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60hz monitor wasted with gtx780?

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July 19, 2014 9:02:39 PM

Hey I'm just building a gaming rig for fps like bf4 I have a evga gtx 780

And a benq rl2455 monitor which has a 1 ms response time but is 60hz am I wasting my graphics card cause doesn't that mean the monitor can only show 60 fps?

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July 19, 2014 9:04:25 PM

I would hardly call that a waste, yes it will display 60 FPS max, but do you really need more?
It will keep 60 FPS steady, higher refresh rates, harder to support stable FPS.
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July 19, 2014 9:06:36 PM

I'm pretty new to all this so I don't know I know my cards able to produce huge frame rates with the right settings just thought that it would feel smoother with a 120 hz monitor wondering if I should upgrade it
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July 19, 2014 9:09:26 PM

Honestly most people cant tell the difference between 60 and 120Hz, I wouldnt spend the money to replace the monitor now.
If you were playing professionally I might, but for regular gaming, it will be fine.
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July 19, 2014 9:11:24 PM

Gam3r01 said:
I would hardly call that a waste, yes it will display 60 FPS max, but do you really need more?
It will keep 60 FPS steady, higher refresh rates, harder to support stable FPS.


This, it isn't like 60FPS is the downfall of all games lol.
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July 19, 2014 9:17:47 PM

You'll find that the only people who can tell you if 120hz is better will be those that bought a 120hz monitor, and they're not going to tell you they wasted their cash. People who haven't bought one will say there's no point.

Either way, your gtx 780 is not wasted.
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July 19, 2014 9:18:36 PM

ok so can somebody answer me this, my monitor runs at 60hz in catalyst control center it shows i can set it up to 75hz. what does the refresh rate specify? will it show me some sort of gain? i play watch dogs at 50-60 fps with the radeon 7950 will it cause my fps to drop? my monitor is the asus vh236h here (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...)
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July 19, 2014 9:20:19 PM

Refresh rate specifies how many frames per second it can display. So in your case 75 FPS is the max. However, you wont suffer any loss if you go under this, you just wont get higher performance going over it.
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July 19, 2014 9:25:08 PM

From what I've seen in the monitors I've used, the 75Hz refresh rate is usually within a specific aspect ratio.
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July 19, 2014 9:27:03 PM

techtechie said:
ok so can somebody answer me this, my monitor runs at 60hz in catalyst control center it shows i can set it up to 75hz. what does the refresh rate specify? will it show me some sort of gain? i play watch dogs at 50-60 fps with the radeon 7950 will it cause my fps to drop? my monitor is the asus vh236h here (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...)


It means at some of the lower supported (non-native) resolutions, you can have a higher frequency. At you native resolution, it supports 60Hz. Running a lower resolution isn't worth the extra 15 frames a second you might get out of your monitor. I say might because some very graphics intensive games (Metro LL) probably won't play smoothly at 60Hz at your native resolution, so lowering the resolution won't net you 75Hz either.
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July 19, 2014 9:33:17 PM

I would not call it a waste at all. Think about it this way, if you plan on playing Battlefield 4 with your current setup and can get an average of 60 fps on the max settings on a 60 hz monitor, wouldn't that be great. Even if your system could push the fps to 70 fps on max settings, you are only losing 10 fps. I don't know how much fps your system can do on that game, but unless you know for certain that it is well over 60 fps consistently, then I don't see any reason to upgrade to a monitor that offers the ability to see those extra fps.

And are you certain that you can actually see a noticeable difference in the higher fps. Many people cannot tell a difference. And while you say that you are playing mainly Battlefield 4, isn't the next Battlefield coming out soon? How many fps do you think that you would get playing that game with max settings? Maybe less than you currently do with Battlefield 4, so even if you could get 70 fps with #4, but will only get 60 fps with #5, wouldn't that take away from the whole point of upgrading monitors.

Leaving the arguments aside of how many fps your system can push and the one about whether or not you can actually see the difference personally, we are left with a bit more to consider. Such as, do you have it in your budget to switch monitors right now, or sometime soon? Do you really consider it worth doing, and would you then plan on playing with a multi-monitor setup? Because you would probably lose fps if you did that.

I am assuming that you are just playing the game for fun, and not being super competitive or doing it professionally, so that is another reason that you don't really need to upgrade your monitor. Professional players better monitors because literally every frame helps, that means a fraction of a second sooner you might be able to see the enemy and take them out.

If you plan on playing other games, or don't mind turning down the settings to get that 144 fps or higher, then by all means go for getting a new monitor. But I personally would stick to what I have for a while if you are happy with it so far. For my setup, I turn on VSync and have a LCD tv that I use for gaming. It is only 60Hz so I just max out the games and let the fps hit 60. So right now I am playing through Tomb Raider (already rented it at release on the console, but picked up the PC version from Steam a few days ago). I am playing with all of the settings maxed out and the benchmark test shows my average of 60 fps when VSync is on. That is great for Tomb Raider, but some games I play I know that I would easily hit 144 fps with the settings maxed out, but am limited by my tv. Sure I would like a nicer tv, but there will always be a nicer one to game on, so I just stick with the one I have and know that while I can max out the games right now at 60 fps, I will be able to do that for the next few years easily too.

You can always be chasing the next big upgrade. Even if you upgrade your monitor right now to a better one, you might end up wanting to upgrade your GPU sooner with the argument that you could get more performance out of your monitor. And that might create a cycle of upgrading. Not saying that is bad, but just another potential point to consider. Sorry to be so long winded, but it comes down to this: If you are happy with the settings and fps you are getting right now, then I would not worry about upgrading. And the longer you wait to upgrade, the cheaper and better the upgrades can become.
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