if I only get up to 109 FPS does that mean I am not taking full advantage of the 144HZ?

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To take FULL advantage of a 144Hz screen the system must be able to produce a MINIMUM of 144 FPS-no such machine outside of a lab exists.

n1ghtr4v3n

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100 hz is somewhat equal to 100 fps, not in a direct way but yea...
it is like 100 oranges is equal to 100 tangerines lets say :)
(Its a quote from somewhere else)

Well as for your question, lets say on a 120hz you would be having the same experience, as 120hz and 144hz monitors are overkill for your frames per second output. so yes, your gpu is producing less frames than the monitor can actually show.

But to be honest it doesnt really matter as above 60hz or 60fps it seems almost the same for human eye. the important thing is to match the fps as much as you can with the refresh rate of monitor, in this case you are good to go.
 

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that's not true at all... Almost every high end GPU can reach that with ease at certain settings. Every competitive gamer plays with over 140fps. CS:GO, BF3. I get over 200fps in CO:GO, bf3 over 120...
 
^ My point is the system must reach an minimum of 140FPS, any less and it is not keeping up with the monitor.
Competitive gamers tune their games, cutting out much of the framerate sapping eye candy the rest of us expect to see in our games, if I want to play with the eye candy turned off, I'll get a console.
 

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lol well playing with "eye candy" on can cause fps drops and such that me and other competitive gamers don't like. I for one do not like to put myself at a disadvantage. :| Also with CS:GO you can have full settings and still run at 200fps constant ^^
 

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It does exist....

- A GTX 760 can run Minecraft on max settings at 300 fps...
- GTX 780TI can run Battlefield 4 on max settings at 150 fps...

so yeay