LCD Monitors Refresh Rates

Everyone has heard of LCD – liquid crystal display – monitors. Yea it’s that fancy flat screen monitor that fits perfectly everywhere, on your desk, on the wall, on the table, it’s slimmer and lighter than the old CRT – cathode ray tube – monitors, they come in different colors: blue, green, gray, white, black, olive, etc., different sizes depending on the screen’s diagonal: 15 inches, 17 inches, 19 inches, up to 30+ inches. But we also see in their description something about it’s refresh rate (Hz) or response time (ms): 10 ms, 8 ms, 5 ms, 2 ms; yea we know smaller refresh rate means better display, but why ? What is the refresh rate of an LCD monitor ? Well it signifies the number of times in a second that the display hardware draws the data. While the cathode ray tube monitors use the same technique for both illumination and imaging, the LCDs have a separate backlight to illuminate the image generated by the liquid crystals.

There are all kinds of brands for the LCD monitors like: Acer, ASUS, Benq, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Hanns.G, Horizon, HP, Lenovo, LG, NEC, Proview, RPC, Samsung, Viewsonic, Viewstar, Yuraku and so on; every brand has each monitor with different refresh rate in order to satisfy it’s customers.

But the real thing is, that it doesn’t matter if the refresh rate of a monitor is lower or higher because you’ll never going to be able to see the difference, because you can not see the refresh with the clean eye, but what you are going to notice is the color contrast which differ from one screen to another. So don’t plan to buy an LCD monitor with a lower refresh rate just because you want to have your images refresh more often. Our advice to you is to buy an LCD monitor from one of the famous brands, we suggest you don’t throw your money into some no-named brand’s pocket just because they had lower prices. Not all the time, but sometimes the higher the prices lead to higher performances and a longer lifetime for the product.



Here are some of the monitors worth buying at low prices:

- Acer H233H 23 inch Wide screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $189.99

- Acer X203H 20 inch Wide screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $119.99

- ASUS VE205N 20 inch Wide screen Flat Panel TFT-LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $159.99

- Compaq Q2009 20 inch Wide screen Flat Panel TFT-LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $139.99

- Compaq Q1859 18.5 inch Wide screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $129.99

- Dell IN1910N 18.5 inch Wide screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $119.99

- HP W1858 18.5 inch Wide screen Flat Panel HD LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $139.99

- HP 2009M 20 inch Wide screen Flat Panel TFT-LCD HD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $159.99

- LG W1943TB-PF 18.5 inch Wide screen Flat Panel LCD HD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $119.99

- LG W2043T 20 inch Wide screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor : 5 ms response time, for $149.99

So these are some of the best priced LCD monitors with good refresh rate. Remember, the refresh rate isn’t really literally noticeable for the naked eye to see, but the color contrast is.

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