Don't buy R9 290X Crossfire Battlefield 4 Mantle or DirectX

Personally ,,,, I much prefer my 144hz 1080p Viewsonic monitor to any LCD I've tried before.

Before LCD I had a Sony G500 'crt', so I'm coming from quite a high standard base.

It's much fun even browsing.

 

AFAIK you cannot directly compare CRT and LCD refresh rates due to interlacing.
As in 100 Hz on a CRT equals 50 Hz on an LCD as refresh rate.

Of course fps is locked similarly (=to Hz value) on both if Vsync on.

 

Gaming on a CRT monitor wouldn't be interlaced though, on a TV it would though.

 

TV's are all 50/60hz. All those 100/120/200/240/480hz numbers are simply taking the frames its given and showing them multiple times. This is far from desirable in PC gaming.

You have a 60hz monitor. That's all you need to know.

 

No issues with frame time variance on frostbite engine games here. In fact, the graphs look as smooth as single card. Of course, that isn't true with just about every other game, but for BF games and DA:I it is. Only issue I have is gamma can get messed up when running mantle and crossfire, which will hopefully be fixed. I also do not think crossfire is overkill for bf4 at 1080p, as it takes 3 290xs to maintain a solid 120fps at 1440p, so I imagine it would take two at 1080p.