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This is not a typo: The world's fastest gaming monitor may well be this ancient IIyama CRT unit, pushed [modded] to 700 Hz at a glorious 120p resolution (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For context, a Gameboy is 144p.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

What exactly is the point of all those extra Hz? I get that in this case it's just a "because we can" kind of situation, but in general... I've never paid any attention to refresh rate and it has never affected me. Is higher really better?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

After a certain point, no, not really. 30 FPS is good for basic video. 60 is good for fine motion (sports, fast video games). 120 is good enough for basically every regular viewing use case. Beyond 144, it's really diminishing returns. You know how when something starts spinning really fast, it just turns into a blur? Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

On not so super super technical level, being able to see something updating on your screen before your opponents, can give you an advantage. Provided you can also react fast enough for it to matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Up to a certain extent, yeah. The faster an image appears on the screen, the sooner your can perceive it and start to react. But it’s a diminishing return. The difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS is perceptibly much bigger than the difference between 60 and 90. Beyond about 180-240, it becomes faster than any human alive can perceive. Even 144 is fast enough for nearly everyone to reach their theoretical peak performance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Higher refresh rate is definitely better yes, but 700 hz is well past the point of diminishing returns lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

years and years and years ago I bought a used huge ass flat screen CRT from a huge thrift store in the US that focused on selling books, cds, videogames and hardware. think it was called Bookmans. thing was massive, an absolute beast. They used to use it for their POS terminals. It was by far the best monitor I ever had.

Lugging that thing around to LAN parties was a pain in the ass though but I loved it. I miss CRTs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Counter Strike gamers will still call it better than 16:9

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I thought that said fastest "growing" monitor and holy shit was I confused

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

New Organic LEDs are wild