I guess I'll chime in, but I don't know anything about having more than a 60Hz refresh rate on my displays.

I've heard that using displays with 120/144Hz is much smoother, even if you can't steadily achieve that FPS while in game. To me, coming from someone who hasn't used anything more than 60Hz, this sounds odd because I've been taught that if you can't reach the display's refresh rate, then what's on the screen isn't going to be smooth and you will see tearing.

Obviously, this is where GSync can come into play, but I also don't have any experience with that, so... /shrug

Now, as for whether hardware is capable of keeping a constant 60 FPS in crowded areas, I'd say that the answer to this depends, and there are a lot of people on other forums just repeating things from years past. When playing solo and cruising through Dalaran—even though it's phased into shards to keep from overcrowding—I'm able to ride laps around in circles and regularly get 90-100 FPS, and with VSync enabled that turns into a nice smooth 60 FPS experience for me in Windowed (Fullscreen)*. In true Fullscreen, which we obviously don't multibox with, I'm able to achieve the same smooth 60 FPS in raids, like the hectic Withered J'im fight. I'm not saying there wouldn't be some dips here and there during large fights, because that screenshot was taken some time ago and I honestly don't remember. However, I'm not so sure about not being able to achieve a good framerate when in a crowded area, and, to be fair, I would need to test this out myself, with my hardware, while multiboxing in Legion (perhaps, someday).

* 3840x2160 | Preset 8/10 (SSAO—Disabled, Liquid Detail—Low, MSAA—4x, Shadows—Ultra High)


I was an early adopter to 4K and I'm stuck here—not that I mind it, but it does have its drawbacks. I'd like to move to a higher refresh rate when it's available, and Asus is already gearing up to bring us 4K@144Hz later this year which means 4K@120Hz probably isn't too far off either. For me, this means I'd need to upgrade my GPUs, which I'm not ready to do just yet, so I'm probably looking at an upgrade to all of that come 2018 sometime. I think 1440 is in a good place now with the options that are available—both screen size and technology—so, I personally can't recommend 4K to people who aren't ready to put a lot of hardware behind the amount of pixels that 3840x2160 requires to run at very nice settings, especially when multiboxing.