Hi. I'm looking at getting a new display, I've narrowed it down to a couple of options and would like some opinions please. A Aoc 27 inch led back-lit qhd wide-screen, 155hz 4ms Or Lenovo 27 inch qhd ips at only 75hz 4ms Any ideas please?
Ok I've been doing a bit of reading and come across mixed opinions regarding freesync and nvidia. Some say it don't work and some say if you use dp it works fine? I've found a msi curved 27 inch wqhd 170hz 1ms response ? Thanks.
There's a thing called "G-Sync Compatible" for monitors with Freesync that are known to work well with nvidia GPUs. See this page. I wouldn't venture an opinion on what's the best monitor for someone else, as the choice will depend on a lot of factors. What is the purpose? What is the budget? What is more important for you?
After a couple of days I must say tsw3 is a very nice experience at 2560x1440. Looks almost as good as 4k with the added bonus of high frame rates.
I thought the same, until I got a 4K monitor which supports 144Hz. It also has HDMI 2.1, so I can play XBX at 4k @ 120Hz. Yeah, it's expensive, but it's well worth the price tag.
I couldn't seem to get the performance I wanted at 4k. Could achieve high frame rates with the graphics settings toned down but really didn't see the point of gaming at 4k if the detail isn't 100%. At 1440 I can get around 160fps with all the settings on max, apart from scaling at 175%. Can the xbx do 120fps on max settings?
Hold up, you can get more than 60fps? Why? Personally, I'm happy with 30, and I can understand if people want 60, but how is it possible to even tell the difference between 60 and 120? I'm not sure how the above reads, it isn't supposed to be satire or anything sarcastic, but I do want to know, how can you tell the difference between 60 and 120 or 160 fps. Is there a limit to how high fps can go?
It's not so much the difference in frame rates that's noticeable but the smoothness. The game runs a lot more smoothly which I think is due to the gpu not dropping out 100 frames per second if that makes sense.
How do you mean smoothly? Do you get frame drop at 60fps and not at 160? I don't get any frame drops at 30fps.
I've been doing some research lately and from what I understand, if you have a gpu that's rendering @160fps hooked upto a display that can only do 60fps, the gpu has to discard or drop those extra 100 frames. All those frames missing every second is quite noticeable.
I have a 3090 and it runs TSW3 in 4K at 100+ fps on Ultra settings. My Series X can run TSW2 at 120fps on Ultra settings. It can run TSW3 as well, but there are too many bugs on XBox platform. Do not confuse FPS (frames per second) with the Refresh Rate (also frames per second). Just google "fps vs refresh rate" to learn more.
Interesting. I had never heard of the concept of refresh rate before. Thank you for telling me. So it really is impossible to "see" more than 60fps, but that doesn't mean it is impossible to render more. The screen will simply have to not show half of them!
Since we seem quite knowledgable here, can I ask how hot a laptop RTX 3070 is allowed to get? Task manager says it goes to 80 degrees Celsius while playing TSW3 and I'm not sure if that's healthy. (I only upgraded recently, so am quite new to this). While I'm at it, I might as well ask the same about the i7 - 12700H as well
I'd say 80c is about normal for a 3070 crammed into a laptop. I think anything above 90c is something to worry about. My desktop 3070 with its gigantic heatsink runs between 60-70c. 12700 I'm not sure. It's a mobile cpu so probably quite underpowered compared to a desktop cpu. But the tj max should be around 100c.
Ok cool thank you. Task manager doesn't tell me the CPU temperature, but I don't think it is hot enough to vaporise water. This is good news. How did you know it was a mobile CPU? I didn't know it was one.
Its a laptop, they generally have a mobile cpu or maybe these days the desktop variant but under clocked and underpowered. If you look up a desktop cpu that's 150w then find the same cpu In a laptop, you will usually find the laptop cpu will be around 40w.
You no longer need to monitor the temps for the CPUs and GPUs of today: they monitor themselves. If something gets too hot, it will throttle itself, thus reducing the temps back to normal. So, you should be worried if you notice freezes in your gaming. Other than that, just keep your laptop clean, no fluff on the vents, no awkward noise from the fans.
