REQ For Opinions: Curve 40" 4K Samsung or 144Hz High refresh monitor for PC gamingi

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Hi,
I'd like to request opinions on the following.
Please weigh in and be objective. Thanks in advance.

I am debating whether to get one of the new 40" 4K Curve HDTV or a 27" High Refresh monitor for a gaming display at my desk.
My Graphics Card is Nvidia GEFORCE 980

Option1: Acer Predator XB270HU http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/acer_xb270hu.htm
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Pros: 
        High refresh Rate for smooth gaming. (never witnessed this in action)
Cons: 
         Smaller display at only 27"
         incremental upgrade over my current Dell 24 monitors.
Option2: Samsung Curve 40" 4K http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/UN40JU6700FXZA
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Pros: 
      HUGE display for gaming, very impactful.
      Curve makes it even more impactful, very cool
      HDMI 2.0 with 60hz input.
      good latency ~20ms.
      If I can't game at 4K, I can downstep to 1080P for games that I can't keep up with.
      I console game at 60hz and never complained...
Cons:
      Only 60hz refresh rate. How choppy will this be? (What am I missing out on not getting high refresh monitor?)
      Don't know what 1080P (or 4k for that matter) will look like when running FPS/RTS games

Its a hard choice to make, since I have no frame of reference on what a 144Hz monitor looks like, and not much experience on what PC games look like on a TV.
I really want the curve to be the right choice. I think it will be awesome to game on a huge 40" curved display up close and personal at my PC desk.
FYI: I know that I usually prefer size when it comes to image. I chose an 80" 1080P Visio tv for consoles, over a smaller/higher quality (Samsung/Sharp) models and I love it.
Both options are equivalent in price.
Everyone is making such a big deal around these new gsync "gaming" 1440p displays, but 27" is small'ish.. just seems like no big deal to me(I have a 27" monoprice monitor)


Any opinions are appreciated.
Thanks to everyone for all the great information on this forum.
 
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We need some more info.

Single GTX 980 won't be able to power 4K at high settings, so if you play intensive games it may be better to go with the XB270HU. But if you play mild games and don't mind lowering settings or resolution, I'd say 4K all the way.

Honestly, I'm also in the same boat- I don't game that much, and I hardly game anything that may benefit from the 144Hz- I play LoL. I currently have a 34um94, and 21:9 aspect ratio is simply phenomenal for productivity and immersiveness in games.

Why don't you include options for the 21:9 monitors? If you honestly don't need the 144Hz, why not go for some extra real estate?
 
Unless you play a lot of online competitive or very fast paced games I would say just get the Samsung TV. It can also serve as an actual TV for watching content on and will provide you with massive desktop screen space without any scaling necessary as 4k @ 40 inch is roughly ~110ppi. For casual gaming the 40 inch curved screen will be very nice. Because I play fast paced games online as well casual single player games I plan to pick up both myself. I can give you more feedback once I have both.
 
I very much advise personal testing about 40" if it is not too high for your viewing place.
This can be done by raising your present monitor to such height that its upper display edge is the same as the upper edge of the 40", lowered down. Than see how it feels.
34" wide is much less demanding from the heigth point of view.
 
meraki1990 said:
We need some more info.

Single GTX 980 won't be able to power 4K at high settings, so if you play intensive games it may be better to go with the XB270HU. But if you play mild games and don't mind lowering settings or resolution, I'd say 4K all the way.
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Samsung 40" Owner:
I'm getting ~70fps in BF4 MP with mixed High and Ultra settings. No AA.
GTX 980 is clocked to 1500Mhz.

Best PC investment to date.
 
If The Ju6700 Tvs did 1080p 120Hz it would be a no brainer. But, reading specs, i can infer that only the 3D capable models, like the JU7100 JU7500 are capable of TRUE 120hZ@1080p without frameskipping.

But at $1400 it is hard to sell the JU7500 as a gaming monitor.

3inches higher is not "only". when you are talking about a PC monitor for long hours. ergonomics play a central role on the buying decision.

I gave up on my seiki 39" for that usage scenario.
Side by side my ACD 30" and the Dell 2515h are also "only 3 inches height" apart, but i am enjoying the better ergonomics of the 25" over the 160 pixels advantage of the 30".

4K is amazing but strobing backlight and 144Hz are even more, if one is gaming. For 4k to kind of compete with 1440p i expect the display to be able to run at 1080p120Hz no frame skipping, if possible with a strobing backlight.
 
Good topic... same boat. Haven't played at the top FPS competitive level since the Q2 and the early days of Q3 well over 15 years ago (when my reflexes were MUCH better), but I still more than hold my own in a tight BF4 match with a 4 year old TN 26" 19x12 monitor (Asus, funny enough.) I really play competitive flight sims (DCS and BoS), which while a lot slower paced in terms of gameplay still require *very* fast movement of the viewport to acquire and track targets, so I'm sure better motion clarity would help a lot there.

It's just that the format of the G-Sync panels aren't doing much to excite me... they're just a tiny bit bigger than my current panel, and I'd like more size / immersiveness. The 40" 4K panels and 34" UW panels would *definitely* have an immediate wow! factor which I'm not sure G-Sync could match. But then I lean the other way reading G-Sync impressions with people stating that they simply can't play on anything else after experiencing it.

So many compromises. :(
 
well , one can always hold until the 34" Acer Predator is launched...
 
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