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I'm wondering what to buy and can't make up my mind.

 

Right now it's between the Acer KG271UA 1440p 144hz 16:9 at $644 NZD or the Titan Army 34inch Ultrawide 1440p 100hz at $734 NZD. My main question is if there is a noticeable difference between 100hz and 144hz. Can the titan army overclock to 120hz? 

 

I'm not a massive competitive player and I feel I would value the ultrawide more but if I'm buying a new monitor I don't wanna miss out on the smoothness of 144hz.

 

Or should I just save my money and just buy a 1080p 144hz monitor?

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7 minutes ago, avYEET said:

Can the titan army overclock to 120hz?

Not likely.

 

I'll have to recommend the 144Hz monitor, it's a very smooth framerate.

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1 hour ago, avYEET said:

I'm wondering what to buy and can't make up my mind.

 

Right now it's between the Acer KG271UA 1440p 144hz 16:9 at $644 NZD or the Titan Army 34inch Ultrawide 1440p 100hz at $734 NZD. My main question is if there is a noticeable difference between 100hz and 144hz. Can the titan army overclock to 120hz? 

 

I'm not a massive competitive player and I feel I would value the ultrawide more but if I'm buying a new monitor I don't wanna miss out on the smoothness of 144hz.

 

Or should I just save my money and just buy a 1080p 144hz monitor?

There is a noticable difference between 100 and 144hz ......  Not much difference going from 144Hz to higher refresh.  Alto OCable 165hz sounds good.

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2 hours ago, avYEET said:

I'm wondering what to buy and can't make up my mind.

 

Right now it's between the Acer KG271UA 1440p 144hz 16:9 at $644 NZD or the Titan Army 34inch Ultrawide 1440p 100hz at $734 NZD. My main question is if there is a noticeable difference between 100hz and 144hz. Can the titan army overclock to 120hz? 

 

I'm not a massive competitive player and I feel I would value the ultrawide more but if I'm buying a new monitor I don't wanna miss out on the smoothness of 144hz.

 

Or should I just save my money and just buy a 1080p 144hz monitor?

FWIW - my main rig has a 3440 x 1440 100Hz display that I thought looked fine, but just recently purchased a 2560 x 1440 165Hz monitor for my other rig and as much as I hate to say it, it's SO MUCH SMOOTHER. Even around the same in-game framerate the new smaller screen (much higher refresh) is just hands-down smoother.

 

Example, playing WoW on both rigs side by side to compare - same settings, out in the world so FPS is well above 100 fps on both rigs - the widescreen one has very very obvious screen tearing if I move the camera around quickly. I have yet to notice any tearing whatsoever even when trying to do it and specifically looking for it on the smaller higher-refresh screen.

 

This is the single reason I'm semi-debating replacing the PG348Q (1440p ultrawide) with an almost-the-same Dell Alienware screen that uses a slightly newer panel with 120Hz OC.

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What about a 1080p ultrawide at 144hz? Or should I be looking at a regular 1440p screen?

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