Need help with IPS...

[Mobilizer]

So I have no idea about IPS monitors. I have used LCD and now I want to upgrade to IPS. I am also getting a new PC build (first time) so I really have no clue if this supports IPS...

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($174.89 @ OutletPC) 

Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  ($79.89 @ OutletPC) 

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($43.89 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($63.89 @ OutletPC) 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($45.89 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation Video Card  ($219.99 @ Newegg) 

Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case  ($34.98 @ Directron) 

Power Supply: SeaSonic S12II 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply  ($53.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Total: $717.41

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-24 08:13 EDT-0400

 

Your help is very much appreciated.

[don_svetlio]

Any GPU supports IPS - just tick the box that says "IPS" in PCpart picker and get the cheapest one you like.

[Raccatography]

IPS is screen technology

LCD is the backlighting technology

 

IPS have good color output that comes with their price while TN (another screen technology) is generally cheaper and faster.

 

LCD backlighting is a bit old. Most monitors use LEDs because they run cooler and consume less electricity.

[ALwin]

IPS and TN panels are both LCD screens.  IPS and TN are just different technologies used by LCD displays.

[ZetZet]

IPS monitor is LCD too, just different type of LCD.

 

LCD is the backlighting technology

Nope, you are high my friend.

[ALwin]

LCD is the backlighting technology

LCD is a display technology, backlight is just a form of illumination used by LCD displays as liquid crystals do not emit light.

[don_svetlio]

IPS is screen technology

LCD is the backlighting technology

 

IPS have good color output that comes with their price while TN (another screen technology) is generally cheaper and faster.

 

LCD backlighting is a bit old. Most monitors use LEDs because they run cooler and consume less electricity.

Every current monitor is LCD friend.

[don_svetlio]

LCD is a display technology, backlight is just a form of illumination used by LCD displays as LCDs do not emit light.

if LCDs didn't emit light then it wouldn't function.

[ALwin]

if LCDs didn't emit light then it wouldn't function.

 

LCDs do not themselves emit light.  Look at the LCD displays on old calculators or wrist watches.  You can't see then in the dark without some sort of light shining on them.  That's why LCD monitors need backlight.  The liquid crystals in LCDs are able to modulate light, but cannot emit any.

[don_svetlio]

LCDs do not themselves emit light.  Look at the LCD displays on old calculators or wrist watches.  You can't see then in the dark without some sort of light shining on them.  That's why LCD monitors need backlight.

I'm talking the monitor as a whole, perhaps I didn't phase that correctly. I meant the crystals that alter the basic white light from the LEDs behind them.

[Raccatography]

oops, my bad haha

[Mobilizer]

Any GPU supports IPS - just tick the box that says "IPS" in PCpart picker and get the cheapest one you like.

Okay so I looked at GPU search options on PC Part Picker and couldn't find an IPS section. I checked the specs on Newegg about my GPU and also didn't see an "IPS supported" section. I am guessing this GPU does not support IPS?

[don_svetlio]

Okay so I looked at GPU search options and couldn't find an IPS section. I checked the specs on Newegg about my GPU and also didn't see an "IPS supported" section. I am guessing this GPU does not support IPS?

Any GPU supports IPS - a GPU that doesn't support it doesn't exist. Hence why it's not listed

[Mobilizer]

Any GPU supports IPS - a GPU that doesn't support it doesn't exist. Hence why it's not listed

Haha derp =p alright!

Thank you for the help!

[GoodBytes]

OK let me place a correction here:

LCD means Liquid Crystal Display. This is the core technology of a type of flat panel displays. Competing technologies are: OLED and Plasma.

All it means is that you have a 2 glass layers with a special liquid inside (crystal liquid) filling every sub pixels. They role is to filtering light intensity. So for max brightness, it turns in such a way that light that is being emitted by the back light grows throw in full, 50% brightness is partially turned to allow light to pass. To get color, you have a red green and blue light filter added in the front. It is a sandwich of glass.

