I wanted an actual monitor for my pc instead of sitting on my bed and using a wall mounted 55" tv (roughly 6 year old Vizio). But I wanted something somewhat future proof for if/when I update my 3 year old pc. I bought the Gigabyte M27Q the other day. It's a 27" 1440p 170hz monitor. I am a little worried it is going to be more monitor than my pc can handle though.
My pc specs are:
I'm not confident enough to overclock anything myself, but I think if it can't handle the monitor then that would help. Does anyone think my machine will handle the monitor decently enough? Maybe I'd I sacrifice some higher settings? I don't play fortnite or other fps competitive games. Some space games like Space Engineers or No Mans Sky, star wars games like Fallen Order, a little vr on an old Vive when I have the time.
So anyone think I bit off more than I can chew? Buying the monitor was going to be far cheaper than upgrading my rig. Plus I convinced the wife to let me buy it due to some Christmas money and the fact that I work from home and this will be a better second monitor that the old 32" tv I'm currently using with my newer HP x360 15" laptop that I bought last year bc I started working from home.
If you've read this far, you are awesome.
My pc specs are:
- Ryzen 5 2600x cpu w/ stock cooler
- MSI X370 Gaming Plus mobo
- EVGA GTX 1070ti FTW gpu
- 16gb 2x8 DDR4 2666hz ram
- 650W 80+ (gold?) psu
- 120gb SSD boot drive
- 500gb SSD storage (new and currently empty)
- 1tb 7200rpm HDD (where games are stored)
I'm not confident enough to overclock anything myself, but I think if it can't handle the monitor then that would help. Does anyone think my machine will handle the monitor decently enough? Maybe I'd I sacrifice some higher settings? I don't play fortnite or other fps competitive games. Some space games like Space Engineers or No Mans Sky, star wars games like Fallen Order, a little vr on an old Vive when I have the time.
So anyone think I bit off more than I can chew? Buying the monitor was going to be far cheaper than upgrading my rig. Plus I convinced the wife to let me buy it due to some Christmas money and the fact that I work from home and this will be a better second monitor that the old 32" tv I'm currently using with my newer HP x360 15" laptop that I bought last year bc I started working from home.
If you've read this far, you are awesome.