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Fabian_6

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Building new pic, and going with an i5 7600k

Gonna use my plasma screen tv, and I've been told that the 1070
Is already overkill for playing at 1920 x 1080

Would you say that is a good hardware combo? Could I play with 60 fps and ultra settings in most games? What would you recommend?
 
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antoine21839


You should better keep your money, buy a GTX 1070 and buy the rest of your money in monitors, for exemple you can buy a second TV, or you can buy a 1440p monitor...
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What resolution is your TV ?
By the way, "Plasma" TVs no longer exists. It's a technology that was used before the LED monitors came.
 
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Well my bad lol, guess it's a led then and I'm assuming it's 60mhz with 1920x1080

Thing is I have the budget to spend on the 1080, but if I can save money on a 1070, and have good results as well, I'm down for that.
 
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You should better keep your money, buy a GTX 1070 and buy the rest of your money in monitors, for exemple you can buy a second TV, or you can buy a 1440p monitor...
 
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I know many folks who still have their plasma TVs.... which were sold from 1997 - 2009. The LCD started hitting its stride in 2004 but while they couldn't compete with plasma as far as picture quality they were soon much cheaper and plasma fell out of favor. After 2006, LCD moved up to the HD space and signs of plasma's eventual demise were evident.

And yes, the 1070 is way overkill for 1080p... it's an ideal 1440p card .... you would do just fine w/ a 6GB MSI 1060 @ $240 (best rated card on techpowerup) or even a 3 GB model at $215 ... the 1070 ($405) would be almost twice a much

 
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Never had a plasma TV because my parents were too poor for this at this time. We only had a BlackPearl CRT TV, but I knew some friends who had a plasma TV and I do remember it was very hot compared to a LED TV. Good old times.
 
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I still remember seeing a few Plasmas in stock holiday season of 2015 or so. Looks like they cut off retail manufacturer for them in 2014 so that makes sense. Unless the TV is less then three years old there is a chance it is a Plasma.

I was under the impression all manufacture of Plasma had stopped, and it wasn't that long ago. I think it was an article on Tom's saying LG had stopped production in favor of OLED. (Wikipedia claims the last the Plasma production was scheduled to end in 2016)
 
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Plasma's did run hot and consume a lot of power if you didn't mind that, but god did they produce a hell of a picture and motion was superior. Too bad LCD took popularity and ended Plasma's chance of improving in those areas.

OLED is pricey right now but give it a few more years and that will be the way to go. From what i understand you'll have the blacks like Plasmas did and no image retention LCDs have, and all the other perks they each had combined.
 
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Well, I do remember it did consume and heat a lot...
Plasma TVs would be bad for desktop use, as a static picture can burn the screen (print forever). This also occurs on other kinds of screens, like OLED TVs, but the burn on OLED TVs will just fade away after more or less than 15 minutes. That's also why we've invented screen savers !
 
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Game mode on plasmas usually help some with pixel shifting but yeah if the image is there long enough playing the same game/hud/static icons it will make an slight imprint.

I used to use a 65" plasma with surround sound, it was really good to play games on. Input lag was none existent on this model which was nice.

Plasmas being gas was easier to burn than liquid in lcd
 
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1070 slays 1080P, it's perfect for 1080p 144hz (G-sync) and a smidge overkill for 60hz but for $100 difference 1070 all day! The combo of Kaby Lake and 1070 will give you very high min FPS so you'll be silky smooth all day, no dips.
 
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Plasma != gas dude, it's two different states
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Image_%C3%A9tat_de_la_mati%C3%A8re.png
 
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LED TVs/Monitors are misleading. The backlight is LED, the screen is still an LCD. Older models had florescent backlights.

OLED TVs are individual LED elements for each pixel, there is no backlight. Same for Plasmas. That is why their blacks are so good.
 
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