TFT response times

[Darren S]

Right chaps. Being a CRT veteran, but increasingly being tempted to the TFT darkside, could anyone shed some light on 'real world' scenarios on TFT monitors with decent response times?

The ones I've been looking at typically have a response time of either 8 or 6ms - but I've seen some with times as low as 2ms. Would the higher price of these make any difference, or none at all for the most part?

A good 90% of the monitor usage would be for PC gaming, so the lack of ghosting or blurring would be very important to me.

Cheers,
D.

 

[Griff]

I doubt you'd tell the difference of anything below 16ms personally.

 

[Darren S]

Cheers Griff.

I use a 17" TFT at work all day, but apps hardly push the monitor to its limit, so I've had little experience with them on games. I quite like the look of the ViewSonic VX922, but I really like Iiyama monitors, so I'm not sure!

D.

 

[Lee]

I doubt you'd tell the difference of anything below 16ms personally.

I've not used one as slow at 16ms but we have loads ranging from 8ms to 2ms and there is no noticable difference. If you drag windows around on them from one screen to the next you can sometimes notice it a little but when playing games they look identical.

I've got a 2ms Samsung alongside an 8ms one here and they look identical to me.

We had mainly Samsung here, but the Acer ones have much nicer colours for gaming. Acer do a nice 20" widescreen for a very good price: http://uk.insight.com/apps/productp...2&nbs_search=C=113&S=1071&K=&M=ARR&lang=en-gb

 

[Hotshot]

to go to an insanely low ms response time youll likely pay through the nose thigns to look for are:

- widescreen; go widescreen or go home. its just good sense.
- Contrast ratio: youll be wanting no less than 800:1 if your gaming, 850 or higher if you can manage it
- Colours. 16.2 million is standard, for design work and if your a particular nazi about it 16.8 is, i think, the next highest and you WILL need it if your an arty bugger.
- Inputs. Dont get a VGA one, go DVI if your graphics card has DVI out.
- Viewing Angles. Usually down to the type of film being used, older TFT's look like theyre still shrink wrapped next to the newer stuff so look for angles around ~170/155 for H/V respectively.
- Response times. As Lee said you wont see a huge amount of difference with the human eye between say, 8 and 2. However, a lot of websites claim GTG times. The actual proper indicator is BTB time.


I got myslef two of these ; http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-049-HY about 3 weeks ago and its a f**king superb bit of kit. Shop around and youll find stock

 

[Darren S]

I don't like the widescreen ones though!

I've got so used to 1280x1024 for literally everything now, that widescreen would just look weird. I HATE the letterbox view on TVs and stuff.....

D.

 

[Leeshez]

My 19 tt is 12ms