Monitor choices

Gazgul

Gazgul

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firstly my gaming pc is as follows:

(its not built yet but i ordered the parts and its my 1st PC)

i7 3820 @ 3.6Ghz
GTX 680 2GB
8GB Elite Gaming RAM

That the basics. My question is since the graphics card is pretty good, would it be worth getting a 120hz monitor? Is the a noticeably difference for the money between a 60hz and 120hz.

If so could you recommend a good model for gaming, (image quality is important, and response time can be something stupidly high since its for shooter games etc).

Thanks guys. Also this is my 1st post so maybe be a little easy on SOME tech language. :confused:
 
ever since i got my 23" samsung id never look anywhere else, easily the best monitor i owned. i had various other makes for years.

thing to watch out with response times is if it states black-white-black or grey-grey

i wont go into details and im not going to pretend i know a huge deal but i do know some manufactuers try to hide the real spec of the monitor by stating the grey-grey time rather than the black-white-black time.

basically black-white-black is the true reading

"For an LCD display, typical response times are 8 to 16 ms for black-white-black, or 2 to 6ms for grey-to-grey. The response time was traditionally recorded at the full black > white transition, which became the ISO standard for this specification on LCDs. Grey transitions are far more common in practice but in terms of pixel latency, they remained significantly behind the ISO transition"
 
Hi there,

Considering your uses (FPS games) then I would suggest you have a look at the 120Hz TN panel monitors. The IPS monitors do generally look a bit nicer when things are slow with their wide viewing angles and accurate colours - however, when you are moving the image a lot then there really isn't a substitute for a responsive 120Hz monitor, since there is less visable ghosting and the 120Hz refresh rate makes the motion seem smoother.

Personally, I would recommend this benq xl2420t - it is a nice 120hz monitor and gets some great reviews (here and here). Though if you want to spend less then this 23in 120hz samsung does look good.

also, if your system is mainly for gaming then i would strongly recommend you either cancel or send back the i7 3820 + x79 parts. i say this because they are rather expensive and offer no performance advantage in games over an i5 2500k and a z77 board like this (here and here are some gaming performance comparison at stock speeds). Also, the next generation of LGA1155 CPUs are coming out next week (called Ivy Bridge) - so the new CPU to have for gaming will be the i5 3570K.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Hi there,

Considering your uses (FPS games) then I would suggest you have a look at the 120Hz TN panel monitors. The IPS monitors do generally look a bit nicer when things are slow with their wide viewing angles and accurate colours - however, when you are moving the image a lot then there really isn't a substitute for a responsive 120Hz monitor, since there is less visable ghosting and the 120Hz refresh rate makes the motion seem smoother.

Personally, I would recommend this benq xl2420t - it is a nice 120hz monitor and gets some great reviews (here and here). Though if you want to spend less then this 23in 120hz samsung does look good.

also, if your system is mainly for gaming then i would strongly recommend you either cancel or send back the i7 3820 + x79 parts. i say this because they are rather expensive and offer no performance advantage in games over an i5 2500k and a z77 board like this (here and here are some gaming performance comparison at stock speeds). Also, the next generation of LGA1155 CPUs are coming out next week (called Ivy Bridge) - so the new CPU to have for gaming will be the i5 3570K.
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thanks for the info, how much money do you think i would save by going the i5 route.

also thanks for the monitors ill look into those.
 
It really depends on which motherboard you have gone for, but assuming you have gone for the cheapest X79 board on OCUK (which is £168) then in total you would save £122 by going for the i5 2500K and the Z77 board I mentioned.
 
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