Having never gamed above 60Hz before, I just snatched a deal on a 144Hz monitor...

[pyrojoe34]

Now I'm ruined... I'll never be able to go back... I'm stuck paying for premium displays from now on.

 

I was able to snatch a Predator XB271HU (1440p, 144Hz, G-Sync, 27") on clearance at Costco for $400. I couldn't pass a deal like that to I took it home and I have to say, the high refresh rate is awesome (although in games like BF1 I only play at about 80fps since I like to max out the settings, even from 60 to 80 the difference is huge). Not only that but I'm completely sold on G-sync... I think that is the biggest improvement for me. The lack of tearing is amazing and lower frame rates feel much smoother. I think I'll always need some sort of adaptive sync on any monitor I get from now on. The last time I had such a huge change in my gaming experience was when I went from cheap speakers to a 7.1 headset (so many sounds I'd never heard before).

 

I was saving up for a 34", 75Hz, 21:9 (I really like a larger screen) but I decided to try it out anyway and I'm sold. I just sit closer to it to get the bigger screen experience and still get all the benefits of a gaming monitor. It also meant that I could move my 4K TV and HTPC/NAS to my living room for an awesome couch experience. I just stream controller-based games like Rocket League to my HTPC for some comfortable gaming or split-screen sessions.

 

The only things I still want to upgrade on this build is getting an M.2 drive (why is NAND still so expensive! ramp up production already!) and my GPU. I'm just waiting to see if Vega forces an Nvidia price drop on the 1080 or 1080Ti... or maybe hold out until Volta...

 

Anyway... there's no point to this post, just letting you all know that I'm now sold on high refresh rate and G-sync monitors.

[Princess Luna]

I honestly think you'd have had better experience with the ultra wide 1440p rather but not that this 144hz monitor isn't going to be great... I'm just the kind of person that favours single player games, content creation and so on before CS:GO.

[DildorTheDecent]

5 minutes ago, pyrojoe34 said:

Now I'm ruined... I'll never be able to go back... I'm stuck paying for premium displays from now on.

Had exactly the same feeling. 

 

It can't POSSIBLY get any better....

[pyrojoe34]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

I honestly think you'd have had better experience with the ultra wide 1440p rather but not that this 144hz monitor isn't going to be great... I'm just the kind of person that favours single player games, content creation and so on before CS:GO.

Maybe but I do also have the 29" 21:9 as a secondary for any productivity so I still have the real estate. Also this monitor was over $200 cheaper than the 34" 21:9 I was going to get. Really it's the G-sync that I noticed the most... I also play more single player games (with the exception of BF1) but I can always stream more cinematic games to my 4K TV for the big screen experience.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

12 minutes ago, pyrojoe34 said:

Now I'm ruined... I'll never be able to go back... I'm stuck paying for premium displays from now on.

 

I was able to snatch a Predator XB271HU (1440p, 144Hz, G-Sync, 27") on clearance at Costco for $400. I couldn't pass a deal like that to I took it home and I have to say, the high refresh rate is awesome (although in games like BF1 I only play at about 80fps since I like to max out the settings, even from 60 to 80 the difference is huge). Not only that but I'm completely sold on G-sync... I think that is the biggest improvement for me. The lack of tearing is amazing and lower frame rates feel much smoother. I think I'll always need some sort of adaptive sync on any monitor I get from now on. The last time I had such a huge change in my gaming experience was when I went from cheap speakers to a 7.1 headset (so many sounds I'd never heard before).

 

I was saving up for a 34", 75Hz, 21:9 (I really like a larger screen) but I decided to try it out anyway and I'm sold. I just sit closer to it to get the bigger screen experience and still get all the benefits of a gaming monitor. It also meant that I could move my 4K TV and HTPC/NAS to my living room for an awesome couch experience. I just stream controller-based games like Rocket League to my HTPC for some comfortable gaming or split-screen sessions.

 

The only things I still want to upgrade on this build is getting an M.2 drive (why is NAND still so expensive! ramp up production already!) and my GPU. I'm just waiting to see if Vega forces an Nvidia price drop on the 1080 or 1080Ti... or maybe hold out until Volta...

 

Anyway... there's no point to this post, just letting you all know that I'm now sold on high refresh rate and G-sync monitors.

Snap, that's good. How can IPS have high refresh rate? Wait where's the response time specs?

[Orangeator]

3 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Snap, that's good. How can IPS have high refresh rate? Wait where's the response time specs?

His monitor has a 4 second response time. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824106004

[pyrojoe34]

Just now, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Snap, that's good. How can IPS have high refresh rate? Wait where's the response time specs?

No idea but it can even factory OC to 165Hz (which is complete overkill for me so I don't bother). I'm pretty sure IPS has been able to do 144Hz for a while now, it just can't do 240Hz like the new VA monitor can. It's also 1440p (not UHD) so there's no bandwidth issue using DP.

 

The GTG is 4ms.

[Sleeper PC 2016]

19 minutes ago, pyrojoe34 said:

Now I'm ruined... I'll never be able to go back... I'm stuck paying for premium displays from now on.

