theangryregulator wrote:You saved me a bunch of time and energy so thanks again! I've been spending a lot of time overclocking/stress testing cpu and gpu for more fps and even looking at the 2080ti lol. I'm pretty satisfied with the gaming performance now that I know better.
PC hardware companies don´t want you to do these tweaks, because the "more fps, more hz, more everything" market is a strong selling point! This is why most people are not informed about how correctly tweak their setups.
Truth is, no one needs more than 144hz and 138fps, and even better with VRR. And for 1080p 138fps you can grab a mid range card, a mid range CPU and call it a day.
But do you think they want this to be the general rule? Hell no! That´s why Intel markted their i9 9900k 600€ CPU as "the best gaming CPU" with the highest framerates. That´s why they sell you 100€ CPU coolers so you can push those 5ghz for 200+fps. That´s why they try to tell you that RTX 2080 or 2080ti are a must for ultra graphics and very high framerates. The whole market goes around this. The big streamers usually have 240hz monitors, the best CPU , the best GPUs, while you see aimers like Relaa, Serious or Xfizz still with their 144hz setups and 130fps-140fps and owning everyone with their god tier aim.
Now you may ask "but Notty, you also got tons of 240hz monitors and have the best hardware possible". Yes true, because I was a fool. I like to test everything (I love mice and monitors since a kid, this is a passion), and I spent like 2 years trying to make 240hz my daily driver option and in the end I just found by mysel, that it is completly useless. My aim isn´t better and this only made me spend money. Now how to convince everyone else about this? Impossible... everyone has to try it to know what I´m talking about. And as there is no "VRR + 138fps 144hz perfect for Aiming" marketing, people will not know about it being the sweet spot for amazing aim.
Truth is, my LG on Quake is 55%, I´m called an
aimbotter regularly, and I´m at 144hz 138fps cap. 240hz did 0 for my LG, even made it slightly worse due to unstable framerates.
A lot of years ago, when I was a teen, I was also fooled by the SLI/Crossfire thing. Again, "MORE IS BETTER", so yeah let´s do SLI of an high end card and have a lot of frames. Except that... no... the micro stutter and compability issues from SLI/Crossfire solutions was AWFUL and I had to learn by myself that it was bad. Then finally some websites started to mention that dual GPU solutions add stutters and other problems and today we can finally say that Dual GPU solutions are basically dead and useless because almost no modern game supports it.
This society we live in, is all about money! We have to be careful with the marketing that is throwed at us. I still like to find stuff by myself, but it costs money. It costs time too, but I like to do tests, almost as much as gaming!