How important is response time for games like CS:GO and others?

[Mashed]

Hi. I'm looking to buy a budget monitor for playing games like CS:GO. I looked at a local online PC parts store and found a really nice 1080p monitor. However, it has a 16ms response time and I am a bit worried if it will affect my experience. I currently game on an Acer All-in-One PC and have no idea about the response time of it.

[_I_]

16ms is way too high
at 60fps, its 16ms between frames
the monitor will never display the correct image

get a monitor with 8ms or lower responce time for gaming
under 5ms you wont notice a difference

[Long Ago [Linux]]

That does sound like a slow response time. I have been using a 32" LG 1080p HDTV for several years that has 2 ms response time. Although, video input is 60 Hz, internally it can interpolate that to 120 Hz to sharpen the image and reduce motion blur.

Although, when I had a 1280x1024 19" HDTV ready monitor with 25 ms response time I did not even notice motion blur when playing high contrast (black background) Quake3 at 60 fps (maybe if every frame lags a bit it is not noticeable and appears smooth). Some games have a setting to intentionally add motion blur to make movement appear smooth instead of jittery.

[Andrius227]

16ms is way to high. I would say get something with 5ms or lower refresh rate. I had a monitor with 5ms before and even then i did notice slight stuttering, upgrading to 1ms made a noticeable difference for me.