Best 240 hz Monitor for csgo?

Talk about NVIDIA G-SYNC, a variable refresh rate (VRR) technology. G-SYNC eliminates stutters, tearing, and reduces input lag. List of G-SYNC Monitors.
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Best 240 hz Monitor for csgo?

Post by M1keILL » 01 Nov 2017, 06:32

Whos got the best gsync or not

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Re: Best 240 hz Monitor for csgo?

Post by Chief Blur Buster » 03 Nov 2017, 11:46

Short answer: Practially any 240Hz monitor; currently even the worst 240Hz monitor will now successfully out-compete a typical 144Hz monitor, lag-wise. 240Hz is your proud badge of low display lag, full stop!

Long answer: “the devil is in the details”; read below.

Our tests has shown 240Hz is a great choice for professional CS:GO at practically any frame rate, even framerates well below 240fps will benefit from the lower lag of the faster scanout. The extra Hz really makes a competitive difference. If CS;GO is the main reason you’re buying, then you’re almost obviously looking for the best competitive advantage in a monitor, and that’s definitely 240Hz as you’ve already probably noticed in Jorim’s 240Hz input lag tests. While it tests GSYNC, it has a lot of non-GSYNC tests too (scroll down to “Beyond The Scanout” section)

The existence of GSYNC does sometimes provide other perks in the monitor that is used by some players (such as ULMB — more widely used for certain games, less so for others). GSYNC is useful for your other games that may fluctuate much more wildly in frame rates (e.g. PUBG, etc), most CS:GO players usually turn GSYNC off because CS:GO often run at frame rates above your refresh rate, but having the feature around is still useful if you anticipate playing other games (turn on/off GSYNC). Also, monitors with GSYNC often has better quality non-GSYNC modes for the same monitor — we’ve noticed that AOC’s GSYNC 240Hz monitor has better “plain 240Hz” (GSYNC turned off) than AOC’s non-GSYNC monitor — so it can be a badge of the manufacturer’s best 240Hz monitor.

As a general rule of thumb, brands:
  • BenQ/Zowie
    Any of their 240Hz monitors. If you like motion blur reduction, BenQ’s currently has the world’s lowest-lag strobing. DyAc is eSports-quality strobing.
  • AOC — get their GSYNC model, not the non-GSYNC model.
    Their GSYNC 240Hz monitor has better overdrive (even when GSYNC turned off) so the motion looks clearer, closer to proper 240Hz. Also, there is a frameskipping bug in the early firmwares of the non-GSYNC AOC (but fixable via CRU mode).
  • ASUS — they do very good 240Hz too.
  • ACER — they do very good 240Hz too.
  • ViewSonic — they do very good 240Hz too
    Note: If you’re using an older ViewSonic 240Hz (first shipments with first firmwares), install the easy CRU fix for frameskipped non-FreeSync mode.
The motion clarity differences (non-strobed) is negligible between all the above (the early AOC was an exception, but they’ve since fixed).

But what if I care about microseconds?
The lag differences are so extremely small between these, but I’ve noticed that BenQ/Zowie engineers and NVIDIA engineers tend to work hard in focussing on line-based realtime scanout processing (Avoiding framebuffer processing). But as long as the monitor has a VRR mode, the display is often capable of realtime scanout (no buffered monitor processing delay) even in non-VRR mode. The difference between realtime scanout processing (line buffers for overdrive processing) versus full refresh cycle processing (full framebuffer for overdrive processing) is only 1/240sec (4.1ms) so that’s your tiny spread of lag difference between the best-and-worst, in some cases mere hundreds microseconds differences, and often well inside the error margins by a lot of reviewer’s lag-testing equipment and game engines (lag jittering)! But if one wants to cherrypick for microseconds, go for the TN monitors that tout “Instant Modes” (like BenQ/Zowie) — but at these levels, you might not care unless you’re competing for money — the worst 240Hz currently out-competes 144Hz.

- If you don’t want strobing or variable refresh rate, focus on the above
- If you do WANT to have strobing, get either BenQ DyAc or get a GSYNC monitor (has ULMB)
- If you do WANT to have variable refresh rate, get either GSYNC or FreeSync (available on BenQ when DyAc is turned off) depending on your GPU.

For a list of 240Hz monitors, see
Official List of Best Gaming Monitors & 240Hz Monitors
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Re: Best 240 hz Monitor for csgo?

Post by idred » 04 Jan 2018, 17:19

I got the Acer Predator 27" 240hz, The reason is that 27" is perfect for 1080p. I would find 24" monitors way too small.

Acer is the only company who has a 27" 240hz monitor.

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