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Hi All, Been doing some browsing and have narrowed my options down to a couple of pathways. My current monitor is a >10yr old 20inch, 1680*1050 model. I can either: Get a decent 1920*1200 monitor OR Get a monitor with a lower, 1920*1080 resolution but with nVidia's G-Sync technology. G-Sync dynamically alters the refresh rate of the monitor to match each frame as it is produced, this has multiple effects on image quality and by all reports is quite effective. I am torn between enhanced image technology and increased resolution - up until now I have always regarded resolution as the most important factor in image quality. Right now my main attraction to greater resolution is greater viewable area rather than quality - 1920*1080 is still more pixels than I have now, but Im not all that fussed about having a *wider* screen over a *larger* one. But choosing 1920*1200 I am missing out on G-Sync, a potential waste of capability and basically free quality improvement. Thoughts? Thanks! ***original post*** Hi all, The next upgrade I want to make to my computer is a new monitor. The one I have now is an ageing (>10yrs) 1680*1050 Dell 20incher. I'm relatively au fait with computer components and the like, but as you can see I havn't bought a monitor in quite some time and there are a lot of new words floating around, such as "OLED", "IPS" etc. Basically I would like to know what I should be looking for in a new monitor. I don't need it to be huge, I have selected 1920*1200 as a target resolution (I can't be having with all this "HD" BS, thats for TV's and Xboxes...). Are there any display technologies I should look out for? (IPS, AMOLED etc.) Which buzzwords should my new monitor have on the box? ("SPLENDID Video Intelligence Technology"!!!, HDCP?) What are the most respected brands in the display world? Are there any brands (or anything else) that i should avoid like the plague? Lots of monitors now have some BS about "blue light control" or somesuch, is that just marketting speech? Which stats are the most important, and what are considered "good" or "great" values? (eg: response time, brightness, contrast ratio, refresh rate etc..) Thanks!