Greg McFadden
Key Veteran
Location: Spokane Valley, WA
| the flicker is only a problem if you can actually see it (I can, some people can't, personal preference thing). there are some flat pannels that are good for games but they are expensive, and you have to look at the pixel response time (or whatever the MFG is calling it this week) mine is 25ms which corresponds to 40 Hz effectively, and while it plays movies great there is ghosting on fast first person shooters (but since i use it primarily for design work and analysis and class, that is not a problem). and since you don't get the flicker off the LCD's like you do off of the CRT's(or the hernia from carting the CRT up stairs). but if you want a real refresh rate of 60Hz (which is perfectly acceptable and excellent on LCD's, that correlates to a 16-17ms pixel response time. (which jacks up the price of the LCD a bit).
for example, two similar LCD's one with 16ms, the other with 25 and the last with a terrible 30
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produ...ductCode=233216
and
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produ...ductCode=233218
and
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produ...ductCode=233831
but anyways, enough with that. (note that those refresh rates are not what your video card puts out but what the pixels can physically change from one end of the color spectra to the other) |
