Subj : Monitor upgrade: 144Hz
To   : All
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Oct 23 2024 08:28:45

I previously had been using a 4K 60Hz monitor since 2019 (an LG, which I think is a good monitor), but I've heard higher refresh rates can be good for gaming. Recently I bought one of these LG 4K 144Hz monitors, since the price has come down a bit:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094RWMN8K

I also had some credit card rewards I used, which brought the price down to about $256 for me.  (Also, now that I check it again, I see the price is now down to about $500, from about $512 when I bought mine just over a week ago..)

I set it up with my PC last night, replacing my previous monitor.  Although I haven't had much time to use it yet, I tried playing one game (Overload, which is a 2018 game that's a sequel to the classic Descent 2 PC game).  It has a vsync setting but only goes to 60Hz, so I just turned off vsync.  I'm not sure what framerate I was actually getting, but the video from the game was very smooth.

The next game I want to try with it is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.  I think my PC setup should be able to provide a good frame rate (my PC has an Intel i9-9900K and a Nvidia RTX 3080 TI).

Nightfox
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