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What resolution should I game?

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After gaming into 1680X1050 for such a long time, moving into 1080P or 1200P won't make me feel much of a difference. I want a jump into a resolution, where I feel considerable difference in terms of details, clarity and overall I should feel the WOW factor.

With 4K display prices still sky high, and yet, no single GPU card can play latest games highest settings,

Is 1440P a sweet spot, I wouldn't consider GTX 970 to be mid range yet, as it still costs more than 350. Is there a mid range card that can deliver the same game play at 1440P resolution, which HD 4850-70 used to deliver in 2008 at 1650 X 1050 resolution?
 
1440p would be a great place to start. It's what I was aiming for until an awesome 4k deal showed up in the For Sale forums that I jumped on.

A good card choice for 1440p would be a 290x or a gtx 970. Both are priced very well and will perform adequately at that Rez imo.
 
I play at 1440p dsr in most games but need 970 SLi to play with Max details and playable frame rates. Recently I cannot maintain 1440p in Witcher 3 and Batman AK.
 
Try DSR/VSR and see if that doesn't make you want to game at higher resolution and a larger monitor. I was fine with 1080p till then.
 
durquavian said:
Try DSR/VSR and see if that doesn't make you want to game at higher resolution and a larger monitor. I was fine with 1080p till then.
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I forgot to mention that I need a bigger display too, something like 27 inch, where the game plan experience improves. I am bit fed up with the current 22 inch display. 23-24 inch might not make much a difference and the price of 30 inch display are still sky high
 
2560x1440 should give a solid "wow" factor over 1680x1050. But to be prepared for running everything maxed out you'll need to spend some significant coin. Either a 980 vanilla or Ti, or perhaps a Radeon Fury X are really your only options without having to dial down details or upscale to native resolutions in the heaviest workloads. Most other games that aren't so detailed or graphically intense could squeak by with a 290/390X or 970 as suggested.

Most of the solid 27" options I've seen are about $550-750 that use IPS, MVA/PVA, or PLS panels. Stay the fuck away from TN at that size. The gamma shift alone will make your eyes bleed. That isn't bad considering that's what I paid for my LP2475w five years ago, and 27" 1440p models were twice the price that they are now upon introduction.

I went from a 22" 1680x1050 panel to a 24" 1920x1200 wide gamut IPS one, and it still made me say "wow" so don't rule out the 1080p option, as it will save you $$$ in the long run on buying expensive graphics cards, and still looks great. Plus, you can find great 27" IPS models for around $300, giving you extra loot for games or other expenses, like hookers and blow. Cheers!
 
Mr. Bluntman said:
2560x1440 should give a solid "wow" factor over 1680x1050. But to be prepared for running everything maxed out you'll need to spend some significant coin. Either a 980 vanilla or Ti, or perhaps a Radeon Fury X are really your only options without having to dial down details or upscale to native resolutions in the heaviest workloads. Most other games that aren't so detailed or graphically intense could squeak by with a 290/390X or 970 as suggested.

Most of the solid 27" options I've seen are about $550-750 that use IPS, MVA/PVA, or PLS panels. Stay the fuck away from TN at that size. The gamma shift alone will make your eyes bleed. That isn't bad considering that's what I paid for my LP2475w five years ago, and 27" 1440p models were twice the price that they are now upon introduction.

I went from a 22" 1680x1050 panel to a 24" 1920x1200 wide gamut IPS one, and it still made me say "wow" so don't rule out the 1080p option, as it will save you $$$ in the long run on buying expensive graphics cards, and still looks great. Plus, you can find great 27" IPS models for around $300, giving you extra loot for games or other expenses, like hookers and blow. Cheers!
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Thanks for the suggestion. How good is Dell U2715H?

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-UltraSha...F8&qid=1435580556&sr=1-1&keywords=Dell+U2715h
 
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I know its not the answer you were looking for, but the biggest "wow" factor I have had in gaming in the last 10 years wasn't from 1680x1050 to 1080p, or to 1440p but by moving to a 144hz display.

