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Thanks for pointing this out -- the article seemed to completely overlooked the panel quality and configurability.

I'm personally really looking forward to a proper UHD/4K over 30" that does 144hz with GSync, which I can use as my main desktop monitor. It'll finally be a reason to upgrade from my old Dell Ultrasharp.

The Asus PQ321Q is almost there, it's just limited to 60hz.

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You will be waiting a very long time. UHD@144Hz requires 40Gbit/sec of bandwidth. DisplayPort 1.3 (which is not generally available yet), only supplies 25Gbit. HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.2 are 14 & 17, respectively.

http://emsai.net/projects/widescreen/bandwidth/

This Asus ProArt series is also incredible.

There's absolutely no difference from 60Hz to anything above it.

Yes, there is. I have side-by-side 60Hz and 120Hz monitors, and window dragging for example on the 120Hz one is much much smoother (I had to buy a gaming mouse, because most normal mice won't update at more than 100Hz I think). And movies don't have this jerky motion where 60Hz doesn't quite exactly divide with 24 fps that movies use.

Well, in my day, when you moved a window all the computer showed was a grey square - no fps issues there.

Sorry, had to say it.

I started with zx-spectrum and was also very happy with whatever was there :) But baby steps towards moving pictures that are indistinguishable from reality.. Eh, I'm just very picky. Ever noticed that the top side of a moving window moves before the bottom side on most LCD displays?

For a counterpoint: http://www.tweakguides.com/Graphics_5.html

Citing: http://amo.net/NT/02-21-01FPS.html and: http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

The human eye's ability to detect change exceeds 200 fps, though "fps" isn't really a good match for how the eyes process information, which is highly dependent upon the scene in question.

Haha, good one. Isn't trolling against the rules here though?

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