@masscrack: You can't buy a $99 that is superior in refresh rate. Also, and I could be wrong on this, but I don't believe that a 1080p monitor will look any clearer than an equal-sized 1080p TV. If it does it won't be the result of having more information sent to the screen.
But the bigger issue is that a lot of people *don't want* to play on a 20 inch monitor. I prefer to play some distance from the screen, and a 20 inch display is wholly inadequate for that. IMO, even a 32-inch display is inadequate for that. Personally, if I ever make the switch to a monitor, I'll be buying one of those 40 inch monitors that businesses use, which of course, give up some of the advantages of standard and especially gaming focused monitors (though it would still be better than TV).
@fanirama: No, no, no, it is only your viewpoint that counts. After all, you said it, so the case must have already have been closed. Closed like those gaming laptops you built.
@sellingthings: Evidence? Rtings lets you sort their reviews by response time. Just go to any of their charts, add response time as a filter. You'll see that, while I admitedly overestimated how fast most TVs are, you will also see that the vast majority of TVs are under 20ms response time.
@UltimateBastard: A lot of people are scared of overclocking. Personally, I've never overclocked, for just that reason. Though I've done the research and now I'm literally planning on starting tomorrow.
@michyeosseo: Short answer: if you're coming from gaming on a TV, then there's no issues that you aren't already living with. Monitors have significantly less input lag* than TVs, but that's true whether you're playing on consoles or PCs: so if you haven't been happy with the responsiveness of consoles, you won't notice any difference if you switch over to PC.
*input lag is not the same as response time. Response time is the time it takes a pixel to move from black to white or vice versa. Input lag is the time between keypress (or other input) and that input being represented on the screen. Both can affect responsiveness, but most tvs have a response time <10ms so there's not a huge issue. Input lag, however, can be. Some 4K TVs for instance have >100ms of input lag.
@jimmythang: I'll grant you the quiter bit, but I don't see the heat being an issue if you don't OC, and I think almost everyone will replace the CPU long before the lifespan is up.
I suppose the underlying issue is that I can't see mid-range extending to $1200. I can see the tippy-top of mid-range including a 1070, but it seems to me that if you're going that way, then you need to make sacrifices elsewhere to stay in the mid-range. Especially given that PCs can be upgraded piecemeal, I don't see the need to deck the thing out at the start.
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