60Hz And 144Hz Monitors -The fact that you have probably come across when informing yourself of the technical specifications of various monitors is the refresh rate, which remains measured in Hertz (Hz). The refresh rate, also called the refresh rate, is the number of times per second that a monitor can refresh the image on the screen and update it. This article tells you the differences between 60Hz and 144Hz monitors, two of the most common values in this regard, intending to help you in your next purchase.
This rate remains expressed in Hertz (Hz), which remains used for many other things since a Hz indicates the number of times something happens in a second. In this sense, a 60Hz monitor updates the image on the screen 60 times every second. While the 144Hz monitor does so 144 times every second. Therefore, a 144Hz monitor is more responsive than a 60Hz monitor, thus offering a more realistic image. And that leads us to conclude that a 144Hz one is better if another series of circumstances occur in the computer.
Hz And Fps, Intimately Linked
To choose between 60Hz and 144Hz monitors and know which one is more appropriate for our computer. We must clarify the concept of frames per second (FPS). The FPS number is the number of images that your computer’s graphics card remains capable of generating in one second. You have to remember that your equipment has to give a sensation of movement to show still images one after the other very quickly: 24fps, 25fps, 30fps, and 50fps. In this way, 1Hz should correspond to 1fps.
Why Is It Important To Know This Information?
Because if both figures do not go hand in hand, synchronization and image problems may appear. Although they are practically only noticeable in gaming. For example, the ‘screen tearing’: The monitor is 60Hz, but the computer outputs more than 60fps. Which causes the screen to display two or more frames simultaneously. The remedy remains already invented: the Vsync. Which blocks the number of FPS so that they are not higher than the Hz of the monitor. But this has some ‘collateral effect’: the computer’s performance drops, and ‘stuttering’ or stuttering may appear, like frame instability.
Some ‘input lag’ may also appear, a delay between the screen and the mouse or keyboard. In the opposite case, if the monitor offers more Hz than the FPS that the graphics card can generate. There is no imbalance, there is simply no improvement in image quality, and there is no greater fluidity. Or put another way: we are ‘throwing Hz away.’ So, is a 144Hz monitor better than a 60Hz one? Not always. It is better only if your computer’s graphics card is powerful enough to generate the FPS that the monitor is capable of updating. And that the relationship between both values is more or less proportional.
Gaming Laptop Screens At 144 Hz And 3 Ms. Will Be Exclusive To Asus But At A High Price
We already know that AU Optronics was the first company to create 4K panels at 120 Hz. Which can reach 144 Hz using OC. Now Asus has signed an exclusivity agreement with which AU Optronics would produce its new panels at 144 Hz and 3 ms of response only for the brand’s laptops, leaving the rest of the companies on the market without options to achieve it.
The New Asus Gaming Laptops Will Have An Inaccessible Price
That Asus has exclusivity implies that its new gaming laptops with 144 Hz panels with 3 ms have pretty exorbitant prices. We have already been able to verify with its unique 4K monitors at 144 Hz. This commercial agreement will last at least one year, so it will not be until then that the competition has access to this technology, which is currently in mass production.
However, this does not mean that we do not have the possibility of having gaming laptops with 144 Hz screens. Brands like MSI have the MSI GS65 model that integrates a Full HD screen at 144 Hz and 7 ms. Or Gigabyte with its Aero 15X with a panel similar to that of the MSI: FHD, 144 Hz and 7 ms response time. These laptop models will likely have a much more affordable price than future Asus laptops with the AU Optronics panel.
There are other offerings on the market that remain more reasonably priced than laptops at 144Hz and 3ms response time
On the other hand, MSI also has a laptop with a panel with a response time of 3 ms. Only in this case, the refresh rate is 120 Hz. There are quite a few producers of screens for our gaming laptops, BOE, LG, Philips, Samsung, and Sharp. So this agreement will not prevent us from having a good screen, even if it is not at 3 ms.
If you do not have the considerable need to have a laptop with a 144 Hz panel with a 3 ms response time. The options we have presented can solve the task of gaming on our laptops at a lower cost. In addition, as we have already mentioned. The price of the brand’s new laptops may be too high for us to consider buying them.
Conclusions
How to put 144Hz on the laptop? Right-click on the desktop and select “Screen Resolution.” Click the “Advanced Settings” link. Then go to the “Monitor” tab and choose the refresh rate in the “Screen refresh rate” box.