Yes, it does. I just have to find it out if its Vista supported, i would think that it is, since Dell are peddling Vista with their PCs, thats right,they dont even let you pick XP anymore, which kinda sucks.

Tearing occurs equally on LCD and CRT monitors. LCD monitors with lower response times usually are better at keeping tearing to a minimum, since the refresh time between consecutive frames is much reduced. For a good gaming monitor, Dell's UltraSharp series is the best by far.

ok, Rage, thnx! Another vote for dell then.

Is that good or bad?

Edit: Ok, i have to ask 1 question. I spoke to a friend today who knows monitors and he told me that not all games support widescreen with good clear pictures and that the image will look stretched out or squashed. Does anyone know anything about this? Cause now i'm concerned

Most new games support 1600x1200 and higher resolutions nowadays so I don't think it will be a problem. Others might have a different opinion so wait for theirs before coming to any conclusion.

ok, i will wait. I'm also curious to hear from people who actually own a similar widescreen, how is it working for you? Did you have the problem i was talking to above?

I play most of the new games, at least shooters I should say, and I haven't had many problems with this. Older ones could be a problem. However you can go to the below site, and check your games out, and if they don't do native widescreen, you might find a hack to make them work in widescreen. I have never been sorry that I got my widescreen, it's great.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Thats the reason why i brought this up, my computer is old, i play mostly older games and i want to keep playing them but i want to play new ones too whem i get new pc. Thanks for the link i'll check it out!

They look nice, are they widescreen? thats how they look anyway. Would you mind posting a link to a store or provide model#?

Have you had any of those problems, like the ones discussed above, with older games with those Benqs?

Thanx for the info!

your monitor doesnt have to have vista certification to work with vista

and i dig the 24" acer DVI is a great feature also (if you have dvi) and the crt i use refreshes at 85hz in 1600x1200 of course i have the card to back it up...

So you would recomend getting that Acer over a CRT? The reason i ask is because i know that LCD monitors work best only in their native resolutions and quality deteriorates when switching to another resolution. It is of a particular concern to me because i play a lot of older games usually at 1600x1200, there are even some that dont support that kind of resolution, so if i get a monitor with a native resolution of 1900x1200 the image quality will deteriorate when i go to a lower one. Can anyone comment on this?