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Avoid Acer , BenQ monitor at all cost !


samsung, Viewsonic make high quality monitors that are suitable for games. HP & Sony are too expensive and their quality is inferior to Samsung or Viewsonic.

I am not certain about Dell monitor. You have to check reviews.
 
I have a AL1721 for couple of years and its goof for fps, while the WCG had Benq monitors, so I do not see how would they not fit for gaming, please explain yourself other than boistering how something is not good.
 
I am looking at buying a 24 inch myself, and I actually was looking at the DELL, but recently I came up to this new BENQ monitor (LINK TO MONITOR ) It has some sorta thing to stop ghosting, (something like a black screen showing at 120HZ, which sorta takes away the ghosting, and apparebtly you would not see the black screen)


SO now I must consider how and what, and see reviews on it as I have not found any so far except that I think BENQ monitors are WCG sponsors :?
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The new BenQ monitor looks interesting. What is WCG?
Someone mentioned, don't buy BenQ. Why not?
 
WCG are World Cyber Games, and I countered the guy who said to stay away from Benq because its monitors are not suited for games, while WCG uses for its championships? And so yeah, im also wondering why he said it.
 
Well, I know you can play your FPS every day, but that doesn't mean you don't have input lag. The bottom line is: the Dell 2405 and Samsung 244T can be up to 50/65 ms (respectively) behind a CRT. If you think about network latency on games, this can be a big deal. Everybody knows that if you have a 10 ms ping on a server, you are going to get more kills than if you have a 75 ms ping. So, if your monitor is introducing extra latency into your rig, your 10 ms ping + 65ms input lag becomes 75 ms, which is bad.

My point was just that you can use whatever cable you want, and you still have input lag. If you're not a pro gamer, it might not be the biggest deal in the world to you. Like I said: most people can't detect it. But, most people don't even know what it is. When I first started listening to MP3s I thought they were awesome. Later, when I was able to pick out the sound of the compression, MP3s started driving me nuts. Catch my drift?

BTW, where did you find that DVI reduces input lag?
 
i got it from one of your links since i dont remember every page that i read something from ill use that. mp3 compression isnt really a good comparasin though. I dont really care about "professional" gamers i jsut play in leagues in CAL i dont see that as proffesional though. I also dont see any difference playing on a crt apposed to this specific LCD in lag or my killing "skills" as the CS'ers have stated. the VGA connection cannot supply high res monitors with the requiered information fast enough as its limited in bandwidth not to mention it takes longer due to the conversion that has to take place. Accourding to one of your links it has to do with many aspects of a system not just the monitor. I spent all night trying to see the responces and sound delay or sound coming before a shot. Either peoples systems arent able to handle it or i must be missing something or they are exadurating something so slight you really have to try and see it.
 
Avoid Acer , BenQ monitor at all cost !
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And what exactly are you basing this on? Is it the usual "i heard some guy on some forum that said it was crap".?
The BenQ FP241W is actually one of the best sub-$1000 24" monitors in the market today.
And as with everything you get what you pay for.

The reason why all 24" monitors cost twice as much as the 22" ones is because the 24" monitors use different (better) panel types. All 24" monitors use 8-bit panels(...usually PVA) while the 22" monitors use cheap 6-bit TN panels.
If you're only going to use your monitor for gaming, web-browsing and the occasional movie..., then the 22" are fine.
But if you plan on doing any type of professional graphics work, then stay away because the 22" are very limited when it comes to color reproduction.
 
he's talking about input lag not pixel response time.
Input lag is the interval between the time the signal is sent to the monitor and the time it actually appears on the screen.
Large screens like the 24" have introduced a bit of input lag (usually between 20-60ms) because of additional signal processing they do before they actually show the image on the screen. This is not an issue with monitors less then 20".
Some people find it very bothersome, some people don't notice it at all. It all depends on the person.
 
I have had my Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD for about two months now and I have noticed no ghosting. I play anywhere from FPS, to racing games, to strategy to online MMOs. I use it as my TV to watch DVDs of all genres.

