and what makes it different from the rest in our official review...
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Performance:
At last, the moment of truth. How will the
SyncMaster perform while we put it through a series of the most stressful tests
via DisplayMate's monitor testing
software. Will it ghost when we play a fast-paced First Person Shooter? Hold on
as we make the 172W flash every shade of black white and grey imaginable...
SyncMaster meet your doom.
Take this!
And that!
How about some color!?
Piece of cake. After the many
stress tests the DisplayMate put the
SyncMaster through, it came out on top. All of the colors were vibrant and
sharp. One of the tests checked for dead pixels, and much to my delight, the
total count was a big fat zero. So far the SyncMaster has shown no signs of
having any of the normal problems that come with LCD monitors (IE: Dead pixels,
Low viewing angle, etc..). I shouldn't speak
too soon being as I haven't seen how it performs while playing a First Person
Shooter video game. So I loaded up Tactical
Operations, a mod for Unreal Tournament, and got down to fraggin'.
After several hours of playing (it
looked so good I didn't want to stop playing), I was extremely happy with its
performance. There was absolutely no ghosting and the game looked brighter and
more beautiful then ever before. The 172W passed all of the tests without a
problem. Impressed with the results I decided it was time to watch a movie. Here
I could see how SyncMaster's natural widescreen shape looks while playing movies in
widescreen format.
*Drool*
Before I started the movie I called
my girlfriend over to check out the new monitor. We watched the movie together
and both ended up paying more attention to the monitor then to each other. I
asked her what she thought of the 172W and well, she was in love and it wasn't
with me. The movie looked just drop-dead gorgeous - I wish it would never have
ended.
Having put the SyncMaster through a
rollercoaster of images to display and seeing the excellent results, it is time
to wrap things up.
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