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Is 12ms response time good enough for a normal gamer?

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I bought a new dell S2240T touch screen monitor for Christmas. Its only later I realized it had 12ms response time. Is that good for gaming? I mostly play popular titles like CoD:Ghosts, BF4, Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed 4, Batman Arkham Origins, etc. Although I personally don't see any ghosting (except only in Jetpack Joyride after a while) I would like a general opinion.

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read this thread wrong I thought it was about Ping.

 

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12ms is still fine IMO you may get some ghosting issues but i doubt it. Not to mention the human response time is about 150ms

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A bit on the slow side for panels but it doesn't really matter too much

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Err, try playing your games on it. If you don't see any flaw in the way it looks, why bother asking us?

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Honestly it good be just as fast changing colours as your average monitor. 

Response times are terribly unstandardized in testing

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When LCDs were first starting to get popular in early 2000s the rule was anything below 16ms is acceptable for gaming. I don't see why that would change :)

I personally games on a 12ms monitor (Samsung 172X) back in the day and it was awesome - no ghosting or any blur whatsoever

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And.... avoid racing games.. Bf 4 aswell... everything else would be great , just take of gaussian and motion blur :')

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Response times is marketing BS for the most part so you'll be fine :)

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Mines an IPS monitor so my response time is 14ms. That's more than 10x faster than the blink of an eye, response times are just another thing they can use to charge you more. They dont matter.

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And.... avoid racing games.. Bf 4 aswell... everything else would be great , just take of gaussian and motion blur :')

Why? 12ms is plenty fast for everything. I couldn't tell a difference when I went from my 172X (12ms) to the E2240T (2ms) in any game.

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It will be fine. I played on 18ms racing games, FPS, MMO, MMORPG all that stuff. Works great.

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Too slow for me, but i don't know about you.

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Why? 12ms is plenty fast for everything. I couldn't tell a difference when I went from my 172X (12ms) to the E2240T (2ms) in any game.

 

Everyone is different, you can feel the input lag if the game is blurry

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Response time is irrelevant IMHO, it's mostly a marketing gimmick. I went from a TN panel to my ASUS PA248Q (IPS panel) and the IPS panel has less lag/ghosting.

None of the manufactures use the same test, so you can't compare it.

 

I think it's mostly the placebo effect. This panel has "1ms response time", therefore it performs better.

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It is ok. There is a lot of standards for response time like gray to gray, white to black, colour to colour,... Manufacturers usualy state the fastest one which is GTG but the others may be a lot slower. Which means that it is marketing brainwashing and people are like crazy because of mili secconds.

(My monitor is IPS with 3.4ms but I cant tell difference when gaming on my 10ms IPS TV).

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5ms is the sweetspot m8 :|   

do they even make panels with 12ms anymore? D:

Most of the biggersized higher resoltuion monitors have a higher response time e.g. 2560 x 1440 some of those have like upward to 15ms delay

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Most of the biggersized higher resoltuion monitors have a higher response time e.g. 2560 x 1440 some of those have like upward to 15ms delay

 

I understand. Thanks for the knowledge m8

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12 ms is fine, can people even react that fast? That's a VERY short amount of time guys. My Qnix runs at 8ms and I still do very well in counterstrike and battlefield. 

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Well if you already bought the monitor, having us tell you it is good or bad won't make you view things any differently. If the monitor looks good, keep it

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under/around 10 ms is preferable because of sample and hold blur but i don't think 12 ms will make a big difference as long as you're not looking for display blur

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