Upgrade Monitor or Graphics card first?

Jamesizme

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Currently on a tight budget and can either get a monitor this week or a fortnight for a graphics Having a HD Monitor with my HD 5870 Or a R9 280X with a old dvi to vga adapter Non hd shit ):


Choose for me Tom <3
 
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Get the R9 280x first. So that you get to enjoy extra fast gaming on your current monitor while waiting for the new monitor. You won't suffer loss of image quality from a VGA connection below HD resolution.

If you get the monitor first your games will run even worse than they currently are. Yes you can lower graphic detail but its not as nice anymore.
Get the R9 280x first. So that you get to enjoy extra fast gaming on your current monitor while waiting for the new monitor. You won't suffer loss of image quality from a VGA connection below HD resolution.

If you get the monitor first your games will run even worse than they currently are. Yes you can lower graphic detail but its not as nice anymore.
 
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Not knowing your system, if you have a low resolution monitor and are getting 40 FPS a R9 280X will make no noticeable improvement .On the other hand if your FPS is low then the GPU is the way to go.

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