Author Topic: LCD's for FPS (Read 3273 times)

zx2slow · « **on:** February 28, 2006, 06:29:12 PM »

I havent really looked in a while, but are LCD's still to crummy for FPS gamers? What kind of response time would be not noticeable?

TekieB · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2006, 06:51:37 PM »

I'm not that up on it, But IIRC <= 16ms resonse time is generally acceptable for games. The generic cheapo pannels will still be slow, but the higher up ones (dell ultra sharp, etc) should provide a decent game expiernce.

It also depends what you are "used to"

zx2slow · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2006, 06:54:45 PM »

I've always used CRT's, I have used friends LCD's in the past but there was ghosting galore. Im thinking about purchaseing a 17" acer with 8ms response time.

cuzzNkev · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2006, 07:47:55 PM »

I got a samsung syncmaster for christmas and have to say its nice. I still mainly use a CRT while at home, but for LAN'in, the LCD can't be beat.

Billabond1 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2006, 09:03:17 PM »

i have an lcd with 25ms refresh rate that i got about 2 years ago. It gets no ghosting at all, but it was very high end at the time.

I know from selling monitors at work that acer stuff in general is junk. It is really worth spending a little extra and moving up to a samsung or something in that range.

sully! · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2006, 11:38:21 PM »

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116375

Nuff said....

But I'll say more anyways. 2ms is essentially CRT response times. I was like you for the longest time, only using CRT's, hated LCD's for gaming because of the ghosting. Then I saw a 16ms BenQ at QuakeCon 04 and my thoughts were immediately changed. Now with times of 8, 6, 4, and 2ms, I can't ignore them any longer. I would still rather wait for OLED displays, but it doesn't look like they'll be around any time in the near future (yes, I know they are used in cameras and PDA's now, but I'm not using a PDA as my monitor at a LAN).

The Shoctor · « **Reply #6 on:** March 01, 2006, 08:37:04 AM »

I have an 8ms monitor.. payed a good price and it wipes the floor with my samsung 19 crt in color and brightness and clarity... I was leary of the change, but I never see ghosting.

_Cloud · « **Reply #7 on:** March 01, 2006, 08:55:26 AM »

Quote from: "ShadoHawk"

I have an 8ms monitor.. payed a good price and it wipes the floor with my samsung 19 crt in color and brightness and clarity... I was leary of the change, but I never see ghosting.

same I have an 8ms 20.1 inch lcd and it is way better then my crt dell monitor i had. Worth everything I paid for.

zx2slow · « **Reply #8 on:** March 01, 2006, 04:05:12 PM »

I found a 19" 8ms BenQ for ~230 (edit: After rebate) shipped from newegg, all the reviews look awsome and it was $10 more than the 17" acer.

sully! · « **Reply #9 on:** March 01, 2006, 05:30:01 PM »

Quote from: "ShadoHawk"

I have an 8ms monitor.. payed a good price and it wipes the floor with my samsung 19 crt in color and brightness and clarity... I was leary of the change, but I never see ghosting.

Does that Hyundai come with a 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty?

The Shoctor · « **Reply #10 on:** March 02, 2006, 07:25:28 AM »

I don't know... But I have seemed to put a quit a lot of milage on it taking it to LANs. LOL

Fabio · « **Reply #11 on:** March 02, 2006, 11:39:59 AM »

its all about the samsung!

The Nstuff · « **Reply #12 on:** March 19, 2006, 12:46:35 PM »

Dell 2005FPW. ~12ms response time, 1680x1050 res. Never any ghosting, and games just look soooo sweet in widescreen... not to mention watching widescreen dvds or vids. Tons of inputs and a VERY handy built-in usb 2.0 hub.

Anyone at either the 100 man lan or yesterday's 50 man lan saw it as I always take it with me to lan parties. I don't have any other lcds and i'm not lugging a crt.

Dell is constantly having coupons for these monitors... right now it doesn't look like they have anything going on, but non-coupon price is currently $423 on dell.com.

Reviews are always glowing and supposedly this is the same lcd display as the Apple 20" cinema display, only this has more inputs, pip, picture by picture, usb hub, rotating screen to portrait, and telescoping stand.

Sorry, i think i sound like an infomercial, but I too stayed with CRTs for the longest time because all the LCDs I saw were crap with anything other than excel and word. But this display proved me wrong.

TekieB · « **Reply #13 on:** March 19, 2006, 02:22:28 PM »

prety much all of the larger pannels are the made by the same pannel manufacturer, just differnet company branding....

this is one time I will say go with dell over apple (but the cinema displays are really sexy)

neog0dless · « **Reply #14 on:** August 02, 2006, 09:58:46 PM »

Yo, if you want to check out my Samsung SyncMaster 930B sometime - I think it's great for gaming, and all things.

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