Well I picked up myself a little gift today the Viewsonic Optiquest Q191wb 19″ widescreen LCD monitor and I have mixed feelings about it.
Notice my lovely Monsoon Speakers. Flat is definately Phat!
At first I thought ok, I was told this had a DVI input, but alas, it does not. I also noticed after hooking it all up that the quality was so-so. I loaded the drivers from Viewsonics website for the 64bit OS and it did clear up the image abit. It still isn’t as sharp as my dual Samsung monitors that I have at work. But then I didn’t pay all to much for this monitor either.
After my gift certificate I only paid $149 CDN. I think that’s a pretty decent deal. Though because I have mixed feelings I believe I will be taking it back next week after I have tried it out for a bit longer. There is something about it that bugs me. Though as I type this out the monitor is shaking from my fingers hitting the keyboard. That’s not a good thing now is it?
Games seem to do pretty well with it too. I loaded up WoW and played for a litle bit, luckly World of Warcraft supports 1440×900 resolution and it does look good.
Upon exiting WoW though I noticed that the monitor’s image tended to go south. I mean that the fonts were all buggered up and hard to read as if I was at a lower resolution. I had to go into my Display Properties select a different resolution and then revert back to 1440×900 to fix the problem. Could it be a driver issue? Possible I did notice the problem when I loaded the drivers that I downloaded from Viewsonic’s website and rebooted the machine. Not many manufactuers have decent 64bit drivers.
So again, I do have mixed feelings about the Viewsonic Optiquest Q191wb, but I probably will take it back to the store and pick an LG 19″ LCD monitor since there were in the same price range.
pabloMar 19, 2007 at 07:30:07
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necesito los drivers para un optiquest q191 wb gracias….
Tyler IngramMar 19, 2007 at 07:41:24
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All I know are the drivers Viewsonic have are these ones: http://www.viewsonic.com/support/drivers/drivers.cfm?category=2&formName=monitor
Other than that, I’m not sure where else you might find them. Assuming that’s what you’re asking because I know next to nothing in spanish
Jono ConoApr 06, 2007 at 16:57:13
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That’s interesting I always thought that Viewsonic made some pretty reliable monitors. That’s of course going by what I hear as I’ve never actually used one. Speaking from experience I highly praise LG monitors. I have a 20.1 inch widescreen Flatron from LG and it’s wicked. It’s such a good monitor I can’t even notice a difference when switching between DVI and VGA input. It has a 2000:1 contrast ratio which is pretty rare and responds very fast. Oh and it doesn’t shake when you type, an added bonus.
Tyler IngramApr 07, 2007 at 09:15:33
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I’ve normally have had positive experienecs with Viewsonic but unfortunately with their Optiquest line this has put a bad notch in my books for their brand.
I’ve always liked Samsung (I’ve reviewed a few of their monitor back in the day for Futurelooks and I was going to by the LG 20.1 LCD but the store I was looking at didn’t have any in stock and they were not planning on replenishing for a few weeks.