Is 300Hz on Fast IPS a marketing gimmick?
Hey everyone,
I’m currently upgrading my setup, just swapped my old GTX 1660 Ti for a brand new RX 9070 XT, so my old 144Hz TN monitor definitely needs to go
While searching around, a 24.5" 1440p 300Hz Fast IPS monitor popped up, and it caught my eye because the price-to-performance ratio seemed absolutely insane on paper. But before buying it, I watched a technical review that kinda ruined it for me
The reviewer tested it and said that pushing a Fast IPS panel to 300Hz causes a lot of issues. On the normal settings, the pixels are too slow to actually hit 300Hz properly. But if you max out the settings to force it to match the speed, you get massive "inverse ghosting" and ugly trails on the screen. The reviewer literally said it becomes unplayable and advised just downclocking the monitor to 240Hz to get a clean image
This feels like a total marketing scam. It seems like these 300Hz monitors are actually just native 240Hz panels that are aggressively overclocked from the factory just to put a bigger number on the box, even though the pixels can't physically keep up. Why pay more for a "300Hz" sticker if it's just a problematic overclock?
At first, I really wanted a 27" monitor, but a 27" at 300Hz was way too expensive for me. But after seeing this review, I looked into native 240Hz monitors instead. It turns out that if I forget about the 300Hz hype, I can easily afford a 27" 1440p 240Hz Native panel for basically the same price
Just to be clear, I'm really not a tech guy and I don't know much about computers at all. I just learned these specs while researching for my upgrade, so maybe I'm getting fooled by the numbers here
What do you guys think about these 300Hz IPS panels? Are they really just 240Hz overclocks? Is it better to just skip the marketing hype and buy a stable, native 240Hz monitor instead?