New Monitor

[xinoxide]

Im actually looking into getting a new monitor for gaming, i dont really want to use an LCD considering i can feel the added latency to my mousing, and i love high refresh rates.

The only problem with my current monitor is the frame fadeouts, on a black screen it takes about 20-30 frames for my mouse cursor to fade all the way out.

I was wondering if anyone would know a good 21"+ CRT that i can 1024x768@100hz with, and not have the fading problem, and if not, whats the best LCD i should look into?

[aKho]

i'm not sure about CRT's....but DELL LCD's is the absolute best! imo..

[Chai]

I'm not sure if I'm going to recommend Dell monitors. Many people has complained about the color banding issue, even mine has it, but I can live with it. But colors are vibrant, much better than other LCD monitors I've used, including notebook LCDs.

Refresh rate is not a problem for LCD anymore. So I'm pretty satisfied with Dell, high res, good colours, great price.

[xinoxide]

well i have a couple friends with some of the newer widescreen dell LCD's, and ive played games on their systems, and i really dont like the delays, even though its not a big delay it still annoys the crap out of me :\

[Chai]

Delay? Are you talking about ghosting?

[xinoxide]

im talking about system to pixel latency

[Chai]

I never knew there's pixel latency. What monitor are you using?

[xinoxide]

right now an IBM p202, 21" sony trnintron. its got no system to pixel latency, but a bad "ghosting" effect as i said in the first post it takes like 20-30 frames for my cursor to fade out all the way, from white to black noticable in games and such about 2-5 frames D: makes a quickscope in CS harder to manage. if an LCD didnt ghost at all, im sure a system to pixel latency wouldnt be too much of a bother. and i could understand the idea of there being no perfect monitors out there D:

[Chai]

I'm actually refering to the LCD monitor that you were comparing with. I've seen a lot of hardcore gamers complaining about the ghosting, but never the pixel latency that you were talking about. But judging from your 15", I'm pretty sure they are fairly old. I think technology has improved a lot since then.

[xinoxide]

quite possible that it was an older LCD. i eman supposedly LCD's are digitalo and hooking one up vga must mean some kind of analog to digital conversion? or vice versa depending.
i want the perfect monitor though. no delay no ghosting large res, speedy updating, bright picture. the only problems with what i have now are heat, and ghosting, it gets really annoying, especially when its fades from bright ro dark, like when i played doom3, to an extent it looked cool, like motion blurring. but playing online, it just messed up my gaming.