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Samsung's 17" LCD Gaming Monitor Rated

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the window-to-the-game-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A year ago gaming on LCD monitors was laughed at, now days it's becoming much more practical thanks to more responsive LCDs like Samsung's SyncMaster 172X, reviewed over at OverClocker's Club. The 172X is a 17" monitor, with a very important feature for us gamers and hardcore computer geeks, a 12ms response time. A 12ms response time literally means zero ghosting in games and in fast action movies."

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  1. Fenol by suss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In other news; it has been discovered that dangerously high levels of Fenol (a chemical related to alcohol used on circuit boards in both CRT's and LCD's) are given off in the first two weeks of use of new monitors and increases your chances of getting cancer quite a bit.

    Seeing as reviewers must see a lot of these (new) monitors, this is becoming an occupational hazard...

  2. Review? by jguevin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So they spend four pages talking about what's in the box (including a picture of the brown cardboard box??) and restating the published specs. Then there are two short paragraphs saying, "wow, looks great, no ghosting, 12ms!!!". I need to get myself a damn review website.

    Fine, mod me down, I just felt like complaining.

  3. Re:I have one by JustNiz · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing personal, but I have never heard of anyone who spent a significant amount of money on anything admit to the fact that there's a better alternative.

  4. I have a 17" NEC LCD... by AvantLegion · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ... with a 16ms pixel response rate, and there are absolutely, positively no ghosting effects. Not even uber-subtle ones.

    I've seen LCDs with even higher response rates that lack ghosting.

    You don't need a 12ms LCD to avoid ghosting.

  5. Thanks, but no thanks... by TxdoHawk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Looks nice indeed, but LCD technology is still too expensive in my opinion. It's hard to justify $539 for 17-inches of screen estate, when I can get excellent 19-inch CRT's for a hair under $200. Mind you, I know that the way these monitors are measured, the actual screen estate you get on the CRT isn't much more at all, but you're still paying an extra $239 to pretty much save space and look nice.

    When I can get a nicely-sized, gaming-capable LCD for under $300, then I might bite. It'd certainly be nice to own an LCD for their portability compared to CRT's. For now though, I think I'll stick with the "old and clunky" CRT technology.