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I bought a Samsung 2493HM less than 2 weeks ago, which is a monitor with a 5ms response time, and by what I've read, shouldn't have any ghosting.
But I started playing a game called Spore and there is ghosting in the game, which makes it hard to look at the screen at certain moments in the game. The thing is, I don't know if this is a monitor with a bad panel and I should return it or if this amount of ghosting is normal.
Does anyone have this monitor and does it display ghosting?
Is there a test that I can do to verify if it is really a faulty panel and compare results to others with the same response time?
It's connected through DVI to my Geforce 8800GTS 512mb.

Please help, deadline to return it is Tuesday and I need to be sure if it's the right thing to do, thanks!

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Might want to check out your cable to the monitor(vga/dvi/hdmi)

I had a ghosting problem with one of my monitors until I switched my hdmi cable and then the ghosting was gone.

Reply to Liderc
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nope...not from the cable, just tried with a vga cable and same amount of ghosting

Reply to P236
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By ghosting, do you mean when you switch views quickly you notice the images that were there before you looked around? Just pin pointing your definition

Reply to Liderc

Normally its cable related.

Another is if your display is near to strong magnetic field equipment or environment.

Another is high emi electronic equipment just like a poorly grounded/shielded PC. That includes your power supply.

Cheap fans is also cause for high electrical noise that creates problem on the display.

Can you move your PC away from your display and see if changes anything.

If you can't figure it out return the display and get a new one.



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Reply to leon2006
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By ghosting I mean that if an object moves across the screen it will have a very noticeable trail. This is disturbing because if I'm playing a strategy game where I move to the left or right, the entire screen will leave a "trail" and be unfocused. The same thing happens with FPS games and it is making my eyes hurt.

I already tried the monitor on a different computer, moved the display away from the PC, tried different cables and the ghosting is still there.

Reply to P236

The problem coulbe your monitor....Have it replace

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Reply to leon2006
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That really sounds like a poor cable. I know you tried with a vga cable, but check out another hdmi cable if you can. I guess it could be a faulty monitor, but I'd still go with faulty cable until you've tried another hdmi cable.

Reply to Liderc
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I don't have any other cable, but I'm going to the store today and compare it with another monitor and try with other cables. I hope it's just a cable problem, anyway, he'll replace the monitor if it's a panel problem.

Reply to P236
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