1440p at 165 Hz: The Ultimate Gaming Experience?

[slamscaper]

I chose to go with 4K@60Hz, but I'm not a twitch gamer and I use my monitors for much more than gaming. For a little over $500 I found a great 27" IPS LG model with Freesync (don't use it since I'm running Nvidia, but it's there). I gotta say, it has beautiful image quality, and that's coming from someone that's ALWAYS used professional grade monitors like Dell's Ultrasharp line. I still have a U2410 ultrasharp 1200p monitor in use right next to it.

I will admit that pushing games at 4K isn't easy. I have two GTX 970's in SLI and if I get perfect scaling I'm in pretty good shape, but when I don't I'm forced to turn down the settings or run the game on my 1200p monitor.

 

[vayeate]

True casual gamer checking in...
>=144hz: check
165hz: check
IPS panel: check
1440p panel: check
30fps on a 1440p/165hz panel: check <-LOL
True ga_ming experience: y

 

[AntiShill]

I am currently using this, 27" 1440p, 144hz, g-sync
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell...6dg/apd/210-agjr/monitors-monitor-accessories

With my i7-7700K and GTX1070. The thing is not IPS, but it seems really good viewing angles, color accuracy, and all. And it was only $450 at Best Buys.

When I go back to by old i7-2600k on the old 60Hz 1080p with a gtx1060 (backfilled, after noticing the 1070 being bottlenecked by the 2600k, I finally gave in put together a new build), stuff like screen tearing have become far more noticeable than before. Perhaps it is NOT a good idea to push ahead to higher refresh monitor, you can't miss what you don't know, but once you do... I think it will be hard to have to go back. Perhaps 4k 144hz might become affordable soon... who am I kidding!?

 

[AntiShill]

....
When you start from a 5-6 year old system and want to go on the 1440p 165hz route, consider you will have to upgrade the whole system and it'll cost 2000$ USD to get refresh the system. Just don't get caught in the "I will buy the monitor then I will wait for the other parts"; don't think you'll resist upgrading the GPU and maybe the CPU/MOBO also

That is so true.

And despite of the all the hype from AMD fro Ryzen, there is NOT a single Ryzen that can do this job any better than an overclocked Sandybridge. That is so frustrating.