Hi, I am not sure if this is the best place to post this so feel free to redirect me somewhere else if here is not appropriate. So I was planning on buying a new monitor and I was wondering what were to most important thing to look for when buying a monitor (apart from size and refresh rate). I looked at some article but they were pretty bad.
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The first and most important thing is to ask yourself what you want to use it for.
If you have two monitors then you might want to complement what you can already do well with the other one.
If you can have only one monitor you will want to prioritise a decent QoL product over something that squeezes out 5ms more reaction time for some autistic circle clicking game.
With QoL I'm talking about things like viewing angles, colors, durability, adjustibility of height/angle, low blue mode and whatever, things that actually matter a lot.
Believe it or not, I use monitor settings that are likely to decrease my performance simply because I find it much more comfortable looking at a screen with lower to medium brightness than full brightness.
Here's a fancy site to calibrate your monitor learn a bit stuff about LCD screens:
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
This website has quite some information on motion blur, although that might be more relevant to the other gamemodes, click around a bit:
https://www.blurbusters.com/faq/motion-blur-reduction/
Logicalincrements is a website that recommends PC parts fitting together at reasonable prices or something. They have a separate listing for monitors and also a FAQ at the bottom of list which you might want to read through:
http://www.logicalincrements.com/monitors
If you have two monitors then you might want to complement what you can already do well with the other one.
If you can have only one monitor you will want to prioritise a decent QoL product over something that squeezes out 5ms more reaction time for some autistic circle clicking game.
With QoL I'm talking about things like viewing angles, colors, durability, adjustibility of height/angle, low blue mode and whatever, things that actually matter a lot.
Believe it or not, I use monitor settings that are likely to decrease my performance simply because I find it much more comfortable looking at a screen with lower to medium brightness than full brightness.
Here's a fancy site to calibrate your monitor learn a bit stuff about LCD screens:
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/
This website has quite some information on motion blur, although that might be more relevant to the other gamemodes, click around a bit:
https://www.blurbusters.com/faq/motion-blur-reduction/
Logicalincrements is a website that recommends PC parts fitting together at reasonable prices or something. They have a separate listing for monitors and also a FAQ at the bottom of list which you might want to read through:
http://www.logicalincrements.com/monitors
I mostly agree with the post above, but one nitpick:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u3415w.htm#lag
If you pick a random 60hz IPS, it's probably closer to +21ms of unnecessary lag compared to a faster monitor. (Maybe more if you go for a budget unreviewed model.) How sensitive you are to that is going to depend on what you're doing with your monitor, but that kind of difference is definitely noticeable outside of osu.
There are low-latency 144hz IPS monitors available, so it's kind of silly to suggest ignoring monitor response time in favor of color reproduction here in late 2018. (5 years ago, that was okay advice. Today? You can get the best of both worlds.* Panels are getting cheaper and faster!)
*[As long as you're not looking for things like 240hz 4k wide gamut. Give it a few more years!]
Endaris wrote:
5ms more reaction time
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u3415w.htm#lag
If you pick a random 60hz IPS, it's probably closer to +21ms of unnecessary lag compared to a faster monitor. (Maybe more if you go for a budget unreviewed model.) How sensitive you are to that is going to depend on what you're doing with your monitor, but that kind of difference is definitely noticeable outside of osu.
There are low-latency 144hz IPS monitors available, so it's kind of silly to suggest ignoring monitor response time in favor of color reproduction here in late 2018. (5 years ago, that was okay advice. Today? You can get the best of both worlds.* Panels are getting cheaper and faster!)
*[As long as you're not looking for things like 240hz 4k wide gamut. Give it a few more years!]