Hello, Iam currently building a gaming and don't know if there is a difference between 120HZ and 60HZ or when i will get screen tearing.
Thanks, It would be well appreciated for you help. :)
Hey there!
The difference between 60Hz and 120Hz is the refresh rate of a monitor, and you can say it basically also means how many frames per second the monitor can handle.
In short: 60Hz = 60 fps, 120Hz = 120 fps.
So by choosing 120Hz you may notice your game will be a bit more 'smoothe' depending on what game it is, although as far as I can remember the human eye can't register when frames per second goes above 75.
Screen tearing is something that occurs when your display isn't in sync with the display refresh rate. An example could be your monitor is a 60Hz but you are playing a game where your graphicscard potentially can show 100 frames. To counter this you can put on V-sync which in short forces the video card to not show more than the refresh rate of your monitor and thereby preventing screen tearing.
I hope this helps, and if I am wrong on some of those points people are welcome to correct me.
1. yes this is true frame rates are locked to the ability of the monitor.
2. most grphical tearing comes from more frames being sent to the screen then it can handle.
3. the human eyes can infact see 1/220th images a micro second wich is thousands of frames persecond hence forth why our eyes can see a stars hum from light years away. that is light rays bouncing to your eye back and forth transmitting 2/100th image a micro second. while this is true they also precive light, shade, depth, all at the same time. check out the standford trials on this. it's pretty interesting stuff :P
unfortunatly nuroscience is not advanced enough at this present time to measure the callulated FPS the frontal cortex can precieve.
lets take a bullet for instance you can see a bullet that has been fired that moves thousands of frames per second but the frontal cortex blurs this due to the lazy nature of it's processing power. this is why animation works so well the frontal cortecs always holds on to the last frame it precieves creating motion.
The only thing you're wrong on is anyone who tell you that you can't see 120hz is just stupid.
I didn't say it was fact but remember I heard it somewhere, so no need for name calling. I already said people can correct me if I'm wrong in a nice way I think.
I was saying that the people you heard it from were idiots. Your statement implied that it wasn't your opinion being stated on viewable framerates.
Ah, no worries then. I read it on a site ages ago, but can't remember it now though :)
So do you think i would be okay with a 60HZ with a GTX 670 will playing battlefield 3? or should i just get the 120HZ monitor?
BF3 it won't even matter, In truth it won't make a difference at all unless you're already fairly good at some really twitch games (Counter Strike, Quake etc)
It will still look nicer but complete luxury.
So what 60HZ gaming monitor would you recomend?