Those of you who have read the entire review already know that Samsung's latest monitor is primarily for gamers. They talk about the fastest monitor on the market, which might very well be true. When it comes to response time, I can only award it he highest grade, there is simply no other monitor around today that can beat it. you need more than that to make a good monitor. The low response time is mainly relevant in fast games, such as car games and shooters.
[Editor's note: consider that both Viewsonic and BenQ has launched monitors specified at lower response times]
If we should continue with the good things I should mention the even blackness. It's not the darkest/deepest I've seen, but the absence of escaping light and uneven light is really impressive. To be honest it is just the even black and good response time that impress me.
if we move over to the less nice things it is mainly the bad viewing angles that annoys me, especially vertically. It is specified at 160 degrees both ways. Horizontally you might buy it, but absolutely not vertically. It has been a long time since I saw a monitor with these tendencies for inverted colors.
What about the rest? The build quality, finish, colors, sharpness? None of these are worth mentioning as either positive or negative. It's all pretty much average. Other things worth mentioning is a thorough and informative manual and the program MagicTune, which makes it possible to control you monitor in Windows.

Personally I think that the response time hysteria has gone too far. It is just one out of many factors that make a good product. I started to wonder where things where heading already when we reached 12 ms and was starting to get really concerned when the times kept getting lower and lower. A bit like the megapixels and digital cameras, it just gives you a hint of what the camera can do, but definitely far from the decisive factor that many seems to believe, this also applies to LCD-monitors and response time. I almost feel that they are trying to trick people to buy the monitor by bragging about the low response time, as it mainly only is the hardcore-gamer that will need it.
One factor I haven't discussed earlier is the price, which matters a lot in the end. Samsung SyncMaster is yours for about $400 when this is written, which makes it a bit expensive compared to many other19" monitors. The way I see it there are two groups of people that will buy this monitor. The first is, of course, hardcore-gamers which can actually make use of and prioritize the low response time at 4 ms. The other group are the ones that are a bit half and half interested in computers and has gotten the impressions that lower response time automatically means a better monitor. This is the group I want to advice to test the monitor before buying, to see if it is low response time that you're really looking for.

Samsung SyncMaster 930BF

Pros: + Very even black + Best response time today + Good software (MagicTune) and documentation Cons: - Bad viewing angles vertically - Average build quality and finish - The low response isn't as important as they want it to seem

I would like to thank Samsung which contributed with the monitor for this review.