I joined the 1440p race

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Bristow9091 said:
I'm actually looking at buying a new monitor myself since mine was broken while moving house, which sucks... right now I'm using my back up/second monitor which is a 19" 1366x768 acer whatevermajig, and let me tell you... it's fucking awful. I've been looking at some 24" 1080p monitors since that's all I had before anyway, but my brother is in the middle of convincing me to go for a 27" 1440p monitor, he even linked me a nice Asus one which I must admit is very tempting... but then I have to consider the specs of my computer and whether I'd be able to run games in the 1440p resolution too.

Any mid-range GPU is fine for 1440P (Radeon RX 580/Geforce 1060 6GB or better), it's not a difficult resolution to run these days.

Do it and don't look back.

Bristow9091 said:

m0ney said:

You can run games on lower resolutions on a 1440p monitor. My PC is aging too but surprisingly my Geforce 960 2GB handles modern games at 1440p well. I'm playing DMC5 on High now and framerate is smooth. I had gotten a used AMD 580 earlier this year but it turned out mined with loud fans and I sold it off.

Oh yeah I know I can, but what's the point in having a higher res monitor if my games aren't going to show it lol. I also have a GTX 960, but mine is the 4GB OC model lol. I'm sure it'll play my current games at 1440p no problem, but just thinking into the future with my purchase lol :P 

Usually you will stick with a monitor for longer than a PC, I highly doubt you are going to continue with that same GPU for the next half decade?
A GTX 960 will handle most games (even newer ones) at 1440P with some detail settings turned down at 30fps.
If you want 60fps, even at 1080P you will have to turn details down.

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2302

You should look at around a 22-50% performance impact by moving from 1080P to 1440P with ultra/very high details, but that is likely the limited framebuffer coming into play. - The jump from 1080P to 1440P is a 77.7% increase in pixels afterall, so it's good bang-for-buck.

Older games will be no issue.

Outside of gaming, you will have crisper text and images, you can throw more information on your screen... And you will even see some benefits with 4k video over 1080P video.