With those specs you should absolutely be able to take advantage of 144 hz in the games you ' re playing . 1080 I think most of the 970 ' s have a display port . Most of the 144 hz monitors are going to come with a DP cable and support that refresh rate on that port . Especially if you get a monitor with GSync . So here is your dilemma . Monitors are currently in this weird transition point were 1080 is on its way out . 1440 and 4 k are still new enough to be expensive . And most of the cool gaming features are for the new tech as well as add their own cost . For example a flat ultrawide 144 hz ips monitor My dream simply does not exist or if I compromise I ' m looking at the $ 1000 range . In short $ 200 budget makes it difficult to get an awesome gaming monitor . However usshopdell 27 monitorse 2717 hapd 210 a i z r m o nitorsflatpanelwidescreen 27 1080 p 75 hz FreeSync IPS and in your budget . This might be the holy grail for you if you can compromise on the 75 hz . Nvidia has said at one point they plan to support FreeSync This may not come to passI hope this helps .