Hertz Memes

Looking at those monitor refresh rates is like watching your paycheck after taxes. 239.99 Hz down to 239.97 Hz? Great, there goes my 0.02 Hz. Probably lost in some floating point rounding error along with my will to debug it. And don't get me started on that 120 Hz that's actually 119.88 Hz. Marketing department strikes again - "it's basically 120, who'll notice?" The same people who notice when their coffee is lukewarm, Sharon.

When your monitor is running at 165.01 Hz instead of the advertised 165 Hz and you're secretly hoarding that extra 0.01 Hz like a digital dragon. Meanwhile, gamers are fighting over whether they can perceive the difference between 144 Hz and 165 Hz when half of them are still running games at 30 FPS anyway. That extra 0.01 Hz is probably what's making you lose in CS:GO, not your reflexes that are slower than database queries on a Monday morning.