Somebody clarify my doubt on monitor visuals..!

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I need a monitor.. I know all about those tech specs, but one thing is bothering me which could be realized only in a practical way..

I'm a gamer who plays All NFS games, DIRT Showdown and much more racing games.. Shooting games like Splinter Cell. CODs, Battlefields, CS, Project IGIs, Crysis, etc etc..

Now my confusion is to buy a IPS monitor or TN monitor.. I'm a gamer who sits exactly st the center of the screen (like everyone does) and while watching movies - two persons (including me) will sit near by and watch movies.. The doubts are,

1) If it was TN Panel, whether I will notice color shift watching movies or playing games?

2) If IPS panel, will I notice difference between 2 ms and 7 ms response time? (Because I have to choose between two monitors - one is DELL with IPS and 7ms, the other BENQ with TN panel and 2ms)?? Thks in advance.
 
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the 2/5/7ms G2G response time is only a part of the whole display sequence which sarts at the instant the GPU sends the new image to be displayed on screen.
Signal goes over the wires to the monitor (takes couple ns or so),
Signal gets processed in the monitor and ready to send the instructions to the panel itself (input lag),
Signal goes to the individual pixel to change (another ns)
Pixel changes to the new display (G2G response time).

Having the fastest possible G2G panel response time is only one link in the display chain.
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I have a very hard time recommending an IPS as a primary screen for a gamer. It is the best decision ONLY if you play non-fps games like rpg, rts, sports, etc.

If you play any form of FPS games, I can only recommend a low response time TN panel.

The response time generally represents if the screen will have ghosting, but from my experience, monitors with slower ghosting response time also have slower delay response time (time between doing an action on your PC and then seeing it happen on the screen). If you end up with a monitor that has a slow(er) delay response time, and you try to play a FPS game, you're gonna have a bad time.

1) TN panel colors aren't "bad". They just aren't quite as good as IPS. If you had an IPS directly next to a TN, you would notice the difference on the IPS, but that doesn't make the TN bad.

2) Yes, you would most likely notice the difference in some way or another.
 
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My rule of thumb:
TN for faster response times (twitch gaming)
IPS for better color reproduction (graphics professionals).

You will never notice a "color shift" on a single display - this is because the display is calibrated the same (excluding small differences from manufacturing) and doesn't change between images. Color shift is related to how various displays show the same color as being slightly different (or compared to a standard color pallet).
 
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as for question 2...

Impossible to answer without independant testing. Some makers like to overstate the response time, some like accuracy, some stay more conservative with their claims. Wouldn't surprise me if there are test restults of a "2ms" panel having a slower response time than a "7ms" one when compared apples to apples by independant labs.

Something else to watch out for if twitch gaming is input latency - some panels take a lot longer than others to take a new input signal and actually display it on screen. A 2ms G2G response time is useless if follows 20ms of input lag.
 
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I can't understand your words, can you please eloborate a little more..

 
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I saw a test before(I tried to find it but I can't :( ), I remembered it shows that IPS is a little better than TN in colours, view angles, contrast ratio, ect. However, its conclusion is the advantages of IPS are not very significant. It suggests that if you already have a TN monitor, it's not necessary to throw it and get an IPS, but if you are choosing between IPS and TN, then get an IPS.
 
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For any product there are (at least) two sets of performance numbers: Marketing #'s and actual performance #'s.

Your initial post had a question about a 7ms and 2ms (Marketing #'s) panel from different makers (calling them A and B now).

Maker A markets the panel as a 2ms response time. Maker B's marketing says their display is 7ms.

Yet an Independant test lab rates both as 5ms in an identical test (actual results). In this case even though Maker A appears to have the faster panel (marketing) - it could perform the same (actual #'s) as a slower panel (marketing)

 
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the 2/5/7ms G2G response time is only a part of the whole display sequence which sarts at the instant the GPU sends the new image to be displayed on screen.
Signal goes over the wires to the monitor (takes couple ns or so),
Signal gets processed in the monitor and ready to send the instructions to the panel itself (input lag),
Signal goes to the individual pixel to change (another ns)
Pixel changes to the new display (G2G response time).

Having the fastest possible G2G panel response time is only one link in the display chain.
 
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