 

I was able to snatch a Predator XB271HU (1440p, 144Hz, G-Sync, 27") on clearance at Costco for $400. I couldn't pass a deal like that to I took it home and I have to say, the high refresh rate is awesome (although in games like BF1 I only play at about 80fps since I like to max out the settings, even from 60 to 80 the difference is huge). Not only that but I'm completely sold on G-sync... I think that is the biggest improvement for me. The lack of tearing is amazing and lower frame rates feel much smoother. I think I'll always need some sort of adaptive sync on any monitor I get from now on. The last time I had such a huge change in my gaming experience was when I went from cheap speakers to a 7.1 headset (so many sounds I'd never heard before).

 

I was saving up for a 34", 75Hz, 21:9 (I really like a larger screen) but I decided to try it out anyway and I'm sold. I just sit closer to it to get the bigger screen experience and still get all the benefits of a gaming monitor. It also meant that I could move my 4K TV and HTPC/NAS to my living room for an awesome couch experience. I just stream controller-based games like Rocket League to my HTPC for some comfortable gaming or split-screen sessions.

 

The only things I still want to upgrade on this build is getting an M.2 drive (why is NAND still so expensive! ramp up production already!) and my GPU. I'm just waiting to see if Vega forces an Nvidia price drop on the 1080 or 1080Ti... or maybe hold out until Volta...

 

Anyway... there's no point to this post, just letting you all know that I'm now sold on high refresh rate and G-sync monitors.

I totally agree, running games at higher refresh rates are very noticeable. I wanted a better monitor since my monitor only runs at 60 hz. I even tried to overclock my monitor but I can only get 62 hz out of it.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

3 minutes ago, pyrojoe34 said:

No idea but it can even factory OC to 165Hz (which is complete overkill for me so I don't bother). I'm pretty sure IPS has been able to do 144Hz for a while now, it just can't do 240Hz like the new VA monitor can. It's also 1440p (not UHD) so there's no bandwidth issue using DP.

 

The GTG is 4ms.

Now that VA is so crazy

[Orangeator]

1 minute ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

I totally agree, running games at higher refresh rates are very noticeable. I wanted a better monitor since my monitor only runs at 60 hz. I even tried to overclock my monitor but I can only get 62 hz out of it.

I still care about PPI more than I do about high refresh rate. But I casually game, so that's probably why. So I went with a 980 TI and a 4k monitor.

[pyrojoe34]

1 minute ago, Orangeator said:

I still care about PPI more than I do about high refresh rate. But I casually game, so that's probably why. So I went with a 980 TI and a 4k monitor.

Agreed, PPI is huge to me, I can't stand seeing aliasing. I went from a 4k 43" (102PPI) to the 27" 1440p (109PPI) which was already pretty huge. It doesn't help that I had to play a lot of games at 1080p since my GPU couldn't do 4k in newer games so that jump was from 51PPI to 109PPI which was massive.

[Sleeper PC 2016]

Just now, Orangeator said:

I still care about PPI more than I do about high refresh rate. But I casually game, so that's probably why. So I went with a 980 TI and a 4k monitor.

The PPI is important too(though I only care about the response time of monitor) but I'm only a casual gamer too. I'll mostly game on whatever is available at the time or at the location I'm at as long as it's not a tv which can have really high response times especially modern tv's. Turning on Game mode helps but still laggy. I still got a 50 inch Panasonic Plasma (Heavy AF at 90 pounds) bought new turned 10 years old. It overscans the desktop a little bit (my newer vizio tv don't do that). It has a response time that is higher then my hp monitor but I'm used to it from my years of using it with a PS3

[Eaglerino]

1 hour ago, Princess Cadence said:

I honestly think you'd have had better experience with the ultra wide 1440p rather but not that this 144hz monitor isn't going to be great... I'm just the kind of person that favours single player games, content creation and so on before CS:GO.

This is why you get two monitors. 60 FPS is painful after playing at 144 FPS, almost like playing at 30 FPS again if you're used to 60 FPS

[Sleeper PC 2016]

14 minutes ago, Eaglerino said:

This is why you get two monitors. 60 FPS is painful after playing at 144 FPS, almost like playing at 30 FPS again if you're used to 60 FPS

I get 250 fps in csgo. Should I get a 240 hz monitor if i play a lot of CS

[TheRandomness]

-Thread moved to Displays.

[Princess Luna]

57 minutes ago, Eaglerino said:

This is why you get two monitors. 60 FPS is painful after playing at 144 FPS, almost like playing at 30 FPS again if you're used to 60 FPS

I suppose so, my ultrawide at 80hz already is fine enough for me for the time being nonetheless [:

[MilfShake]

1 hour ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

I get 250 fps in csgo. Should I get a 240 hz monitor if i play a lot of CS

Do it, and report your experience

[Sleeper PC 2016]

1 hour ago, MilfShake said:

Do it, and report your experience

let me scrap together like 500 bucks and ill tell ya. But first i need to add a bit more ram to my rig