yeah saw that, but i read an older thread on SRK and there seemed to be mix reports on it. I would go with the ASUS but if i can get a higher quality image with the alienware I would rather have that - as long as it’s just as lagless as the asus…
Alienware is more consistently less laggy than the Asus. The problems it has are 1) no speakers 2) more expensive 3) smaller. Most people get the Asus monitor and deal with it because it’s cheap and easy (and still a great monitor!).
Also RoboKrikit, I’m very sorry haha.
Karas- you’re wrong on so many things and it’s not worth really getting into. The fact of the matter is, yes TVs are getting better about processing lag. Maybe Plasmas are better than LCDs for gaming. HOWEVER, it takes time for an image to look as good as it does on HDTVs and that time gets transferred to the user as input lag.
Of course the OP could have several different things adding lag to the equation, but we can’t dismiss HDTVs as part of the problem. The fact of the matter is, even if we COULD practice hit-confirming our one-frame links with our eyes closed, that doesn’t mean it’ll help us in any reasonable form. The way I play the game is very sensitive to lag. I anti-air as late as possible. I hit-confirm as late as possible. I react as late as possible. On a good setup, it’s perfectly fine. On even a slightly laggy one? I can’t hit links. I can’t block. I can’t anti-air. So that one frame means more than just doing combos. It can totally obliterate someone’s style of play. There are several things that give you one frame to react to whatever’s on the screen. If you can’t do that appropriately, you basically lose the match. If you’re playing on a laggy LCD monitor, you’re probably giving yourself a disadvantage.
All of which is making me think of dropping back down to VGA. I’m currently playing on HDMI on an LG 32" LCD TV with Game Mode enabled - it’s been a while since I tried, and it makes sense for me to try again, since I have become a lot better at the game since I last tried this.
Sadly, my reactions are crappy, so I don’t know how much it will affect me - on the test posted above, I was getting an average of 280ms. I’ve always know I’ve got bad reactions, as my sister got all of them. I got all the fixing-computer genes tho, which is a fair trade 
Lag hurts everyone, even those with slow reactions. It actually hurts worse if you have slow reaction time, since you already require a larger window of time to react.
Lag also causes problems with anticipation and timing during execution, which don’t necessarily require fast reaction time.