Another great-looking Samsung LCD, but picture quality isn’t quite up to the usual standard.

The design is excellent, but you pay a hefty premium.

A great-quality widescreen panel for a surprisingly low price.

The 930BF started our tests well, narrowly winning the best gaming display in our eye-straining midnight shoot-out.

The SyncMaster 172X from Samsung was a bit of a powerhouse in our tests, scoring highly in all regards except one: surprisingly the monitor was a little over-saturated, meaning whites looked a little washed out, and this would not change regardless of how we tweaked and fiddled with the screen’s settings. However in day-to-day usage you’d barely notice this.

The lightest TFT in our roundup, the Samsung SyncMaster 152T is the priciest screen for under a thousand dollars.

Featuring generous tilt, and incredible viewing angle, Samsung is on to a winner with this well-designed multi-purpose display.

A different screen to the rest on review in this category, the Samsung SyncMaster 172W doesn't have a 4:3 aspect ratio, but is instead a widescreen format display.

The SM181T uses a panel based on Samsung’s own PVA technology. This stands for patterned vertical alignment and increases the viewing angle in the same way as MVA, although Samsung claims a viewing angle of 170 degrees – the same as Super-IPS.

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

How many acronyms can a monitor have before it chokes on its own resolution? We have all come to expect CRTs, LCDs, TFTs and God knows what else but now Samsung has come up with a monitor with so many acronyms it will leave you gasping.