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Advice about buying monitors
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: xShadow on August 18, 2010, 10:05:49 PM ---Interesting. From the reviews, I'm guessing it has great picture quality. How good would it be for gaming, though? I'm just wondering how much those extra 6 ms mean when it comes to actual performance. Otherwise, if it's still good for gaming, I think you may have found what I'm looking for. It's just that none of the reviews for it (that I've looked at) have mentioned any gaming with it. There's some random programmer that says the text is crisp, which is nice, but I do more that lurk at forums. >_>;
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I'd much rather deal with the mild ghosting on an IPS panel than the input lag, poor color reproduction, poor viewing angles, and poor contrast of an excessively overdriven TN panel. That goes for everything from work to video to gaming.
konjou:
here's some advise on LCDs
First is get one that's Active Matrix, (but it's a moot point nowadays since most LCDs are Active Matrix),
Second is a 5ms response time at least (of course the faster the better for this) since this how much time is needed for each pixel to be refreshed,
and a little quote about contrast ratio, from a book I have "The contrast ratio is the measure of the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color to that of the darkest color the screen is capable of producing." or in some different words, the higher the ratio the better
xShadow:
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on August 19, 2010, 03:29:51 AM ---
--- Quote from: xShadow on August 18, 2010, 10:05:49 PM ---Interesting. From the reviews, I'm guessing it has great picture quality. How good would it be for gaming, though? I'm just wondering how much those extra 6 ms mean when it comes to actual performance. Otherwise, if it's still good for gaming, I think you may have found what I'm looking for. It's just that none of the reviews for it (that I've looked at) have mentioned any gaming with it. There's some random programmer that says the text is crisp, which is nice, but I do more that lurk at forums. >_>;
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I'd much rather deal with the mild ghosting on an IPS panel than the input lag, poor color reproduction, poor viewing angles, and poor contrast of an excessively overdriven TN panel. That goes for everything from work to video to gaming.
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But the one you listed isn't an IPS, is it? From what I've searched on Newegg, they only have a handful of IPS monitors, and they're all quite highly priced. It says the one you listed is a TFT (I have no clue what that means, but yeah...).
Other than that, the contrast ratios on pretty much all of the monitors I've looked at so far seem to be 1000:1, which is the same as this one.
That leaves it with 1920x1200 and a brighter display, at the cost of an 8ms response time as a trade-off.
I'm actually still interested in it, I'm just wondering how that 8ms is going to affect my gaming experience.
nstgc:
Tiger direct allows you to return a monitor with no restock fee even if it has a single stuck pixel (as opposed to newegg's 8 ).
[edit] how do you know if a monitor interpolating color (is actually using 6 bits per color)? They all claim to display 16.7 million colors. I suspect that is the excepted input, rather than the actual number of possible colors.
xShadow:
I'm not the person to ask that...
Anyway, though, after doing a bit more research here and there, I guess what I'm looking for is something like this?
It comes at 400 dollar price tag, but I've recently (from what everyone's saying) started questioning whether I can really have quite what I want without buying something like that.
... But that's a lot of money.
I really kind of don't want to spend quite that much.
Need alternatives, please!
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