His point is that if the card is rendering out 200fps, then that 200th frame will be closer to real time then whats would be shown if the card was putting out exactly 60fps. Also if you have played cs:go, you'd know that the game is very good about dealing with screen tears. I run at 400fps on my 144hz screen and it doesn't tear at all. The game is just made pretty well in that regard.
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This is true. I play on 60Hz capped at 121fps. Not tearing at all really. The point isn't to see the frames but to have smoother input.
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You won't regret it.
The build is mostly for CS:GO and he did say streaming which could also mean recording and that means lots of footage. Plus any more powerful GPU is useless in a source engine game.
Aye. If he's only going to be playing CS:GO, fine, but there's other games out there he'll defo see a performance increase in for going with a 290 over a 960 obviously. It's not like it's going to be exclusively a CS:GO machine that nothing gets played on, I doubt.
Going for an r9 290 would probably imply that you're playing at 1440p. Also trust me there are about 4 people on my steam friends list that only play DotA 2 and maybe war thunder for five minutes a year.
Actually there is a very small difference/advantage.
and in a fast paced game like CS a lot of people notice it.
I'm talking The latency from you giving the computer input to the image being display.. At 60hz one frame takes 16.66ms top render this doesn't count for other latencies in the system
If you're running 200+ fps you render time per frame is 5ms That more than 10ms of lowered latency that you * can * feel