Here is a nice more understandable video on how LCD panels works in general:

Now, IPS, is an LCD technology type that describe HOW the LCD liquid turns/works (actually, it is type of Active TFT LCD, because LCD is very broad. you have different types, like your digital watch or alarm clock, uses a LCD screen, but as you can see, it isn't like your computer monitor)

You have 3 main types: IPS, VA, and TN at the consumer market.

Each type except for TN, separates in many sub types.

VA you have: MVA, PVA, AMVA, P-MVA, S-MVA, and others.

IPS you have: S-IPS, E-IPS, eIPS, P-IPS, H-IPS, AH-IPS, AHVA (not to be confused as a VA panel), PLS, and others.

The many subgroups is mostly tweaks on the technology from different manufactures, and product generations. Unless you are looking for something very specific, to, it is mostly all the same. One might be 50-10% at something than the other, but 5-10% worst at something else.

Then you have the number of colors the panel can genuinely produce without tricks: 6-bit panels, and 8-bit panels.

6-bit panels are far cheaper, making the monitor nicely affordable. However, the monitor can only produce: 262,144 colors. To emulate all 16.7 millions colors that your system outputs, it uses tricks to emulate missing colors, like take 2 colors that it knows from a table, that if it switches between them really really fast, it will trick you in seeing the correct color. 8-bit panels can produce 16.7 millions colors natively, but costs more.

Nearly all TN panels are 6-bit panels. IPS and VA are mix. The price is usually an easy indicator on the number of colors it can produce.

Then you have the back light technology. These days you don't have much choice, it is mostly white LEDs. But the different choices are:

LED (also called: W-LED), CFLs, GB-LED, and RGB-LED.

Like anything in life, you have sucky ones and really good ones.

LED/W-LED is a row of white LEDs (perfect white LED doesn't really exists in the consumer market, the white light is cold white to light blue, depending on the grade. Can also be light yellow). Some manufacture uses a layer of phosphor or a certain color to adjust the light it outputs to get a nice white, but it diminished brightness. A new technology to adjust the color is coming to market called: Quantum dot. It is a special liquid in a glass plane that is put above the back light of the LCD panel at the inside of the monitor, which can take light in one color, and deviate it a bit to another. They use this technology to adjust the light the get the perfect white and not loose as much brightness as using Phosphor.

CFLs: The low grades ones are similar to the W-LEDs ones, and have a warm up time to reach max illumination. The high grades ones warm up time is really fast and turns on near max illumination to start with, making the intensity increase not really visible. The high-end ones can output a very nice white. Important for the best colors accuracy.

GB-LED: Perfect green and perfect blue LEDs put very very close together with a layer of red phosphor on top to get a white light. A more costly technology, but helps getting a nice true white.

RGB-LED: Super expensive. You have perfect red, green and blue LEDs put very very close together to emit a white light. Some fancy monitors (well those with this are already fancy to start with), can give you the ability to adjust the intensive of the red, green and blue light to control the back light color, to fine tune the white light it produces.

Lastly, if you pick LED technology as backlight for your IPS LCD panel, you need to look if the monitor back light driving system. Does it use PWM or Dimming circuit. We like to adjust our screen brightness to a setting level we like. They are 2 technologies to control the intensity of LEDs. PWM (Pulse Width Modulation), and an actual dimming circuit.

PWM flickers the LED light at a certain frequency (like a super fast strobe light) to show the desire light intensity. This technology is mostly used on more budget friendly monitors as it costs little to implement. They are also used in mobile devices as the circuit is very small and consumes less power than dimming circuit. It is also very cheap to implement. Some people have trouble seeing their screen because of this. Some can even get headaches or red eyes form prologue usage in a session. Those are called PWM sensitive. This is not a medical thing per se that you can get diagnose of, to my knowledge. The problem is that the freqiency rate is so fast that your mind blends it as a certain light intensity, but the brain knows it is doing this and might have 'processing issues' causing these side effects. Of course, you have other medical condition including simply dehydration to some level that can cause or worsen the problem. Some can sense the flicker after prologue usage, but don't have any side effect, they just feel it, but cant' put their finger on it.

Dimming circuit. Doesn't flicker. Cost more money to implement, consumes more power and takes more room. You can see them in mostly high-end consumer grade monitors.

Great choice for those few people that are PWM sensitive.