How perceptible is the difference between 30 Hz and 60 Hz? Between 60 Hz and 144 Hz? But there are some definitive answers, like this: you can most definitely perceive the difference between 30 Hz and 60 Hz. He’s not saying that we can’t notice a difference between 20 Hz and 60 Hz footage. Many don’t go above 60 Hz, and Busey questions whether monitors advertised at 120 Hz really display that fast (according to some seriously in-depth testing at TFTCentral , they certainly do).

Icons by NeoGAF member orfaxWhen I’m aimlessly looking for a game to play, Steam’s default library view doesn’t offer much inspiration. The alternative, which I often forget about, is the Grid View, an array of larger thumbnails ideal for Big Picture mode but also ideal for casual browsing. For some PC gamers, Grid View is the preferred way to organize their game library, and they’re often not satisfied with the default icons for those games. Jinx’s Steam Grid View Images site lists custom image

Building a new PC can be expensive, especially if you’re going for a high-end rig. Have you ever thought about buying a keyboard that’s more expensive than every component inside your PC combined? Probably not, but if you’ve got more money than sense, or happen to be pals with Scrooge McDuck, here’s a list of 11 absurdly expensive bits of PC gear. But if you think that’s expensive, you might want to avert your eyes from the next mouse on the list. Jupiter Gold PCPrice: ~$560,000Back in the late

But, like Minecraft, players use Factorio’s building blocks like a crude programming language to design incredible displays of engineering. Apparently the only thing worthy of showcasing such an impressive feat is the music video for the song Sandstorm by Darude. “I picked the Sandstorm music video because of its heavy use of primary colors—it looks great even with a limited palette,” McWilliams says. “The map took 21 hours to build,” McWilliams adds. “This is not the first Factorio music video,

And each is just different enough to make enough distinctions between them in order to determine the One True Order for the Mass Effect series. It’s hard to imagine the future of Mass Effect in this new setting with a similar structure. One of the hardest decisions in Mass Effect is whether to save Ashley or Kaiden during the operation on Virmire. For the dozens of pins Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 set up, Mass Effect 3 knocks a ton of them down, giving the majority of its characters and confli

Square Enix has released the follow-up to its 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider series, calling this one Rise of the Tomb Raider. MORE: PC Gamer’s review of Rise of the Tomb RaiderWhile we love Tomb Raider for its platforming, puzzle solving, and combat, we also really love the graphics. This guide is designed to give you some insight into what you can do to get the best performance out of your PC while playing Rise of the Tomb Raider. But before we get into that, it’s a good idea to become acquain

Sitting down, according to most recent research, puts your body on standby. Even an hour of sitting down can make your back—which tries its best to compensate for all the other stuff—measurably tighter. Extended sitting has also been linked to increased waist size and cardiovascular disease. THE DAMAGE UNDONE How to reverse the cost of years of sitting with a three-move, no-kit mobility session. Sitting for organisation, standing for aggression.

World of Warcraft dominated the online gaming landscape, and its success lead many other companies into the same monthly premium path. But now with so many free-to-play MMOs out there, a big problem is deciding which game to choose playing. That’s why we’re here to sort out 16 of the best F2P MMOs! Do you have a favorite F2P MMO that you would like to recommend? Even though this is a game that is a few years old now, the graphics are still awesome.

Game soundtracks get no respect. Things have been particularly rough for PC soundtracks where, due to a lack of audio hardware uniformity, music in the pre-CD audio era was a wildcard at best. Hell, even well into the late ’90s there was no guarantee a PC even had a soundcard. Still, despite the limitations, we’re not ashamed to say we not only respect PC game soundtracks, we flat out love them! Comparing soundtracks from different genres and different eras is extremely difficult and entirely su

Nothing speaks to the power and flexibility of the PC platform quite like game modding. Dedicated groups of hardcore fans toil for months on end to bring us a massive offering of new gameplay modes, tweaks, rebalances, texture packs, content packs, and total conversions that improve, expand, and transform the games we love. But when not about lust or rampant copyright infringement, mods offer some of the most unique and interesting content in gaming. Here are some of our favorite mods from recen

This occurred despite using two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect accounts from this very sort of thing. We point this out to encourage everyone here to move to token-based 2FA,” Reddit stated in a post to users. Reddit said the hacker also accessed more recent logs containing email digests sent between June 3 and June 17, 2018. “If your account credentials were affected and there’s a chance the credentials relate to the password you’re currently using on Reddit, we’ll make you reset your R