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The answer to your question is totally subjective. It is a fact that LCDs in their current state of technology cannot refresh the screen as fast as a regular CRT, but LCD refresh limitations are steadily being overcome. I have seen games that I thought looked good on an LCD and someone else did not, and vice versa. You know what you do and do not like. Go check out a few LCD screens and decide for yourself.
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The answer to this question will change almost monthly, as this technology improves and matures. I have read (so this is not from experience) that LCD monitors having 25ms refresh rate or worse (higher number), will not be suitable for the discerning gamer. I have seen recommendations for LCD monitors with a rate of 20ms or better. If you are very fussy about the quality of your gaming experience on an LCD monitor, I would tell you to watch and wait. Over the next year, you can expect prices to fall, monitors to get faster and quality to improve. I guess it just depends on how patient you are. But the bottom line as was mentioned above is - does it look good to you? Then never mind what the specs say or what other people say.
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LCDs can be great for gaming but you need to look for several things. 1. Contrast Ratio: This is basically how vivid the screen will apear. The higher the better. 800:1 is great. 2. Reponse Time: The smaller the number the better. If you have a slow response time you'll notice alot of ghosting. 3. Native Resolution: The native resolution of an LCD refers to how many physical pixels the screen is made up of. So a monitor with a native resolution of 1024 x 768 is 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels tall, and will look its absolute best when run at this resolution. If you run that monitor at a different resolution it will interpolate the pixels and it wont look as good. This also is something to look at versus your video card. For instance, if you have a lower end video card and an LCD with a 1600 x 1200 native resolution, you will have a hard time running most games at the native resolultion, thus it wont look as good.
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