Should I get a monitor with a high refresh rate?

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Should I get a monitor with a high refresh rate? Many players will first focus on the refresh rate in the purchase of monitors, or even the pursuit of higher refresh rates, from 144Hz to 165Hz or even to 240Hz. But only look at the refresh rate is actually not enough, if your platform has shortcomings, then the high refresh rate monitor instead of spending more money.

A brief introduction to the refresh rate, refresh rate refers to the number of times the monitor is refreshed on a second page, the unit is Hertz (Hz), for example, the monitor is refreshed 60 times in a second, then the refresh rate of this monitor is 60 Hz. theoretically the higher this value, the more smooth the image seen by the human eye.

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The corresponding frame rate is what we often call FPS (Frames Per Second) in games, it refers to the number of frames per second, specifically in games is the number of times the graphics card outputs the screen per second, for example, the graphics card can render the output screen 60 times per second, then it corresponds to a frame rate of 60 FPS.

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Many players believe that the higher the refresh rate of the monitor, the more smooth the display, in fact, it is necessary to match the hardware and software. Want to experience a 144FPS game, first of all, the game can not lock frame, if the game itself lock frame, need to unlock after getting higher than 144 frame rate in order to have a smooth basis, can not be unlocked then give up the high brush monitor it.

The second thing is the hardware performance to achieve high frame rate output, especially the graphics card. Generally speaking, to experience a smooth 144FPS picture, the average frame rate of the graphics card should be higher than this value, because the rendering speed of the graphics card is not uniform, so an average frame rate of 144 will result in a less than silky smooth picture some of the time.

The last is the monitor, experiencing 144FPS screen naturally needs 144Hz high brush monitor, if focus on the quality of the picture, you need to open the game vertical synchronization, which means that the graphics card and monitor display screen can be synchronized refresh, effectively avoid screen tearing, further enhance the game experience.

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The advanced vertical sync is G-Sync/FreeSync technology. G-Sync is a hardware-level vertical sync technology launched by NVIDIA, while FreeSync is a technology launched by AMD, which allows the monitor refresh to follow the graphics card, reducing tearing while avoiding unnecessary screen delays.

Monitors equipped with G-Sync/FreeSync can display images in a more timely manner and reduce interference to users by reducing tearing, so it is also necessary to give priority to monitors equipped with G-Sync/FreeSync for gamers with high requirements for display images.

In other words, the smoothness of the game screen depends on the relationship between the refresh rate, frame rate and the game, this relationship is somewhat similar to the barrel effect, that is, the lowest of the three factors determine the smoothness of the screen, if your game and hardware can not fully support 144FPS, there is no need to pursue the 144Hz monitor.
 
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