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if you have a fast computer like skunkworks it is possible to bottleneck this whole computer the entire thing most people get caught up on graphics cards being bottleneck by the CPU but they never stop to think they can bottleneck their entire computer by hooking up to a panel that sucks I don't think these panels actually suck I'm just pointing to the panel visual aid expensive visual aid but one nonetheless water cooling parts for skunk works were provided by performance pcs for the largest online selection of PC modding and water cooling parts head to performance pcs comm there's a lot of information to cover here today I don't want to bore you with some information that I think is irrelevant to the high level understanding of how monitors work but I would do the best I can the problem is I've really started nerding out over panels over the last couple of years and I get very passionate and into this and I can talk about things that are just not important like I'm kind of doing right now today I'm talking to the gamer there are panels out there designed specifically for content creators and professionals with IPS panels and srgb gama and stuff like that but that's not the point of today's video i'm talking to the guy who's built himself his first gaming computer and he's like well crap those are the things I need like a monitor and keyboard and all that stuff but I don't know which monitor to get this is way more confusing the building out the parts for my computer because how do I know that this panel I'm getting isn't going to suck hopefully by the end of today's video you'll you'd be able to tell which ones are going to be good and which ones are not going to be good just by reading some of the basic specs now there's two major specs we're going to talk about today and one of them gets kind of confusing because it has several names as are associated for the same thing the first one being refresh rate refresh rate that is the number of times the panel can draw an image per second and keep it stitched together now a panel can actually draw more FPS than what's actually rated but what happens is you take that image and you divide it more than America currently is and you get what's called screen tearing that's where the image cannot be refreshed fast enough and since the image is drawn in layers it's drawn in layers like that ladies what happens is the image goes live it gets all messed up and it doesn't stay in sync anymore which lead which has led to the development of the technology called vsync you ever wondered that stands for vertical sync it means make sure all those images are aligned down the vertical so that they don't do that so you can actually spend more yes to your panel but you get a very unpleasant gaming experience depending on how far beyond that refresh rate is so taking something like skunkworks here with two Titan X Pascal's on water and putting on a 60 FPS panel and turning off vsync would be a virtually unplayable gaming experience now the reason why I say that figure can sometimes get confusing to people who are not used to looking up this kind of stuff for for the first time or starting to research panels and what all this means is you'll hear it referred to as several things refresh rate you will hear it referred to as the Hertz rate and you will hear it referred to as the frames per second it just basically says the number of times per second that image can be drawn on the screen so if it's a 60 Hertz panel it means you can draw the image 60 times per second without tearing apart never since the introduction of TN panels you pretty much have seen 60 FPS panels B what is the minimum standard for gamers these days 30 fps doesn't cut it for most PC gamers and you know that so you want to strive for a panel that's at least 60 fps now the other number that plays into this is called response time okay so you've got you've got your frames per second that can be drawn and you've got your response time well what does that mean well refresh rate as I said is the number of times the image can actually be drawn by the processing board inside the panel to display the image over and over and over and over and over again as the image is changing when you're doing games or movie or even just moving your mouse that Mouse has to be drawn wherever it's being told to go but response time refers to the actual pixels in the display and how long it takes that pixel to go from off to on or white and off again it's actually referred to great a gray or g2g that's the number you'll tend to see in the spec chart now the lower that number the better because what that means is that light is turning on and off super fast a quick analogy I can give you here that you might understand is the difference of an LED flashlight versus one with a standard filament or a halogen flashlight where you turn on the LED flashlight and it's instantaneous it is instantaneous light there is no heating of the filament where it takes time to turn on and kind of like pop in there sort of like just fade in and we turn it off the filament cool so it fades out think of like a blinker on a car when it's like blink blink blink blink but then there's newer cars with LEDs and it's just like link like bleep Lee yeah someone meme that do me a favor meme it go so the same can be said for the pixel technology inside of your panel where the faster it