Acer has come to the party with an affordable well performing flat display that features an internal power supply, better than average 20ms pixel response time, crisp colour and good greyscale results.

An unbeatable stand and good quality, but it’s simply too costly.

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

A super-bright entertainment LCD, but it’s not for office work.

The price puts it out of reach for some, but the incredible colours and adjustable stand will appeal to professionals.

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

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

We simply can't expect people to pay this much for an analog-only display with little going for it.

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

ViewSonic's VX924 panel has one of the lowest quoted response time yet, at 4ms.

The FP71V+ is a17 inch, 8ms display but it uses some techno-voodoo called Advanced Motion Acceleration to achieve a 5ms grey to grey response time and improve motion performance.

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

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 FP71V+ is another 17in TFT from BenQ, but the real selling point of this monitor is the super-fast 5ms response time.

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.

Shuttle has made a name for themselves with stylish and innovative barebones PCs, and now comes along this excellent addition to any XPC you own. Scratch that - this TFT would look good with any PC you own.

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.

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

Filled with a good feature-set such as an S-Video input and high brightness and contrast, the Daewoo L17Cs looked great on paper. In ‘person’ it looked quite snappy, with a silver and black finish, high neck and all the OSD buttons and controls arrayed up the right-hand side.

This monitor was physically identical in every way to the AOpen F75PS, aside from the Gigabyte badging on the front bezel. Both featured the same solid metal base, sturdy design and nifty sockets for plugs direct on the back, and there’s no prize for guessing that they performed identically in all of the tests we put them through.