4K < 60fps or 1080/1440p Gsync?

[Jay Santos]

Hey guys, my 1080p monitor is about to give up the ghost. Back light bleed is bad. Flickers sometimes.

I'm ready for a new monitor and I'm willing to spend up to $400 tops.

Before anything, I have a 4690K @ 4.6ghz, 16gb ram and GTX 1070.

I have my eyes on a 24" Samsung 4K monitor. Sells for $300 at Costco. Doesn't look too bad.

My other consideration is going gsync. However with my $400 budget, my choices are very limited. I think $400 will only buy me a 1080p gsync monitor at best.


I don't have any plans in the next year or two to upgrade my hardware. Doing so would cost me a lot of money. Also the 4690K is still somewhat decent.

If I wanted the full 4K at 60fps, I would have to get a 1080ti or another 1070. I might be inclined to do that when the 1070 is near EOL. Buy another and SLI them to get 4K 60fps.

I just can't get myself to swallow the gsync pill. $400 for 1080 is a lot of money. A 1440p gsync will probably run me $500 - $600.

Looking at $300 4K monitor + $350 2nd 1070 looks like a better bargain to me.


What do you guys think? 1080p gsync or 4K around 30-40fps with my current setup.

 

[Jonathan Cave]

Buy a 144hz 1440p non gsync monitior. @ 144+ fps with vsync off you can barely see any tearing so no need to to go down gsync route. Gsync is really good @ 60hz, but limited benefits @ 144+hz

My advice comes from actual expeirence with 1 x 4k 60hz gysync, 1 x 144hz 1440p gsync and 1 x 165hz gsync.

4k 60hz/fps is achievable on a 1070 with medium - high settings , game dependant.

 

[okcnaline]

What video game?

 

[Jay Santos]

Buy a 144hz 1440p non gsync monitior. @ 144+ fps with vsync off you can barely see any tearing so no need to to go down gsync route. Gsync is really good @ 60hz, but limited benefits @ 144+hz

My advice comes from actual expeirence with 1 x 4k 60hz gysync, 1 x 144hz 1440p gsync and 1 x 165hz gsync.

4k 60hz/fps is achievable on a 1070 with medium - high settings , game dependant.

The price difference between a 1440p and 4K monitor is about $100 now. I'm wondering if I will regret going with a 1440p instead of a 4K down the road. I've had my dying 1080p monitor for about 7 years now.

I'm not a competitive gamer so I don't know if the > 60fps will be worth the money.

 

[Jay Santos]

What video game?

Believe it or not I still play GTAV.
I mostly play shooter games. I'm strictly a campaign person so I don't really care for 180fps game play.
I'm more of an eye candy (so long as it's not choppy) over greater than 60 fps.

 

[cryoburner]

I'm more of an eye candy (so long as it's not choppy) over greater than 60 fps.

I get the impression that you're going to have to drop settings a fair amount to manage 4k at 60fps on a GTX 1070 in many recent games, and it will only get worse in games coming out a year or two from now. 4K requires the card to render more than twice as many pixels each frame as 1440p, after all. A game running at ultra settings at 1440p will most likely look better than the game running at medium settings at 4k.

And unless you're going with a larger 4k screen around the 30 inch range, you might not even notice much visual difference between 1440p and 4k in games. 24 inches is likely too small to get the full benefit from such a high pixel density on a desktop monitor. Text might look a bit sharper, but I question whether the minor visual enhancement in games would be worth such a significant performance hit. At the very least, your 1070 will likely continue to offer suitable performance for a longer at 1440p.

 

[okcnaline]

What video game?

Believe it or not I still play GTAV.
I mostly play shooter games. I'm strictly a campaign person so I don't really care for 180fps game play.
I'm more of an eye candy (so long as it's not choppy) over greater than 60 fps.

GTA V...?

Maybe should do SLI GTX 1080 instead.