I have a 1440p and a 1080p 144hz display side by side and although I love the 1440p screen for productivity and general computer usage, every game that doesn't have a locked fps looks, plays, and feels more enjoyable on the 144hz display.

I really do mean every game. Even my wife a 'causal' gamer can perceive the increase in smoothness when playing something as simple as Don't Starve, or just dragging the mouse around the desktop. She found it so much more enjoyable that she demanded one for her birthday.

If you really want and value "where I feel considerable difference in terms of details, clarity and overall I should feel the WOW factor." Then I cant oversell a 144hz display enough.

Fortunately now days they come in 1440p as well.
 
If you want WOW factor and don't mind a few hassles, go with eyefinity. I have 3 Acer 27" LCDs running off a single 290x and I can play almost every game with modest settings.

Most recently, I have completed Arkham City, AC Black Flag (double WOW), and Tomb Raider. Works best with a gamepad, but this is the most fun I have had since my original Super Nintendo.
 
Go with 1440 27", you wont regret it and the difference between that and 1080p is significant. Coming from 1680x1050 will be night and day. This is in general though for all needs. For a purely gaming experience eyefinity/surround with triple 1080p is far better than a single 1440p.

Either way you go though, you need some beefy horsepower of course if you want very high settings.
 
I was recently shopping for a new display as well. A few things I've noticed.

If you can, you should definitely go look at and compare some of the panels you are interested in, first person, at a store. People here will argue endlessly about the things that they think are better. Different things are important to different people. Some people swear by color reproduction and viewing angles, some want high refresh above all else, some could care less about color reproduction. Some love glossy panels. I think everyone will agree that the one thing we all hate is quality problems, glows, and bleeds, and bad pixels, etc. Just because someone here says a given panel looks awesome to them doesn't mean it will be awesome for you, at your viewing distance, for your uses, with your eyes, and your own preferences. Check 'em out first hand if you can.

Some folks here are truly [H] and really push gaming as far as they can...and have the money to do it (either that or they occasionally sell an organ). Alot of us don't like having to screw around with detail levels and, of course, just want to max the sliders. If you want max detail then, depending on your own preferences, you may or may/not be able to afford or want to endure the more intense upgrade frequency and paths to push the higher resolutions. As for myself, I tend to be a set it and forget it type of person and don't like reducing details...so in turn I tend to run lower resolutions so that my upgrade path isn't so severe. I've recently upgraded to a 980TI (Was previously running a 690) running a 1080p 120Hz panel. I run Witcher 3 via DSR at 1440p and it works awesome for my uses.

As the previous poster said, 120hz or 144Hz are smooth and smooth is nice. My wife is a gamer and artist and for her own machine she uses an ASUS IPS panel. The color and the viewing angle are wonderful but she hates the tearing she gets when gaming. She actually prefers my TN panel for gaming. She also hates the AG coating on her panel. She also likes to play in a dimmed room...and games where things are dark...like in a cave or dungeon or what not...there is alot of glow from her panel which drives her nuts.

You may also wish to take eyesight into account. My eyes suck and my 27" panel at 1080p, at the distance I have it on my own desk is about perfect for me for gaming and for work I can read it ok without killing my eyes. I could probably go 1440p but with a 27" panel at those distances that would be pushing it for size of text for me and I don't want to mess with scaling things. The viewing angles suck on my monitor but they are always fine for me because I'm always planted at the same spot in front of it. I don't see them shift much in my normal usage.

So, in summary, you can read reviews and opinions but you'll want to put those in the context of your own use, preferences, eyesight, desires with regards to performance, and upgrade path.
 
rive22 said:
Go with 1440 27", you wont regret it and the difference between that and 1080p is significant. Coming from 1680x1050 will be night and day. This is in general though for all needs. For a purely gaming experience eyefinity/surround with triple 1080p is far better than a single 1440p.

Either way you go though, you need some beefy horsepower of course if you want very high settings.
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Indeed. I was very happy moving from a 27" 1080p to 27" 1440p. 78% more pixels in that change. With Eyefinity/Surround, keep in mind that you're going to have to fight with a lot of games to get it to work since most games still don't support wide resolutions out of the box. Thankfully we have Flawless Widescreen and Widescreen Fixer to help out.
 
