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Gaming at 5k

When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a ...

Jon Peddie

When I said I can’t wait to try gaming on this, they said, Jon, it’s a 60-Hz monitor, not designed for gaming. Yeah, but it’s also < 5 ms monitor and it only refreshed every 16 ms; so what? The games I play only refresh in 33 ms. I’m not a twitcher, at least when gaming. I don’t need a 2,000-Hz monitor to enjoy gaming. I don’t play competitively, except against the AI in games. So, I connected the Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved WUHD Monitor—U4021QW, to the 3.7 GHz I9-10900 with the RTX3080. And then I started looking for some
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