so a few things here. 144Hz is divisible by 24 which is quite nice because certain media when it plays back at a refresh that isn't divisible 24 just doesn't look right. 1080p on Dual Link DVI should support ~200Hz with relative ease, and higher if you have a heavy gauge cable that's 6ft or less.

Now the reason most manufacturers don't do this
1. Their's very little demand, and nearly no games can put up these kinda of numbers, and a good chunk of the ones that can have to be frame capped / ran in vsync cause they don't work a good example would be what happens to skyrim's physics.
2. Power Usage
3. The more you raise the refresh rate of a LCD monitor the higher your gamma is which completely fucks colors and contrast. Plus anyone who says they don't care about contrast is a LIAR it's hard as hell to track/flick to people when contrast is awful.

https://i.imgur.com/gKqKce5.jpg (I don't play on 240Hz just as an FYI their's all sorts of issues you hit after ~200Hz I haven't gone over)

I'll be posting a guide about this within the next couple months.

No, you can have higher resolutions at 24". Also you'll notice the difference between 144Hz and 120Hz, but I don't know if anyone could justify spending $200-$300 unless they don't have light boost and REALLY want to use lightboost.

Depends on for what you're doing.

The one you linked (PG278Q) is better for competitive gaming (the 1ms gtg makes all the difference up and then some for the lower refresh)

The one in the OP (PG279Q) is better for your Skyrim/Fallout 4/GTA V/Metro Series/Bioshock kind of games. i.e. Ones that you're not going to be doing heavy competitive play in. (technically Most people myself included would prefer this one for non-competitive play in any game, it's also better for standard desktop use)

9.99 for no ads? rofl that's fucking stupid. I could see $2 maybe $3 tops for something like that.

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This on the other hand might make it worth $10/month for some people

Both of you stop.

That should be really good.

just as an FYI for a IPS this is about as good as it gets.

If anyone really wants a monitor that can do XXX >144 Hz plus having 1ms or less gtg, good colors, and a decent resolution, you're basically going to have to drop $10,000+ or wait for OLED monitors.

Invite / Prem Highlander pug teams would be hilarious and I'd pay to see it.

RAM Speed, and SSD/HDD speed are the 2 most important factors. (so long as you have plenty of RAM i.e. more than 4GB for most PCs)

so for lowest load times
(Fastest)PCI-E SSD > SSD > 10K RPM HDD > 7200RPM HDD > 5400RPM HDD (slowest)

RAM
basically as high of a speed you can get for the lowest CL you can get in that category. Also Speed is more important than Cas Latency. For more specifics you'd have to ask setsul or google it.

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to some extent internetspeed/latency would be important too.

Using my CFG, at stock clock, I'd guess around 160-170fps average.

Your map load time would be ridiculously low as well.

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if you plan on streaming though you'll take a much larger FPS hit than if you have a i7, but that's not really what you asked.

A pastebin link would be fine.

video of sweetfx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwHG7-gXB8w

1. Stabby has a crap ton of guides on doing this.
2. PRECs effect on TF2 FPS is extremely marginal, and should work on any server.
3. Ambient map noise are things like computer beeping, birds chirping, the hum of machinery, not things like doors.
4.SweetFX is post processing for TF2, Source GL sets up a different form of raw input for mouse inputs in tf2.
5. I'd have to see your cfg

also you need a key bind for something to be Exec'd

example

alias +mate_uberpop "mate_uberpop_msg;+attack2"
alias -mate_uberpop "-attack2"
alias mate_uberpop_msg "say_team UBER or KRITS used!!!"
bind MOUSE2 "+mate_uberpop; -mate_uberpop"

http://www.teamfortress.tv/25328/comanglias-config-fps-guide

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but seriously install my Max FPS for High Quality PCs CFG, and follow the guide I made. (install things like no hats etc), you'll get 100+ average FPS in pubs, more than likely 120+. 6v6 you'll get over 140fps for an average.

after that

basically what setsul said

Technically, you should be using the High Quality PC one.

TF2 is pretty cut and dry on what is a GPU reliant setting and what is a CPU reliant setting meaning increasing settings in one place won't make it switch the performance load from the cpu to the gpu or vice versa.

Also FPS drops suck, but their's A LOT of things that can cause it.

- I've had a PC that could get 120avg FPS in DX9 until somebody was on fire and my fps would drop to 20-30 for reasons I don't understand, and then be perfectly fine no matter what in DX8
- Power settings might not be right
- Thermal throttling
- Weird Maps / 32 person servers.
- Background programs with memory leaks
- Background programs in general

18.2in/360 in all FPS games

idk I always feel off if I don't keep it the same across all games.