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17" TFT Monitor For Graphics Design Reccommendations Please

I'm a graphics designer/web developer and spend around 10 hours a day in front of my PC. I am looking for your recommendations for a good 17" TFT monitor with excellent graphics and text display. With the help of the peeps here I've chosen to go for a TFT rather than CRT to reduce screen glare and consequent eye strain as much as possible.

I am considering the Iiyama E430B and the Philips 170S4FB which recently got excellent reviews in ComputerActive magazine.

Both have 3 year on-site warranty and are priced around the same.

Any recommendations or comments would be appreciated as £300 is a lot of money to spend on the wrong choice of TFT monitor :)

Points will be fairly split between all comments for your efforts.

Thanks as always,

Lee.
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Forgot to say that both monitors seem to be very good.
If you've got the cash then theres no reason not to buy a TFT, their quality has improved soo much from before.  You should try a take a look at these monitors in real life if you can, maybe in PCWorld or something?
Whichever monitor you decid to get you wouldnt have gone too wrong :p
I just wanted to make you aware of some of the issues in my previous comment.
Read https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20792552/17-CRT-monitors-with-excellent-image-quality-and-kind-on-the-eyes-recommendations-please.html for my thoughts on LCD screens.

That said, i think the nicest screens are coming from samsung these days. That would be my first choice, as a digital artist. Keep in mind that samsung screens show up in all sorts of other brands. Apple for example is using samsung screens.
What ever you do please check them out first hand. All monitors vary enormously even when they are all the same model and make. Theres always a bad one and an above average one. You can only see this by checking them out first hand. Hard to do but if you don't you can end up with a bad expensive monitor. Its happened to me twice.