[geeks] LCD display options

[Phil Stracchino]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:36 -0500, velociraptor wrote:
>>If you are planning on any gaming at all on these, pay attention to
>>pixel refresh rate and go for the lowest you can afford.  You will likely
>>have to search for that on-line; few of the boxes/signs on products in
>>stores have this listed in my experience.
> 
> Lowest pixel refresh rate?  Specified in units of frequency, I assume?
> I don't quite grok.  Or is this specified in units of time, so that you
> want the shortest time between refreshes?

Actually, on an LCD monitor it's expressed as response time, measured in 
milliseconds.  If you plan on doing anything involving rapid screen 
changes anything over 16ms is probably bad; at 16ms, the screen will lag 
behind your graphics card at any refresh rate over 60Hz.  At 25ms, the 
graphics card will start to leave the screen behind at anything over 
40Hz.  You probably won't see anything with a response time under about 
11ms, but 11ms means the monitor will keep pace with up to about a 90Hz 
refresh rate, which is pretty decent.

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