Monitor - Repair or Renew?

[Roman Totale]

So my big monitor is a bit fucked. It's a Hanns-G HG281D, and it has been a bit wonky for a while - takes ages to 'boot up', flickers a lot and has tons of vertical rows of dots. Also, weirdly, if I'm watching a video on my other monitor (that is smaller but I've had for years and it's given me no issues) I will get ghost frames on the wonky one. Also, also, even when tabbed browsing some pages spazz to fuck whilst the others are fine.

Reading around the flickering would appear to be a fairly common problem with this brand, apparently caused by banjoed capacitors. There is absolutely no way I am capable (or willing for that matter) to fix this myself, so does anyone know approximately how much it would cost to get it fixed? That said, would it actually cost out better just to get a new monitor? I'm concerned that I'd fork out a load of money just to extend its life by one or two years).

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[Dog Pants]

Personally I'd use it as an excuse for some retail therapy. But at 28" that's going to be pretty therapeutic to replace.

[Roman Totale]

To be honest it's probably a little too big (yes, twss) so I have no objection to going for a more discrete size. For the size it was bloody cheap - now I see why.

[TezzRexx]

Depends what your budget is I suppose. You'll probably pay £20-50 to get it fixed I reckon, but there's a chance it'll fuck up in less than 6 months again, so it's probably cheaper in the long run just get a new one for around £100-120, if you can afford it.

[deject]

Eh, I wouldn't put a Hanns-G in that level that is worth fixing out of warranty. Replacing it might be a bit expensive, but if it's repaired I really wouldn't trust it.

[FatherJack]

I would smack it with the palm of my hand on the top, quite hard. That fixes most issues with both my monitors.