Author: Steve Timson
Date: 03:44:15 12/18/01
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Hi, I use LCD monitors both at home and at work. For editting text/surfing the web/etc they are great. They produce a lot less eye strain and look nice. However, if car sims are really important to you, I wouldn't recommend them. Though they claim high refresh rates like 85/etc, in practice the screen actually refreshes at some very low rate. Less than 60 fps. This is fine for a movie that normally runs at 24fps or something, but for an action game it isn't enough. Action games are blurry, and can be seriously nauseating. The 85Hz actually just means they'll work with a video card outputing that. In practice they actually look better if you can get your card to output 60fps, their 'recommended' frequency. In either case, you still only see some lower refresh rate. (That's the reason they are so easy on your eyes, you actually don't see any refresh at all on an unchanging page). Then there is the resolution issue. If you are outputing anything other than their natural resolution, they have to scale up the output to fill the screen, and it generally looks pretty bad. Games are particularly bad for this. Unless you have a great comp and video card, you likely won't be able to run your game at the resolution the monitor is happy with. So you get reduced visual quality combined with the blurry updates. Not great for gaming.. :) However, for text stuff, chess, the web, whatever, they are great. I love it. I program a computer all day for a living, and look at one a lot after work as a hobby, and the flicker free display is _so_ much nicer on the eyes. So you just have to balance out what is important I guess. (You could always keep around an old regular monitor for gaming too). Hope this helps, - Steve
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