Auriga has been a regular participant in our Labs, and has submitted solid monitors for the budget-conscious end of the buyers spectrum.

Auriga’s 17MLV-1 is not the best looking TFT we’ve ever seen, with a pretty big bezel and a chunky neck, but it has a wide degree of swivel and tilt flexibility. Plus there’s a feature unique to this monitor in the comprehensive roundup -- the 17MLV-1 came with a D-Sub RGB connection, plus Composite and S-Video. But furthermore, the TFT featured PiP (Picture in Picture) which meant you could have your PC as the main display, with the TV running in a corner, or vice versa. Via the OSD you could set where you wanted the PiP to appear, plus toggle the sources.

Almost the antithesis of the BenQ FP591 pricing-wise, the Auriga 15MA is one of the most budget-oriented 15in models in this review.

A 22in monitor is obviously a very large unit. The ColorPro 22D that came into PC Authority was also an engineering sample, which goes some way toward explaining the lack of embellishment.

Auriga's offering to the 9800 PRO market returned rather inconsistent results.

At its very reasonable price, the Excalibur 9200 is ideal for anyone on a budget or in search of an upgrade.

When this model was submitted to us with the cost listed above, we assumed it was a mistake. Although returning fairly low real world scores, the 17MA is a bargain.

Pioneering the affordability trend in TFT screens, the MX151Ts $799 price tag might well be enough reason to go TFT for many users.

Another of the RADEON 9200 cards in this round-up. Returning almost identical results to the Auriga 9200, this is an average performer, bundled with an outdated game.

After a quick scan of every screen in Labs, its clear that the 560V sits at the functional yet minimal end of the scale.

Even though the PowerColor R9800 PRO has the default core clock and memory speeds for the RADEON 9800 PRO, it ended up being the lowest scoring 9800 PRO reviewed.

As it's essentially based on the older RADEON 9000 with AGP 8x, don't expect any groundbreaking performance from this GPU.

The Umax MaxVision V7 is a budget model, with very little in the way of specifications to tempt, nor does it have the performance to whet your appetite. While most of its scores were on par with the CMV that we used as the yardstick, there were a few problems (namely with displaying truly black blacks) that made the real-world 3D test unpassable.

For our second runner-up this month, we opted for a low-end card for those people looking for something affordable, but also with decent performance and features.