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
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
All hail the IIyama Vision Master Pro 512, an old timer pushed to within an inch of its life.
For context, a Gameboy is 144p.
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?
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.
I don’t know where is the limit but I’m willing to keep trying. My previous monitor was 165 Hz and it was good. My new 480 Hz monitor it’s glorious when I can run the game at that speed. Played Boltgun and there where areas where it “only” ran at 360 Hz and others where it ran at full 480 Hz and the difference what noticeable and very satisfying.
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.
That's bull, your reaction time is always leagues slower. Not to talk about input lag, although it has gotten much better, it still adds 5 to 10 fps (on 145 fps) to the reaction time.
It's more of a moar = better thing, because most gamers are male teens/young adults, and no one in the industry fights the claims, because they make more money from expensive gaming hw.
Physically, the eye tops out at about 100 Hz; cones can't refresh their chemical faster than ~70 Hz but some effects with LCD (vs. CRTs line-by-line) increasing sensitivity.
But apparently, you can train your sensibility with computer work where you have to follow the mouse with your eye (CAD, artists, etc). I guess the neuron layer in the eye for preprocessing get optimized for smaller areas of sensitivity that way. Such trained people notice a stuttering in animations even if the focus is elsewhere, which is annoying.
At least, i'm not affected and can't tell the difference between 60 Hz and 30 Hz.So in short, it depends. If you aren't bothered, look for other specs.
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.
Higher refresh rate is definitely better yes, but 700 hz is well past the point of diminishing returns lol
BlurBusters have nice articles about this.
TL;DR: Less motion blur and less artifacts (like stroboscopic effects, which can also be visible at 480hz).
Wow, look at that refresh rate! Surely this’ll fix my skill issue! /s
I wanted to know how important this really would be. Human reaction times among gamers are on the order of 150-300 ms, and professional gamers mostly manage 150-200 ms. A view refreshing 700 times per second gives a new frame every 1.4 ms, while a view refreshing 60 times per second gives a new frame every 16.6 ms.
In a reaction timing heavy game, this would not be enough to bridge the gap between the fastest in the world and the slowest professionals, but it's on the right order of magnitude to make a difference in professional level play, up against a 60 Hz display. On the other hand, it's only a marginal step up from a 240 Hz display, and the loss in resolution must have an effect at some point.
There's probably games where this is better, but only when the difference is small, or the other display is handicapped.
I thought that said fastest "growing" monitor and holy shit was I confused
New Organic LEDs are wild
I used to own a ilyama crt, it died a honorable death around 2000-ish while i was playing Dark Age Of Camelot. RIP my friend, i will always remember your 18kg of glass and plastic fondly.
I have the 514. I OC'd it using xrandr on Linux a few years back at 280Hz merely for testing. Mind you, the maximum supported vertical refresh rate of that monitor is 200Hz. Not sure on the resolution but it was way below 1024x768. The monitor at that refresh rate made a humming noise that scared me and I went back to 240Hz which did not produce any noise. Those monitors were beasts.
But what for?
Doom, obviously.
That must feel absolutely fucking incredible
