so we were in the middle of trying to film something where we showed off the
uh benchmarks that we ran for Far Cry 3 where we had a gForce versus Radon
Showdown hold on no you're going the wrong way when we were using this
monitor to showcase the graphs and I was like slick uh you got to you got to use
like a a more um a more obvious like a darker blue on the graphs because you
can't really see it on the monitor so here this is the angle that I was
looking at it from I was like yeah these aren't going to show how are we going to show people what the graphs look like
and then I got down to I level with it
and I was like oh okay that is a
perfectly acceptable blue so the issue appears to be the TN panel having such
horrendous uh viewing angles that it was
pretty much unusable so just for lws we took an IPS panel this is a pro art
monitor so for contrast this is a 120 HZ
TN which is about the worst case scenario for a TN in terms of color
accuracy and viewing angles because of the way that they have to overclock the
panels in order to get them to respond so quickly and then this is a color
calibrated 60 HZ IPS which is pretty
much the other end of the spectrum so would love to get some different angles
on here so slick come on over here and get them from sort of the side so you
can see that what is supposed to be down
down down what is supposed to be blue
actually appears to be brown and
um and uh yeah I mean the difference is
so is so Stark even going from sort of
like a viewing spot of about here to about here that that there's a
noticeable noticeable difference if you're not looking exactly straight on
with the uh with the TN panel so you know guys if you don't believe what I
say about how TN panels are for color
reproduction as well as viewing angle just so inferior to their to their PLS
uh IPS and VA counterparts hopefully
this is a bit of an illustration for you of what would be a worst case scenario
so what is a TN panel like this good for
couple things number one is 3D you cannot run 3D unless you can get 120 HZ
uh refresh rates and unless you have a fast enough response time to prevent any
motion blur or not motion blur well motion blur as well cuz that can wreak
havoc on 3D gaming um as well as cross
talk between the left and right stereo images so you have to have a super fast
panel the other thing that a fast panel is good for is 2D well okay 3D gaming
but not stereo 3D gaming where you need
that you need that responsiveness from the monitor you want to have that extra
Edge compared to someone else who's using a 60 HZ monitor because it will
actually show you the image faster so if you're playing twitch games where you
need every last millisecond then this would be useful and if you're running in
Stereo 3D then this would be useful otherwise do yourself a big huge favor
and get an IPS vaa or PLS panel because
I think you guys have seen what the contrast between these Technologies
looks like again a very extreme sort of version of it thanks for watching lus
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