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If you’re an eSports gamer or just play one online, a monitor’s refresh rate is of utmost importance. Though newbies are content with a traditional 60Hz, more advanced users typically opt for the much-faster 144Hz, and the most discerning go even beyond that, all the way up to a stratospheric 240Hz.
But what does this glorious refresh rate get you compared to a monitor with a lower refresh rate? First, it will help significantly with motion blur. The more times a moving image can be refreshed in a second the smoother it will appear. Second, since the image is being updated a greater number of times you have the possibility of reacting quicker to whatever is happening on screen. For a twitch gamer there’s nothing better than being able to respond faster than your enemy, and essentially it's just about having the fastest refresh rate possible so you're not giving up any performance at all.
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If you’re an eSports gamer or just play one online, a monitor’s refresh rate is of utmost importance. Though newbies are content with a traditional 60Hz, more advanced users typically opt for the much-faster 144Hz, and the most discerning go even beyond that, all the way up to a stratospheric 240Hz.
But what does this glorious refresh rate get you compared to a monitor with a lower refresh rate? First, it will help significantly with motion blur. The more times a moving image can be refreshed in a second the smoother it will appear. Second, since the image is being updated a greater number of times you have the possibility of reacting quicker to whatever is happening on screen. For a twitch gamer there’s nothing better than being able to respond faster than your enemy, and essentially it's just about having the fastest refresh rate possible so you're not giving up any performance at all.
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