Chasing a lower monitor response time for FPS
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What it does
Buying or tuning for a lower monitor response time (the '1ms' number) expecting a higher frame rate.
The honest verdict
Response time measures how fast a single pixel changes color — it affects motion clarity and ghosting (the smear behind fast-moving objects), not how many frames your GPU produces. A '1ms' panel and a '4ms' panel at the same refresh rate give you the exact same FPS. It is a real spec worth caring about for crispness in fast games, but it is not a frame-rate lever — and the marketing '1ms' figures are often measured generously anyway. Want more frames? Look at refresh rate, resolution, and settings, not the response-time sticker.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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