I shoul've been clearer, sorry. I'm only playing on PC. No consoles or whatsoever. I'm not as experienced as you guys so I rely on you to provide me some advices.Chief Blur Buster wrote: ↑22 Apr 2020, 01:22Are you wanting to do 60Hz via PC or via console?
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If you're playing PC-based 60Hz, there's another trick: 60fps at 240Hz variable refresh rate, looks exactly like 60fps@60Hz, but at lower latency than fixed 60Hz (on either a 60Hz or 240Hz panel). So for your 60fps games, I recommend 240Hz with VRR enabled. That makes your 60Hz PC games ultra-low latency. Low-capped VRR (60fps at 240Hz) feels like a lagless VSYNC ON mode of sorts -- it's really fast, 60Hz refresh cycles are transmitted to the monitor in 1/240sec.
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Now, if you connect a fixed-Hz 60Hz console:
One problem with many 240Hz panels is that the panel refresh is not synchronous to the cable scanout at lower Hz. So that adds some input lag.
Not all pixels on an LCD refreshes all at the same time. Pixels are delivered one pixel at a time, left-to-right, top-to-bottom, as in high speed videos of LCD refreshing. This is how a two-dimensional picture is delivered over a one-dimensional video cable.
For lowest lag, the cable scanout is synchronous to the panel scanout, so the panel can refresh in realtime almost straight off the cable with minimal processing latency (rolling window processing).
But, there are some panels that only refresh at full velocity (e.g. can not "Sweep" the LCD slower than 1/240sec). Which means that monitor's motherboard has to buffer a slow-scanning 60Hz refresh off the cable, before it begins refreshing the 240Hz-only panel. That's essentially a scan-conversion behavior (changing the speed of the scanout). So that adds latency to a lower-Hz signal.
ASUS XG258 or XG248, as far as I know, are horizontal-scanrate synchronous to the input signal. This makes that panel an unusual specimen in being low-lag 240Hz and low-lag 60Hz. Not all 240Hz monitors are low-lag for 60Hz gaming consoles. If you need a 240Hz monitor that is also low-lag for PlayStation and XBox, then the XG series are the ones to get.
I saw the user named RLCScontender fiercely defend the MSI as the best console 240Hz IPS monitor, and the best overall. What's your opinion Chief? Knowing that I only play on PC.