Are 60hz Monitors bad for gaming?

as far as i know, the greater the Hz rating, the higher the refresh rate. i didn't realise there were tvs/monitors with greater hz ratings, so if you found higher, and its in your price range, go for it!

Hz stands for Hertz, which means something similar to frequency, or occurrence per second, which might help. Hertz is also used to measure sound and wave frequency

No. They aren't "bad".

For 120hz monitors, keep in mind, you need to be getting GREATER than 120hz in games.

Plus they are largely expensive, so no, 60hz monitors are not bad, they are great and very affordable.

no , they are not "bad" for gaming , that is actually the standard. You can grab one of the 120 Mhz but you may not want or need it for the following reasons.
1. they cost significantly more than the ones around 60-70 Mhz.
2. you only really need 120 if you are going to go the 3D route

120 Hz monitors are only useful if you want to use them as 3D screens

For everyone else 60 Hz is more than enough

If its not 120 Hz its not a 3D screen . Like the tv's that you need 3D glasses for .


120 Hz works with the glasses by showing a left and right image alternately at 60 Hz each
Something is not right about that monitor spec sheet , or the 3D performance will be awful at 30 Hz per side

yes , great refresh rate , no worries there... but I feel obligated to add a bit more here for you to consider.. that moniter ihas an IPS panel. Which I would maybe grab if I were into serious video working of some sort. But for gaming , particularly FPS games , Id have to choose one with a TN panel instead.
Other things to look out for ;
that its 16x9 panel not something else.
Contrast ratios , don't sweat them too much seriously.
The human eye has a contrast ratio of over 1 million, when you consider what the dimmest light we can detect is versus the brightest light we can stand. But, if you were to go out in the bright sunlight, it would take at least a half hour for your eyes to adjust to a very dark room. So, the actual contrast ratio the human eye can resolve at any given time is actually more like 1000:1 to 1500:1. And, that means a TV with more than 2000:1 or so contrast ratio is really overkill.
in short , it's just marketing fluff basically on that note.
If you aren't an E-mail subscriber to NEWEGG , then you might want to become one , there are deals on great monitors constantly with bonus "coupons" in the E-mails. They send an E-mail everyday , so unless you are in the market for something , it does tend to start feeling like spam at some point...

next is the CD/candella/brightness , i prefer 250-300 ish which is great for lights on or off playing.

MS , or MS GTG I personally will not settle for a number bigger than a 5 there. would a 6 kill me , probably not but tha'ts just me.

next , off brand stuff ... Samsung for example makes a ton of panels that they dont actually use themselves for various reasons like they are a hair beneath their quality control specs. These extra panels get binned and sold off to other companies like Hanspree and such.
These are usually o.k. but plz use caution and read the small print and read the reviews.
Last thing you want is to save 5 bucks and end up with 7 dead pixels which would leave you 1 dead pixel shy of being able to return it in some cases.

here is a decent true 24 incher with a 2 MS for just a quick example of pricing .. it's 30 bucks off , there's a 20 dollar rebate , and if you are on the newegg Mailing list theres a promo code for another 20 bucks off.

Man , I wrote way too much there , sorry for that but you need to make those $$$ count and I hope this helps.



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236153

With OLD crts, it was a big difference. But with lcd monitors, it doesn't matter near as much.