Iiyama E435S 17" TFT £199

errolevans

Great spec TFT with Dvi and an impressive 10mS response time - great for gamers and £199 at PC World and Currys. Pc World website now show this at £269, even though it says "was £299, save £100" !!!!
I just got one from PC World at Telford, although there were none on display. Scanned in at £199!
This is a good spec monitor for the price, although not the cheapest 17" TFT, you will be hard pushed to find on with Dvi connection for under £200, and the excellent 10mS response time is an added bonus.

charlie12

Good spot, Dixons website showing as £199.99 but out of stock for my postcode, maybe others will have better luck.

Roger_Rampant

What's a DVi input used for?

My old 17" Iiyama Visionmaster Pro400 CRT monitor is on it's last legs now...

jo3uk

What colour is this? Komplett recently had a 19" Iiyama TFT for sale with DVI for £266 (which I regret not going for ) and now have a 17" one for £195 with 16ms response for those who can't get hold of this one...

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=303370&view=detailed

errolevans

Seems this is available in White, Silver or Black - One I got in PC World was Silver, but chap said it was the last one - Really wanted Black but never mind!
DVi (Digital Video Interface) is for graphics card with a DVi socket - normally Video is converted to analogue and output on the normal 15 pin connectors then converted back to digital in the monitor. With DVi this conversion isn't necessary so you should get better picture quality. It's a bit like co-axial aerial cable compared to scart (bit simplistic, but I hoipe you non techy types get the idea!!)

Cactus_Jack

I am after a TFT monitor but I have serious reservations about going for an iiyama one after the problems I have had with a number of Vision Master pro 451's and VM Pro 454 19" CRT's.

It seems iiyama may have dropped the ball recently and are no longer as good as they were, but I have no experience of their TFT's so I can't say for sure.

Wolfylee

Good post but some of the specs seem odd on the dixons website. 10ms is absolutely BLAZINGLY fast - 13ms is the fastest I have EVER seen or heard of. Also the dot pitch is down as 0.069..mm this is about 3-4 times smaller than a very good CRT monitor - this one is clearly incorrect.

If it's true, this is really state-of-the-art, but be wary.

Roger_Rampant

Thanks erroleveans, so presumably you'd need a cutting-edge AGP video card for DVi to be of interest?

PhiL_P_3

This is the follow-up to the 17" E431S which I've owned for 11 months. The main difference is that my model has a 16ms response rate whereas on this new version it has dropped to 10ms.

I can wholeheartedly recommend this screen - mine has been absolutely perfect (apart from the black finish showing up dust badly!), and it was PC Pro magazine's A-list recommended 17" TFT screen for a number of months. I'd presume this new model will be just as good as mine and better.

When I bought mine the best price was over £300, so this is an absolute STEAL!

PhiL_P_3

Thanks erroleveans, so presumably you'd need a cutting-edge AGP video card for DVi to be of interest?

Well all you need is a graphics card that has a DVI connector in addition to the usual 15-pin D-sub analogue connector, which you'll be able to check by either looking at the back of your graphics card or checking the manual. Think the analogue connectors are usually blue, whilst DVI are white.

Think it's quite common now to have both connectors; my graphics card (which admittedly was high-spec in it's day) is ~2 years old and has a DVI output.

This monitor support both DVI and analogue connections though, so you can even have two PCs connected to it at once (as I have at the moment since I'm building a PC for my sister)!

Roger_Rampant

Cool!

*Starts saving up*