Review of the Acer SB220Q 21.5″ Widescreen IPS Ultra-Thin Zero Frame Monitor

Monitors are getting better. As the old saying goes, a rising tide raises all boats. Features that used to be reserved for top-shelf components eventually find their way to mid-range monitors. Sometime later, those features make their way down to entry level monitors. And the bar for what makes a good computer monitor continues to …

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What is V-Sync? Should I Keep it On or Off?

If you’ve ever looked inside the options menu for a PC game, then you’ve probably come across the term V-sync. Many of the options settings inside PC games are obvious about what they do, like those for resolution size and texture quality. But some of those options, like V-sync, may seem all but inscrutable. That …

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