Like DeepMemory recommended with your budget, you should look into buying a U2312HM. Try asking CyntrixTech if they will do colour recalibration if you buy from them.

AnandTech put up a review.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6308/dell-u2...-out-of-the-box

This post has been edited by everling: Oct 4 2012, 07:30 PM

Your college has some quality.

The monitor already comes with factory colour calibration. To do better than that, you will need decent colour calibration hardware, which is more expensive than one U2312HM.

While it would be nice if you can get it personally colour calibrated, it is not necessary as the factory colour calibration should be good enough.

Best to avoid using VGA unless you must. The order is DisplayPort > DVI > HDMI > VGA. You can get signal noise with VGA cables. And HDMI can have weird issues because it is designed for TV display and not PC display. Least troublesome is DVI and DisplayPort.

This post has been edited by everling: Oct 6 2012, 12:22 AM