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ReverseFluxx · 07-21-2006, 06:11 PM

Well, when I was shopping for my LCD, the main thing I looked for was response time. This determines how quickly the monitor displays things. It's especially important with gaming and watching videos. If you do either of these things, make sure and look for a monitor with a 12ms or less response time. Other features you could consider for your purchase are brightness and dot pitch, but most monitors nowadays have good enough specifications that you shouldn't have to worry about this too much.

Also, ordering online would be fine. A lot of the stores I've seen display their monitors with a really crappy video feed, which doesn't make any sense to me. I got my LCD without seeing it in person and I wasn't disappointed.

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ReverseFluxx Silver Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Nebraska Age: 20 Posts: 125	Well, when I was shopping for my LCD, the main thing I looked for was response time. This determines how quickly the monitor displays things. It's especially important with gaming and watching videos. If you do either of these things, make sure and look for a monitor with a 12ms or less response time. Other features you could consider for your purchase are brightness and dot pitch, but most monitors nowadays have good enough specifications that you shouldn't have to worry about this too much. Also, ordering online would be fine. A lot of the stores I've seen display their monitors with a really crappy video feed, which doesn't make any sense to me. I got my LCD without seeing it in person and I wasn't disappointed. __________________ Gaming: Athlon64 3500+, 1024MB RAM, PCI-e 6600GT, 200+400GB HDD, 19" LCD + 19" flat CRT, Windows XP Pro Test Server: PIII 450Mhz, 320MB RAM, TNT2 32MB, 12+10+8GB HDD, Windows 2000 Pro Notebook: Turion64 ML-40, 1024MB RAM, ATI XPRESS 200M, 100GB HDD, 17" WXGA, Fedora Core 5 64-bit, Windows XP Pro