144hz vs 120hz

[Gawron10001]

Hello, so i was recently playing on 144hz montitor and it was awesome, so awesome in fact that i decided to buy myself high refresh rate montitor, but here is my question. Will 120hz be enough? Or should i spend a little bit more on 144hz one? 

[realpetertdm]

Can your PC pump out 120+ FPS? If it can then a 144Hz monitor can be worth it.

[Princess Luna]

There's a greater difference going from 60hz to 100hz than there is 100hz to 144hz.

 

The higher your refresh rate the narrow the frametimes become, the more narrow it is the less noticeable the difference will be.

 

So 120hz might be 100% perfectly adequate for you, but nowadays 144hz are pretty much mainstream among 16:9 monitors... I don't think you'd be saving a whole lot by trying to find a 120hz one.

[Dedayog]

The only 120Hz monitors you should be looking at are Ultrawides

 

 

[Crunken]

I'd just go for 144hz, that's what most monitors use and if your PC can handle it, it will be smoother than 144hz (sometimes you can't tell but when i play games it just feels a little bit smoother with 144)

[Suika]

Every time I look, I can't find 120Hz monitors being any cheaper than 144Hz options. I would just go with 144Hz.

[SolarNova]

31 minutes ago, Gawron10001 said:

Hello, so i was recently playing on 144hz montitor and it was awesome, so awesome in fact that i decided to buy myself high refresh rate montitor, but here is my question. Will 120hz be enough? Or should i spend a little bit more on 144hz one? 

A few facts about LCD monitors and high refresh ones in particular.

 

When comparing 120hz and 144hz monitors you need to be very careful in regards to pixel response times.

it is very easily possible for you to choose a 144hz display over a 120hz one, and end up with a monitor that looks worse in motion vs another 120hz one.

This is due ot pixel response times. If a 144hz monitor has a slower pixel response time to a 120hz, (which happens ALOT) then the 144hz monitor whilst it will refresh a 144hz, the pixels may not be fast enough to keep up, resulting in slight blur/ghosting, while a different 120hz panel with a faster pixel response may have less blur/ghosting and thus look better in motion.

 

Check competent thorough reviews on monitors before purchasing (e.g rtings and tftcentral), , and be sure to take manufacturers specs with a massive grain of salt, especially in regards to response time as they are always very misleading. (you could grab 10 monitors all with a advertised 1ms response time and not only will their 'real' response time be completely different and a far cry from 1ms, they will all visual produce different amount of ghosting and/or overshoot in moving images)