24" WS and Mouse Lag

[PhoZFaTe]

I'm currently in the market for a 24" wide screen monitor but have a few questions. (currently use a sceptre 19" 12ms).

First is about mouse lag. While looking at what newegg has about 24"WS i read user comments about mouse lag problems with games. Multiple people said it about both monitors. Either way i was mainly intrested in the Dell 2405FPW (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-4221). Tried searching the topic on these forums but couldn't come up with anything. Anyone have a comment on this for 24"WS in general or more specifically the Dell. Also the dell page doesn't state the response time which I'll just assume is 6ms.

I use my machine for both media and games so even if there is a mouse lag problem i'll pry still get a 24"WS but would like to know what to expect as far as down points.

[mcoleg]

welcome to the forums :)

mouse lag comes from the mouse, if you think about it. if you have 400 or even 800 dpi mouse, that's just not enough speed and precision for all the pixels on 24" screen. you need 1200 dpi and up, 2000 dpi prefered; i'd recommend you look into logitech or razor latest.

these use usb2 natively so make sure your motherboard supports it. video card ram and system ram should also be suficient if you want to make sure there's no noticible lag in games - 256 min for vid. card, better 512 but it's what you want to spend, really; and if you can, get 2gb ram for the system.

[JRW]

Unfortunately the 2405FPW suffers from input lag and isnt associated with mouse lag (although you could probably reduce the symptoms with mouse tweaks) , its basically like playing with an added 30 - 50ms ping.

Here's a couple threads with more info:

Link 1 (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=980624&page=1&pp=20)

Link 2 (http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2074&highlight=input+lag)

[Mr. Roboto]

Yeah, you're thinking of input lag, which isn't as bad as eeryone makes it out to be.