How many FPS can you see? Are you ACTUALLY seeing that? A theory on Graphics Card Wear
TLDR: Check your monitor refresh rate (The hertz, Hz). Don't set your FPS higher than that cause you won't actually have any higher FPS than that.
I've been wondering about FPS today as a higher frame rate makes for more crisp and fluid motion in your games graphics. Obviously the higher (without sacrificing performance in other areas) the better right? But here's the thing.. I was thinking about these high FPS rates and the monitors which were viewing them from.
I may be wrong in this which is why I'm sort of asking, sort of theorizing.
If you have a 60hz monitor that means the monitor is refreshing the screen 60 times per second. 120hz means 120 times per second and so on.
I've seen players post about having 200+ Frames per second and complaining about a frame rate drop. The problem is that if your monitor is only capable of refreshing at 60/120/144 frames per second then your game may be sending 200+ frames per second to the monitor but it is only sending its maximum FPS to you. As such there is almost no point in having you game settings cap at a frame rate higher than your monitor is capable of producing. You're just wearing out your graphics card. The only reason I could see this is if you're prone to dropping frames. That way if you're running higher than your max frame rate and drop frames you may not drop enough for it to be visible. Even then.. When I drop frames (or have seen others do so on stream) it has been more significant than this would warrant.
EDIT:
If you're on a windows laptop you can use the following steps to check your refresh rate: Right-click on Desktop and click on Display Settings. Go to Advanced display settings. Under Related settings, go to Display adapter properties. Go to Monitor tab and select another refresh rate from Screen refresh rate: Click OK.
My laptop (and I'm sure most others) are capped and locked at 60hz. So setting your FPS in league to 200 FPS is just wearing down your hardware without producing a better image. Cap it at or just over 60.