Hertz or Pixels

Hertz or Pixels?

  • More Hertz (120+)

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • More Pixels (1440p+)

    Votes: 13 86.7%

  • Total voters
    15

cmyk78

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Jun 7, 2016
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I'm planning to buy a new monitor and I wanted to know what you guys think is more important; having a higher refresh rate, or having more pixels. Monitor recommendations are appreciated if you have any. The monitor I'm currently using is a 1080p 60hz IPS affair. I mostly game and watch Netflix. Some of the games I play are KSP, Space Engineers, City: Skylines, and Gmod.
 
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BirdofPrey

Standards Guru
Sep 3, 2015
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Can't say without knowing more about your use case.

For me, I don't game all THAT often, but when I do it's mainly RTS or other less fast pace twitch games, but I do a lot of work on my machine, so more screen real estate is preferable (as it stands, I use a 3 monitor setup, and have looked at ultrawide monitors since it fits two windows side by side better), though, admittedly, 120FPS would be nice for the flight sim type stuff.
 

QinX

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Mar 2, 2015
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Considering the games you are playing I would opt for pixels.
I'd rather have a 4K screen at 60Hz then a 1440p screen at 120Hz. Mostly I think because I haven't experience 120Hz panels yet and have seen 4K/HiDPI screens.
 

Phuncz

Lord of the Boards
SFFn Staff
May 9, 2015
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You can have both, I choose to: 3440x1440 @ 75Hz on a 34" screen. Now all I need is the rendering power for both...
Samsung has a 3440x1440 @ 100Hz planned and LG has a 3840x1600 @ 75Hz planned if I'm correct.

But personally I would have choosen resolution over refresh rate, because I can't stand most high refresh rate screens that use TN panels, I prefer good and accurate colors and a wide viewing angle more, which IPS and VA provide.
 

cmyk78

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cmyk78

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Yeah I saw that I'm currently debating whether I want IPS or the extra hertz. Currently I'm leaning towards IPS.