60hz vs 120hz vs 144hz

ur not ment to see the difference between 60hz and 120hz

your ment to feel it.. completely different i can tell what hz a montior is using just by moving the mouse!
 
Have to disagree here but the visual difference is obvious (to me at least) between 60hz and 120hz. If i go in a game and lock the frame rate to 60 i can see trailing/ghosting, going to 120 makes a big difference in overall smoothness.

The benefit is seeing and feeling. Also the frame response times in milliseconds between 60fps and 120fps is 16ms down to 8ms. And 30fps is 33ms which is probably why most people see the biggest difference from 30 to 60. 30 looks like it chugs quite a bit.
 
I can't say it's vastly different to me. I just lost 144hz temporarily as my gpu is gone rma. It's a noticeable difference, but i cant say that i couldn't go back. The change is not as pronounced as it was on crt displays. That said, ive performed much better in competitive fps since i got the 144hZ panel.
 
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It seems like the general consensus is once you go 120/144 it's hard going back? Maybe once I see one of these monitors in person it'll feel different. Thank you for the replies guys. :)
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No, it's an exaggeration, but you'll find plenty of hyperbole on english-speaking forums (I don't know why), especially when it comes to things that are hyped or aggressively marketed as the "only logical choice".

I sent back an Acer XB271HU after two weeks and had absolutely no trouble using 60hz again. I really don't mind it at all. Sure, the extra smoothness is nice in FPS, but I find myself forgetting about such stuff if the game is captivating enough. Of course I see the difference, but I don't "feel" it if a game captivates me, because I'm too busy gaming to notice smoothness difference :D

Also, witcher 3 and alike, I saw almost no difference between 100fps on that monitor and 60. You really need a first person shooter to make it worthwile.

Of course some people will argue on stuff such as smoother cursor movement, but come on... I don't even actively LOOK at my cursor when doing anything, browsing or working, so I don't even notice the cursor 99% of the time. And it's irrelevant anyway, do we pay a small fortune to see smoother cursor movement? "desktop experience", well, thanks but no thanks :P
 
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think about the gap between frames, 30hz is 33.3ms frame time, 60hz is 16.67ms, 90hz is 11.1ms, 120 is 8.33ms, 144hz is 6.94ms. YOu effectively have diminishing returns due to the frame time difference. The difference between 30hz and 60 is 16.67ms, the gap between 60 and 90hz(same size gap) is 5.56ms, or only 1/3 of the reduction. So while seeing the 16.67ms gap between 30 and 60hz is easy, and seeing the gap 8.3ms gap between 60 and 120hz is easy, the 1.4ms gap between 120 and 144 is extremely small and by comparison an extremely small improvement. It's also why 165hz is just as pointless, not least because the screens that 'offered' it were just overclocked and many seemingly didn't actually achieve those rated speeds without problems and the 200hz screens with a full 1.94ms advantage over 144hz was a tiny improvement (though not bad in terms of percentage), and the 200hz screens were even less available, even more overpriced and failed even more often.

Without question 120hz screens are better than 60hz. But this is a youtube video, it's probably only running 30fps and not even 60fps, so all should realistically look about the same on camera. They might look a touch sharper due to motion blur but that will be very hard to tell in a video. the video is just of him reacting and if about if HE can see the difference, the video isn't supposed to be showing you the difference itself to judge for yourself.
 
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The difference between 60 and 144 is huge for me. I'm not sure if i'd be able to tell the difference between 120 and 144 though.

I played Rocket League at 60hz after playing at 144 and not only was it visually noticeable, I couldn't hit the damn ball!

I don't want to lose 144hz so much i've put off buying a new ultra-wide monitor until they can handle it.
 
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