Hardware & Technical What monitor? Advice, please

[Julio Montega]

I use the ASUS ROG SWIFT PG278Q
2560x1440
144 MHz and G-Sync, uses displayport to connect with the graphicscard
and has 2 USB slots.
It is quite the beast.

It uses the tn-panel, allowing clear vision up to an angle of 178°.
I enjoy Elite on it, smoothly running with a GForce 660.
When on the Desktop however, i need to lean forward sometimes to read the letters.
The Font is very small (gotta tweak that).

The price however, is somewhat high.

 

[bassman]

Thanks for those comments. Just to confirm - a 4K monitor will demand a better graphics card than my 660 though?

You dont have to run it at full res. I have the philips 40" 4k and mostly run games at 2.6 x 1.4k, with GPU upscaling its not much of a downgrade from native 4k. Its really the sheer size of this monitor that puts it in a class of its own for immersion rather than the res, it also the fantastic contrast: black is totally and utterly black which makes even more awsome for space games.

If you want to feed a huge 27''

"huge" ??, no mate this is huge ...

 

[Andrej]

biohazard15 have a great suggestion, BenQ BL3200 seems very nice. But i am personally have Philips 4065uc (40', 4K) and it is really great for E (and everything else), unfortunately with GTX 660 it out of the question for 4k. But yes you can run it in FHD and still have excellent picture. About GPU upgrade, it is really not the best time, this summer nVidia introduce their new generation GPU and rumors are, that they will be 2-4 times faster that current generation. My suggestion, buy new monitor, but wait for new generation GPU, meanwhile, downgrade video setting to get playable FPS.


P.S. bassman i have exactly same monitor, you probably need a bigger table

 

[Anton_]

If anyone's interested, from the advice you guys gave me, I got a 27"Acer XB270HU (2560x1440), and an EVGA GTX 980 Ti. The monitor gives me 40% more pixels in the vertical and 100% more pixels in the horizontal than I had before, and the GPU runs at 144fps, sometimes dropping to just over 100fps when hyperspacing, but no more jerkiness - smooth as silk. I love it.

Thanks to all of you!

 

[Hilight]

EDIT***** OOPPPS I'm sorry for the post-- now I see that you already bought a display--

 

[jordanthurt]

If you want something very nice, but a bit cheaper, look at the Westinghouse 40" LED TV. 1920x1080.

 

[Hampstor]

2560 x 1440 is still the current sweet spot for monitors. Better resolution than 1080 (to be honest not enormously so, but it is definitely noticable. 4k is a different world, but you need a much better card than a 660). A GTX 660 would just run a 1440 screen, but I'd still be looking at a better video card. A GTX 780ti will drive a 1440 screen very well and the prices are good - not enormous framerates, but certainly usable. I was using a 3 year old GTX 780 up until a few weeks ago on a 1440 screen and it was fine.

Do you need to buy now or can you wait 12 months - some big things are happening with both monitors and cards next year.

Whatever you get I'd urge you to buy a monitor that has hardware synchronization - either G-sync (if an Nvidia user) or Freesync (if AMD). It makes a great difference, particularly at low frame rates. 30fps becomes quite acceptable with hardware sync. Also look for a high refresh rate, and if possible an IPS panel. TN panes are faster, but the colour is inferior and ED does not require 1ms GtG.

+1 I would also go for g-sync or freesync.

 

[Patrick_68000]

"huge" ??, no mate this is huge ...

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Big screen but really too small office.

 

[Para Handy]

I've just bought a BenQ GW2765HT. It's 27" WQHD 60Hz.

It's an IPS panel so colours are absolutely incredible and blacks are really very good (perfect for ED). It had a bit of motion blur (it is IPS), bit I'm fine with it and it doesn't cause me any issues while playing. I've also tried using it with GTA V on Xbox and the motion is completely fine unless you do a slowish pan (weirdly). Is subjective though, so you might want to see one in the flesh.

The brightness on it is amazing as well, makes you want to squint coming out of a jump in front of a sun, even with brightness down from default 100% level!