By all means use the DVI cable, it's faster because it won't have to convert and unconvert the signal to display the image as a RGB cable does.

I don't know if people have read various reviews or not, but the different specs that manufacturers put on their screens differs from manufacturer to manufacturer of what their definition is. The ms response time or contrast rating of LCDs isn't the only thing to compare the screens with, nor is it always an apples to apples comparison if you use those specs.

With my screen I can view the screen from almost a 90 degree angle from the side and still see things clearly and read what's on it. I don't see any backlight bleeding as I've seen on some screens. Backlight bleeding is the backlight showing around the edges when it shouldn't be, when that happens your blacks are not so black. Oh, and I have zero dead pixels from what I can tell when using a white or black background, I see nothing dead or stuck on.
 
Well, I'm not going to argue with you about this crap. It's a documented thing that exists, it bugs some people and some people don't care. I'll leave it at that.

picard, you should be ashamed of yourself with that gross generalization based on absolutely no facts. (oh, and you're wrong).

trapilales, I can't believe it! Somebody else who knows stuff about stuff! It's amazing! 😀
 
I currently have the Acer AL2416Wd and I've never experienced any ghosting with it while playing games. I'm very happy with it and the only complaint I have is that while watching tv with my Powercolor T55E-P03 I notice some ghosting in fast moving scenes however when I watch the recording that was made of the scene there's no visual artifact... Despite that I'm happy with it...
 
I can't comment on the Acer but I will tell you the Samsung 244t I purchased is superb. Multiple inputs including one component and S-Video(only one DVI unfortunately), USB hub (the root cable plugs into the left side where the outputs are for some dumb reason), 0 ghosting in games that I've noticed, low response rate for how large it is, PiP and PbP. The only thing this is missing, is a built-in TV tuner, but the similar model that does have one is plagued by ghosting apparently. I purchased a nice arm mount for it but have yet to install it.
 
No... check out the screenshots on those links. It shows how these people arrived at the 60ms number. They were comparing the Dell 2405 to a CRT.
 
The delay measured for 7 monitors
After practical tests, here is something more precise. This time we measured the possible delay of LCD monitors to a 1/1000th of second. We realised four points:
- the CRT monitor was never late compared to a LCD monitor.
- the delay isn´t due to the refreshing rate: 60Hz or 75 Hz doesn´t´ change anything.
- it isn´t due to the interface. One monitor won´t be faster in DVI than in analog. The double conversions do not slow down the monitor. It’s important to remind you that all CRT function with analog signals.
- the delay changes with time. We took ten measurements in a row to look for the maximum, minimum and, most of all average, delay.
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Well, thanks for providing a quote that helps me with my earlier statement that cables don't matter.

Anyway, I have found this is a frustrating issue. There's not a lot of documentation on it, so it's hard to tell why it is happening (I've heard people say that they believe it's Overdrive technology, but it's just speculation). But, it definitely exists.

I really liked the looks of that Samsung monitor I bought and tried everything to get it to work properly, but it was a no-go. I tweaked every setting on my graphics card, tried 4 different cables, swapped out PCs, swapped out mice, used nvidia card as well as ATI, tried running at a lower resolution (1024x768) to rule out the high resolution as the problem, etc. I tested the same monitor in a store and could feel the lag on it as well, so I know I'm not crazy.
 
the quote doesnt say what monitors what resolutions it doesnt say anything i can find you equil amount of quotes saying otherwise. But i dont care its a pointless argument i cant see in shutter frames and i spent hours trying to see delays if they are there they are caused by more then just the monitor or so small that well even trying to find it for hours on end couldnt see it.
 
Ugh, this argument is getting obtuse and pointless. I'll solve it. Get this monitor:

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?&ref=cj&pfp=cj&product_code=341469

Do not pass Go. Do not Collect $200. Buy 2 of these.

Reviews here:

http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=807

Here:

http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2842&Itemid=40

Here:

http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=336

Basically, they mostly said its a good monitor, good response time, a bit cool but color correction will help it, and some backlight bleeding on some of the older batches but fixed in newer ones.
 
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