Thursday, February 2, 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 faster response time is undoubtedly better--it signifies how fast a computer screen can easily refresh a video representation. If LCD's response time is too slow, the display's pixels would not be effective to retain the information carried coming from the computer's graphics card, and you'll see ghosting and also digital distractions as a result. But simply considering that a provider promotes a quick response time does not mean that its Lcd is going to work with moving pictures a lot better.

Response time means the amount of time needed for a Liquid crystal display pixel to change from fully active (black color) to fully inactive (white), and then returning to fully active again. Many providers, on the contrary, describe their LCDs' gray-to-gray response times. Pixels are not completely on or even off--instead they period somewhere between gray states, that is colors--and, generally, changing between gray states is quite a bit slower as compared to switching between black and white.

On the other hand, a few also argue that measuring gray-to-gray response time is actually pointless, for the reason that manufacturers rarely inform where in the cycle they begin and finish their particular measurements. To help remedy this misconceptions, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) intends to present a good specification standardizing response time way of measuring sometime in '06.

Today, in spite of this, providers continues to report the "fastest possible" response time, rather than the average and also common response time that you and I would observe in daily usage. And, sometimes manufacturers can't figure out precisely how fast their very own items are, as with ViewSonic's September '05 announcement that its ViewSonic VX924 Lcd actually had a 3ms response rate rather than the recently announced 4ms rate.

In any case, while response time specs can help when shopping for a new monitor for viewing Digital video disks or gaming, we highly recommend testing the display screen yourself before purchasing. CNET does not formally test response times, but we judge game playing as well as Dvd efficiency with our own eyes, and that we suggest that you to do the same.

Here are some displays we've analyzed with relatively quick response times of 8ms or maybe less. Their efficiency in various video gaming tests varied substantially.




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