Monitor: 10 ms or 450:1

[Garon]

Hey
I'm buying a new computer and i also need a monitor
I can choose between this monitor with a 350:1 contrast, 10 ms response time and 350 cd / m2 brightness
Or this monitor with 450:1 contrast, 16 ms response time and 250 cd / m2 brightness.

I use computers most often to game with or surf on the internet. Some times i might also see a movie clip or dvd but mainly gaming.

So which one of these monitors is best? And what does contrast, response time and brightness do for the image quality?

 

[CJP]

If gaming is your priority then I'd say response time would be more important. It would give your less, or no, ghosting.

 

[Zebo]

LCD is the wrong place to be looking for response time and contrast .

 

[Garon]

What should i look for then?

EDIT: If you mean a CRT monitor i don't have the space for one

 

[The Green Bean]

Im thnking about getting the 10ms one...Especially since I can get it for only about £170

 

[Hikari]

He wasn't asking CRT vs. LCD anyway.

 

[BlindBartimaeus]

Go for the 10ms. I have a 15ms LCD tv and I wish I had faster, but then again I am a serious gamer too.

 

[Garon]

Hmm but what is the diffrences between high contrast and low contrast, high response time and low response time, high brightness and low brightness??

 

[mwmorph]

contrast, the difference between black and white(and the other colors) on the color spectrum the monitor can show.(higher is better)
brightness, the amount of light the screen can produce.(higher is better)
response time, the amount of time, usually in ms, that a pixel takes to turn (180* i think, maybe not, i read somewhere its the amount of time it takes to turn form black to white and back). (lower is better.) the higher, the more likely that motion will blur and during games or video ro other motion intensive apps, the screen will lag and screw up the exprience.

 

[jiffylube1024]

The 10ms screen is better (and most likely a newer panel).

The contrast ratio and brightness are both overrated specs - they're already at a more than acceptable level.

Another big thing to note is that the 10ms screen you linked has significantly better viewing angles than the 16ms one: for the 10ms screen they're 160 deg Horizontal/120 Vertical and for the 16ms screen they're only 140 deg Horizontal/120 deg Vertical.

They're both listed as TN Wide angle so they're TN+ Film screens (with wide viewing angles) like most low response time screens.

The rating bars at the bottom of the screen do kind of alarm me the way the 10ms screen gets rated 2/8 for CAD while the 16ms screen gets 6/8 for CAD - this indicates to me that the 10ms screen is probably a 6-bit panel (ie only capable of displaying 262,144 colours). It's ambiguous if the 16ms screen is 6-bit or 8-bit.

Finally, the 10ms screen seems to be just a newer model of the 16ms one - one is the ProLite E435S the other is the E431S (10ms one is probably newer/better in pretty much all respects)

 

[Garon]

Thanks guys... That was a great help

 

[Insomniak]

I'd go with the 16 ms higher contrast ratio....I doubt you'll notice a difference between 16 and 12 (but you WILL see a difference between 25 and 16, for example), and that higher contrast ratio will probably be easier on the eyes.

 

[Garon]

Well to late... I've bought the E435S... But thanks anyways

I guess they're both good