Ian1ian Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Hi all, I used to play oldrim heavily modded with lots of 4K textures, an ENB, loads of mod etc on a 980TI. It was not bad, rarely below 30 fps even in cities, otherwise around 60fps. But, my monitor then & now only does 1920 x 1080. So, I now guess I wasn't really getting much or as much as possible from many of the graphic mods I'd installed (it still looked amazing though). Anyway, my 980TI died (PSU went & took it out) & for years since then I've been on my even older noisy R9 290, so not playing Skyrim (I know could have, just, but with far fewer mods - too painful a drop). Now I'm looking to upgrade, monitor & GPU, get into Skyrim SE. Budget allows a Vega 64 (a good bit better than the 980TI) & about 500 pounds on a monitor. The Vega 64 won't I understand reliably do 4K gaming, I can't afford a 2080/2080TI - crazy prices, I refuse to pay such. 32" or 34" 2560 X 1440 monitors with pretty good specs (100ghz/1 ms/freesync) come in around or some well below 500 pounds, or I could get a cheap 34" 4K monitor with relatively poor specs, 60ghz 4ms refresh). Which would you recommend? If I were to go for a cheaper 4K monitor would that be a bit of a waste as my Vega 64 wouldn't be able to power it (or only barely) at 4k? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I was looking at this, the HDR 10 support is what interests me, it looks awesome in games that support it, my only concern is the resolution might be a little low for a screen of that size https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07B4JDRP6 that and it's only 75hz according to one of the customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian1ian Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 FYI, I'm now looking at this : https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B07D2VFL34/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A1AT7YVPFBWXBL&psc=1 The above AOC one has 144hz refresh, 4ms, freesync, 1440 res. It's not 4k & not ultrawide - from what I've been reading/looking at the resolution on the LG one is a little low for Ultrawide. One big surprise re the GPU though, is that I found new RTX2080s on Amazon.de for 350 euros (!) I've ordered one, delivery should be 040719 to 230719 - provided it's not a scam, that's a sort of "it fell off the back of a lorry" price, so a slight concern. I suspect I'll buy the 32" 1440 above, nice price, there is at least one favourable review of it (on Toms Hardware iirc) & I don't fancy blowing double the price on a top notch monitor when I'm not entirely sure what I want, but am sure anything will be a major step up form the 27" 1080p I'm on atm. Suspect I'll need a new desk next :ohmy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 I'm using a 27" 1440p at the moment, the LG would actually give me fewer pixels and that's what put me off, the HDR would be nice though. I've been looking for 4K ultrawides but they're asking silly money at the moment. I have a 55" 4K TV off to the side for games on the Playstation and PC games where I can sit back with a controller, I did try using it as a monitor, being so close to the curved screen was awesome for games but for general use it was terrible, sites with white backgrounds would blind me. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jones177 Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 Before I bought a GTX 1080 ti I had to drop the resolution to 1440p on my 4k monitor to play this game, LE and Fallout 4 with the mods I like. I basically played at 1440p and did screen shots at 4k. What I did learn is that you can't see all the detail of a true 4k texture a 1440p. The game will not let you get close enough. If you us the console code "tfc" you can get close enough.At 1600p you can see the detail so 1600 pixels is what I like to use now since my games are still hard to run even with a RTX 2080 ti at 4k. I use a separate computer for ultrawide. I could run the same SE modded game on a 3440 X 1440 monitor with a GTX 1080 with 60fps everywhere. Since the performance of a Vega 64 is close to a GTX 1080 that is the resolution I would get. The only downside to 21:9 is that Skyrim LE does not like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian1ian Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 (edited) That's something I'm now wondering, whether to go for a 16:9 1440 widescreen like the one above or one of these 1440 Ultrawidescreen monitors, which are 23:9 I think. https://www.amazon.es/Acer-Predator-Z35-Monitor-UW-QHD/dp/B06XNN23KL/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_es_ES=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=Acer+Predator+Z35&qid=1561572507&s=gateway&sr=8-4 Looks nice, g-sync too. Edited June 26, 2019 by Ian1ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moksha8088 Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 My son has a couple of 34 inch monitors with the 1440 resolution. He says it looks really good, and even better now that Nvidia has some support for the Freesync monitors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COMBATFUN Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 (edited) i've seen a modded skyrim on an 27" wqhd premium display and it looked just awesome and he played with stable 60 fps with an rtx 2080 ti oc.as u won't buy that card, i would clearly suggest the premium wqhd freesync display with an vega 64 oc at least. best would be a radeon vii. don't forget: if you have "2 much performance", you can still use downsampling.the pictures is rendered in a higher resolution than your monitor, but again downsized to your monitor resolution, just a moment before the picture is displayed. you get a much better picture that way.+50%(150%) or 1,5x resolution scale is already 4k - if you are coming from wqhd. Edited June 27, 2019 by COMBATFUN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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