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How To Get 144Hz on your M1 Mac (for Fortnite, Gaming, Productivity) - YouTube
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you may have seen some of my m1 mac
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gaming videos
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already on this channel and in all of
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those videos i've only managed to get a
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60 hertz refresh rate
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on the monitors i was using which
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included an asus 144 hertz
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gaming monitor some of you might even
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just prefer a higher refresh rate not
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for gaming but just for normal office
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work or web browsing as well
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so after doing a bit of research online
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i've discovered that the m1 mac
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does in fact support refresh rates over
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144 hertz
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but you need a specific cable and
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connection
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in this video i'm going to show you
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exactly how to do it what type of cable
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you will need and
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any kind of limitations you might run
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into first things first you're going to
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need a proper monitor
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it doesn't have to be a gaming version
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but it does need to have a high
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refresh rate now this monitor i'm using
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is about four years old now but it
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supports
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up to 144 hertz and the other thing is
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that you need to actually have a need
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for a refresh rate above 60 hertz if you
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play games like fortnite or counter
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strike go
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and you can consistently get above 60
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frames per second on these games
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that is a good reason by the way you
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definitely can get above 60 fps
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on these games just see my other videos
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you will also need a usbc to display
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port cable
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when shopping for one make sure it is a
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displayport version 1.4
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and supports a maximum output of up to
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4k
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at 60 hertz this means that at 1440p
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you will also be able to achieve 144
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hertz
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and i will link a cable that is
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compatible in the description of this
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video
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just to make it easy for you now you can
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try a usbc
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two display port adapter instead of a
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dedicated cable
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but some people online have reported
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some potential issues with this
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as it's technically not a direct
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connection
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so my recommendation is just to spend 25
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or 30 bucks
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on a dedicated compatible cable to save
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yourself
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any headache now if you're using an m1
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mac mini
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instead you can actually use a hdmi 2.0
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cable
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directly from the mini to your monitor
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to achieve the same result
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again i'll have a compatible cable for
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this linked in the description
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so without further ado let's jump into
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the created labs testing studio
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and i'll show you how it works
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okay guys so here we have the setup now
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as i mentioned before i do have a 144
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hertz asus
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gaming monitor so this is 27 inch it's
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an ips display and also one millisecond
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refresh
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i've also got the 2020 m1 macbook air
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just the base model here
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eight gigs of ram two five six gigabytes
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of storage
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in terms of accessories i've actually
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got this really cool mechanical
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razer keyboard here if you guys are
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interested in me doing a review on this
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i will soon uh it's sort of a very no
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frills no fuss keyboard
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works very good sounds nice as well uh
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and it actually
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completely detaches from the cable it is
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a usbc cable
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and as you can see here if i literally
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just plug the other end of this usbc
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cable
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into the mac air
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so you can see there it's plugged in um
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this actually works
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really really well as you can see there
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anyway that's on top of this video
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as you can see here i have the cable i
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was mentioning before
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so it's just a usbc to display port so
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what i'll do first of all is i'll plug
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it into the monitor
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and then into the mac and we'll get this
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test started okay so i've plugged it
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into the monitor now let's plug it into
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the usbc port on the mac mini
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and as you can see there loads up fine
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without any issues
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and first things first let's see if this
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thing is actually coming up as
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1440p and also 144 hertz
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so we'll come up into the apple logo
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system preferences
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and we'll go displays and as you can see
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here we've got two 560 by 1440p
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we've also got the full 144 hertz
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refresh rates that's working
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perfectly now what does that look like
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well you may not be able to see it on
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this particular camera
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because i'm only able to record in 25
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frames per second on this camera the way
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i have it set up
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but looking at this in real life it's
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very very smooth there's not really any
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screen tearing
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it looks a lot better than 60 hertz so
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what we'll do is we'll do actually a
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proper test so i'm just going to load up
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a relatively
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resource friendly game and that is going
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to be
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fortnight a few of you guys have seen
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some of my previous fortnight videos
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so i thought it'd be a good game just to
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test so let's load this
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up we'll get into the settings and then
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we'll see what kind of fps
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and also experience we can have with a
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144 hertz
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gaming monitor gaming on an m1 macbook
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air
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alright so now we're on the menu screen
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so let's just go into battle
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royale now a few people have asked me
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how i'm able to play
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fortnite and this is an older season i
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don't really play fortnite obviously
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at all so i don't know a whole lot about
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it but i've been reading into it and
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this is just an older season so
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don't pay too much attention to it apple
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and fortnite
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have had a big fight and uh it's just a
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bit of a mess
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so anyway let's go into the settings
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here
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and let's make sure we're at 1440p
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we'll set the frame rate to unlimited uh
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everything else here i'm actually just
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going to set
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everything to low except 3d resolution
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i'm going to leave that 100
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and just because i want to maximize the
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fps just to see
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what the experience is like i might
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actually
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crank this down to 1080p but we'll see
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how it goes at 1440p
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so let's apply that go back and we'll
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just get into a solo game
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okay guys so we are now on the ground uh
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we're not
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quite getting past 60fps i mean where we
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are at 60 fps
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so what i'm going to do now is i'm
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actually going to go into the settings
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and i'm just going to change this to
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1080p
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just so we can maximize the fps okay so
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as you can see
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in the top right hand corner we are
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pretty much bang on 100 fps
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we're actually getting a little bit
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above that and if i run around and kind
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of do some jumping and some quick
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movements
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it is definitely more than 60 fps like i
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can see a
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huge difference compared to what i was
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doing before
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now you will obviously notice some of
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the artifacting there and again guys
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this game is not optimized at all
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for the m1 so you will see a little bit
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of glitching here and there but the
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actual
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gameplay is totally fine i can run
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around i can jump i can do this and that
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the frames will sometimes drop down to
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around 60.
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but right now as you can see i'm at
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about
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60 to 70 fps and if i come back over
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here i'll be back up to 100
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and it's very very smooth so definitely
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you definitely can tell the difference
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between
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60 fps and a 100 fps right now on the m1
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which is pretty cool because again this
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is only about two
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and a half months old anyway guys that's
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it for this video hope you enjoyed
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again just a really quick one just to
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show you that yes you can
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get a 144 hertz refresh rate from your
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m1 devices
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you do just need to be using the correct
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cable and you can still play games or do
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productivity
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tasks or web browse and get that really
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nice buttery smooth
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144hz refresh rate on a particular
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monitor
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from the m1 apart from that thank you
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guys for watching again any comments or
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questions
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check out the comment section down below
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the link to the appropriate cables are
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in the description
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and i'll catch you guys in the next one
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