I'm thinking of swapping out my ssd for a monitor in my current build. But how do i pick out a monitor for gaming? Ive spent months and months looking at my pc components and apparently my monitor isnt very good.
Is 200 bucks about what i should look to spend on a decent monitor or could i get a smaller monitor for less? I'm trying to keep my entire build cost around 1000 dollars. If i swapped out just the SSd that would leave around 110 is that unrealistic to shoot for?
Actually how is this monitor? http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=38845&vpn=VH236H&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1285 I actually had it picked out on pcpartpicker based on the large number of good reviews. And depending on how my wife and how prices are at the time its only around 100 bucks over budget so around 1100 instead of 1000. And if she does mind the ssd i had picked out was 92 bucks so could just drop that out.
First start by choosing you prefered gaming resolution. If you comp can run all games at the settings you like at 1080, then look for a resoultion of 1920 x 1080 or 1920 x 1200. That latter is more uncommon. Then like at the size. In the world of computer gaming and stuff bigger is not always better. Compare how far you are going to be sitting from the screen when you are at your computer. If it's under 2.5 ft, I say you should lean towards something around 24 inches max size. Now after that, you want to look at refresh rate. A lot of people blow this off, but the difference can be sceen. If you are gaming, 60hz should be just fine. If you are gaming, 3D rendering, and want the best out of HD and 3D movies I say go with a 120hz. 240hz is the best, but thoses tend to be way overpriced. After all that is when you can worry about response time. 5ms is what is used by most gaming competions, but 2ms is the sweet spot. Like how 60fps is the sweet spot for games. And then you can compare features like speakers, inputs, and all that stuff.
For gaming you're usually going to want to get the lowest response time possible. That means 5ms and below. I would suggest going with a 1920x1080 LED monitor between 23 and 24 inches with a response time of 2ms.
Yes, that. That is a good recommendation. Kudos! I personally don't recommend people to worry about LCD vs LED, for LEDs will almost be more for the same over LCD. They do look better, but a good LCD is still amazing looking. It's like comparing Intel i5s to AMD 2nd gen FX CPUs.
I've been considering a korean panel. I really want a nice thunderbolt display, or the Dell ultrasharp, but a couple of my friends went with cheap Korean moniters and they looks STELLAR. I'm unemployed right now, so I can't do it, but once I start making money I'm, going to grab 3 27" Korean panels. There is risk involved though.
Tested has an article http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/449537-korean-monitor-guide/
How about this monitor?http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236059&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
You need at least 2 ms? No no no, 2ms doesn't even translate to the pixel change speed and 120hz only needs 8ms. Anything under 8 won't have problems at 60fps.
"Most 2ms monitor use a technology called RTA which fakes the response time and produces undesirable graphical defects in order to cheat in the aforementioned test. These LCD screen usually achieve 5ms when RTA is turned off."
I personally think color reproduction and viewing angles far outweigh the "drawback" of 7ms.
I'm personally getting a Nixeus Vue 27. It should be getting here sometime next week, so I might put up a review about it. It has a response time of 6ms. I really don't think he's looking for a $500 monitor though. Not to mention that you probably shouldn't be running a monitor with a 2560x1440 resolution unless you're running two high end graphics cards with a good amount of video ram.
The ASUS monitor he looked up should work great. I would personally recommend this one though: