Response Time how important is it?

[Aimessan]

how important is Response Time for a monitor that will be used for gaming. im shopping for a new monitor and 1-2 ms sounds good but how good is it. any advice will be appreciated.   

[tek inpektor]

Are you MLG? If not, it won't really matter much if it's below 10ms

[Aimessan]

ok cool thank you

[Jobobee]

Bah, almost anything will be fine. If you can tell the difference between 1 and 5ms response, they that's impressive. Just stay in reasonable figures.

[WoodenMarker]

Most modern displays have pretty low response time.

As for 1-2ms displays--few actually exist. The GTG response time is irrelevant since there are little to no standards to how they should actually be measured. BTB or WTW response times are what matter and they are usually not included in the spec sheet. 

[x Relentless Xx]

how important is Response Time for a monitor that will be used for gaming. im shopping for a new monitor and 1-2 ms sounds good but how good is it. any advice will be appreciated.   

Response time is the time it takes one pixel to switch from one color value to the next and back again, hence the name "GTG" or "Gray to Gray". So in certain situations, it can be important.

[Fred Castellum]

Most modern displays have pretty low response time.

As for 1-2ms displays--few actually exist. The GTG response time is irrelevant since there are little to no standards to how they should actually be measured. BTB or WTW response times are what matter and they are usually not included in the spec sheet.

Exactly... I'm glad to see people who know this. GTG isn't a good measurement method for those who are looking for low ms monitors.

[BrightCandle]

It really varies from monitor to monitor. A really good monitor will do all processing and pixel switching in about 3ms. That still means your total latency is about 40ms end to end at 60 fps (well within perception) but at 120fps it starts to get mighty close to the 20ms ideal if you the game complies with low latency techniques. A less optimal monitor, such as most IPS or basically not TN will be more like 20ms peak and about 14ms average. Now that 40ms looks more like 60ms and that is a significant increase, and well within the human perception range for these sorts of things. You can't really tell a few ms apart but 20ms is definitely noticeable.

 

For FPS games I notice the difference, I strongly prefer 144hz now I have it and I appreciate the low latency gaming mode as well. But you have to frame that in context, I won a European Championship in COD (on PC) and have played competition level Counter Strike. I might not be playing pro anymore but I really notice these things as well as the quality of my mouse sensor and such. I can't really tell you if average joe will notice, I can only tell you I can.

[ErickS89]

Personally I'd rather have excellent color, detail, and viewing angles than fast response times.  I can tell a differense between IPS and TN panels in refresh rates but it doesn't reflect the game that much, it's certainly not going to get me killed in a game. 

I've settled on LGs upcoming 21:9 monitor that's released next month because it's, great color, and also small bezel which is important as I'll be running 5 of them in eyefinity at the end of the year (because it's $1,000 a pop) just in time before christmas!

[Karmasaur]

Personally I'd rather have excellent color, detail, and viewing angles than fast response times.  I can tell a differense between IPS and TN panels in refresh rates but it doesn't reflect the game that much, it's certainly not going to get me killed in a game. 

I've settled on LGs upcoming 21:9 monitor that's released next month because it's, great color, and also small bezel which is important as I'll be running 5 of them in eyefinity at the end of the year (because it's $1,000 a pop) just in time before christmas!

Five? thats going to look kind of weird isnt it? How are you going to do that? Four in a grid and one on the desk for browsing?

and by the way... holy shit thats a lot of horsepower to drive those, unless you are playing Minesweeper or something. I would love to hear what the project is. :-) Im looking at the same monitor, gearing up for Star Citizen, but im still learning about the various drawbacks.

[xyza]

Coming from my old Alienware/Dell 120hz monitor to this dell u2713h I can definitely see the lag, it bothered me at first but I just got used to it. 

[Ashratt]

Are you MLG? If not, it won't really matter much if it's below 10ms

^ this; since you have sample and hold blur on LCDs no matter if 1 or 8 ms response time anything below 10ms is good enough imho; i would trade better colors or/and blacks for a few ms response time every time

[ErickS89]

Five? thats going to look kind of weird isnt it? How are you going to do that? Four in a grid and one on the desk for browsing?

and by the way... holy shit thats a lot of horsepower to drive those, unless you are playing Minesweeper or something. I would love to hear what the project is. :-) Im looking at the same monitor, gearing up for Star Citizen, but im still learning about the various drawbacks.

This is what I want to do.