Murso24 wrote:will the Processor be good for gaming as well?
Everything there is good.. except that monitor.
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Murso24 wrote:will the Processor be good for gaming as well?
Murso24 wrote:Not really. That number is as meaningless as the MPG numbers that use various difference standards, or wattages of the different PSU manufacturers. I don't know about you, what if you have that super fast monitor but colour is so washed out due to crappy colour reproduction? It's going to affect your enjoyment too. Viewing angle is another problem with those fast+cheap TN panels. You are using a pretty big screen so there will be areas on the monitor that you don't view straight on, and colours will look weird from those angles.im not sure i know what that is..
but the response time is important for..pretty much everything..
as long as the native Contrast is at LEAST 1000:1 and the response time is at LEAST 5ms, with a high native resolution..im good.
any body wanna reccomend? feel free
Nitrodist wrote:Considering the typical LCD refreshes at 60Hz no, you're not going to see 120 fps.Can LCDs go past even 120 FPS?
Jigar2speed5095 wrote:crazybus wrote:Nitrodist wrote:Considering the typical LCD refreshes at 60Hz no, you're not going to see 120 fps.Can LCDs go past even 120 FPS?
LCD with 60HZ of refresh rate should give you 60 FPS max ...
BoBzeBuilder wrote:I'm not sure if your being serious or not. Usually my sarcasmometer works pretty good so I'll bite. To answer your question vertical sync is generally disabled for benchmarking purposes.Jigar2speed5095 wrote:crazybus wrote:Nitrodist wrote:Considering the typical LCD refreshes at 60Hz no, you're not going to see 120 fps.Can LCDs go past even 120 FPS?
LCD with 60HZ of refresh rate should give you 60 FPS max ...
Baloney. Then how come benchmarks show games running beyond 60 fps?
crazybus wrote:Nitrodist wrote:Considering the typical LCD refreshes at 60Hz no, you're not going to see 120 fps.Can LCDs go past even 120 FPS?
Voldenuit wrote:I'm interested in this too. What I've heard is that the LCD driver in most pc displays typically outputs at 60hz, no matter what the input frequency is, but I've no idea of the accuracy of that statement. Obviously with a 100/120hz LCD it's different, but those displays are made to work with 25/24hz input. Nevertheless, if your video card's output signal is at 60hz, the contents of a frame are not going to refresh more than 60 times per second, period.Actually, I've seen this 60 Hz figure quoted many times, but I'm not sure how true it is.
If a LCD can only refresh a bank of pixels every 1/60th of a second, how do review sites measure response times of less than 16 ms?
In addition, we have LCD TVs that are 100-120Hz.
At the risk of thread jacking, are there any reputable sources of information on this old saw?
crazybus wrote:Voldenuit wrote:I'm interested in this too. What I've heard is that the LCD driver in most pc displays typically outputs at 60hz, no matter what the input frequency is, but I've no idea of the accuracy of that statement. Obviously with a 100/120hz LCD it's different, but those displays are made to work with 25/24hz input. Nevertheless, if your video card's output signal is at 60hz, the contents of a frame are not going to refresh more than 60 times per second, period.Actually, I've seen this 60 Hz figure quoted many times, but I'm not sure how true it is.
If a LCD can only refresh a bank of pixels every 1/60th of a second, how do review sites measure response times of less than 16 ms?
In addition, we have LCD TVs that are 100-120Hz.
At the risk of thread jacking, are there any reputable sources of information on this old saw?
Voldenuit wrote:What Xbit Labs is measuring is the time it takes for a pixel to change state, i.e. the GtG response time. This value is really independent of the full frame refresh rate of the display. The display could theoretically be refreshing at 1hz, but the time a pixel takes to change state could still be in the millisecond range.Xbitlabs measures response time directly off the monitor using a photosensor. The monitor is connected to a regular Radeon 1650 card using dual-link DVI.
With their setup, they have measured response times as low as 1ms on lcd monitors.
This suggests that the monitor input over dvi is not technically limited to 60 Hz, nor is the output similarly constrained.
It's actually 165mhz, and its the same for dual-link. Nevertheless, what it means is that to refresh a 1920x1200 screen at 120hz would take the full bandwidth of dual-link dvi.The DVI standard allows for signal transmission at up to 185 MHz (iirc) for single link, and higher for dual link (of course, the sustained bandwidth needed to refresh a whole display means it can't hit that speed if it were refreshing the entire screen).
crazybus wrote:Voldenuit wrote:What Xbit Labs is measuring is the time it takes for a pixel to change state, i.e. the GtG response time. This value is really independent of the full frame refresh rate of the display. The display could theoretically be refreshing at 1hz, but the time a pixel takes to change state could still be in the millisecond range.Xbitlabs measures response time directly off the monitor using a photosensor. The monitor is connected to a regular Radeon 1650 card using dual-link DVI.
With their setup, they have measured response times as low as 1ms on lcd monitors.
This suggests that the monitor input over dvi is not technically limited to 60 Hz, nor is the output similarly constrained.
Murso24 wrote:what kind of performance should i expect on gaming, multitasking, and everyday use?
Murso24 wrote:my old specs are as follows
Pentium 4 2.8ghz single core
1gb 533mhz ram
ATI Radeon 9250
780gb 5400rpm hdd
to a Dell XPS:
Intel Core 2 Quad QX6800 OC'd to 3.20ghz
2gb 800mhz RAM
NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
320gb 7200rpm 16mb cache HDD
samsung 22in monitor (2ms response)
and i wanna play games like Supreme Commander, Medieval II: Total War, Crysis, Company of Heroes, basicly any game at maxed settings..and im looking to upgrade to 4gb of RAM.
i like to watch movies, while surfing the web, while performing a virus scan, while Instant Messenging 2 different people, all at the same time..
key is: id LIKE to..but cant with my current machine