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    Στωικισμός Member Bijo's Avatar
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    Default Monitor Response Time

    The monitor I have now is an LCD with a response time of 16 ms. I never really paid attention to this, but as I found out I was shocked, thinking it's too much.

    So now I'm thinking of getting a new monitor with a refresh rate of 2 ms. The question is if it matters enough to be worth it? Will I see any noticeable difference, and what other important related information can you give me?
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    Default Re: Monitor Response Time

    Response times are variable to say the least. One company will measure the time it takes for a pixel to go from black to white to black, for example, and another company will only measure the time for black to white, and so on.

    Best to read reviews and use your eyes. What you see is what you get.

    Are you getting ghosting with your screen now, fast moving graphics not keeping up with themselves? If so, you will see a big difference at 2ms.

    I have a 19" Viewsonic VX922. It has a listed 2ms response time and got good reviews. Decent price too. I mostly fly flightsims and have never experienced any ghosting or image tearing even when things get fast and busy on-screen. Other games like M:TW run very well and look great.

    The only downside to this screen is that movies don't look as good as they could. Animated stuff like Finding Nemo look fantastic, but ordinary movies look a bit blah. Good, but not outstanding. As a game screen, I'm loving my Viewsonic. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

    Some other people here really like the new Samsung screens. Not sure which model.
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    Default Re: Monitor Response Time

    Put it this way - if you didn't notice enough to care about the response time before reading about it, there's probably no need to upgrade (anything under 8ms looks fine and there's some fantastic monitors that run at 16ms).

    If you do want to upgrade, the sweet spot at the moment is 22" widescreen (in my experience). I recently got a viewsonic one and it's been great, but your milage may vary ;)
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    Well, I get some image tearing sometimes, so I assumed V-sync would take care of that, but it didn't. The fast-moving graphics not keeping up, etc., yeah.

    Some games recommend certain settings, which actually give the sense they are okay, but something's in their way bottlenecking the whole shebang. I'm thinking processor, and/or monitor.
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    What are your system specs and what games are giving you torn graphics?
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    AMD Athlon XP @ 1.82
    1.5 GB RAM
    Radeon X1600Pro 512MB
    Lots of hard disk space


    As you see, it's low-end. But the games I play (M2TW, Counterstrike: Source) run smoothly, though with the torn up graphics.


    (I should totally upgrade anyway, hrrm )
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