Question Can my PC run a 240 hz monitor?

[kserasera]

My PC has an i7-7700k @ 4.20 Ghz, 16 GB of RAM, GTX 1080. I was wondering if you guys thought I could run a 240 hz monitor. If not, what do you think I should upgrade before that? Thanks

 

[SkyBill40]

Run a 240Hz monitor maxed out at 1080p? With Adaptive Sync of some kind or just at the 240Hz refresh? It largely depends on the game and the optimization of it. So, while I would personally think so, I can't say for sure and no one else really can either. You'd need to get your hands on one and run it on your rig to know conclusively.

 

[kserasera]

Run a 240Hz monitor maxed out at 1080p? With Adaptive Sync of some kind or just at the 240Hz refresh? It largely depends on the game and the optimization of it. So, while I would personally think so, I can't say for sure and no one else really can either. You'd need to get your hands on one and run it on your rig to know conclusively.

I'm an FPS player so I mostly have everything turned to lowest settings and V-sync and G-sync and all of that all turned off for max frames. But I do for the most part play on 1920x1080 still and am just looking for the extra smoothness of the added refresh.

And as a general question, If I'm getting 300 FPS on Overwatch but only lets say 170 on Apex, does that mean the monitor would only have benefits in Overwatch? Sorry for the noob questions and thanks for your time.

 

[SkyBill40]

As I mentioned before, it's all in the game's optimization. Even though you may have all the settings turned down to low, there may be other things that cannot be turned off and are part of the game code. Thus, your FPS may vary from game to game as some are more CPU dependent, GPU dependent, or a mix of both.

I don't know for sure if you're really going to be able to notice a significant difference in visuals or smoothness over 165Hz. The 240Hz thing seems to be more of a gimmick than anything though for a high refresh player such as yourself, it's possible you might see some benefit so long as your rig can maintain those rates. A 1080 can do a lot... but your rig needs to be able to keep up as well though I don't see you having any issues on that end.

 

[uhgg]

If you are playing on competive settings this monitor is great, otherwise probably not. Personally, I have a 240hz monitor, ran with a 1070 ti and 8600k. I run fortnite at competitive settings, stretch resolution, and I even tweaked some of setting in the NVidia Control Panel. I hardly see my pc drop below 200 fps ever, and usually sticks at 240. I do notice a difference from my pass 144hz monitor, and even more now after using it for 3 months. Although the difference isn't that noticeably significant, I do this you should still consider one.