Monitor Help

[haztronic 1]

Hi everyone,

I'm considering buying a new monitor because right now I have a slightly outdated one. I've found one that looks promising, its an Asus 27" with a built in camera which is good for skyping family and it says it has a 2ms response time.....my question is, i've seen other monitors saying things like 3ms response time and even 8ms, is the quality better as it increases or worse? Bearing in mind the monitor will be for FSX use.

 

What are your suggestions for a new monitor. My budget is around $350 and I'd like up to 27"

[Clutch Cargo 388]

I have three 27" Asus VE278 LCD (with LED backlit) that I have been very happy with. I think mine has a 3ms response time. The smaller the number the better (I was looking for nothing over 5ms) as I believe it has to do with ghosting if you are watching scenes that have a lot of action. That is how quickly it will respond to changes in color. I think some marketing is only show response time from gray-to-gray as opposed to gray-to-color but this is all going over my head. Any experts please fill free to jump in.

 

All I know is they are good. Couple of pointers -

 

1. If you are running 1080p and have the display say closer than 2 feet you may see the individual pixels which at first was a pain to adjust for me. I am no used to it and it all pretty much blends together now for me.

 

2. You could go to a higher resolution display for greater pixels/more detail but they are costly and because I was going Nvidia Surround I did not want to put on additional stress on the GPUs for this. But running one display I would think would be fine if you have a good card.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Clutch

[haztronic 1]

I have a GTX 580 so hopefully that's good enough.

[Ben Cap 89]

The lower the response time, the better. That GTX580 will run well with your 27 inch display. :smile: