NuTech L921G

Some of you may recall the name "NuTech", as we have looked at some of their optical storage products in the past. NuTech's Taiwanese parent company, Quanta, works very closely with Sharp Electronics for LCD substrate manufacturing. As a result, NuTech's recent LCD product line additions are very similar to Sharp's. Today, however, we are looking at a totally new product than what we have looked at before.



When we first saw this monitor 9 months ago, NuTech was very excited about it - everyone at NuTech had something to say about the design and aesthetics of the unit. The finished product does make an impression; it's sleek, but not excessive. The false bezel around the outside has a neat effect to it, but overall, the monitor is fairly basic.

 NuTech L921G
LCD 19" SXGA LCD (Active Matrix)
pixel pitch: 0.294mm
Anti-glare coating
Scanning Frequency Horizontal: 31-80kHz
Vertical: 56-76Hz
Response Time 25ms (Typical)
Contrast Ratio 700:1 (Typical)
Compatibility 1280 x 1024 (Native)
Brightness 250 cd/m2
Warranty 3 years parts and labor
Interface DVI
15-pin D-sub

Oddly, most online vendors have the NuTech L921G labeled as a monitor with only analog D-sub inputs. This is actually incorrect. The monitor does support digital and analog inputs, which was a sigh of relief for us. Our NuTech L921G uses an AUO 19" LCD panel with impressive specifications, so we were anxious to get it up and running.

The L921G comes with two integrated speakers and a VESA wall mounting. The speakers are not very high quality, and unless you are just going to be using the monitor in an office setting, we wouldn't recommend using them. There is a utilitarian appeal to this monitor that we can't describe readily in words.

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  • benk - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    I just (like two hours ago) got my Dell 2005FPW...played an hour of CS:S. Didn't notice any ghosting, blacks were all black, etc. I have my desktop set up stretching across this LCD and my old Sony Trinitron 17" and the color and sharpness on the LCD is markedly better. It actually surprised me; I thought I was giving up color in trade for a wider monitor that's a little easier on the eyes. Nope. It looks great, plays great, and, according to my girlfriend, is lots more stylish.
  • IceWindius - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    Screw LCD, SED is the wave of the future.

    Until then, i'll stick with my Viewsonic CRT monitor, thank you.
  • archcommus87 - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    Can anyone go back to the issue that someone asked prior about running non-native resolutions? My biggest deterrent about LCDs was always the fact that if I run my desktop at 1280x1024, I have to run all of my games at that, too. Sorry, but unless I'm buying two video cards a year, that's sometimes hard to do.

    Can you use other resolutions without getting crappy images?

    Yes, at times I have considered selling my 19" and 17" CRT dual monitor setup for one, single 19" LCD. But then I think, nah I love my Philips, and two monitors is cool. Plus I'd hate to have to run all my games at such a high res.
  • nullpointerus - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    Cat: The lower the refresh rate on the video card, the more sluggish the mouse feels to me. Anything below 75 Hz feels terrible. Setting it up to 100 Hz (assuming your card and display support it) feels extremely fluid. I'm just suggesting possibilities, so YMMV.

    TCfromNL: From what I can tell, the article doesn't make any such claims about whether you have problems if the GIF appears dithered on your display; it's just presenting a visual aid.
  • coldpower27 - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    It depends on each peoples eyes, I guess it's not quite as noticable to some. Also not all the 25ms screens are created equal.

    I have a 25ms LCD, and I don't really notice ghosting, I got it over 2 years ago, though when it cost alot. Though 25ms for an LCD to do continous motion as that enough to generate 40FPS, I also don't really play that many FPS. The new LCD's that are capable of 12ms are amazing that like double the FPS at maximum.

    Yeh it would have been nice to test some of the newer LCD panels as well, but to me I don't know why people want it so bright, my LC is around 350:1 range and I already fine that awfully bright, 800:1 just seems so much :S
  • drinkmorejava - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    I'm confused, how can all those 25ms monitors have no noticeable ghosting. I've always known that a black-white measurement does not truly show how much ghosting there will be, but a 5?
  • TCfromNL - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    Okay. Small problem with the 256-shades-of-blue thing, referred to as "the image below".

    Since it's a GIF, it only contains 256 shades of color, tops. Including all the greys.

    I imagine you have a losslessy (or un-)compressed 24-bit copy somewhere. Still, it's not nice to scare your readers by displaying some 20-shades-of-blue thing while saying that if it doesn't display smooth as a baby's skin, which it doesn't, the viewer's monitor is at fault.

    Further, nice article. But since these monitors are all 1280x1024 (except for the 20" Dell), I can't help but leave disappointed. I don't like squarish monitors. There's a reason why TV evolved from 4:3 to 16:9. I agree with the cry above: IT DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE.
  • gwynethgh - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    Now to find a good but reasonably priced DVI KVM switch.
  • KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    Klah: have they benchmarked any units using that methodology except the example? I checked around and couldnt find any.

    Kristopher
  • klah - Tuesday, November 30, 2004 - link

    "klah: I was only aware of Xbitlabs doing so. We feel that the methods for measuring reponse time thus far are OK, but not represent gray to gray response time measurements well. Its something we are working on and we will probably have a better methodology before the next roundup.

    Kristopher"

    Here is Tom's methodology:
    http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20040923/...

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