Why 144 Hertz

[Elad.Evron]

Does any one know why 144 Hertz is the standard and not the much more logical 120 hertz? The only reason I can see is that 120 hertz was going to be the standard but then a company sold a 144 hertz as a factory overclocked monitor and then other companies did it to and then it became the standard. But then is 165 hertz going to be the next standard? Because companies sell 165 hertz monitors for the same price as 144 hertz.......

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

120Hz, 144Hz, and 165Hz are all relatively standard.

[Elad.Evron]

Just now, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

120Hz, 144Hz, and 165Hz are all relatively standard.

But you dont see 120 hertz (on non ultrawides) any more 

[homeap5]

Answer is mostly "why not?". And why 60Hz? TV PAL has 50Hz (secam was 60Hz), so why 60? CRT at 60Hz blinking so much and the lowest good refresh was 75Hz, so even back then 60Hz was pretty bad. In LCD case blinking is not an issue, so 50Hz or 70Hz will be as good as 60Hz.

 

60Hz was pretty nice standard - you can easy divide that value by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 (30, 20, 15, 12, 10). 50 you can only divide by 2 and 5.

144Hz you can divide by 2, 3, 4, 6 so 120 seems to be a little better for display various refresh without frame skip (can be divided by 5 too). Both can be divided by 24 so they're perfect for 24fps movies.

 

Seriously, I don't know.

 

[SkilledRebuilds]

7 minutes ago, Elad.Evron said:

But you dont see 120 hertz (on non ultrawides) any more 

True, once the "competition" for Buying HertzMonitors became really alive its feasible to say while 120Hz is great for lesser GPUs, pretty sure most 144Hz can set and use 120Hz as well.. negating companies spending on multiple 120Hz only and 144Hz(supporting 120Hz and below) monitors together.

Once ALL 165Hz come down to 120-144Hz prices the 165Hz will be typical minimum and 180-240Hz is still above avg and 360Hz-720Hz will be the edge case premium expensoLinus models.

[Dedayog]

Asked a ton of times with no real concrete answer.,..

 

 

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-gaming-monitors-exactly-144hz

 

[Elad.Evron]

3 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

Answer is mostly "why not?". And why 60Hz? TV PAL has 50Hz (secam was 60Hz), so why 60? CRT at 60Hz blinking so much and the lowest good refresh was 75Hz, so even back then 60Hz was pretty bad. In LCD case blinking is not an issue, so 50Hz or 70Hz will be as good as 60Hz.

 

60Hz was pretty nice standard - you can easy divide that value by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 (30, 20, 15, 12, 10). 50 you can only divide by 2 and 5.

144Hz you can divide by 2, 3, 4, 6 so 120 seems to be a little better for display various refresh without frame skip (can be divided by 5 too). Both can be divided by 24 so they're perfect for 24fps movies.

 

Seriously, I don't know.

 

that was a lot of monitor history in very liitle amount of words and as a dyslexic person I really aprricate that 

[homeap5]

Just now, Dedayog said:

Asked a ton of times with no real concrete answer.,..

Well, this is typical on this forum - asked the same questions dozens of times is allowed.

[Dedayog]

Just now, homeap5 said:

Well, this is typical on this forum - asked the same questions dozens of times is allowed.

Right.  I was pointing out that it just doesn't seem to have a definitive answer.  Not that he can't ask the question, even if asked numerous times in the past.

 

Or he could have googled it and read the posts I read

 

[mariushm]

My guesses... 

1. because of dvi limitation .. dual link dvi  at 165 mhz can do 7.92 gbps  ... 1920x1080 x 24 bit per pixel x 144 fps = 7.2 gbps + overhead / framing = ~ easily 7.5 gbps.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface#Specifications

2. because it's 24 fps x 6  so it would work well for movie playback. 

 

 

[Elad.Evron]

8 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

Right.  I was pointing out that it just doesn't seem to have a definitive answer.  Not that he can't ask the question, even if asked numerous times in the past.

 

Or he could have googled it and read the posts I read

 

I did google it and I didnt really get a good answer so then I asked here, google is faster and will have more answers then the forum lol 

[jones177]

I don't like 144hz since my hardware only reaches just over 130fps in most AAA games at 1440p.

I like the option of using vsync in some games to stop tearing.

13 minutes ago, homeap5 said:

Well, this is typical on this forum - asked the same questions dozens of times is allowed.

All the forums that I was on for years have gone since anyone asking a question usually got replays like "use the search feature" or Google it".

Newbies got so beat up that they posted once and were gone.

So I like the setup here. It allows for growth and that's what keep forums alive.

 

The only downside is that misinformation gets repeated over and over again.