A good TFT for gaming?

[scottyman]

Of course, the fun part of an expedition is actually finding the monitors themselves - lord knows I've spent enough time hunting for one... ditto with new cases.

[Allen]

Yeah, it seems that most high street stores don't hold the decent stuff, so how are you supposed to go out and look at them? Unless of course you're lucky enough to live round the corner from OcUK or KustomPC's or somewhere like that...

Oh, and London is a piece of crap too. I spent ages looking around Tottenham Court Road and they have nothing at decent prices and not really any decent stuff...

[directhex]

pc world stock hercules & iiyama on display - but they use an old p3-500 machine to run an 800x600 demo, jerkilly, so really all you'll see is an idea of how they look physically.

[scottyman]

tsst! burn them! burn them all!
went into pc world on tottenham ct. road where I had much fun abusing the sales staff last week, but couldn't be bothered looking at monitors. assumed they had no good ones... will have to go back and take a look again.

[Rexoar]

thx for the help guys. I was a little insure before but after your answers i'll get a tft for sure

[oshta]

I know there are a lot of people slaging off TFTs, but i bough a 17" HYUNDAI Q17S for £284.95 - And despite the warnings of ghosting, blur, dead pixels etc - have played hours of UT it realy ist that bad, i can notice and problems, and certainly for any other uses (ie surfing the net etc) its far less stressfull on the eye, and as a bonus, u get a desktop that looks like this!!

[Rod911]

Beware my 7250!!

After buying a Mitsubishi DV175, my desktop looks as follows:

Haven't noticed any ghosting at all. Very bright screen and does dark areas well. If you want colour accuracy (ie. heavy Photoshop user), this monitor does not produce true 32-bit colour. More like 16-bit+dithering. If you look hard enough, you will notice this.

[FunkyT]

puh. I'm not rich, not trying to show off and have plenty of space, but still went for a tft (granted i'm at uni so a tft helps, but...)

most tfts will give you dual input - so i have 2 pcs connected without the need for a kvm

mine is quoted as 20ms, and it doesn't EVER ghost.

have any of you crt types actually used a tft for reading from? eye strain is entirely non existant

stability, sharpness - far better than any crt i've seen.

if you have the money for a 17'' + lcd, get one. pretty soon you'll be wanting another, and i can tell you - 2 lcds will be SO much nicer to work with than 2 crts or a combination. the bezel on my lcd is less than 3/4''!

dgr

Which TFT do you have dude?

[Scrumpyjack]

Hercules prophetview

[Gordy]

hercules 920pro dvi rocks

[Scrumpyjack]

Yahoo does too

[Lee H]

Iiyama 431S gets my vote on the TFT front

Although I still prefer CRT for gaming, its down to personal preference in the end.

Lee

[Howard]

Played UT2003 on a posh Dell 21" TFT and it's nasty. CRTs are way ahead of TFTs at the moment in terms of everything except the fact that they look like ass compared to TFTs

[dgr]

Which TFT do you have dude?

a dell branded lg 1810B

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/?http://www.p...y.php?id=34267



dgr

[dgr]

Played UT2003 on a posh Dell 21" TFT and it's nasty. CRTs are way ahead of TFTs at the moment in terms of everything except the fact that they look like ass compared to TFTs

don't take this at face value.

OF COURSE a 21'' LCD will be crap for games - its latency will be HUGE - i would expect 30ms PLUS.

but on an 18'' lcd with <25ms response, it will look far better than any crap that your crt puts out.

dgr

[directhex]

dgr wins \o/