Response time of IPS panels

Alexander_Howard · March 30, 2019

Hello, I have a simple question(s), I am not sure if this was asked before.

I'm choosing a new monitor and I'm inclined to buy an inexpensive 170$ Full HD AH-IPS 23" ViewSonic VX2363SMHL, because it has the lowest response time of 2 ms grey-to-grey of the monitors with IPS panels that I've found. I want to buy an all-rounder, that is going to be good for games, movies, photo-editing, reading texts and entertainment, basically for the general use, for a reasonable price. Viewsonic has used overdrive to achieve 2 ms GTG response time with this monitor and there are other similar monitors from other vendors with response times like 4-6 ms, but I'm not sure if they have overdrive enabled by manufacturers. My questions are: will I be able to achieve 2 ms response time on other similar monitors with default response times like 4-6 ms if I enable overdrive on them through their on screen displays, if they have it disabled? Is it worth it to buy 2 ms IPS panel with overdrive forever enabled and can't be turned off in the on-screen-display or I should go for a 4 ms GTG IPS panel? Is it just the overdrive that makes ViewSonic VX2363SMHL react faster than others(or may be the overdrive taken to an extreme), but the IPS panels and the response times in all these similarly priced cheap monitors are essentially very similar?

What would you choose 23" ViewSonic VX2363SMHL or 23" Iiyama XU2390HS-B1? Or may be 27" IIYAMA X2783HSU-B3 with A-MVA+ panel or 23.6" IIYAMA X2481HS-B1 with S-MVA?