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On 4/2/2006 5:41 AM McGrandpa brightened our day with:
> "John" <address@server.com> wrote in message 
> news:2ViWf.63710$9I5.16923@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com...
>   
>> Hey all!
>>
>> I'm looking to get myself an LCD monitor, at least 19", as well as a new 
>> vidcard that supports DVI (prolly some BFG NVidia).
>>
>> Are there any LCDs that are better than others when it comes to games like 
>> Quake, CS, etc.?
>>
>> What particular specs should I be looking for?  (such as: pitch, contrast 
>> ratio, resp. time, etc.)
>>
>>     
>
> In the end, it will be a choice made from what YOU like in what you are 
> seeing ON it.   I have a pair of Samsung Syncmaster 930B monitors running on 
> this rig right now.  They are both on the DVI ports of one of my 2 
> 7800GTX's.  One is six months older than the other.  The picture is slightly 
> different between them.
> What I saw and wanted when I got one:
> High contrast and bright level.  There are better ones today for the same 
> money.
>   Look for the depth of blackness, that is important too.  Look for it being 
> 8 bits per pixel rather than 6 as these are.  That really shows up in the 
> smoothness of dark areas.  Speed, 16 ms response time or less, for gaming 
> and movie watching.   slower response times give you ghosting or motion 
> blur.  there are a LOT of good ones to choose from, in many brands.  And for 
> a gamer, look for the higher resolution.  Greater than 1280x1024.
> Enjoy hunting!
> McG. 
>
>
>   
I never really thought about that "depth of blackness" part.  That's one 
thing on my Sony LCD, playing a dark game like Doom 3, sometimes it 
looked a little off.  There's wasn't a real dark black, the absence of 
color was more a deep gray.

How you enjoying Oblivion McG?  I could never get into Morrowind, but I 
spent close to 4 hours making my way to Kvatch today.

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