Acer GN246HL----What do you guys think? (it's under $200)

[tgm1024]

I'm currently looking for an inexpensive gaming-ish monitor, and mostly want something that won't torment me with motion blur.

This $192 thing (Acer GN246HL) is 24", 144Hz, 3D, LightBoost:


Will be driven by an ASUS GeForce GTX750-PHOC-1GD5 GDDR5 1GB. (I'm biased toward nVidia chipsets, so I don't foresee not always using one in the future.

....But I don't have experience with lightboost monitors (I understand the persistence limiting notion for motion handling----many discussions with Mark Rejhon over at AVS on this, and by email), but is this a good-ish price for the money?

Or is there a dramatically better monitor for similar money? Amazon reviews have been pi$$ing me off lately.

[kapit0]

Actually just returned this today. For $192 it's definitely a good deal, but it has really (like, crazy) aggressive overdrive which creates really obvious inverse-ghosting. I also got a scanline effect when using lightboost with it.

Honestly wouldn't recommend as the inverse-ghosting is still noticable (although less-so) with lightboost enabled, however it's down to preference whether or not this would annoy you.

[tgm1024]

Actually just returned this today. For $192 it's definitely a good deal, but it has really (like, crazy) aggressive overdrive which creates really obvious inverse-ghosting. I also got a scanline effect when using lightboost with it.

Honestly wouldn't recommend as the inverse-ghosting is still noticable (although less-so) with lightboost enabled, however it's down to preference whether or not this would annoy you.

Did you try a replacement and see the same thing? What monitor did you settle on?