many people in newegg are complaining about the flimsy stand. there's one guy saying that if u bump your table, the lcd stand only prevents it from falling forward, but not backward.

is the stand really that bad?

So how bad exactly is the stand? How vulnerable is it from falling down and the whole thing goes 'piang'?

Its not that flimsy..  Pretty stable actually, it will take an extremely hard knock to even try to topple it.

The "centre of gravity" determines its stability..

More or less the same, depends on how they design the base stand. I have an Acer AL1717, a 4:3 screen, still haven't made it fall despite the numerous knocks on the table when moving PCs around the table.

I think the stand is not an issue at all...it looks ok to me...

I wonder who designed was that type of stand originally.  Could those monitors come from the same OEM? 

Nope, they don't.. Their monitors come from various OEMs, including Samsung, BenQ, LG, Chimei, etc.. Hard to tell. 

Could be also...  Like I said.. hard to tell, unless you examine the labels and the PCB inside. 

For example, this old 17" model is by BenQ..
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Hahah, I'm getting this LCD after I have collected enough money. For now, I will just have to be happy with my 17" CRT

Funny thing is, my GC is only 7300GS

I am light gaming. 

Yup! Power button not obvious.
Initially kept pressing amber coloured "button" before discovering real button underneath.

But volume down still stiff.
WD40 maybe?

Old build in graphics mobo (Biostar M6VLR) don't support widescreen or custom resolution.
I'm looking for P3 board with AGP now.

Anybody got one to spare/trade?

Interestingly I can get "unsupported" widescreen setting in Linux but only at slightly wider 800 x 1280 (I think it was 1280).