high refresh rate monitors.

[SoloRaptonic]

hey guys, i know 120 hz, and 144 hz monitors are certainly worth it, but what is the downside if you cant keep the fps as high as the refresh rate. do you experience input lag, screen tearing, what are the symptoms. my rig is plenty powerful. about to put an i5 6600k, ir an i7 6700k, along with my evga gtx 1070 ftw. i know i can push the frames im just curious of what happens if i cant..

[A Silver]

I was wondering what would happen aswell as i may be getting a 144hz monitor.

[SoloRaptonic]

Just now, A Silver said:

I was wondering what would happen aswell as i may be getting a 144hz monitor.

with prices on high refresh rate monitors coming down and cheaper more powerfull gpus coming out. this is being asked more and more

[Delicieuxz]

The monitor refresh-rate is the maximum FPS which it is capable of displaying. Nothing different happens if your GPU is unable to display FPS to match the Hz of the monitor. The monitor Hz is simply the cap on how many FPS which the monitor is capable of displaying to you.

 

Screen-tearing occurs if there is not frame-syncing active. And frame-syncing is independent of a monitor's maximum refresh-rate. A monitor might have inbuilt frame-syncing, such as G-sync or Free-sync. Or, a monitor might not have any frame-syncing, but you could use software-based frame-syncing, such as the different v-sync options supplied, either in games, or in the Nvidia or AMD control panel.

[samcool55]

Umm, if you are running at 144Hz, and your graphics card pushes out 100fps for example, everything is fine.

The pc just works as fast as it can and every frame gets displayed as you would expect.

 

Input lag happens when V-sync is turned on, forcing the pc to turn down the amount of fps produced.

 

Screen tearing happens when you push out more FPS than the refresh rate of your monitor.

To keep it simple when you have a 60Hz monitor, and you run at 90 fps, it tries to push out 1.5 frames to the monitor instead of 1, but because you can't see 1.5 frame what happens is that you get an image that's 50% a new frame and 50% the old frame, causing tearing.

[SoloRaptonic]

1 minute ago, Delicieuxz said:

The monitor refresh-rate is the maximum FPS which it is capable of displaying. Nothing different happens if your GPU is unable to display FPS to match the Hz of the monitor. The monitor Hz is simply the cap on how many FPS which the monitor is capable to deliver to you.

 

Screen-tearing occurs if there is not frame-syncing active. And frame-syncing is independent of a monitor's maximum refresh-rate.

so do you beleive a 144hz monitor would go good with an i7 6700k and a gtx 1070?

[iRileyx]

Just now, SoloRaptonic said:

so do you beleive a 144hz monitor would go good with an i7 6700k and a gtx 1070?

You'll easy be pushing 60+ fps, so unless you want to limit your games to 60 so its a smooth picture, go for 144hz.

[samcool55]

1 minute ago, SoloRaptonic said:

so do you beleive a 144hz monitor would go good with an i7 6700k and a gtx 1070?

Sure, i have a 4690k and an rx 480 with a 144Hz monitor and that works quite well.

 

Just don't expect 144fps everywhere. it can be stupidly difficult to reach in AAA games, especially on ultra and even if you stick to 1080p.

[Delicieuxz]

Just now, SoloRaptonic said:

so do you beleive a 144hz monitor would go good with an i7 6700k and a gtx 1070?

It would go very well. If you're running at 1080p, you might get FPS of 60 - 100+ in very graphically-demanding games. I don't think you'll be reaching 144 Hz, though, in graphically-intensive games, without turning settings down.

[BlackUnicornGaming]

1 hour ago, RKRiley said:

You'll easy be pushing 60+ fps, so unless you want to limit your games to 60 so its a smooth picture, go for 144hz.

If its a 2k monitor it wont have any problem...