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we're gonna talk about input lag and what it is but first we're gonna talk about something that really gets under my skin and makes me want to hook out on you folks and that is laggers you know laggers close those friends who never do anything on time they never show up on time they don't complete anything on time they make you late they're just seriously people that make you sit around and wait for them there are laggers I really hate them you know they promise you something yesterday and then deliver it next Thursday now what are these people doing all day long to be laggers I mean really what are they sitting around all day trying to decide whether they're gonna eat you know popcorn or chips or what they just eat both and hang out or maybe they're just sitting around all day strumming on their guitar like the world is passing them by or are they just playing asleep I mean come on I honestly I can't stand these laggers no I'm just joking that's not what today's video about it's just thought it would be kind of funny but Before we jump in and talk about input lag and how it affects you in your games and the different things that you can do to test it and find out what input lag is let's hear a word from today's sponsor wondershare dealing with PDF used to be such a pain there's no easy way to modify the content on the PDFs or convert the scanned PDFs but with PDF element it's a totally different story you can easily create edit convert sign and OCR PDFs to simplify your document tasks work smarter faster and easier experience PDF element today now today's video is really about input lag now a lot of people on my monitor reviews recently have been asking me on almost every review as hey man what is the input lag on the monitor and I was like ok well heck you know I mean I wouldn't looked at about you know 20 different monitor box that we have around the house and on none of those boxes anywhere does it talk about input lag what it's about what it does anything else about that so I thought alright people are asking questions and since I'm always learning from you guys you know I learned from you you learn from me that's what I've always wanted this channel would be about and I love it when I learn stuff from you guys so I started looking into exactly what input lag is and how does it really affect your game plan what you know games will it really affect the most you know so input lag is this it's the time before your keyboard and the striking of your keyboard gets to your monitor so that means if you're playing a game a racing game a fighting game whatever when you hit your keystroke it's the time between you eating that keystroke and what it actually appears on your monitor now I don't really didn't know how the heck we could test this I was like okay well how do we test this I've never like even really heard about this dub so like I said I started doing some research and then I found this company called Leo Bodnar I was hoping it was gonna be Leo Bogner so I can get you know a really nice amp but nope it is just a lag tester but it's actually a pretty cool product I'll have a link down below for that as what's about 149 bucks it's a decent product they actually shipped it to me within two days now input lag can go anywhere from like in the hundreds of milliseconds all the way down to like four and five milliseconds depending on the product that's out there now the first thing that I did today was I tested all of the different g-sync models that we had in the house I think we pretty much had all of the ones by Acer pretty much all the Predators that they've released so the first monitor we tested was the predator Z 35 now this is a curved monitor 2560 by 1080 16 to 9 aspect ratio it had a lag time of 14 point 3 milliseconds next up we had the predator X 27 4k monitor you guys might have remembered this monitor we tested it really recently and it was like $2,000 had a lot of great features but this is kind of weird even though this monitor is really expensive and it's 4k has quantum dot technology 19.9 milliseconds is the lag time on that particular monitor the predator xB 271 HK which is a 4k monitor this monitor actually had the lowest millisecond lag time of all the monitors this one came in at like 9.3 so under 10 milliseconds the last monitor we tested was the predator X 34 this is actually the monitor that I use in my gaming room now this is the curved monitor it features a resolution of 34 40 by 1440 and the lag time on it was only 13.1 milliseconds kind of in the middle of all these monitors I also did some testing on the TVs in my house and even though my OLED TV is pretty much the most expensive TV in the house it was still having extremely long lag times of over a hundred and forty three milliseconds so that's pretty much the longest in the entire house now the best one that I tested in the house is a brand new LG HDR monitor it was actually down to 35 milliseconds as far as the lag time goes so as far as the TVs go now a lot of TVs out there are probably not going to be you know great for gaming because of this but real quick let's talk about something okay we're talking about some monitors that have 35 milliseconds maybe a hundred and fifty six milliseconds okay how many milliseconds are in a second there's a thousand of them so when the numbers are this low you know the lag time isn't really going to be that much I mean you've got a monitor that's you know like under ten I don't really see how that particular monitor