Hey guys, thank you for the responses. I truly love this commuity especially my newness to serious multiboxing. I consider myself pretty knowledgable when it comes to computers, I've been building my own systems for the past 13 years, since I was 14 (guess my age!, lol) but I'm still learning new things every day.

Unfortantely for me, about $500 is the maximum I could spend without my wife divorcing me =P so a $1000 monitor is out of the question.

What is an IPS display? I haven't heard that one.

I'm thinking about this Samsung touch of color 26" model, it's $480 on newegg.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...239&CatId=3649

It has a built in TV tuner and supports 1080p which is very nice. The tuner means I could ditch the small 13" TV I have in my computer room all though I'm planning on getting a PC TV tuner to utilize window's media center's DVR feature (Currently we have two DVRs from comcast at a cost of $30 that I would love to eliminate).

The reviews are mostly positive for the monitor and tiger direct's video review looks impressive as well but of course it comes from a salesman so it's not like they're going to say "this monitor is crap but you should still spend $500 to buy it!".

I'm thinking a 26-28" would be ideal as the room itself is simply a bedroom and not very large (11x11 feet) - my table is along one side of the wall and I'm going to move a loveseat (two seater couch basically) up to put against the other wall so the size of the monitor can't be too large nor too smal. The distance between sitting and the couch and the monitor is about 6 to 7 feet but it also must be usable as a computer monitor with a distance of 18 to 24 inches.

Another possibity I've considered is getting a 42" LCD HDTV to put along the wall and moving my computer table to the side - basically using the TV as just that, a TV but also having the benifit of running my clones off that (4 clones on a 42" would be pretty sweet since I don't need to read chat from then but rather simply keep an eye on them).

Thoughts?

-Clovis