The Monitor

The monitor itself is a bit bland and uninteresting to look at. It could definately do with some style and flair that other makes of monitors seem to carry off nicely. Don't get me wrong the monitor is not ugly in any way, but it isn't something that will turn heads.

As you can see the monitor is silver with a black base. The control buttons on it feature an auto adjust button, volume up and down (For the built in speakers), a menu button and the standby button.

The HC174DP features a DVI and a VGA input socket so old and new GPUs are supported; there is also the input line for the audio cable.

The built-in speakers are housed on either side of the input buttons and are covered in plastic grills to protect them:

The base of the monitor needs to be attatched to the screen section but this is done with the ease of a simple clip system. Once attatched we can see that the base has several rubber feet to give it traction and prevent it moving around much if knocked.