Think Your Gaming Monitor Is Fast? This One Hits A Blistering 1080Hz

Old school PC geeks may remember a time when AMD and Intel were in a race to 1GHz and beyond, back before multiple cores, hybrid designs, and mountains of stacked cache took center stage. Those days may be gone forever, but now we have monitor makers trying to one-up each other with increasingly fast speeds, and HKC is touting a gaming monitor capable of breaching the 1,000Hz refresh rate barrier.

Built around a Fast TN panel, HKC's new AntGamer ANT275PQ Max display is another entry in the rapidly growing line of dual-mode monitors that are becoming increasingly popular. At its native 1440p resolution, it can hit a blistering 540Hz, though that somehow seems pedestrian compared to its full speed capabilities. Drop the resolution down to 720p and it can operate at a screaming-fast 1,080Hz refresh rate.

This is the appeal of dual-mode monitors, only at a much ...