1Wolf said:
I was recently shopping for a new display as well. A few things I've noticed.

If you can, you should definitely go look at and compare some of the panels you are interested in, first person, at a store. People here will argue endlessly about the things that they think are better. Different things are important to different people. Some people swear by color reproduction and viewing angles, some want high refresh above all else, some could care less about color reproduction. Some love glossy panels. I think everyone will agree that the one thing we all hate is quality problems, glows, and bleeds, and bad pixels, etc. Just because someone here says a given panel looks awesome to them doesn't mean it will be awesome for you, at your viewing distance, for your uses, with your eyeis, and your own preferences. Check 'em out first hand if you can.

Some folks here are truly [H] and really push gaming as far as they can...and have the money to do it (either that or they occasionally sell an organ). Alot of us don't like having to screw around with detail levels and, of course, just want to max the sliders. If you want max detail then, depending on your own preferences, you may or may/not be able to afford or want to endure the more intense upgrade frequency and paths to push the higher resolutions. As for myself, I tend to be a set it and forget it type of person and don't like reducing details...so in turn I tend to run lower resolutions so that my upgrade path isn't so severe. I've recently upgraded to a 980TI (Was previously running a 690) running a 1080p 120Hz panel. I run Witcher 3 via DSR at 1440p and it works awesome for my uses.

As the previous poster said, 120hz or 144Hz are smooth and smooth is nice. My wife is a gamer and artist and for her own machine she uses an ASUS IPS panel. The color and the viewing angle are wonderful but she hates the tearing she gets when gaming. She actually prefers my TN panel for gaming. She also hates the AG coating on her panel. She also likes to play in a dimmed room...and games where things are dark...like in a cave or dungeon or what not...there is alot of glow from her panel which drives her nuts.

You may also wish to take eyesight into account. My eyes suck and my 27" panel at 1080p, at the distance I have it on my own desk is about perfect for me for gaming and for work I can read it ok without killing my eyes. I could probably go 1440p but with a 27" panel at those distances that would be pushing it for size of text for me and I don't want to mess with scaling things. The viewing angles suck on my monitor but they are always fine for me because I'm always planted at the same spot in front of it. I don't see them shift much in my normal usage.

So, in summary, you can read reviews and opinions but you'll want to put those in the context of your own use, preferences, eyesight, desires with regards to performance, and upgrade path.
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I think you need a lot of bandwidth to play games at 120FPS in a 1440p display. How many 1440p display support 120 and above refresh rate?
 
1Wolf said:
I was recently shopping for a new display as well. A few things I've noticed.

If you can, you should definitely go look at and compare some of the panels you are interested in, first person, at a store. People here will argue endlessly about the things that they think are better. Different things are important to different people. Some people swear by color reproduction and viewing angles, some want high refresh above all else, some could care less about color reproduction. Some love glossy panels. I think everyone will agree that the one thing we all hate is quality problems, glows, and bleeds, and bad pixels, etc. Just because someone here says a given panel looks awesome to them doesn't mean it will be awesome for you, at your viewing distance, for your uses, with your eyes, and your own preferences. Check 'em out first hand if you can.

Some folks here are truly [H] and really push gaming as far as they can...and have the money to do it (either that or they occasionally sell an organ). Alot of us don't like having to screw around with detail levels and, of course, just want to max the sliders. If you want max detail then, depending on your own preferences, you may or may/not be able to afford or want to endure the more intense upgrade frequency and paths to push the higher resolutions. As for myself, I tend to be a set it and forget it type of person and don't like reducing details...so in turn I tend to run lower resolutions so that my upgrade path isn't so severe. I've recently upgraded to a 980TI (Was previously running a 690) running a 1080p 120Hz panel. I run Witcher 3 via DSR at 1440p and it works awesome for my uses.

