Which moniter is best for gamin, LCD or LED?

An LED monitor is just an LCD monitor with LEDs as backlights instead of flourescent bulbs around the edges of the screen.

Which monitors are you looking at because you cannot compare them simply on backlight style.

None inparticular, just want to know so when i start looking I will know if they are good or not.

LED backlit LCD monitors provide isolated backlighting which lets you have a bright area in one part of the screen and not wash out the blacks in the rest of the screen, they give you a bit better picture in that way, but how it performs for gaming is still more dependent upon the matrix's characteristics like response time, i wouldnt have LED vs conventional be the deciding point.

I want to get a 1920 x1200 or 1920 x1080 monitor with a 2ms refresh time.

I have a 23" 1920 x 1080 LED backlit 2ms Samsung and I have to say the LED backlighting really reduces eyestrain. My older Samsung LCD would give me a headache after a few hours this one does not.

That is definitely possible, but I didn't think any did that?

Only when using dynamic contrast if the monitor supports local dimming. I'd be very surprised if many LED backlit monitors supported that. Honestly, I've yet to see any LED monitor that looked noticeably superior to a CCFL based monitor, aside from those using RGBLED (quite rare).

So you think that LCDs are still best right now?

LED backlit monitors are LCDs.

(A lot of people fail to notice that)

The choice is between LED and CCFL, and honestly, I wouldn't say that backlight choice makes a lot of difference. Panel type and build quality are much more important.

SO WHICH is the cheapest LED thts availabe today..which has a 2ms response time..?? mayb around 200$

This ASUS gets great reviews.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...


I have this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

ne other brands..than asus??

I have that one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

I mainly use it for gaming.

Asus seem to have good monitors too, but never had one.

sorry to jump this month old thread but I see the question is still not answered while I was about to put in the same question when I found this,

so what I hv got is though the LEDs are thinner, use kind of same technology as LCD , probably will be as cheap as LCDs and use less power,, ... we are still not clear as to which is better for gaming.




am i correct ?

Pretty much.

LED is just the backlight. All "LED monitors" are edge lit which means the light is emitted from the edge of the monitor instead of directly behind it (full array). This can lead to some light bleeding at the edges. There can also be more light uniformity issues across the monitor, more than compared to traditional LCD monitors with CCFL (florescent) backlight.

LED backlight (also known as WLED) does not always produce white light. Sometimes it can produce slightly "bluish white" because blue LEDs are used with a yellows phosphorous coating to imitate white.

It is the LCD panel itself which actually determines how good a monitor is for games. All current LED backlit LCD monitors in the consumer market use TN panels which are cheap and have fast response times so they are preferred by most gamers. They don't have good viewing angles so colors can shift the more off angle you are from the center of the monitor.