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 definitely better--it denotes how fast your screen can refresh a video image. If LCD's response time is just too slow, usually the display's pixels probably will not be effective to retain the data sent coming from the computer's graphics card, and you will observe ghosting and also a digital distractions as a consequence. But just considering the fact that a vendor advertises a fast response time doesn't suggest that the Lcd is going to work with moving images far better.

Response time is described as the time needed for a good Liquid crystal display pixel to change starting from fully active (black color) to fully inactive (white), and then back to fully active again. A lot of vendors, on the contrary, document their particular LCDs' gray-to-gray response times. Pixels are rarely completely on or even off--instead they period between gray states, that is colors--and, generally, changing between gray states is much less quickly when compared with switching between white and black.

Nevertheless, a few also argue that measuring gray-to-gray response time is definitely pointless, considering that the manufacturers not usually tell where in the cycle they start as well as finish their measurements. To ease this confusion, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) plans to present a new specification standardizing response time measurement sometime in the year 2006.

In the present, however, providers continues to report the "fastest possible" response time, instead of the standard or typical response time that you and I would notice in everyday usage. And also, sometimes vendors are unable to decide exactly how really fast their particular products are, as with ViewSonic's September 2005 statement that its ViewSonic VX924 Lcd actually had a 3ms response rate rather than the previously declared 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 several displays we have analyzed with relatively quick response times of 8ms or maybe less. Their functionality in different gaming assessments varied substantially.




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