Question Using two monitors with different refresh rates ?

[nicepen1]

Hi guys,

My existing setup is:
GPU: Geforce 3060
Monitor: HP Z27n Narrow Bezel IPS (on official HP website it says it's QHD (2560 x 1440 @ 60 Hz)

I'm planning to buy a 200 Hz monitor and I want to connect both to my computer. Will there be any flickering or any other problems with the display? I plan to use the 200Hz monitor as the main display, and both monitors will be 4K.

 

[bill001g]

Your machine is smart enough to run the monitors at different resolutions and refresh rates.

It would be a different issue if you were to say try to play a game and use both monitors to display the output of the game. It would be up to the game to support it and very few support running multiple monitor even when they are exactly the same specs.

All going to depend on the the ability of your video card and what you are trying to do. a 3060 is not going to do even close to 200fps on a single monitor at 4k in many games. Note 2560x1440 is not considered 4k. It really depends on what is running on the second monitor if you were to max out the main one. You will not see the FPS drop if all you have on the second window is open web pages. Since the images seldom change it could run 5fps and you would not tell.

Now if all you are doing is say editing images with photoshop it all doesn't matter the video card can easily run everything at max frame rates at the same time.

 

[nicepen1]

Your machine is smart enough to run the monitors at different resolutions and refresh rates.

It would be a different issue if you were to say try to play a game and use both monitors to display the output of the game. It would be up to the game to support it and very few support running multiple monitor even when they are exactly the same specs.

All going to depend on the the ability of your video card and what you are trying to do. a 3060 is not going to do even close to 200fps on a single monitor at 4k in many games. Note 2560x1440 is not considered 4k. It really depends on what is running on the second monitor if you were to max out the main one. You will not see the FPS drop if all you have on the second window is open web pages. Since the images seldom change it could run 5fps and you would not tell.

Now if all you are doing is say editing images with photoshop it all doesn't matter the video card can easily run everything at max frame rates at the same time.

Many thanks to clarify me. You really wrote very understandable.
I will play a video game on 200Hz one (like Dayz, Pathofexile etc.) and I will use other one for static web pages or youtube.

Anyway if not I catch 200Hz even with Geforce3060 on main display, That's very sad :/
What should you suggest me for new one? :/ maybe 100hz?

 

[bill001g]

100 is a strange number most are 120.

Path of exile does not take much you likely can get 200 on that, not sure I run a 4090 and it shows over 300 when I leave it set to unlimited but I artificially set it to 120 to lower the fan noise on the gpu.

It seems it is simpler to make a monitor that can run high refresh at 4k than a video card. Even then it is not the simple video card it is a application that is trying to use the advanced features in a video card not just the part of the video card that send the frames to the monitor.

You look at games that push the visuals like cyberpunk and even 4090 struggle to get 60fps on 4k. They have to use all the trickery of artificial frames to get higher rates.