120Hz vs 60Hz Monitors. What's the difference? For Gaming

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Nitesdeath

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My main pc components are the following

MOBO- m5a97 LE r3.0

CPU - AMD FX 6300

GPU - GTX 650

I'm not sure if saying what my PC parts are is needed but anyways getting to the point, is there a major difference between 60Hz and 120 Hz monitors? For Gaming of course

I play games like WoW, LoL, DayZ, Dota 2, Loadout, and Hearthstone.
 
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^ Sorry, you're right. I totally missed the list of games you play.

For those ones, especially the ones running on the source engine (beautiful piece of work that it is), you should be pretty well off. I can actually play Portal at 1440p with playable framerates and high settings on a gtx 650.

As long as you know that you aren't going to be getting Crysis 3 to play at full settings, then you're golden.



That being said, I don't know that a 120hz monitor is going to be that useful for you. Generally where they shine is for FPS games, which might also apply to DOTA... but for MMOs, I would always take a higher resolution so that I have more room to put my hotbars.
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Well the 120Hz monitor outputs double the framerate, but in blind tests the avarage gamer or pc enthusiast couldn't tell the difference between 60 and 120. Also, your card isn't powerful enough to drive a 120Hz panel. Hz = frames per second (basically)
 
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Those tests are utter bull. It's like taking somebody with color blindness and asking them to tell the difference between shades of red and green.

Any average gamer or PC enthusiast who has actually used a 120hz monitor (for about a week - long enough to let your eyes get adjusted) can tell the difference very very quickly. The 60hz monitor will no longer feel nearly as fluid, input lag will be more noticeable, even scrolling webpages will be irritating compared to what they're now used to.

That being said, you're correct, a GTX 650 isn't even close to good enough to play games at ~100fps with decent settings.... but then again, I have one in my media PC, and it isn't really good enough to play games at ~40fps and medium/high settings.
 
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^ Sorry, you're right. I totally missed the list of games you play.

For those ones, especially the ones running on the source engine (beautiful piece of work that it is), you should be pretty well off. I can actually play Portal at 1440p with playable framerates and high settings on a gtx 650.

As long as you know that you aren't going to be getting Crysis 3 to play at full settings, then you're golden.



That being said, I don't know that a 120hz monitor is going to be that useful for you. Generally where they shine is for FPS games, which might also apply to DOTA... but for MMOs, I would always take a higher resolution so that I have more room to put my hotbars.
 
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Nitesdeath

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Thank you for the useful info :)
 
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Just want to add that a trained eye can definitely tell the difference between 120hz and 60hz. Anyone who is the typer of person who HAS TO HAVE that 60 fps or 120fps can tell the difference between the two. To me it's very easy to notice the difference imo.
 
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