What is input latency? Input latency could put a damper on your gaming experience. You may be at least vaguely familiar with monitor terminologies like refresh rate, response time and contrast ratio. However, one specification that is often mentioned but not quite as well understood is input lag. Response time refers to the operations taking place onboard the monitor… Continue reading What is Input Latency? – Guide
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What is an Anti-Glare Screen? – Guide
An anti-glare screen is a screen that features a layer of coating that minimalizes reflections. Its efficiency depends on haze value and screen surface. Here’s a handy guide on how that may help you. An anti-glare screen is a screen that features a layer of coating that minimalizes reflections. Just how effective is the anti-glare… Continue reading What is an Anti-Glare Screen? – Guide
What is a VA Display? – Guide
VA stands for vertical alignment and is a a type of LED (a form of LCD) panel display technology. VA panels are characterized as having the best contrast and image depth among the other main types of display panels, TN (twisted nematic)and IPS (in-plane switching), but also the longest response times. As such, you may want to think twice… Continue reading What is a VA Display? – Guide
What is Refresh Rate? – Guide
Refresh rate is defined as how often your screen can display an image per second and is measured in hertz (Hz). So, a monitor with an advertised refresh rate of 240 Hz refreshes the image 240 times per second. However, to hit 240 Hz or the high watermark of 360 Hz, you’re not just dependent… Continue reading What is Refresh Rate? – Guide
What is a Computer Monitor? – Guide
A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial form. A monitor usually comprises the visual display, circuitry, casing, and power supply. The display device in modern monitors is typically a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) with LED backlighting having replaced cold-cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlighting. Previous monitors used a cathode ray tube (CRT). Monitors are connected to the computer via VGA, Digital Visual Interface (DVI), HDMI, DisplayPort, USB-C, low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS)… Continue reading What is a Computer Monitor? – Guide
How to Check Refresh Rate – Guide
When using Windows 10, right-click to open the display settings. Proceed to advanced display settings, select the monitor display adapter properties, and a pop screen appears. Navigate to the monitor window tab and click OK; a drop-down menu will appear to select your screen refresh rate. The monitor will display the refresh rate and desktop… Continue reading How to Check Refresh Rate – Guide
QHD vs FHD – What’s the Difference?
QHD vs FHD: A Pixelated Showdown for Your Eyesight In the ever-evolving realm of displays, choosing between resolutions can feel like a gladiator entering the Colosseum – armed with limited information and facing pixelated beasts lurking in the unknown. Today, we enter the arena with two contenders: Quad High Definition (QHD) and Full High Definition… Continue reading QHD vs FHD – What’s the Difference?
What is Screen Tearing and How to Fix it?
Say Goodbye to Screen Tears and Embrace Gaming Bliss Screen tearing, those annoying horizontal splits interrupting your gaming immersion, can be banished! But fear not, for there’s a toolbox of solutions waiting to smooth out your visuals. The culprit? A mismatch between your monitor’s refresh rate (how often it updates) and your graphics card’s frame… Continue reading What is Screen Tearing and How to Fix it?