Can my pc handle a 120hz monitor?

[The Witness]

I bought a new pc and i need a monitor now, i want to buy a 120hz one, but i don't know if it can handle it

These are the specs:

• Intel® Core™ i5-4460 3,40GHz 6Mb Cache
  
• Mother ASUS B85M-G Socket 1150
  
• Ram Kingston HyperX Fury DDR3 8GB
  
• graphic card XFX Radeon R7 370 4GB

I want to play mainly: LoL, DotA, CS:GO, SC2, Rift and that kind of stuff

[[☥] - CJ -]

the CPU is fine, GPU i have no experience with AMD, but as its an R7 it probably wont be good

[Zoid Bacon]

I would recommend getting a 120Hz monitor if you can. Even if you can't currently hit 120 fps in most games, you never know when you might upgrade your GPU and be able to take advantage of the higher refresh rate.

There's nothing wrong with playing games at 60 fps on a 120Hz monitor. That said, you might very well be able to hit 120 fps in several of those games since they aren't very demanding.

If it's within your budget, go for the higher refresh rate!

[Purple Paws]

Presuming you want to use this only for competitive games(LoL, Dota and CS:go, all of which are quite lightweight), you should be OK(Like CJ, I don't have much knowledge with AMD, so you should probably chekck this). If you want use this for all games then I'de stick with a 60Hz monitor. If you do decide to go with a 120Hz monitor, I read that you can use AMD's Catalyst Control Centre to control the refresh rate.. you could switch between 60 and 120 Hz cap depending on what game you're playing(I'm not sure how easy it is to change this). Hope this helps

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[The Witness]

Originally posted by GehringGame:

I would recommend getting a 120Hz monitor if you can. Even if you can't currently hit 120 fps in most games, you never know when you might upgrade your GPU and be able to take advantage of the higher refresh rate.

There's nothing wrong with playing games at 60 fps on a 120Hz monitor. That said, you might very well be able to hit 120 fps in several of those games since they aren't very demanding.

If it's within your budget, go for the higher refresh rate!

Also, which cable should i use to connect the Graphic card with the monitor? If i connect a hdmi 1.4 it should work fine, right?

Originally posted by ๖ۣۜPʏʀᴇѕιτᴇ:

Presuming you want to use this only for competitive games(LoL, Dota and CS:go, all of which are quite lightweight), you should be OK(Like CJ, I don't have much knowledge with AMD, so you should probably chekck this). If you want use this for all games then I'de stick with a 60Hz monitor. If you do decide to go with a 120Hz monitor, I read that you can use AMD's Catalyst Control Centre to control the refresh rate.. you could switch between 60 and 120 Hz cap depending on what game you're playing(I'm not sure how easy it is to change this). Hope this helps

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Ty for answering, i'll try with a 120hz one and use this tool when needed

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Don't buy a 120Hz one, most of those are all out-dated; buy a 144Hz one
Such as what is available from ACER, ASUS, BENQ

[The Witness]

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Don't buy a 120Hz one, most of those are all out-dated; buy a 144Hz one
Such as what is available from ACER, ASUS, BENQ

Thanks for the suggestionand, and about the cable to connect the Graphic card with the monitor, whats the best option? DVI or HDMI?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Best options are Digital of course; that means DVI, HDMI, or DisplayPort
HDMI or DisplayPort can offer the user a means of outputting Sound along with your Video over to your Display, even if the Display itself does not have onboard Speakers, usually the Display would have Analog or Optical Audio Output on the Display, which grabs the audio stream from either active HDMI or DisplayPort connection that is being used, allowing that audio to be output to External Speakers or AV Receiver.

DVI is also fine, that just does not offer any audio options to transfer from GPU to Display.

On my Displays I prefer to use DVI for most of anything PC related. If it is a newer system, like a high end gaming PC with a more recent GPU, then DisplayPort. I tend to try and reserve a display's HDMI, in case I wish to hookup a Tablet, Phone, Xbox/PlayStation

[Azza ☠]

Any graphics card can support 120/144Hz high refresh rate. It just depends on it's FPS output to whether or not it makes good use of it.

Without FreeSync (if AMD) or G-SYNC (if Nvidia) which can sync refresh rate to FPS output, the monitor refresh would actually be locked back down. Hense V-SYNC works at 30, 60, or 120. Lets say you got on average 72 FPS. V-SYNC would cap it at 60 FPS. Therefore you would still be 60Hz monitor quality. It's just 60x2 = 120Hz. There would be no point in 120Hz, except for future proofing and getting the FPS up higher.

So keep an eye out for one that has FreeSync, if planning to use just that graphic card.

Suggest BenQ XL series or similar, for gaming purposes.

Your best cable to support 120Hz would be:

- DisplayPort 1.2 or better
- Duel-Link DVI

I wouldn't recommend HDMI, but if so, it would need to be version 1.4b or 2.0 to achieve 1920×1080 resolution at 120 Hz.