(Might depend on the game.) But the motion will be noticeably less smooth than at 165. If you have a card that's capable of 165Hz but you set the game to display at 60Hz, I don't think it will stutter. Stutter isn't the same thing as frame rate, but they tend to be correlated if you're limited by your graphics card or your CPU's rendering performance.

I was actually checking Task Manager until I realized the problem was 60Hz. When I next fired up Titan Quest (a very slow-paced ARPG), I thought something was sucking up system resources as the stutter was horrific. Then after about a week of 165Hz, I was testing something which caused it switch back to 60Hz. Even after I moved to 165Hz I didn't notice much difference. I don't think that's the reason, more of getting used to something because you've never seen anything better. I've never figured out how I could have routinely played games at 30FPS in 2000 and been perfectly happy with the framerate, but there it is. Then I found out that the Xbox download version of Borderlands 2 was locked to 30FPS, and I'd been playing on PC at 60FPS. Then I bought Borderlands 2 as an Xbox download, and I thought, 'WTF is wrong with this game?' It was nearly giving me motion sickness. So I thought, if people could play at 18 FPS in 1996, then everybody has to be a bunch of whiners b/c they can't get 60FPS in 2016.' Heck, I remember gaming magazines calling FPS in the high teens 'playable but not optimal'. I used to be skeptical about this, because back in the 90s people used to game at 20-30 FPS and call it pretty good. It used to matter in the bad old days when monitors flashed but they don't anymore. This is why gamers almost universally say they notice the difference going to frame rates above 60.īut for work? Doesn't matter unless your work is making games or producing above 60 Hz video. In gaming, peripheral vision is also important and you may notice the unsmoothness in your peripheral vision, because your peripheral vision is faster. 60 is about what it takes to get the illusion of smooth motion in your central vision, nominally but your eyes are not synched with the video frame rate so realistically you can still see some jerkiness and trailing even in your central vision at 60Hz. 30 Hz is too slow because you will have noticeably jerky motion. Just make sure it has HDMI 1.4 or DisplayPort 1.2 or better.ĭesktop WORK? No. If you are looking for the cheapest, I would go for a GT 730 on ebay. Yup, 60Hz support is minimal acceptable refresh rate for any desktop work.

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