That and it is more eye pleasing. My favorite part about LED's however is that they are cheaper to make, but more expensive to sell. If you haven't chosen a monitor yet, I'd recommend the "Asus VS247H-P 24-Inch Full-HD LED Monitor" it is currently 184.00$ on amazon. I was going to purchase it...
Best thing I could say is go check out futuremarks website here: http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/
There look at the "Value for money" tab and look through the parts. Make sure that what ever you get is relatively new. By that I mean within the last year. This only covers, CPU's, GPU's...
I just checked out the link, it looks like it's a Swedish page. And it is rather doubtful that Valve would take an open world approach. It is possible but more difficult to the player really be synced into the story that way. Also, it'd be a shame if they merged to games like Half-Dead, sounds a...