01-26-2006, 02:09 PM
Sorry to hear about your noisy monitor. We recently bought a 17" ViewSonic VX724 LCD monitor. It's the first time we ever bought a non-Apple item, so we decided to buy locally instead of online since we had read about many monitors having dead or stuck pixels. We've never had that problem with an Apple monitor. Anyway, after looking around, we found this monitor at Fry's for $299 AR ($50 mail-in). The first one did indeed have a stuck pixel, which wouldn't have been so bad except it was bright blue and almost smack in the middle of the screen. Took it back to Fry's, where they happily exchanged it for me. I'm amazed at how nice it is. The color and brightness are great. It's supposed to have a 3 ms response time, but I haven't tried any games with it yet. It also has a DVI connector as well as VGA, which is a little harder to find on the cheaper monitors. Overall, we're real happy with it.