For amd you want one that supports freesync yes.
Also, I’d prefer 1440p 144 hz over 1080p 240 hz anyday.
When you’re playing a game that has great graphics your experience at 1440p will blow your 1080p out of the water.
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I’m on an HP Omen 165Hz and I can’t tell the difference between 165 and I can’t imagine 240 being anything other than something to throw money at. I might be wrong about that, but if I had to wager then I’d say it would make no difference in your ability to play competitively even if you could technically notice the difference. Maybe it might help a percent or two, which could definitely matter at GM level, but it seems like a waste to me personally.
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For sure if you can afford a 240 go for it, but make sure you don’t sacrifice other features or qualities you may want in the future. If you’re looking for reasonably priced high refresh rate quick response time gaming monitors, then look at AOC.
The drawbacks: They have terrible colours compared to most other monitors and high rates of dead or lazy pixels (great return policy though).
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(looks over at AOC monitor)
Oh yeah, I know about the AOC. It’s fine for having my mixer sit there or surfing the world wide web, but not so much for gaming. lol.
Picture quality and refresh rate are keys for me so I will skip a 240hz if it’s 1080 in favor of a 144 with a great picture.
This thread is narrowing down the choices quite nicely. lol
165 compared to?
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Don’t forget about response time(look up the difference between that and refresh rate, e.g. how to geek explains it well)
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Between 165 and the next tier below that, 144 or really 120 unless it’s ULMB, but the brightness is too low with ULMB at least on this monitor. If you go to Blurbusters then yeah, you can obviously see the difference between the frames on the UFOs, but practically there’s not a significant difference that I can see or that I can imagine making a noticeable difference in game.
It’s a bit like response time on your monitor. There’s no difference a human could possibly detect between a 1ms and 2ms or even 5ms response time, but it sounds good in advertising and people buy them so they keep making unnecessarily fast monitors because some dolts think it will make them better at games or just want the best thing without actually understanding what they’re buying.
The bare minimum for playing this game WELL imo is 144hz. I have a 240hz and noticed the difference less, but it is still better. If you have the hardware for it, it will GREATLY increase your aim. When I switched from 60 to 144hz I immediately went from diamond to masters in about 2 weeks, and then GM in a few months after that. It was shocking the difference.
Edit: make sure your hardware can handle 144/240 fps consistently whichever you go with. If you can’t handle either, upgrade your processors until they can, then consider a high refresh rate monitor.
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With the graphics card you listed you have, the radeon 5500 xt, I would not get a 240 hz. Get at most a 144hz. Even at low setting you will be nowhere near 240fps in most modern games with that GPU. You may be able to get near 144hz with OW and similarly optimized titles.
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Freesync is supported by nvidia on new screen. There is an official list of this:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/
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Luckily enough, my 10 year old monitor just died, so I’m getting a new freesync, 144 hz monitor on Monday. I’ll let you know how it goes!
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If you can pump 240 FPS stable and you can afford a 240HZ screen then go for a 240HZ one.
I have 180 HZ screen and i can tell u even the jump from 144 to 180 is noticeable.
Take a 280 a 240 OC Asus TUF if only FPS matters for you.
I will buy the same when summer deal is here.
Get a 144hz ultrawide monitor.
Pointless for OW since I still play in 16:9 but oh boy other games look amazing in 32:9.
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Yeah. They add support for new freesync monitors with every driver update. Even if it’s not on the official list, you can force Gsync on any Freeesync monitor. It’s usually fine, but they just haven’t officially tested that model yet. 
How can u force Gsync on a non Gsync monitor and video card XD
Please explain.
I bought a cheap 240hz monitor because it was about $200 less than a Gsync version. I added the saving to but a RTX 2070 in the hope I can just brute form my frame rate over 240, has worked well for me.
You just turn Gsync on in the Nvidia Control Panel. (Requires monitor connected with Display Port)
The monitor still needs to support Freesync and it needs to be an Nvidia GPU.