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But what about 72Hz?

(you wouldn't want to use 75Hz for 24fps videos anyway)

But even for 48Hz, there's still the built-in refresh rate/resolution changer in MPC-HC; I've attached the screenshot used in my "concepts" thread to this post (it is merely an example - you would obviously want to use 50Hz instead of 75Hz for 25fps videos due to your aforementioned frame-skipping).

Both MPC-HC and madVR have automatic resolution/refresh rate changers, so you can run your desktop at 60Hz while MPC-HC switches to 48Hz specifically for 24fps videos (before interpolation) - there was even a screenshot of MPC-HC's function attached at the end of that post I had linked to (link again for your convenience).

But even then, are you sure your monitor isn't capable of 72Hz?  My laptop for example only had a stock refresh rate of 60Hz, but I'm able to get it up to at least 75Hz without any frame-drops occurring.

Is your monitor capable of 48Hz or 72Hz, possibly via a custom resolution?  If so, then using that would be better:
http://www.svp-team.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=61595

You'll probably be disappointed then because it's looking to be at Skylake-E levels of performance which means slightly slower single-threaded but much faster multithreaded.

That is of course unless you're planning your future PC around emulation where single-threaded performance trumps all (unless you're emulating Xbox 360 or PS3, then multiple cores are extremely useful).

Screenshot attached.

Note that my laptop's GPU is too weak to do anything above "Movie x2" which is why I am using that rather than something like "Movie x3" (which a Pentium G4400 would have no problems doing).  Again, for 1080p, you may have to change "Half pixel" to "Two pixels" and "12 px. Average 2" to "16 px. Average 0".

There's still different levels of smoothness.  Not only that, but SVP can actually interpolate to pretty much any framerate and not just 60fps.

Since you're only using SVP 4 Free, you do not see all of the settings.  The old SVP 3.1.7 has most of the settings that SVP 4 has, so you can use 3.1.7 to "try out" those settings for free.

Also, as I alluded to earlier, you actually get a smoother result by interpolating by integer values, so 24fps content (like anime) looks smoother at 72Hz than it would at 75Hz even though 75 is a greater value than 72 - more info.

Waiting for Intel Cannon lake and  Nvidia 1100?  That's an...interesting...choice.

Most of the PC gamers I am aware of that are waiting for future parts are waiting for AMD's Zen CPUs (Q1 2017) and AMD's Vega GPUs (Q2 2017) because Intel is practically guaranteed to have yet another only ~5% IPC increase and Nvidia's next-gen Volta GPUs aren't launching until 2018 (they're releasing "Pascal refresh" for 2017).

Anyway, the reason I asked what your current CPU (or perhaps your previous CPU?) was because different people have different interpolation tolerances, so some people use much less intensive settings than others - in other words, what one person may deem to be "too weak", another person may deem to be "more than enough".  As an example, even my Pentium G3258 (a CPU with IPC a bit worse than a G4400) @ 4.6GHz isn't enough for 1080p with SVP settings that I deem "adequate", but if I lower some settings, then it's more than fast enough even at its stock 3.2GHz.

The thing is, there becomes a point where more smoothness results in more noticeable artifacts, so even when performance is not an issue, it all comes down to balancing your tolerance for artifacts vs your tolerance for what movie buffs call the "soap opera effect".

tl;dr: Whether or not a Pentium G4400 is fast enough for 1080p all depends on what kind of settings you are used to in SVP - or have you never actually tried SVP before?

Make a custom EDID via CRU - Custom Resolution Utility and remove any and all refresh rates that aren't 120Hz?

It's worth nothing that the performance of the Intel GPU should be plenty fast enough for SVP unless you're running with 5x interpolation and MadVR* or something.

*if you do use MadVR, it's typically a better idea to set MadVR to use your discrete GPU while SVP uses your integrated GPU

Simple - you should avoid the k-lite codec pack.

(basically there's no need for codec packs nowadays as LAVfilters is all you need, and it's already bundled inside of MPC-HC directly)

I will appease you and check this.

EDIT: Hey wait a minute, SVP4 doesn't have an AVS folder nor a MSmoothFps.avs file...

I do however have video-encoding skills, so I could simply test this by manually inserting black frames.

Yet VR headsets use it because, without a ridiculously high framerate (around a thousand fps), you will eventually vomit.

Also many LED-backlit LCD displays without strobing already have displays that flicker, just at rates that most people can't see (my laptop and TV are such displays; my father with glaucoma can't see the flicker but I can with white images on a low backlight setting).

Display refresh rates are only getting higher, so why should such functionality be ignored purely because of people using 60Hz displays?  I mean, SVP can already detect the refresh rate so why not just make it be disabled unless your refresh rate is at least something like 120Hz?

EDIT: Also, you completely ignored the "frame blending" that I had mentioned which was specifically intended to reduce flickering.