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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Best PC Gaming Monitors 2014

A Review of the Best Low Input Lag Monitors for Gaming in 2014

Finding a good gaming monitor requires a lot of research. Competitive gaming is demanding and the best monitors for gaming not only have a fast response time, but also low input lag and a high refresh rate as well.
Knowing what monitor to choose is key, but it's difficult to know exactly what type of monitor to purchase based simply off of a manufacturer's technical details. In this post I'll give you additional information you need-to-know as well as gaming monitors which I recommend.

Choosing a Good Gaming Monitor

When you're looking for the right gaming monitor there are a couple of things that you should keep in mind. Here's a couple points that just might help you to make a decision.
Response Time is Important, but can be Misleading :
Manufacturers who sell monitors listed for gaming always promote response time as the most important specification. Response time is the time it takes for a pixel to go from black to white and back again. While some monitors advertise response times under 1ms, the truth is that they list the GTG or gray to gray response time rather than the black to white to black response time. For the most part any monitor with under 8ms response time is more than fine to use for gaming. This includes many low response time / input lag IPS panel monitors as well.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

How to Optimize Your PC for Gaming

Update Your GPU Drivers

Gaming PCs ride and die by the strength of their components, but drivers, the software that allows your operating system to communicate with your computer's hardware, dictate how well the two play together. It's critical to install drivers anyway, but it's important to make sure they're up to date over time. Graphics card manufacturers like Nvidia and AMD regularly update their drivers to improve performance, but also to make sure new games play well with their products. Watch Dogs was a good example of a highly-anticipated game that failed to play nice with all hardware at launch, and it took driver updates from both AMD and Nvidia to smooth these issues out. This isn't the first case of this happening, and it probably won't be the last.