I'm also a Benq fan and build quality is great IMO.

BTW running on Ultra settings @ WQHD with a R9 280 dual X, with only minor FPS drops in station (AMD supercruise issue excepted).

I have the same BenQ monitor and I can confirm it is absolutely great (4Mb 660ti card here at the moment happily runs E D + H in ultra) -fantastic.

 

[Hellhawk666]

If anyone's interested, from the advice you guys gave me, I got a 27"Acer XB270HU (2560x1440), and an EVGA GTX 980 Ti. The monitor gives me 40% more pixels in the vertical and 100% more pixels in the horizontal than I had before, and the GPU runs at 144fps, sometimes dropping to just over 100fps when hyperspacing, but no more jerkiness - smooth as silk. I love it.

Thanks to all of you!

A great choice of kit at this time. I bought an ASUS PG278Q about 18 months ago and love it, apart from the colour which is TN and consequently terrible. I'll have to wait a bit longer until I can justify a new monitor but if I was in the market now the XB270HU is definitely what I'd buy. Enjoy.

 

[Lt.RAT]

BenQ gaming monitor
cheap
quality

 

[Assimilator1]

Ok I've finally got around to reviewing a few monitors & re-reading this thread & some suggestions.
1 being the BenQ 32" BL3200, which is a VA panel & apparently they have the worse response time, so that one's out.
Another is the BenQ 27" XL2730Z but that's a TN panel, with it's associated poorer colours, so that's out [update], although THGs review of it says its colours are good!
So that just leaves the IPS panels, I'm going to read up about the BenQ 27" GW2765HT (not stuck on Benq btw, just they were some of the ones mentioned here).
After 2560x1440 res, not 100% sure on screen size, but 27-32" range.
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So any other suggestions?
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Oh btw, running an AMD card atm & probably will be for at least a year or 2 (so free sync is wanted), the card in my sig will soon be upgraded to an Asus HD 7970 (1 GHz clock), (well assuming the ebayer hasn't stitched me up!). I'm sticking to Tahiti GPUs for now as I want their good FP64 power (far better than latter AMD cards & NVidia ones) for the distributed computing projects I run. Although I found out today they don't support free sync , but the next GPU will probably be a Hawaii based GPU, hence wanting free sync.
(I am wondering though, for the future, if I left my HD 7970 in my PC as a 2nd card purely for DC crunching, & then buying a faster more modern card for games & general display , then I could go for NVidia or AMD).
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Cancel your TV and get cheap ass phone for an entire year. There its all payed off within 12 months. Maybe 16 months.

I still want to watch TV & my phone is nearly 10yrs old (Nokia 6233!), so you can't get any cheaper than that! .
I'm sure 3 huge screens would be a fantastic experience but with their cost & the need for at least 2 graphic cards (probably, you didn't mention res), I'm not going to spend that kind of insane money on it .
Oh yea, & late reply I know

 

[avow555]

If your desk space can handle it, then take a look at the 40" 4k Phillips Brilliance Monitor, (Not TV, But True PC Monitor). I have gone from a 3 screen setup to this and it is BETTER!

I have just purchased this monitor myself and it's totally changed my computing life.
Apart from gaming I use it primarily for photoediting.
I can't recommended this monitor high enough

 

[Assimilator1]

Well I was looking at the Asus MG279Q which is the free sync equivalent of the Acer XB270HU (same panel), but as far as the Asus one goes rather a lot of people are reporting problems with IPS glow on dark screens, in Amazon a couple of people even mentioned that it was particularly noticeable in Elite Dangerous!
Re the BenQ 27" GW2765HT, turns out it's an old-ish screen & so doesn't have freesync.
*sigh* back to square 1, & I now have no idea what screen I want ..........
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[update] Then again maybe VAs aren't so slow :S Review of Asus PB328Q by THG, which uses an apparently slighter better implementation of the same VA screen the BenQ BL3200 uses & has perfectly acceptable response, I'm getting lost here........ :S [edit] and I forgot they don't have freesync, I give up