Iiyama ProLite E431S

The Iiyama ProLite E431S is an excellent all round screen, very robust feel and can handle an office enviroment.

I have the model up from this one the E435S, and it is fantastic. Before, I had a silver one which was originally bought as a display model, but it had a line of pixels missing. We contacted Iiyama and they were extremely helpful and efficient and replaced the monitor with a brand new black one, which has been fine up to now, touch wood. Picture quality is great, contrast, brightness and colour is fantastic, especially as I'm a keen gamer and an art student that is quite important. Was very good value, and a good response rate and even a DVI port to boot, make it an exceptional monitor. As for reliability, well its never let me down up to now.

I wanted a monitor that would be good for accurate colour work as I do graphic projects now and then; a fast response time so watching DVDs and playing games was smooth; both DVI and VGA inputs; 17 inches.

There were other 17 inch monitors that were cheaper than this Iiyama ProLite E431S (I got mine for £195) but none of them offered such a good spec. In fact, the next monitor up with a slightly better quality was over £250. There is nothing, as of writing, in the same price bracket that offers as much value for money. I am entirely satisfied with the two that I bought and have had no problems with either of them. No dead pixels in either by the way!!

The ONLY drawback to them is the lack of height adjustment, they only have tilt. But in fairness height adjustment isn't really as important as tilt - I'd choose tilt over height on TFTs due to possible problems with viewing angles and colour changes.

Which incidentally there is very little issue with. One of the big problems I had when I was looking for screens was the colour changes when you look down at a screen from above and from side to side. The E431s' have only very minimal shifts. It is really hardly noticeable unless you're looking *right* from the top downwards or vice-versa, Definitely some of the best quality screens I've ever come across - and especially so for the price.

The Ilyama ProLite E431S 17 inch monitor is excellent value for money!

Iiyama ProLite E431S - This is a superb monitor with a bright, crisp, sharp display in all resolutions as well as its native one of 1280x1024. Unlike other monitors, running the monitor at 1024x768 doesn't have much impact on the quality of the image and in fact it's an absolute joy to use with games that don't support 1280x1024. The colours are vivid and the screen has DVI input, which makes the already superb picture even better.

An excellent monitor for the price. Highly recommended.

Having researched on the net for a month or so, the Iiyama ProLite E431S came out on top of my wish list.

The monitor has a very fast response rate, connectors for audio and both DSub and DVI which was important.

After unpacking it, plugging it in was straight-forward and a clear stable image was presented on the screen. After installing the supplied drivers and using the supplied setup guide, I viewed a sample DVD and experienced no blurring or artefacts.

The setup menu (built into the monitor) is quite fiddly though, but once setup, you should not need to access this again.

So far I am very impressed with the quality and clarity. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a reasonably affordable 17" TFT.