As the previous poster said, 120hz or 144Hz are smooth and smooth is nice. My wife is a gamer and artist and for her own machine she uses an ASUS IPS panel. The color and the viewing angle are wonderful but she hates the tearing she gets when gaming. She actually prefers my TN panel for gaming. She also hates the AG coating on her panel. She also likes to play in a dimmed room...and games where things are dark...like in a cave or dungeon or what not...there is alot of glow from her panel which drives her nuts.

You may also wish to take eyesight into account. My eyes suck and my 27" panel at 1080p, at the distance I have it on my own desk is about perfect for me for gaming and for work I can read it ok without killing my eyes. I could probably go 1440p but with a 27" panel at those distances that would be pushing it for size of text for me and I don't want to mess with scaling things. The viewing angles suck on my monitor but they are always fine for me because I'm always planted at the same spot in front of it. I don't see them shift much in my normal usage.

So, in summary, you can read reviews and opinions but you'll want to put those in the context of your own use, preferences, eyesight, desires with regards to performance, and upgrade path.
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Solid gold advice, right here. Most people are going to tell you to go with their chosen solution because it works for them. If you have a Micro Center or Fry's nearby, do yourself a favor and go spend some time one-on-one with all these options. That will go a long way towards finding a solution you will be happy with. Good luck! :D
 
I'm staying at 1080p till my monitor dies as VR headsets will be the next big thing to replace monitors, much the same way headphones replaced speakers. I just don't know what kind of resolution the VR headsets will be as it seems to be constantly changing.
 
Maybe I just need to hand in my [H] card, I don't know, but I prefer to game at 1080. (24" screen on desk, or 65" in the living room) I would much rather crank up all available eye candy, effects, etc. at the expense of higher resolutions or AA modes on mid-range hardware. I'm much more into flashy settings, effects, lighting, shadows, than I am with smooth edges and tiny pixels. I have a GTX 970 right now, and provided I keep AA low, I can max just about anything at 1080, and I find that more enjoyable than when I see higher resolutions and lots of AA with other settings turned down to even it out.

I suppose this will change when I see a single card configuration at $450-550 that can play at 4K locked at 60fps with all of the wiz-bang (read non-mundane AA type options) at full. So... It'll be a while I think. Things are headed that way, but not quickly enough for me to jump anytime soon. 1080 is just comfortable for me. Any lower, and it's bordering on too low. Higher, and I'd have to pay more than I'm willing to for hardware. (I've got too many $-drains/hobbies/kids/house/etc. these days to pump the kind of money I used to into gaming hardware... not that it doesn't interest me still...)
 
Maxing your settings for your budget is still [H]ard. As long as you overclock. ^.^
 
J3RK said:
Maybe I just need to hand in my [H] card, I don't know, but I prefer to game at 1080. (24" screen on desk, or 65" in the living room) I would much rather crank up all available eye candy, effects, etc. at the expense of higher resolutions or AA modes on mid-range hardware. I'm much more into flashy settings, effects, lighting, shadows, than I am with smooth edges and tiny pixels. I have a GTX 970 right now, and provided I keep AA low, I can max just about anything at 1080, and I find that more enjoyable than when I see higher resolutions and lots of AA with other settings turned down to even it out.

I suppose this will change when I see a single card configuration at $450-550 that can play at 4K locked at 60fps with all of the wiz-bang (read non-mundane AA type options) at full. So... It'll be a while I think. Things are headed that way, but not quickly enough for me to jump anytime soon. 1080 is just comfortable for me. Any lower, and it's bordering on too low. Higher, and I'd have to pay more than I'm willing to for hardware. (I've got too many $-drains/hobbies/kids/house/etc. these days to pump the kind of money I used to into gaming hardware... not that it doesn't interest me still...)
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Well you're not alone. While I have access to every monitor configuration under the sun through my day job, I'm still rocking a 27" 1080p display at home with a single GTX 670. I like being able to use my consoles with this display and could probably add a second used GTX 670 and stay right where I'm at until single-card 4K becomes more affordable and viable.

Logan321 said:
Maxing your settings for your budget is still [H]ard. As long as you overclock. ^.^
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Whew! :)
 
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