Do i need 144hz?

image quality and 21.9 aspect ratio over HZ/performance for me personally.

I don't have any complaints with 60HZ though, my only gripe with VA/IPS is motion clarity. Would much rather have free/g sync over 144HZ, can't stand screen tearing.

I don't feel at any disadvantage in BC 2, BF 3 and 4 with a 60HZ IPS screen, I'm sure using a 144HZ screen would be much better though and improve my game play/scores but I don't play competitively, just for fun so it isn't really a concern.
 
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The key thing is that 120/144Hz monitor is simply not a good match for RTS and MMO, because CPU CANNOT maintain high frame rate at solid 80-100fps+ at all time, and frequently dip from like 120fps down to like 30fps within seconds...and it ain't a pleasant experience I tell you, because you eyes are used to the smoothness of 100fps+ in one secound, and then get shoved in the face by 30fps in the next.

Between the 60Hz/144Hz, dropping down to like 30fps is effectively like falling off from a high place vs falling off from a place twice as high...which hurt more I don't think I have to say.

I own a 120Hz monitor and I will tell you this- get a 120/144Hz monitors IF your PC can maintain a constant frame rate at least 80fps+ for the main categories of games you play, however if most of your games that you play are not going to be able to remain constant at those frame rate range, but would frequently dip to sub-60fps range due to CPU/graphic card limitation, you'd be much better off with a 60Hz IPS and ideally a 21:9 monitor.
 
I just bought the brand new BenQ 144hz 1440p Freesync monitor the other day, gotta say there's no way I'd go back to anything smaller than 27" or lower than 144hz ever again. And the colours on these new 8bit TN panels are really good, I'm incredibly happy with mine. Once you see 144hz screen in motion you will question why its taken you so long to make the jump.
 
Even after my first experience with the BenQ XL2411T, I wouldn't go back ... and it had TERRIBLE colours, poor panel uniformity and plenty of bleed by today's standards.

So much less eye strain (even better now with no PWM flicker and low blue light), so much smoother and moving images look so much better.

Main reason I'm not really bothered about adaptive synch is because even if there was a minute amount of tearing, I'd much rather have the monitor's refresh rate maxed the entire time.

Currently on a Viewsonic VG2401mh (one of the only 1920x1080 8bit TN panels). Image quality is astoundingly better than the old high refresh rate panels, and after calibration colours look far more accurate and realistic than the 2 year old LG IPS monitor I bought for photo editing.

You don't have to compromise anymore ... you can have high refresh, good colours and high res.
 
The colours aren't really the issue these days with TN (although IPS is better, you can't really compare an older display to a newer one, whilst TN improves each year so does IPS), it is more the contrast shift/viewing angles, which is more of a problem for the bigger screens.

Despite my last post in here, I am now very strongly considering getting the benq screen for a few reasons:

- the motion clarity is something that is really getting to me lately, my eye sight must be getting worse as it didn't bother me any where as much on my DELL/when I first got my lg UW :p
- screen tearing
- going to be a long wait till 21.9 34" 1440 144HZ free/g sync screens come along that aren't by acer
- stuttering in games because of FPS drops etc.
- lazy ass developers when it comes to 21.9 aspect ratio.....
 
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The colours aren't really the issue these days with TN (although IPS is better, you can't really compare an older display to a newer one, whilst TN improves each year so does IPS), it is more the contrast shift/viewing angles, which is more of a problem for the bigger screens.

Despite my last post in here, I am now very strongly considering getting the benq screen for a few reasons:

- the motion clarity is something that is really getting to me lately, my eye sight must be getting worse as it didn't bother me any where as much on my DELL/when I first got my lg UW :p
- screen tearing
- going to be a long wait till 21.9 34" 1440 144HZ free/g sync screens come along that aren't by acer
- stuttering in games because of FPS drops etc.
- lazy ass developers when it comes to 21.9 aspect ratio.....
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+1 - Some very same reasons I pulled the trigger to get the BENQ. Roll on tomorrow :D
 
I still think the FG2421 is the best monitor out there atm. Some will frown on the QC but my panel is pretty much perfect and the contrast murders pretty much any panel on the market. Not to mention it has maybe the best ULMB solution on the market as well.

I am ultra fussy, Hate Aliasing so i duno why you specifically want 1440p when you can use DSR/VSR. All the panels out there currently are a bit of a sham to be honest. 4K has jerky 60hz no thanks! IPS has horrible glow and contrast speciifically black no thanks.

And you also have to put up with all that nasty blur. You will be renders 50% of the screen space for what? Blur? And to think you could get one for £299 at one point is a joke compared to some of these £600+ monitors. At the minute the market is still lagging big time compared to CRT. And in 15 years of gaming i can tell you 100% that Eizo is pretty much a CRT. The only thing is lacks is viewing angles and Ultrawide but unless you sit off center i do not see the problem.
 
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