Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Monitor Response Time - Is It Really That Important in a Gaming Monitor?

By Kevin Oleary


If you've been searching for a computer monitor in recent months, you may have observed lots of consideration being given to 1 spec most importantly: response time. Commonly known as response rate or latency, an LCD's response time supposedly indicates how much quicker it is able to display moving visuals. Most of last year's Lcds had 16-millisecond (ms) response times--fast enough designed for decent-looking Digital video disc playback, even if with some ghosting and also distortions. And yet response times are falling over, with Samsung and then ViewSonic debuting Lcds equipped with 3ms and 4ms response times earlier this calendar year, Liquid crystal displays would seem to be nearing the overall performance provided by CRTs. But exactly what do response time numbers really mean?

A quicker response time is undoubtedly better--it indicates how fast your display can refresh a video image. If LCD's response time is actually slow, the display's pixels won't be able to maintain the material sent from your computer's graphics card, and you will see ghosting and digital distractions as a result. But just considering that a vendor promotes a fast response time doesn't mean that the Liquid crystal display will handle moving visuals far better.

Response time means the time required for a Liquid crystal display pixel to change from completely active (black color) to fully inactive (white), then back to fully active once again. Numerous vendors, on the other hand, report their own LCDs' gray-to-gray response times. Pixels are rarely fully on or even off--instead they cycle between gray states, that is colors--and, in general, switching anywhere between gray states is notably reduced compared to switching between black and white.

Nevertheless, some also believe that testing gray-to-gray response time is actually pointless, considering that the suppliers almost never inform where in the cycle they begin as well as end their particular measurements. To help remedy this misconceptions, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) intends to introduce a new spec standardizing response time way of measuring sometime in the year 2006.

Today, in spite of this, manufacturers continually report the "fastest possible" response time, rather than the standard or even common response time that you and I would notice in every day use. And, sometimes suppliers can't decide precisely how really fast their own products are, as with ViewSonic's September 2005 announcement that its ViewSonic VX924 Lcd actually was built with a 3ms response rate rather than the recently declared 4ms rate.

In any case, while response time features can help when searching for some sort of monitor intended for watching Dvds or even gaming, we recommend testing the display screen your self before purchasing. CNET doesn't formally check response times, but we evaluate game playing and also Dvd overall performance with our own eyes, and that we encourage you to do the same thing.

Here are some screens we have evaluated with relatively fast response times of 8ms or maybe much less. Their overall performance regarding numerous video gaming tests varied substantially.




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