X220 IPS display question

What is the response time ms on this baby? I know there are some external IPS monitors that can play games w/o much input/response lag, and there are also a few IPS panels that is having major input/response lag.

How do you think the IPS panel on the X220 will perform while gaming?

 

Response time is nothing to be worried about these days. It was a problem when LCDs first came out 10 years ago, but nowdays... you won't have any trouble. But you really won't be able to play anything but the most casual games on the Intel graphics on the X220. It's weaker than x120e's GPU by a good amount, and x120e is a netbook (despite however Lenovo tries to market it as Ultraportable laptop. It's a netbook).

Edit: Wrong about GPU

 

When you see an IPS monitor with lag, it's usually the scaler board that's causing the lag. Since this is just a plain screen, I'd say there should be minimum lag, but I wouldn't buy it for gaming as it's not meant to be.

 

Actually, the GPU on the Intel Machine seem to be more powerful or at least on par with the GPU on the x120e. At least it could play games in a better setting and get better FPS.

 

Thanks for the reply regarding the response time. I have the x120e and I do not agree that the HD 6310 is better than the new SB Intel HD 3000 (maybe you got it confused with the intel gma mhd or the slower 2000. The Intel HD 3000 has lots of benchmarks and had been researching it the past several days. It is on the same performance level of the entry level dedicated gpu geforce 310m and sometimes reaches the 320m level.

The 6310 in the x120e competes with the ion 2. Here take a look AMD Radeon HD 6310 - Notebookcheck.net Tech

As you can see the HD 6310 is neck on neck with ion 2 at the 3/4 bottom of class 3 and you can see above that geforce 310m intel hd 3000 and 320m are on top of class 3 gpu.

It is faster than the HD 6310 on the x120e. The performance level of the new SB intel 3000 chip is on par with the entry level dedicated geforce 310m. Lots of benchmarks and reviews all over the web, Anandtech, notebookcheck etc..

 

Yes, you're right. My mistake. Could have sworn I read it was much weaker in some reviews I read a couple days ago

 

If the panel has similar response time to the one found in HP 8740w, there shouldn't be any problem with lags. I played a plenty of online shooters on that machine (30-bit IPS 1920x1200) and had no lag at all.
And I agree, the IGP should be able handle many titles at low to med settings. I will do a gaming review when we get one of these beasts.

 

Sounds good Aiki, I believe it runs HL2 and CS Source in high settings and native resolution. Then games like WoW and F.E.A.R runs on mostly good and shadow/sunshaft on fair native res.

If it is the same performance as the 310m because i tested it with a 310m with the i5-460m and the SB cpu on the x220 is much faster so it might actually even run better.