Is This A Good Monitor?

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Genesis89

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I heard for the best gaming experience I need 1ms response time and 120hz or higher refresh rate in fps games or my target will not be where it appears to be so I found this monitor in my price range meeting those requirements. $130 on newegg.


http://www.amazon.com/VX238H-23-Inch-Screen-LED-lit-Monitor/dp/B00ANKMNXO


But at 2ms and a much lower refresh rate I found this but its 4 inches bigger which is nice as long as it doesn't lower my fps too much which has me concerned as well.


http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0099XBO5E/ref=cm_cr_mpr_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8

Dunno what to do. Looking to stay under $200
 
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I usually lean towards ASUS VE and VH monitors since I am somewhat familiar with them. I've not seen a VX monitor in person, but I assume it would have similar quality to ASUS' other products.
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The difference between 1 and 2 ms is not going to matter at all unless you are fighting for a million dollar prize pool in professional gaming, even 5ms will satisfy most gamers so 2ms will be perfect!
 
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It will not lower them, your refresh rate will set a cap at how many frames per second you see, and 2ms will give you 120 frames per second, and the fact you cannot possibly notice the difference after 60 fps, you will be fine :)
 
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Rami Zerker Reini

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Something like 120hz or 144hz is going to be very nice for you as a player. If I remember correctly the manufacturers run a bunch of tests for things like the response time and tell you the best result on the specs. This means there's a change it might never get the same results as it did. Personally I would pick a monitor that is rated 2-5ms rather than 1ms if it's better otherwise vs the 1ms. Just telling you this because it might help you in searching for your monitor :eek:
 
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That's not how that works...

2ms is referring to how quickly a single pixel can run through from Gray to Gray usually.

at 60Hz you have a maximum potential of 60FPS with v-sync turned on. Your GPU can render faster then that for most titles, this will cause screen tearing wherein you see partial frames displayed before the next screen refresh. Each frame is displayed in 16.67ms at 60Hz, This number decreases the higher the Hz rating of the monitor. Not really important but something to think on.

1ms and 2ms displays make for a little smoother experience. Ghosting will still occur, but it should be minimalized by the quick action of the individual elements.
 
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You can prevent screen tearing with V-sync or Adaptive V-sync, this forces the GPU to only send completed frames to the monitor. You sacrifice a little input response time (input lag, is the time it takes the monitor to process and display the frame)

Ghosting will pretty much always be present to some degree unless you get a monitor with Light Boost or ULMB, this makes the screen less bright, but basically hides the ghosting by not running the backlight between refreshes. Ghosting is fairly minor on most computer monitors these days.

Back when LCDs were new (and came in beige) it was just awful. Really large TVs still suffer from significant ghosting.
 
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