what makes a monitor good for gaming well for one thing it needs to plug into
a device that runs video games whether it's a PC a console or a kitchen
appliance so let's kick things off with inputs most gaming monitors these days
will have DVI DisplayPort and HDMI or some combination of the three if you're
gaming on a PC and you want to keep things simple pick either of the first
two with confidence and go about your business although HDMI will work fine
too as long as you don't need to run at a resolution over 1080P or a refresh
rate over 60 HZ HDMI 2.0 is coming soon to address these shortcomings but in the
meantime don't worry because those HDMI connections might still come in handy
you can use them for a secondary gaming device like a console and switch between
your gaming devices with the push of a button convenient eh so that's tip
number one look for a monitor that has the inputs you need speaking of inputs
size matters but not for the reason that many people think it does a larger
monitor just puts a bigger image in front of your face and isn't any more
difficult for your graphics card to power so pick a monitor that will be a
comfortable size for the distance you want to sit from it the spec that
determines how hard it is to drive is actually the resolution a 24in 4k
monitor will be about four times more difficult to drive than even an 80in
1080p full HD TV because of all them
pixels higher resolution displays do deliver better more retinal likee
Clarity so this isn't a problem per se it's just something that you need to
factor into your overall all upgrade budget but with the basics out of the
way it's time to get into the more advanced stuff what makes a monitor
great for gaming compared to another one personally I like to see great color
reproduction and I'm willing to trade some of these things I'm about to talk
about for that but that won't be true for everyone and color accuracy doesn't
give you a Competitive Edge this stuff does first up is the response time
pixels or dots on LCD monitors don't work the same way as Old Tube style CRT
monitors and when the image updates they actually gradually shift from one color
to another the slower the pixels of your monitor the more motion blur or ugly
streaking that you'll see behind moving objects on screen this is undesirable
look for a monitor with grer grade response times under 8 to 16
milliseconds for casual reuse or around 1 to 2 milliseconds for competitive use
next the refresh rate of a panel expressed in Herz refers to the number
of times an image is sent into the display every second Ben Q has a great
graphic that illustrates the benefit of this but I think it should be pretty self-explanatory if your eyes are
getting more updates per second you're getting information slightly faster than
your competitor it's a definite advantage and very fast monitors today
can run it up to 144 HZ at 1080p that
means you stand to get every frame up to 10 milliseconds sooner than a fellow
combatant using a 60 HZ display next up is a spec that manufacturers don't
report but that's easily as important as the others input leg or display leg your
PC output's a signal sure but there are Electronics inside your monitor that
need to translate that signal into something that the panel can understand
this processing introduces a delay that means you can be seeing an individual
frame anywhere from a few milliseconds later than it was output by your video
card all the way up to 50 milliseconds later or more for competitive use look
for a display with input leg under 10 MCS but don't take the manufacturer's
word for input leg specs or any of this stuff LCD makers are notorious for just
inventing completely meaningless specifications that suit their marketing
purposes and nothing else so be sure to check out sites like blur Busters to get
the skinny on the latest gaming displays and that's just still kind of the basics
other features like 3D Vision for stereoscopic gaming wider more cinematic
aspect ratios low assistance modes with backlight strobing and finally g-sync or
active sync modes to let your graphics card tell the display when to update can
all have a dramatic impact on your experience so with that said it's
possible that this guide actually raised more questions than it answered for you
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