Monitor??

[JamesElopre]

Should I get 144hz or 240 hz

[duncannah]

240hz is considered overkill by most

[NineEyeRon]

54 minutes ago, duncannah said:

240hz is considered overkill by most

But if you can afford it and don’t want to go down the 1440p route then why not.

 

Its pretty much only useful for a handful of eSports titles so only buy if your super serious about that. If you just play the occasional CSGO match and mostly play Skyrim like me then 144Hz is fine.

[Princess Luna]

12 minutes ago, NineEyeRon said:

then why not

Because it's complete placebo at that point, the frametimes are far too narrow for any perception.

 

There's a reason why e-sports tournaments and majority of players actually are on 144hz rather, and nowadays you can find great IPS/VA panels featuring such refresh rate while 240hz is still limited to awful 1080p TN screens.

 

You can have this video below for references on why 240hz screens are gimmicks:

[xreaperx22]

what GPU are you running? not many will net you 240fps...i guess a 2080ti would get you close or maybe dual 2080ti's lol

[Fr4nt1s3k]

Do you want to be more competitive (it's not a big difference for your aim, but it is there) in CS:GO and other shooter games?
Is your CPU good enough to handle 240 fps?
Go for 240hz 1ms TN monitor.

 

Do you want to enjoy RPG games?
Are you not too serious about shooter games?
Do you want more workspace?

Go for the 1440p 144hz VA monitor.

 

I have both MSI MAG27CQ and ASUS ROG Swift PG258Q, so I know what I'm talking about.

ASUS's colours look really bad compared to MSI monitor, but the smoothness of 240hz and 0 ghosting is clearly noticeable.
And please, nobody tell me you can't see more than 30 fps.  

 

MSI's monitor doesn't suffer from ghosting at all, I can only see some of it in UFO test and the Freesync support from Nvidia is somewhat working flawlessly in some games, in other you might get flickering sometimes. I disabled it completely and I don't see screen tearing anyway  It only occurs in shooter games where I go over 144 fps.
When playing Witcher 3, AC: Odyssey, Anno 1800, desktop... I get lower FPS where screen tearing doesn't happen and I don't need V-sync either.

 

The only real downside of 1440p is that 1080p videos / livestreams don't look as good as on 1080p screen!

[JamesElopre]

Ty guys