latency is the time it takes for an input to display on the screen. obviously you want it low as possible. to find out you'll have to do some googling on the model you're looking at because they won't say or will lie in their specs.

response time is how fast the monitor can change a pixel's color to another color. a bad response time means ghosting. again you can't trust company specs, it's best to see if someone tested the true response time or to read reviews that say if ghosts or not.

other than that, if you play very demanding games and as a result have lower framerates, look for a monitor with nvidia g-sync

also some monitors will have an optional lightboost or "strobed backlight" mode which almost completely removes motion blur at the cost of some added latency

Thank you!

Do I want VGA, HDMI, or DVI?

You want Dual-DVI or DisplayPort. DisplayPort if you wait for G-Sync.

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xl2411z is currently the best gaming monitor you can buy, price to performance wise.

http://www.blurbusters.com/ is a really great site for monitor info.

"the best gaming monitor you can buy, price to performance wise"


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excellent argument - thread closed

Any decent Trinitron / Diamondtron has better image quality and colors (more so, if it's calibrated), higher refresh rates with prolly 0 ms input lag, for the 1/10 - 1/15th of the BenQ's price.

Good argument enough?

good luck finding one.

I don't need luck for that.

I just found 43 advertisement (some of them wanting to sell more than 1 product) in less than 10 sec. Not even tried to look for other sources.

you found 43 ads for a diamondtron/trinitron? no way.

http://hardverapro.hu/aprok/hardver/monitor/crt

This is only one source. You can find shitton of others, including with world-wide access. You just have to use search bars properly.

i'd never find that being that i only speak english. that's pretty fucking nuts. a shame it'd probably cost over $200 to ship one to north america.

I found a motherboard that I like but it only has one HDMI port. Can I get 144Hz and 1ms from HDMI?

...so you intend on using the onboard videocard of the motherboard? you know those are very weak right? ;)
if you are building a new pc then ignore what onboard video options motherboards have, and get a decent videocard with Dual-DVI or DisplayPort (like comrade mentioned)

and no, i dont believe hdmi does high refreshrate. only the new updated hdmi standard does but there are no devices on the market that use it at the moment.

when looking for a gaming monitor, make sure its a TN panel, thats the type of technology used on fast monitors (its the fastest of TN/IPS/VA)
then look for some good reviews mainly concerning contrast and color accuracy. make a decision based on that since all 144hz panels will be fast. i think the most popular monitors are the benq ones though, and perhaps the asus vg248. cant really remember whats supposed to be popular right now, maybe someone else can help with that.. :)

Wow nevermind. I can just get a video card with a DVI port right?

Let's talk video cards bros.

The Nvidia Titan Z just dropped 50% in price.

LOL

lol :P

i think the gtx970 is currently the card to get, if you have the $$$ for it.

If only I had bought my GTX 770 two weeks later...
I could have traded it for a 970 for $15 (+return shipping) with EVGA's step up program :(.

is 120hz/IPS panel/1ms latency out yet? i would bang that.

here is a nice thread about gaming monitors:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1966...t-lag.html

>120hz/IPS panel/1ms latency

yes yes never.

maybe not 1ms, but you can already get that kind of monitors with 4 or 5 ms.

the fastest ips/va are 6 ms, and they're blurry as shit. source: i have a qnix qx2710 overclocked to 120 Hz.

you understand what input lag/latency means and what response time means right....

if those monitors that are in the link belov, are for gaming. ... i would expect input lag to be at minimum ofc.

I just went back to CRT, got an awesome monitor for $8.

Will probably wait for a 1ms g-sync 144hz to come down in price and get that. The last 120hz LCD I had was a blurry mess.

I think people are making a mistake when it comes to G-sync. They expect completely different scenario of what it's suppose to do. Like it will magically make it a CRT. Still I will hold on and see for sure what the first releases do. It shouldn't be long now

from what you can read about it, i expect it to be even better than a CRT at lower FPS games.
you won't gain anything in QL anymore, since it runs with 250fps now, but the usual 144hz shóuld be enough in this case anyway, to forget your old CRT.

Yeah I don't necessarily want g-sync for quake, rather for other games, but a lot of the newer monitors are going to have anti-blur features too.

I went to a quake lan a few weeks ago and the guy I setup next to had a samsung 2233rz, and so compared my 120hz to his, and his looked so so much better. Ironically that was my old monitor! I didn't compare the 2 when I bought the new one. Anyway so sold the new one I got, unfortunately there isn't anything cheap like the 2233rz anymore, but quake at 150hz is pretty sick, so I should be fine for awhile.

On G-Sync, it isn't meant to make it like a crt, in some ways it should be BETTER than a crt, at least when it comes to tearing, smoothness and response time, but that technology won't do anything for blurring, but hey if they get lightboost to work at 1ms, that should be fine.

even the first generation 120 Hz LCDs were 2 ms response time. if you want to see a blurry mess go use an ips/va. any less than 2 ms is just icing on the cake.

nVc has a nice video up about the iiyama ProLite GB2488HSU-B1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5saJtfLMk&hd=1
http://skinflint.co.uk/iiyama-prolite-gb2488h...78617.html

Looks awesome! But it is not being sold in South Africa :/ Shipping is way to much.

I tried this monitor and it is very sharp and responsive but the picture quality is simply awful, it is way too bright and washed out even at the lowest setting and it displays really bad banding/dithering (like many if not all cheap TN panels though). Found several other people who said the same, most of those (like me) bought it after reading the DigitalVersus review (once again it shows how crap DigitalVersus reviews are, 2014 and they still haven't updated their outdated input lag testing which shows completely wrong and useless numbers...)

I could not find settings that looked any decent and the contrast was pretty poor anyway. I have a calibrated IPS panel and while of course I was not expecting it to look the same, I was hoping to get something reasonably close since I've seen plenty of TN panels that look decent. Even my laptop's shitty old TN panel (from 2009) looks okay in comparison despite a really low contrast ratio.

It's an okay monitor for purely competitive gaming maybe but at the same time it's a shame to have no g-sync and no ULMB mode (or similar) at all. Better look at other options with at least ULMB (g-sync adds a HUGE price premium sadly), it won't cost much more.

New LG and ViewSonic monitors are looking great and affordable (ULMB+144hz+true 8 Bit panel) :
http://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-24GM77-B
http://www.viewsoniceurope.com/uk/products/lcd/vg2401mh.php

The prad.de review (for the LG but they are using exactly the same panel apparently) is excellent. Might give it a go myself soonish.

What's the best ssd drive that I can buy within reason?

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Crucial/MX100_256_GB/

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It...-_-Product

PCper has a storage guru ...
https://twitter.com/malventano

linked from that webside ...
http://www.pcper.com/subject/storage
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/03/produ...and_256gb/

The MX100 is a low cost SSD, if you need more space you will get a other one ... get a good one not the cheapest
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/OCZ-Vect...19nm-flash

:)