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Does anyone know of any good gaming LCD monitors?
Lord Jezo
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gah I mean LCD monitors.
Does anyone know of any good LCD monitors that work great for gaming? I want something about 20" with a response time fast enough to handle quick twitch FPS games with out ghosting, I also want something with a good viewing angle since I also watch anime and stuff while laying in bed, I won't be at a straight on angle at all times and I know some of the cheaper panels look terrible if you are not directly in front of them.
I don't want to spend $1,000, half that would be good for my budget.
What should I do? I have only used CRTs up until this point, even my HDTV is a massive 36" Sony CRT weighing about 300lbs.
Does anyone know of any good LCD monitors that work great for gaming? I want something about 20" with a response time fast enough to handle quick twitch FPS games with out ghosting, I also want something with a good viewing angle since I also watch anime and stuff while laying in bed, I won't be at a straight on angle at all times and I know some of the cheaper panels look terrible if you are not directly in front of them.
I don't want to spend $1,000, half that would be good for my budget.
What should I do? I have only used CRTs up until this point, even my HDTV is a massive 36" Sony CRT weighing about 300lbs.
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Edit: Forgot that you can get a 20" Widescreen LCD for far less than $1000 anywhere, but I recommend Newegg if you want a good deal and excellent service to boot.
What did you end up getting?
What viewing angles should I be looking for?
Should I be concerned about the type of panel used for the display? Some of the hardcore sites get into discussions about what companies make the LCD panels and what technology they use.
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I guess what I would say is decide on basic things like screen size, widescreen or no and then once you got those the field is a lot more narrow and you can start reading about specific monitors you might like.
Honestly pretty much any recent monitor would work, what you should do is shop around a bit, compare numbers and such as it really just depends on any extra features you might want.
BenQ for 24
these are the kings, there might be a few more
LCD technology is good enough now that pretty much any LCD currently in the retail channel will have a decent viewing angle, quick response time, good contrast and reasonably accurate colours. Enough to satisfy even the most demanding PC gamer. At this point, the only factors you need to be worrying about are size, features, warranty and price. If you still can't decide, just get a Dell. You definitely can't go wrong with those.
So for the most part all the people who sit around and debate getting an IPS panel vs. a TPS panel are a bit more hardcore than I need to be? All I really care about is not having a monitor lag behind my graphics card and allow me to sit at an angle.
As for the Gateway: I will go check that one out and Circuit City, it is a lot cheaper than the NEC $500 one that I was looking at. The Dell models also seem to be pretty cheap.
Should I care about the contrast ratio?
I am going out today to look at some in person, maybe all I will need is a 19", I will have to see the difference between a 22" and 19" in person. This is not going to be used as a TV, I see lots of them now have NTSC tuners built in, and speakers too. All I want is a monitor for my desk so I can play games and watch shows.
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Console games (PS3/360) are fine though, never had problems with those.
What problems do you have?
What is the monitor response time?
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You will not see any ghosting unless you have bionic vision. The claim that a CRT is "smoother" for any game is all in your head, unless the last LCD you played on was 5-6 years ago.
I have been looking at those but now I find out that there are completely different versions of the monitor being sold under the same name. Some are "A panels" and others are "S panels". From what I am reading the As are garbage while the S is wonderful, different manufacturers of the LCD. Seems to be a big gamble when buying them about which one will show up in the mail.
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I've got the 2407 and even with an 8800GTS/E6700 I still end up playing 1680x1050 on a lot of games to get a decent framerate.
Yeah. I will be going a bit mad with the new box. Something I haven't done for a while.
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For the record, I've played and completed Half Life 2 on it without any problems. Other 60fps games on the PS3 (Ridge Racer, Tekken) work fine. It's just the extremely fast nature of UT2004 that's giving me problems.
Response time: 16ms (black to white) or 6ms (grey to grey). I have the 2407.
Samsung 206bw review.