Consensus on the Samsung SyncMaster 710N LCD for gaming?

[neoreturns]

You can get them from Dell for about $360 now after a coupon. I'm wondering what you guys think about these for gaming? They have a 12ms response time and I've been in the market for a 17" LCD recently.

Best Buy does have them on display but they run the crappy screensavers and have fingerprints all over them, so I have no idea what the quality actually is like.

Wondering what the people over here thought about them? Going to be used through DVI and I play mostly first person shooters. Thanks

 

[TheGameguru]

710N is analog only..

beside the butt ugly stand its excellent for gaming..

equal to the 710T and 172X

 

[neoreturns]

Will analog make a big difference between DVI? The only LCD I have is on my laptop

 

[TheGameguru]

no...not at 1280X1024..

at higher resolutions.. DVI helps clean up the signal over analog..

at 1920X1200 DVI made a huge difference in picture quality over analog on my X800XTE on my HP L2335

I see virtually no difference in picture quality between DVI and Analog on my 2 172X's that are connected to a PCI 9200 with DVI/DB-15

But neither DVI or Analog will make games play any better or worse your pixel refresh is the exact same.

 

[neoreturns]

Are the colors more vivid or clearer defined with DVI? Or am I thinking of something else?

 

[Kevin Lowe]

Color accuracy might improve somewhat, but it's sharpness that really benefits. Everything's perfectly focused, with no need to adjust the monitor - just set your brightness and contrast, and off you go.

 

[neoreturns]

Ok I might just hold off on this for now. As I need this LCD to last me till I graduate (3 years)