GAMING MONITOR Help please

[Portuguesetechie]

So i have my build home and all that i got it set up but my monitor is a little old and unfit for all my gaming needs
So I was doing some research and since my main purpose is gaming i thought i should get a TN panel monitor since they have better refresh rates, however i look at IPS pannels as well and i was thinking
I want:
-To run games at 1080p
-A medium sized monitor, dont want something 13' but i also dont want a 30' monitor
-Something that will not lagg my GTX 770 and that will run good with it

I also have a question, ppl say TN pannels are better for gaming because they are faster (can get up to 120-144hz refresh rate) so my question is, do i really need 120hz refresh rate? Because i will be playing games like BF4 and the GTX 770 gets 60-70 fpss on it, or is there something i am mixing up here? With a 120hz monitor and a GPU that goes at 60fpss will it not be useless to have those 120hz, because the monitor wont have any visuals to refresh? Because if 120hz is useless and the speed doesnt matter than i should just get an IPS screen right?
Thanks in advance

 

[Dom_79]

You are right about the 60-70 FPS not benefitting from 120Hz refresh. But hopefully that won't be the only game you play and possibly before this monitor you buy is dead you may upgrade the GPU or your entire rig. At which point a higher refresh may be of practical benefit.

As for IPS vs TN here is a link to a Tom's thread earlier this year where it was discussed :
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1722395/ips-gaming.html

Hope this helps

 

[Portuguesetechie]

Well i mean my main question was since i do a lot of high end gaming like BF4/AC4/Batman/metro and i wont be getting framerates over 70fpss in those games but there are games i play like Left for dead 2 in which i might get like 100fpss i was just wondering if i get a TN that runs at 120hz and only have 60fpss coming from my GPU will that cause tearing? (I dont know if u call it tearing, i think theres another name for it i am not sure, when your screen loads the same frame because your GPU cant give it new frames at the speed it refreshes)
The main question i had was if i get a TN with 120hz refresh rate and get 60fpss will the image be worse and suffer from more problems that it would if i had an IPS with 60hz refresh rate and got 60fpss?