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hi wonder if i could pick someones brains ive seen a nice lcd tv / monitor im thinking of buying to use as a tv and a monitor the response times are 25ms will this be ok for playin on pc games/xbox etc are am i better looking elsewhere many thanks :p

The mags I read reckon that anything above 16ms response time for games is crap. However, I have a 15inch TFT with a 21ms response time and don`t notice any ghosting of the image at all. It`s excellent for Far Cry ;)

Obviously the faster the response time, the better. I think the reviewers just jump on the fact that 16ms is currently as fast as it gets and is therefore the best.

Your best bet is to try and have a demo of the monitor you want and watch it running a graphics intensive benchmark, or better still play a game on it!

Remember, the bigger the monitor the more noticeable the ghosting will be.

My monitor is a 17" with 25ms response time connected via DVI input, i play a lot of FPS games and don`t notice any ghosting but if you look real hard and are looking out for it i can just about notice a tiny little bit, i read a lot of reviews at the time on various monitiors and although some of them had the same response time there was a big difference in the amount of visible ghosting so it does make a difference what brand you buy, the response times on new monitors has dropped since i got mine to about 16ms or lower so i would look out for that

This item was edited on Thursday, 15th April 2004, 19:41

thanks for the advice ive cecided to go for the neoview 18.1 tft on dabs for "£325 gone for the tuner and remote too extra £25 notes 8)