Alright, I've gotta come clean: I've been playing games on PC for a literal decade and I still have no idea what refresh rates or Vsync options I should be using, I buy monitors exclusively based on how big they are :(
Lol, that's fine. Learning about a new premium component/feature ends up creating an arms race between all your computer parts anyway (especially in high fps gaming), which gets expensive fast.
As a proud survivor of Dumb Bitch Disease, I judge my PC's power solely by how much RGB it has and how well it runs Minecraft
this goes opposite for if you have a GSYNC or Freesync monitor,
Not quite, GSync and Freesync turn of Vsync for you when they're on, but they don't function when your FPS exceeds the refresh rate, so you could still get tearing. Then it's your call whether you want to do a framerate cap or have Vsync on. I know Vsync can have input lag issues, but from what I've read it seems people prefer it to framrate caps so I just went with it because I'm lazy and figure I won't notice a bit of additional input lag when the response is already so quick.
I bought one recently. Things look smoother on it. If the bosses give you enough of your surplus value back its worth it. FPS remains the most important thing always but a high hz monitor really makes that bang
240hz is a sham. The human eye can't tell the difference between 120 and 240. We can barely differentiate anything above 60.
Agreed, 144hz is noticeably different from 60hz. I got some refurbished ones and going back to 60hz is painful. Everything just feels so laggy.
The "frame lag" you're talking about is just Hz or FPS rewritten in milliseconds per frame. But that's an important number to bring up, since it is definitely noticeable when something doesn't change for 16 ms versus 4 ms. 120 Hz is ~8 ms and 240 Hz is about ~4 ms.
Man, I can tell the difference between 140 and 120. There's a massive difference between 120 and 240.
i'll stay with my 75hz IPS because if i make my rig any better i'm gonna be destroying people left and right, it won't be fun for anybody involved
