Hello, I'm planing to buy a new monitor and maybe a new graphic card.
I want a monitor between 20'' and 24'', full hd (1080p), mostly to watch movies, but also to play.
The games I play the most are: warcraft III (dota), world of warcraft, Starcraft II, Tomb Raider series, Call of Dutty series.
GPU
I'm using an HD 5770, with a Phenom II 550 (with 4 cores, @ 3.5 Mhz). I already finish the first Startcraft II, and I didn't had problems with graphics (but I dont remember in witch configuration I played it). But I know that my old monitor was 1620x1080, and the new one will be 1920x1080, so my graphic card will not work so well.
Next I'm going to play the last Tomb Raider.
This is the list of the cards I have in mind:
R9 270X OC - 150€
GTX 760 - 214€
gtx 660 ti - 233€
GTX 770 - 259€
R9 280x - 272€
From tomshardware charts I got the idea that GTX 770 is the best one and that GTX 760 have a performance very close to the R9 280x, and don't justify a 55€ price difference (only in a few games R9 280x is better the those two GTX). Am I wrong?
Does the R270x OC have similar performance then an GTX 660 ti? A 80€ price difference make any sense?
Should I buy any of those graphic cards with my current CPU? Or should I wait to buy a new graphic card when I decide to upgrade the rest of my system? I'm not sure but the idea of buying a R9 270x, to use while waiting for complete system upgread, is very attractive because I don't plan to use crossfire in the future (because of power consumption and stability issues), and it seems that new nvidea graphic cards will be released very soon.
MONITOR
I was thinking in buying some mid-low end monitor (<150€), I had a LG w2241s and I was more then happy with it, but it stopped working (now I'm using an old CRT).
What should I be looking in a monitor? Brightness and response time? Because my old monitor had 300 cd/m, if I buy one with 250 cd/m I will "feel" that images have worst quality?
My graphic card have vga, dvi and hdmi, people that will use it will always be directly in front of the monitor, I don't intent to buy a Graphic Card that cost more then 270€.
Should I buy a monitor close to 100€ and get a better graphic card or should I buy a monitor close to 150€.
This is a list of monitor that are available in stores close to me (please feel free to suggest monitor that is not in this list).
ASUS LED VE228DR (dont have DVI or HDMI) - 110€
Samsung S22C300H - 120€
LG 22EA53VQ-P - 140€
Samsung S24C300H - 154€
LG 23EA63V-P - 165€
Asus VX238H - 166€
Asus VE24h - 166€
Asus VE247T - 164€
ASUS VS247H-P -
Asus VE247H - 153€
ASUS VS247HR - 160€
Thx