Samsung 305T 30" bad for gaming?

Retard

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I was wanting to purchase a 305T 30" for gaming. A link at newegg of it is here.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16824001098


However, some of the reviews there say it is "bad for gaming" and that it is slow. How could that be? Its response rate is 5 or 6ms, better than all of the other 30" monitors that I am aware of. As long as the video card was sufficient to push it wouldn't it be just as good as, for example, a 21" monitor with the same refresh rate?

Thanks.

 

swtethan

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Youre going to need SLI GTX's to game on that :p

probably the reason why its bad to game on cause at its default resolution, objects on screen are probably ---> . <--- this big.


I heard people love the westinghouse 37" 1080P LCD that you could buy for like... $800, sure its not pushing 2560x1600, but you save a lot of $$$ and get a bigger screen (but less real estate.

 

speckedhoncho

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Now I have a 26" LCD HDTV; but to top that I was thinking about that one too. Its greater resolution might be its downfall, though. Maybe.

Text on my HDTV, which is a 720p, is not good unless the font is increased. I imagine if you increased the font on the 305T the same would happen.

But I saw those comments on newegg; I noticed it has decent to low response time. Maybe (talking out of my @#?!).

As they say, since most monitor applications don't change the pixel colors as much as games (movies an exception), then the monitor's pixel quality is called in to question.

My HDTV is a Samsung and I have lag with HL2 with the system shown in the footer of this message, but I can't tell whether it is monitor or graphics lag.

A thought: the specs could be deceiving, maybe the response time isn't an absolute max for the entire screen to be refreshed, but an estimated average based on the applications that it ran through it. No clue.

Seeing those reviews definitely changed my mind about it being better than an HDTV.
 

speckedhoncho

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Anandtech's Monitor Review and Spec Guide

This revealed how useful response time.

Plus, the response time given in newegg's listing was measured using Gray-to-Gray. The review says that GTG is one of the more effective ways of measuring response time, but, nonetheless, AT's guide is revealing.

The response time is not the time it takes to refresh all the pixels on the page, but just an analysis of how long each pixel takes to change from one arbitrary pixel to another.

The full screen refresh time must be much larger. Hmmm - LCD TV looking more appetizing?
 

Retard

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Thanks guys.

specked---wouldn't an LCD TV have the exact same issues? For example, I saw the 47" Westinghouse 1080p LCD TV has an 8ms response time, which seems a little behind the Samsung 305T computer monitor. What is an LCD any different?

Thanks.