could really affect your gameplay in any way now maybe they'll get stuff in the future where it's instantaneous but when you've got something that's under 10 milliseconds for the lag time I don't think it's gonna affect gameplay whatsoever now you might also be asking okay Eric you've talked to all this stuff about like stable what does it matter okay if you're in a racing game and you're coming around to a curve in a corner and stuff like that and you're really being competitive with those few milliseconds could be the difference between you crashing into a wall crashing into somebody else or losing your place in the game therefore making you lose your position and losing it now when you're talking about first-person shooter games and stuff like that it could be the difference between you taking the headshot or somebody else getting the headshot to you just because their input lag time was much less I mean let's just face it if you're playing at a TV and your input lag you know is coming in you know at huge numbers and this other guys got something that's only got four you know or three or even nine I think he's gonna be a little bit faster and even though I know those numbers are really hard for us to you to comprehend in linear time because let's face it we live in linear time and you know it doesn't matter you know 150 milliseconds to us isn't even like you know there's even that much of a breath so the time you know is really really short but a lot of people seem to really care about this and no monitor company out there that I've seen so far is actually including these numbers on any monitor box you know nobody's talking about the input lag and I know that it may not really matter all that much because obviously we're talking about stuff that's pretty much under you know a quarter of a second you know if we saw some of those 250 milliseconds that still a quarter of a second which is basically a breath and these numbers are much lower than that so even all the predator monitors that we checked out today and by the way we'll do another video coming up where I show all the monitors I have all the different free sing g-sync non free sing g-sync all those different monitors and we'll take a look and see which monitors actually have the best and absolute lowest lag times also if you'd like to see a video where me and G the Cameron like we cruise over to Best Buy we'll talk to Best Buy and see if though let's go in there and film video or I can go in and I can test all the TVs and we can see which of the latest and newest TVs actually have the lowest lag times for you to purchase for your gaming stuff now I don't like to watch TV just to watch TV but a lot of people you know they buy TVs and stuff just to play their games on because they're huge and let's just face it they're cheap as hell now when we tested everything at 1080 at 60 Hertz now the faster the refresh rate the lower the lag time so if you have a monitor and it's gonna be true hundred and forty four Hertz you know that your lag time is going to be much lower than that which is pretty much probably a reason why I've always liked 140 for its monitors better than the other ones even though I didn't know that I just know I like him better and they don't give me a headache when I'm playing it and I really love those particular monitors so how much lag time really affects stuff I don't think it really matters and let's it's going to be a huge huge number I think pretty much anything out there that's going to be under you know 25 milliseconds you're never gonna be able to notice that I don't think in a game 25 milliseconds it may matter but it doesn't really seem like it when you're talking about things that are close to a second maybe even a quarter second if you're talking 250 milliseconds maybe but I don't know but a lot of people wants they're saying it's excuse me a lot of people are saying hey what are these numbers so I got this little tester right here this is from the Leo Bodnar dude it's very easy to use you simply plug one in into this one in into an HDMI port on your monitor you click this little button right here and then the screens are gonna come up and you're gonna see a bunch of different bars now at the very top of the monitor the numbers always the very fastest the very fastest and you go in the middle it's like in the middle and you go in the bottom and the number is the slowest so the number that they ask you to test with obviously is like I've said before many videos like so it's like the three bears in them you know you've got too too hot too cold and right in the middle so just like that in the middle is right where you want to be and those are the numbers that you take and you translate those numbers into your testing and that's what we're gonna do in the future so all the monitors that you see from here on out on techo tomorrow we'll have all the standard stuff plus we will let you know what the input lag latency is on all these particular monitors so I hope this gives you a slight a little bit of an education I know some people already know about this for those out there who aren't in the know you in the know now baby and hey thanks to my subscribers out there and viewers who obviously give great information and educate me I'm always willing to learn from you I don't consider myself the smartest guy in the room I'm just an average Joe like most of you guys so thanks for watching techo tomorrow peace out and we'll see you guys back here in the channel for more tech and I really do hate those darn lagers