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big screens high resolution color's so real you'll never want to leave your

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room there are plenty of ways that stores will try to sell you a monitor

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but there's one key spec that you might not hear much about which is response

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time which can make a difference when there's some kind of fast action

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happening on the screen oh so you're talking about that thing where there's a

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delay between pressing a key and clicking a mouse or whatever and then

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having it display on the screen right actually no that's called input lag

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which is also important since too much input lag can leave you frustrated at

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best or lying in a pool of virtual blood at worst because you couldn't react

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quickly enough to an opponent response time however is less about how your

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monitor will eventually display inputs from your peripherals after a delay and

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more about the individual pixels themselves it's a measure of how quickly

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a pixel can display a change from black to white or from one shade of gray to

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another different shades of gray represent how intense any given color

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will appear on your monitor through a filter the darker the gray the less

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light will pass through said color filter and hit your eyes which is why

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you don't hear people talking about red to blue response times or anything like

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that response times are usually given in milliseconds since one frame on a

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standard 60hz monitor stays on your screen for just under 17 milliseconds

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the pixels themselves need to transition more quickly than that so they can

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display the next frame on time but just because a monitor has a response time

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under 17 milliseconds doesn't mean that it's just as good as anything else

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longer response times often result in ghosting which means you can see the

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remains of trails from a moving object on the screen because pixels took too

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long to switch between shades of grey this might not be a huge deal if you

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just use your computer as a facebook machine but if you're a gamer or like to

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watch movies with fast action poor response times can cause really

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distracting visual artifacts so how do you know what's actually good when

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looking to buy a monitor checking out their specs and whatnot people have

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different opinions on what the maximum response time should be if you're gaming

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while some people claim that they can't notice any ghosting on anything below 8

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milliseconds there's other people like competitive gamers who swear by super

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quick screens with response times of only one or two milliseconds typically

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tn panels can be engineered to be quicker than their ips counterparts so

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you'll often see higher end tn displays marketed as being for gamers but

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remember that you'll also lose color accuracy and viewing angles but hold on

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take whatever the manufacturer puts on the spec sheen with a huge grain of salt

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there isn't a standardized way for these companies to measure response times so

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you might be seeing a cherry picked measurement for how long it takes for a

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pixel to switch between two similar shades of grey and end up disappointed

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with the actual performance once you hook it up

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fortunately this is a situation where a little research can go a long way there

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are websites that have independently conducted measurements of response times

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as well as input lag times so you can have more apples to apples comparison

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when you're shopping and remember to check reviews from a trusted source as

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well even if a monitor says that it has lightning quick response time of one to

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two milliseconds many people complaining about ghosting could be a clue that

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what's on the spec sheet isn't all that accurate so pay attention the next time

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you've been marketed for a new display even the biggest highest resolution

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screen you can get your paws on will be very disappointing if it makes

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everything look like a giant ice cream smear

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