Ultra High Refresh Displays Worth It?

[ShreddersonM8]

Kind of torn at the moment. I can't decide what kind of monitor I want to upgrade to. Ill have plent of time to decide as I wont be purchasing it until this time next year at the earliest.

My main question is, ultra high refresh rates, 240hz or the 360hz monitors that will be released later this year, are they worth it? Ill give some context about my gaming habits to help answer.

My current monitor is a 1440p 144hz monitor, and I pretty much only play first person shooters on it, other games such as the witcher 3 or gta 5 or other single player games i use my tv instead, so these games wont suffer any visual downgrade if i get a lower res monitor. I also play mainly on ultra settings with fps games cos i like nice visuals as well as frame rate. Though if its reasonable that i will enjoy higher refresh rates more, then i dont mind sacrificing them for even more frames.

Im not super competetive or a god at these games, but i am a fair bit better than average, though im still a casual player that plays for fun and challenge. Would i be better served by turning all settings down and playing on a higher refresh 1080p monitor, or upgrade to a better 1440p 144hz monitor (current monitor is a tn panel)

I wont be making this purchase for some time, so maybe by that point the choice will be between 1080p 360hz and 1440p 240hz at reasonable prices, so it would also help if you could "future proof" your answer so to speak.

Thanks for any advice, and sorry for being a bit rambly.

[Autumn_]

BurntByHellfire の投稿を引用：

no, it isnt worth it, i have a monitor that goes above 144hz and you cannot see a difference above 120hz.. anything higher than 120 is marketing

Correction. YOU can't see the difference, doesn't mean other people can't.
I haven't had a chance to test 165hz (♥♥♥♥♥♥ DP version doesn't support 1440p165hz, only 144hz), but I can clearly see a difference between 120hz and 144hz.

Sidenote, maybe I should drop the res to 1080p or 720p and boost the refresh rate to 165+hz.

[nullable]

BurntByHellfire の投稿を引用：

no, it isnt worth it, i have a monitor that goes above 144hz and you cannot see a difference above 120hz.. anything higher than 120 is marketing

I wouldn't agree. Not because I can see a difference or refresh rate is important to me. But some people are more sensitive to those details. For me anything above 80-90 is good enough. I do think it becomes harder to see a difference, but not impossible.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

60hz gives me a headache, 120+hz does not.

[Ulfrinn]

Brockenstein の投稿を引用：

BurntByHellfire の投稿を引用：

no, it isnt worth it, i have a monitor that goes above 144hz and you cannot see a difference above 120hz.. anything higher than 120 is marketing

I wouldn't agree. Not because I can see a difference or refresh rate is important to me. But some people are more sensitive to those details. For me anything above 80-90 is good enough. I do think it becomes harder to see a difference, but not impossible.

Some people convince themselves they see a difference after they've blown an extra $200 to get 240hz over 144. Others here touting 240hz just from talking to them you can tell haven't actually used it, but are just repeating hype. Test it for yourself, judge for yourself honestly, and take opinions with a grain of salt.

[nullable]

Well I wasn't commenting on 204hz screens and neither were you specifically, anything above 120hz you said. So moving the goalposts to an extreme doesn't really strengthen your argument.

And like I said, I'm mostly fine with anything about 80-90hz. I certainly believe there's diminishing returns on what you see/benefit from the higher you go. I would go so far as to say the benefits of going from 60hz to 120hz is pretty huge, but the higher you go the more incremental the results are. And whether people can really see a difference or not becomes a hard thing to argue about. How can you determine who can and who is just fibbing to themselves?

Belief is a funny thing after all. Whether people believe they can see hundreds of FPS or hz or they believe what they can see is the ultimate upper limit human being perceive and that value is arbitrarily low.

In fact the way people see is pretty complicated and highly variable so any single value is bound to be wrong, or at least overly simplified. And I'm not really interested in trying to prove that someone can't see the difference between 120hz and 144hz, or 120hz and 165hz, or 120hz and 240hz. You're welcome to try though, but good luck with that, it's a recipe for frustration methinks.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I would never trade 144/165 for 240/360 if that means staying on 1080p.

I realize there are 1440p at 240hz now, but those are fairly new.