Planning on choosing up a 500Hz monitor forward of the upcoming Counter Strike 2 launch date? Effectively, there’s an opportunity Valve’s multiplayer sport received’t make full use of the brand new commonplace, as churning out an identical body charge seems to be a chore. That’s to not say you’ll ever must exit of your solution to increase fps to triple digits in Counter Strike 2, however even the mighty Nvidia RTX 4090 received’t essentially satiate speedy screens just like the Alienware AW2524H.
Counter Strike 2 may turn into the subsequent finest FPS sport inside the esports scene, so it’s solely pure to imagine gamers will purpose for increased body charges than ever. Naturally, producers are already gearing as much as assist the business attain new efficiency heights, with 500Hz screens making their debut alongside GPUs just like the one featured in our Nvidia RTX 4090 evaluation.
Nonetheless, if early gameplay glimpses by Twitch streamer Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek are something to go by, sustaining over 500fps in Counter Strike 2 might be a problem. Throughout a current stream, the Canadian content material creator switched on a body charge counter utilizing a immediate, and fps primarily appeared to hover between 200-400fps.
For context, Shroud makes use of a Maingear MG-1 gaming PC, armed with an RTX 4090 and Intel Core i9-13900K. In different phrases, he’s outfitted with the most effective graphics card and CPU combo in the marketplace, so that you’d suppose that’d be sufficient to match a 500Hz refresh charge. But, that doesn’t seem like the case, and that will imply new speedy esports screens are somewhat too superior for present setups.
In fact, that is all mere hypothesis, and the body charge state of affairs would possibly change as soon as Counter Strike 2 formally arrives. There’s additionally an opportunity that Shroud’s settings aren’t utterly dialled in to succeed in 500fps, because the streamer makes use of an Asus ROG Swift 1440P 360Hz monitor.
We’re itching to get our palms on each an Alienware AW2524H monitor and Counter Strike 2, and solely time will inform whether or not 500Hz refresh charge panels are price investing in. Till then, take a look at our greatest gaming monitor picks for choices that’ll pair completely along with your gaming PC specs.
