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.

Advanced in some ways, this Acer monitor performs admirably, bar wallet performance.

An impressive monitor all-round, the Philips 170B4BB came near the top of the pile for its great mix of specifications, and did extremely well in all of the testing. This was the only monitor in the roundup to rate three perfect scores in performance: with impeccable clock timing and phase locking, the clearest desktop of all tested displays, and the only monitor capable of displaying a truly dark black.

This monitor aced many of our image quality tests, handling fine colour transitions with ease and producing sharp images.

HP crashes the 30" party with the most versatile display on the market.

Here's a monitor that would look at home on an executive desktop.

If you're space conscious or limited when it comes to your PC set up then no doubt you've already looked at the TFT display option at some point. We've got three new TFT offerings from three companies in the Labs this month, which should give you a good idea of the state of play of the TFT market at the moment.

Philips is no slouch when it comes to the monitor game, and the proof is in the outstanding Philips Brilliance 109P10...

Hitachi CM643ET

We made the decision to test this model as the representative of the leading monitor vendor by volume shipped, having already had the monitor available in the Labs from the Peripherals Plus Athlon in our 600MHz PC Labs (see page 54).The monitor itself is a fairly nondescript piece of equipment.

They say that once you've used an LCD display on your desktop you dont ever want to go back to a CRT...

There is something totally decadent about playing your favourite PC game on a 30-inch LCD monitor with stereo sound from two banks of speakers - one on each side.

AcerView 79g

Aztec’s PC is a very different take on our $4000 PC A-List challenge.

Pixel response times on an LCD – or the time it takes for a pixel to change from one colour to another – keep on dropping, and now we present you with the fastest unit to hit the market yet: the ViewSonic VX924 which is capable of refreshing at 4ms.

The iSTAR ID-17VSSBK is bright, sharp and clear and is housed in an attractive two tone glossy black and silver bezel which would match both the minimalist home or work environment.

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.

The Compucon T750S took the trophy for the monitor with the biggest stand, but aside from that it’s quite an unassuming display.

A great way to extend your desktop once you’re out of DVI ports

With consumer PCs these days being as fast as the supercomputers of yesteryear, are dedicated workstations still relevant?