turns on and off the less motion blur you're going to get of the panel there is natural motion blur that happens on panels and that's referred to as response time now the slower the response time or the higher that number is the more fading there is between the movement of the panel and the redrawing of images because it's taking the lights time to turn on and off and change color for the pixel gates to do their thing so we're going to go back to the Hertz rating here for a second 60 FPS versus 144 the most common argument you're going to hear a million times regardless of where you go the forums or steam or the internet or YouTube is the argument of the human eye can only see blah blah blah FPS now why do I say a bla bla bla FPS is because there's no standard number that anyone's able to actually been able to confirm the human eye can see now that just triggered something because I'm sure someone out there is like no so-and-so said that the human eye can only see kabab habla and he's an optometrist or whatever it doesn't matter because this is one of those subjective things just like audio certain people hear certain tones and they may be responsible responsive and reactive to certain tones and others the same can be said for the human eye it's a very integral piece of technology in your face that does amazing things that I think as humans we still don't fully understand take a 60 FPS panel and take 144 FPS panel put them next to each other displaying the same thing and tell me you don't see a difference and I'll call you crazy okay so fair warning this next section here if you have epilepsy is that I believe it's called epilepsy where flashing lights can trigger a epileptic seizure you might want to turn away because what I'm going to show right now is probably going to look like a flickering image and I really don't want to cause you any undue stress so with that warning out of the way here is what 60 FPS looks like on a high-speed camera we're talking 240 FPS on the camera which is much higher than the refresh rate of the panel but this is what 60 FPS looks like now if we switch this over to 144 FPS this is what it looks so there is a draw difference in a very noticeable speed difference of the panel so now that we've got that visual aid out of the way here is what 60 FPS looks like on a quote-unquote 1 millisecond response time the reason why I say quote-unquote is because most people who measure gaming monitors with the actual true calibration tools and measurement tools to see the true response times have found that a lot of times 1 millisecond gaming panels are really more like 3 or 4 not a true 1 millisecond so that's why I say quote unquote but anyway here is what 60 FPS looks like on a 60 FPS panel with a 1 millisecond response time as you can see there's not a lot of fading of the pixel but what happens when you take a 60 FPS panel and couple it with a slow response time or a light that takes a while to turn on and turn off well you get what you see right here which is quite a bit of motion blur motion blur is very cinematic motion blur is all around us turn your head right now I guarantee your image just blurred every time you watch TV the image is blurring you go to the movies the image is blurring but it's natural unfortunately when you have motion blur introduced in terms of hardware level like this it is very distracting and in some games that require fast movement the faster you move that Mouse the more the pixels are going to blur unfortunately it makes some games like Battlefield 1 or TWiT shooters counter-strike go completely unplayable so that's what 60 FPS on a slow response time looks like but those two numbers are really the only thing that gamers should concern themselves with when it comes to buying a panel sure there's other things like IPS versus TN off viewing angles those curved monitors 21 by 9 ultra wide like you see here with the X 30 for predator behind me 16 by 9 24 inch 30 for Android those things are all secondary to the two specs I just told you about which are going to have the biggest impact on your gaming experience so there you go guys that's how you can unbuttoned neck your computer by coupling it with a terrible monitor that would not be complimenting your system so moral the story here get a panel that has a refresh rate that's at least 60 but hopefully higher than the one that are the higher than the fps that your system is able to send to it now there's other things you talked about like panel overclocking and whatnot I don't wanna talk about that today I haven't spent a lot of time doing panel overclocking I'll be honest I've I know how it's done but I don't I don't do it so that's not something I'm going to talk about today anyway this is another one of those topics that came strictly strictly they came strictly from my inbox I'm asked all the time about this topic I finally made this video and I want to do some more like this so let me know what you guys want me to do hit me up Twitter my inbox Facebook all that sort of stuff and as always guys share this video with someone you think it'll help you make the community smarter as a whole as always guys stay together be nice to each other don't don't be jerks to each other so many jerks in the world when you'll need that we don't need that anymore as under co5 the world but i'm people still call me a dickhole that's okay though it's alright alright guys see you the next one