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Good gaming monitor
I've got a friend who's in the market for a new monitor. I don't game
but so I'm not all that up on what's what in that area. Any recommendations in the 22" neighborhood? Thanks, Bob |
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Bob Levine wrote on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:26:16 -0500:
I've got a friend who's in the market for a new monitor. I don't game but so I'm not all that up on what's what in that area. Any recommendations in the 22" neighborhood? Thanks, Bob I wasn't aware that gaming required any fancy monitor. Just beefy video card, CPU, and RAM under some conditions. Am I wrong? -- Bill Asus EEE PC 8GB 1GB SoDIMM Adata 16GB Windows XP SP2 and Xandros Linux |
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BillW50 wrote:
I wasn't aware that gaming required any fancy monitor. Just beefy video card, CPU, and RAM under some conditions. Am I wrong? Many LCDs simply can't handle the fast motion in games. Bob |
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BillW50 wrote:
Bob Levine wrote on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:26:16 -0500: I've got a friend who's in the market for a new monitor. I don't game but so I'm not all that up on what's what in that area. Any recommendations in the 22" neighborhood? Thanks, Bob I wasn't aware that gaming required any fancy monitor. Just beefy video card, CPU, and RAM under some conditions. Am I wrong? Some LCD monitors have refresh rates too slow to keep up with hyper-fast games... Ben Myers |
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On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:53:12 -0500, Ben Myers
wrote: BillW50 wrote: Bob Levine wrote on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:26:16 -0500: I've got a friend who's in the market for a new monitor. I don't game but so I'm not all that up on what's what in that area. Any recommendations in the 22" neighborhood? Thanks, Bob I wasn't aware that gaming required any fancy monitor. Just beefy video card, CPU, and RAM under some conditions. Am I wrong? Some LCD monitors have refresh rates too slow to keep up with hyper-fast games... Ben Myers Shucks Ben, you took the words right outa my mouth as I'm late to the thread but let me say you are correct based on what I've read a couple years ago. I was then in the market for a monitor and came across a lot of gamer recommendations then. I'm not up on the latest brands for gamers so I'll let someone else who is a gamer follow this post. |
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"Ben Myers" wrote in message
... BillW50 wrote: Bob Levine wrote on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:26:16 -0500: I've got a friend who's in the market for a new monitor. I don't game but so I'm not all that up on what's what in that area. Any recommendations in the 22" neighborhood? Thanks, Bob I wasn't aware that gaming required any fancy monitor. Just beefy video card, CPU, and RAM under some conditions. Am I wrong? Some LCD monitors have refresh rates too slow to keep up with hyper-fast games... Ben Myers I think this was more of an issue back when LCD monitors first came out. These days monitors all seem to have sub 10ms responce times and so unless your video card is capable of putting out more than 100 frames per second it doesnt really matter. I am not a really serious gamer but have been playing Crysis lately on a 24" Samsung 245B+ monitor and have not had any issues with picture quality or responce. The thing to note is that bigger monitors have higher resolution and therefore require a more powerfull video card to drive them at full resultion with all the special effects settings turned up to full. |
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RnR wrote on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:25:44 -0600:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:53:12 -0500, Ben Myers wrote: BillW50 wrote: Bob Levine wrote on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:26:16 -0500: I've got a friend who's in the market for a new monitor. I don't game but so I'm not all that up on what's what in that area. Any recommendations in the 22" neighborhood? Thanks, Bob I wasn't aware that gaming required any fancy monitor. Just beefy video card, CPU, and RAM under some conditions. Am I wrong? Some LCD monitors have refresh rates too slow to keep up with hyper-fast games... Ben Myers Shucks Ben, you took the words right outa my mouth as I'm late to the thread but let me say you are correct based on what I've read a couple years ago. I was then in the market for a monitor and came across a lot of gamer recommendations then. I'm not up on the latest brands for gamers so I'll let someone else who is a gamer follow this post. Why do I see kids using XBox and Play Stations still using TV sets? Are not these games high quality games like the ones for PCs? Or are they totally different? I remember when I was young, we used Pong and Atari hooked up to our televisions. Later, we started to get games on the early PCs. I didn't keep up with the games, but I still use flight simulators. I never noticed any monitors making or breaking any games myself. I remember MS Flight Simulator III being the standard test for IBM-PC compatibility. And my old Sharp PC-4501 laptop with a monochrome LCD screen did play it well back in '88. Hooking up a CGA color monitor didn't change anything, except added color. -- Bill Asus EEE PC 8GB 1GB SoDIMM Adata 16GB Windows XP SP2 and Xandros Linux |
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