Monitor Response

[davesnow]

My son tells me that a monitor will work better with a higher "MS" number. I've seen 22" and 24" Monitors listed with a Response of 5ms and 2ms. Does anyone know what the difference is? I'm getting a new Computer and I want a monitor that will absolute be the best.

 

[jfweaver]

Exactly the opposite. The lower the better. Newer games especially are designed to take advantage of the newer, lower, response times.

Jim

 

[Captain_Collins]

Response time on LCD/TFT (flat panel) monitors is the speed at which the monitor will "notice" that you have changed an aspect of the view, such as moving a mouse pointer, and redraw the affected pixels (little block of light that make up a screen) to make the pointer move on the screen. As jfweaver has said, the lower the response time the better.

 

[johnwhelan]

My son tells me that a monitor will work better with a higher "MS" number. I've seen 22" and 24" Monitors listed with a Response of 5ms and 2ms. Does anyone know what the difference is? I'm getting a new Computer and I want a monitor that will absolute be the best.

A 19 inch Samsung 1440 by 900 (1,296,000 pixels) looks fairly good they have a 2ms version if you go above this in size then expect your frame rates to drop.

A 24 inch 1920 by 1200 has 2,304,000 pixels that have to be driven. That's more cpu and video card demand for the same fps.

Cheerio John

 

[SuperFudd]

The term, ms, stands for millisecond or one thousandth of a second. In a LCD monitor this "response time" is how long it takes a screen pixel to change intensity and or color, as I understand it.

If a computer has problems at 1440 by 900, would the frame rate be better setting it to a lower resolution?

 

[whitepass]

SuperFudd - no do not set a lower resolution with a LCD monitor, it will slow it down more.

 

[SuperFudd]

BUMMER!

Perhaps I should stick with my 12 year old 20 inch CRT.

 

[Captain_Collins]

SuperFudd - no do not set a lower resolution with a LCD monitor, it will slow it down more.

I'm sorry? I believe that it will speed the processing time for the graphics up as the computer can render a block of pixels with the same data instead of rendering more individual pixels with different data.

 

[BLueNeon]

My son tells me that a monitor will work better with a higher "MS" number. I've seen 22" and 24" Monitors listed with a Response of 5ms and 2ms. Does anyone know what the difference is? I'm getting a new Computer and I want a monitor that will absolute be the best.

Before things move wildly off course ..

Read this ... it will help you

http://www.pchardwarehelp.com/guides/lcd-panel-types.php

also be aware that different manufacturers caculate response times differently ... just to confuse the average joe :n:


and

Lowering the res make things look .... ugly

 

[SuperFudd]

That settles it. I'll stick with my 12 year old 20 inch Sun Microsystems CRT.
How come CRTs were not included in that buyers guide?

 

[jfweaver]

Remember 8-track, 33-1/3 records and 5-1/4" floppy drives? Add CRTs to the list.

Jim

 

[SuperFudd]

Still it would be good to compare those new fangled flat panel monitors to a good old flat screen CRT.

By the way, remember 4 track?

 

[Captain_Collins]

Still it would be good to compare those new fangled flat panel monitors to a good old flat screen CRT.

By the way, remember 4 track?

Or Betamax?

 

[Ferngren]

I'm sorry? I believe that it will speed the processing time for the graphics up as the computer can render a block of pixels with the same data instead of rendering more individual pixels with different data.

This is a common misconception. The screens Native Resolution will give the best performance.

 

[Captain_Collins]

This is a common misconception. The screens Native Resolution will give the best performance.

Thank you for putting me right.