Cheapo monitor

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I live in the UK, and fancy buying a new monitor so I can have a dual screen setup. However i am a student, and as all UK students know money is rather hard to come by.

So can anybody reccomend a new DVI/HDMI monitor to go with my extremely old (but very reliable) acer 1440x900.

I have a budget of <£100.

So far I have looked at these.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BenQ-DL2215-21-5-inch-Widescreen-Monitor/dp/B00GRTO7E8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1404823305&sr=8-2&keywords=1080p+21.5-inch+monitor

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BenQ-GL2250HM-Widescreen-Multimedia-Audiovisual/dp/B00B7ZE0G2/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404823258&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=benq+1080p+21.5-inch+2ms+monitor

Can anyone give me any advice on this subject, and perhaps some recommendations. 

Some info it would be good to know

1. Does having a faster responding monitor help your gaming.

2.If I have to downscale so games to get a reasonable performance on my budget rig. Will the scaledown to the kind of res I was at before hurt my performance?

cheers. Isaac

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lowering resolution increases performance by a lot (depending on bandwidth and game).

Lower latency is preferred for gaming. Anything below 8ms is great.

ASUS VS228H-P

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Sounds good. Do you think the budget monitors here are OK though? (bearing in mind that I'm both an ex console gamer and the monitor I'm currently using is 7-8 years old.