4K vs 1440P (Gaming and Text)

[gui0312]

Hi guys, just finished my PC build (GTX 1070 and 6700K for ref.) I am in between getting a 4K or a 1440P monitor. I have looked into a few suspects, the ASUS PG27AQ (4K variant), the ASUS PG279Q (1440p variant), Dell S2415 dabbled a bit in the Ultrawide wide side of things because the immersion seems to be really cool (one I looked at Dell 3417 (3440x1440).

I am playing games on this monitor but I also (coming from an iMac 5K) enjoy the crispness of text when reading web pages or writing papers on Word. I have gamed on the iMac but obviously turn down the resolution of the game to 2560x1440p and achieve a 40-50 fps on most games with low settings. My question is should I opt for the 4K monitor for the higher resolution of webpages, text etc. and simply run games at 1440p? Would that degrade the games performance other than running it natively? I know there is the whole Hz refresh rates as well, I believe the ASUS line can do 144mhz though the price of the PG27AQ (4K) is pretty much identical to the PG279Q (1440p) why is that? I really would like ultrawide but maybe I would be giving up too much in quality, refresh rate, lag etc. to justify (I cannot afford to sped 1000+ on a monitor for my PC lol.

Any help/recommendations are greatly appreciated!

 

[mcnumpty23]

i have a 27 inch 1440p monitor

text on web pages,documents etc is perfectly sharp

 

[esco_sid]

Stick to 1440p even 1080p looks alright for webpages and text 4k actually has issues as it sometimes scales badly and have to constantly adjust it and for games you need at least gtx 1080 to drive 4k.

 

[gui0312]

Thank you! Any recommendations with the 1440p's? ASUS? ACER? Dell? Anything in the curved side of things?

 

[esco_sid]

Thank you! Any recommendations with the 1440p's? ASUS? ACER? Dell? Anything in the curved side of things?

For me its hard to recommend anything expensive as HDR is around the corner and its kind of a big deal.

 

[gui0312]

Thank you! Any recommendations with the 1440p's? ASUS? ACER? Dell? Anything in the curved side of things?

For me its hard to recommend anything expensive as HDR is around the corner and its kind of a big deal.

 

[gui0312]

I know, but I need a monitor now and I likely won't be spending that kind of money on new HDR tech on gaming monitor, north of 1k

 

[esco_sid]

I know, but I need a monitor now and I likely won't be spending that kind of money on new HDR tech on gaming monitor, north of 1k

Then just go for the 1440p 144HZ the 4k model i believe is 60hz that's why they cost similar.

 

[gui0312]

Right, but does Switching the resolution to 2460x1440 when gaming allow for 144hz?

 

[esco_sid]

Right, but does Switching the resolution to 2460x1440 when gaming allow for 144hz?

No switching resolution wont increase the HZ

 

[gui0312]

So I got an Acer Predator XB271HU IPS from Costco on sale yesterday. I've noticed when playing GhostRecon Wildlands for ex. My FPS dosen't get passed 70ish, my refresh rate with the Gsync matches that to 70hz. Is paying for the 144hz pointless unless you can get 130+ frames? Am I missing something here with hz and fps?

 

[esco_sid]

You can get however much fps you want but monitor wont display more than it is capable in hz so if you get 120 fps in game and you have 60hz monitor it will only display 60 fps so every other frame. The Monitor you bought is 144HZ and with G-sync which essentially matches the fps and hz of the monitor so you eliminate screen tearing but yeah you wont really see benefits of 144hz in most new games but im sure you can probably run games like cs:go in the 144 range.

 

[gui0312]

Sorry I am sort of new to this forgive my ignorance... So what you are saying is that if I have a Dell 3417 Ultrawide monitor which is a 60hz and I also bought (hasn't arrived to test) and I have the Acer 144hz 27" I recently bought, I won't see any significant difference in what the Acer is meant to do because most new games won;t get to 100+ or so fps? I don't play counter strike tbh. Which leads me to think that the Dell ultrawide 60hz has two advantages, one being ultrawide curved which gives an immersion effect, the second would be more screen real estate which is nice. Am I missing anything?
My Specs
Core i5 6700K
Asus: Z270
16GB Corsair dominator
Nvidia GTX 1070 founders Ed.
Samsung SSD
Acer Predator XB271HU IPS
Dell 3417W IPS

 

[esco_sid]

Sorry I am sort of new to this forgive my ignorance... So what you are saying is that if I have a Dell 3417 Ultrawide monitor which is a 60hz and I also bought (hasn't arrived to test) and I have the Acer 144hz 27" I recently bought, I won't see any significant difference in what the Acer is meant to do because most new games won;t get to 100+ or so fps? I don't play counter strike tbh. Which leads me to think that the Dell ultrawide 60hz has two advantages, one being ultrawide curved which gives an immersion effect, the second would be more screen real estate which is nice. Am I missing anything?
My Specs
Core i5 6700K
Asus: Z270
16GB Corsair dominator
Nvidia GTX 1070 founders Ed.
Samsung SSD
Acer Predator XB271HU IPS
Dell 3417W IPS

Your in kind of a tough spot as 1070 will struggle to run many new games at that high resolution on the Dell at max setting you might get 40-90 and you wont get the gsync from the Acer 1070 is ideal for regular 2560x1440p you should expect 60-90 fps range at that resolution and even tough you wont reach 144hz many consider 90hz to be a pretty good sweet spot.

You can look here what you can expect at the 2 resolutions from the 1070 http://techgage.com/article/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-review-a-look-at-1440p-4k-ultra-wide-gaming/7/