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Old 03-06-2004, 03:11 PM   #4
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Join Date: March 29, 2002
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Unless you are willing to spend upwards of $2000 to $3000 on an LCD, you'll be very disappointed when playing games.

LCD's show an image by turning pixels on and off. Since there is a set number of pixels for each monitor, attempting to run resolutions other than the native will causes stretching and flattening of the image. If you're LCD's native resolution is 1600 by 1200 you'd better have a real good video card to play some of the more advanced games at that resolution.

Ghosting is a big problem for all but the most advanced LCD's, where the LCD cannot keep up with the video card, so the image tends to be "streaking" during high frame rate games such as FPS's or intense graphics.

Basically to run an LCD for gaming you need to look at about $2500 for a good LCD and another $500 for a video card.
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