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by lifeplusplus 1510 days ago
Reaction time and perception are different things not sure why author mixes them.. as a gamer having a ping of 14ms vs 90ms literally ruins competitive gaming. Pro players actually switched countries and cities to have better ping. Heck even getting a keyboard with less travel distance for each keys make a difference, just like how getting a mouse that has response rate of at least 1000hz. I have gone from typical desktop user to hardcore gaming user and each time latency improved it has helped by kd ratio directly. Even 5ms gains matter because worse case scenarios become less worse.. I notice everything above 20ms, but I used to not. One day I bought 140hz monitor it felt little better but not ground breaking I was almost disappointed. But then a week later I got to look at regular monitor, it looked like it was lagging constantly... Now I don't use my laptop because it looks so laggy now. I got used to faster frame rate.