165Hz vs 120Hz ULMB for FPS games

[leyo96]

Hello,

 

I'm looking to buy a new 2k gaming monitor and so I did a research on the various options and I was wondering if getting a 165Hz monitor is worth it considering the 120Hz ULMB that you'd get as well in a 144Hz monitor. (In this case I'm talking about the Asus PG278QR)

 

I know that in side scrollers or rts games ULMB it's the better option, but what about fps games? I mainly play Apex and Csgo.

 

Does ULMB add input lag?

 

Is it worth to not use Gsync to have ULMB? (I'd still use G-sync uncapped since I don't want the added input lag but at least I won't get tearing when I drop under 165 (or 144) fps.

 

Thanks

[WereCat]

I tried ULMB on my monitor and its quite nice but I still rather have 165Hz over 120Hz.

[leyo96]

5 minutes ago, WereCat said:

I tried ULMB on my monitor and its quite nice but I still rather have 165Hz over 120Hz.

On reddit a guy told me that 165Hz is worse than 144Hz for Gtg and Input lag, do you know anything about it?

 

"The 165hz monitors are designed as 144hz monitors. The 165hz is an overclock which the hardware does not handle well.

Even the G2G response is worse on 165hz as well

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/asus_rog_swift_pg279q/response_8.png

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/asus_rog_swift_pg279q/response_7.png "

[WereCat]

Just now, leyo96 said:

On reddit a guy told me that 165Hz is worse than 144Hz for Gtg and Input lag, do you know anything about it?

 

"The 165hz monitors are designed as 144hz monitors. The 165hz is an overclock which the hardware does not handle well.

Even the G2G response is worse on 165hz as well

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/asus_rog_swift_pg279q/response_8.png

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/asus_rog_swift_pg279q/response_7.png "

The response times were quite bad regardless of 144Hz or 165Hz but I was able to set Overdrive to High without issues which made it almost as good as ULMB in comparison and I can keep my GSync as well.

I use AOC AG271QG