Samsung SyncMaster 960BF

[Kinmaul]

My roomate and I each recently purchased one of these monitors and much to our dismay the ghosting effects were horrible during gaming. I figured from reviews and the fast refresh time this LCD boasted that there would be very minimal to no ghost trails. Is it possible I have some setting jacked up or do I just need to take this thing back and get a better monitor?

 

[icebird0]

I noticed horrible ghosting and image quality with any kind of motion as well. I returned it the next day. I thought maybe I just got a bad sample. Guess not.

 

[Kinmaul]

Ya everything looked great while standing still however the minute I started moving the quality dropped drastically. I'd definately recommend staying away from this monitor if you do any type of gaming at all.

 

[Spacecomber]

Interesting, this looks like a TN panel that they've used overdrive technology with in order to get a boost in the grey to grey response times. Since TN panels are usually relatively low response time panels (e.g., 8ms in black-white transitions), it's surprising that this panel would be less satisfactory than your typical low response time TN panel monitor, without the overdrive.

I would have expected this panel to be similar to the Viewsonic VX924, but apparently I would have thought wrong.

 

[Kinmaul]

I'm returning it and getting my money back. I jacked with all the settings, updated my video drivers, and anything else I could think of. The ghosting in games was completely unacceptable.

 

[xtknight]

I find that surprising. The ghost effect on my 12ms. is no where near 'horrible' or even noticeable in most cases. The 4ms. TNs are up there with CRTs (better on text, slightly behind on very fast graphics). I honestly think you got a defective batch, or they made a mistake on the specs.

 

[mrkun]

Just wait for SED. =)

 

[Jedielder]

Has anyone resolved this issue? If not, any recommendations on a good gaming LCD monitor?

I am having the exact same problem with the Samsung 960BF LCD flat panel monitor. I too thought it was one of the best monitors on the market. I see unacceptible ghosting in the following games: FEAR, Quake IV, Brothers In Arms - Earned in Blood, SWG and BF2.

I have a good system:
WinXP (SP2)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Duel Core
nForce4 motherboard w/7.1 sound
2 GB DDR Duel Channel RAM
ATI Radeon X1800 XL PCI-E w/256 MB RAM (DVI)
Raptor WD 10K RPM SATA hard drive
All motherboard, CPU, OS and peripheral drivers updated to current.

Any help much appreciated! Thanks.