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welcome back to tokyo city this is Barone's coming back to you guys today with an episode of quest for perfection now I have not done one of these episodes for a very long time and basically what this series is is I answer those anal-retentive questions of is this better than that and today we're going to be looking at mid-range to high range graphics cards like your GTX 760 or GTX 780 and they usually have two DVI ports on them so I'm going to look at if you use one DVI port will it give you better input lag than if you were to use the other DVI port so let's move on now to testing mythology then we'll move on to the results and then we'll move on to a conclusion so for testing methodology I have two monitors set up both off the DVI ports one is an ASA 1080p TN panel the other is an IPS ya mikaze ebay special now I stopped the IPS panel down to 1080p and then I duplicated the displays and then I opened three instances of input lag Exe and then I used my DSLR stop down to one four thousandth of a second and take a few series of shots and I checked the results from there so the first test we run the ASA was plugged into the bottom DVI port and the IPS panel was plugged into the DVI port at the top so the Acer in Windows it referred to this as DVI port 1 and the IPS panel was referred to as DVI 2 now when we did this we saw that the ASA was actually 10 to 20 milliseconds faster than the IPS panel and this kind of surprised me because I didn't realize that this ASA panel was this damn good wow this is like a four or five year old monitor and it performs like one of the best monitors you can get so I'll talk a little bit more about this in the conclusion but on average when we had the ASA in DVI port 1 and the IPS panel in DVI port 2 the ASA performed about 10 to 20 milliseconds faster than the IPS panel now this is inherent now what we have to remember is is that the IPS essentially the TN panel the ASA 10 panel is faster than the IPS panel the monitor itself so when we test the monitor we're going to be looking for either smaller or bigger differences so let's move on now to the second set of results so for the second set of results we then reversed it we had the IPS panel in the bottom DVI port or DVI port 1 and then we plug the ASA TN panel in DVI port two of the top DVI port panel and when we did this we saw that the results were I guess roughly the same I mean the IPS panel was about ten again about 10 to 20 milliseconds slower than the TN panel the ASA 10 however it was I thought honestly I would love to do more testing because I thought it was if anything slightly faster when I used when I did this test when I ran the second test with the IPS and DVI port one I thought it was just only a little bit behind in some circumstances it wasn't as slow as when it was switched around so with that being said let's move on now to the conclusion so in conclusion I mean there wasn't much I can't really conclusively say that using one DVI port is better than the other however if I mean I'd have to do more experimentation on it I'd love to get a camera that stopped down even further maybe one a thousandth of a second and I'd love to maybe take a thousand shots and then compare it but in my gut feeling honestly that I'll tell you my gut feeling and it does my gut says that using DVI port one or using the bottom DVI port is actually better than using the top DVI port or DVI port 2 so if you're a gamer and you want to get the best response times possible and you've got maybe in a Zeus that has like 1 milliseconds input lag and you don't know which DVI port to use then I suggest using DVI port one or the bottom DVI port on your graphics card so you've got the fan here and it's plugged into your motherboard then use the one down the bottom that's just my my thinking I'd have to do more conclusive evidence to test but my gut says that this is ever so slightly faster than the top DVI port anyway hope you guys enjoyed this one thing if you did please give it a thumbs up and if you haven't read subscribe particular city where I'd do all kinds of nerdy tech videos like this because I love answering these questions for myself as much as I answer them for you and it's actually funny because in hindsight I was using DVI port 2 for my IPS panel but now I'm going to be using DVI port one for my IPS panel since I predominantly gaming off this panel now and I use it for everything because 1440p is just awesome but yes in a nutshell I was actually really surprised at how good the Acer TN panel was as well I mean wow it's a five-year-old panel that was literally got this thing for like less than $200 back in the day and it was always funny because I wondered why I got like I think I got to 1900 in Heroes of Newerth back when it was a bit more popular and then I switched over I bought my hundred and twenty Hertz Samsung and my rating dropped and I always wondered why my rating dropped but now I know why because of the input lag the Samsung had worse input lay than the IPS panel and the IPS panel has worse the input lag than the Acer TN so I was really shocked I was really surprised at how good the response times were on the ace of 10 panels so I'm going to say if you're on a budget and you're a competitive gamer then you might want to think about getting an ace 1/10 panel that's all I'm going to say out of this testing anyway so that's about it guys I hope you enjoyed this video and if you have any questions or comments please leave a comment in the comment section below and I will catch you guys with another tech video very shortly and you a piece out for now bye