Ultra widescreen or High refresh rate monitor?

[Treyhu2014]

I am planning to build a brand new setup but I am stuck with a hard decision. I don't if I should go with an ultra widescreen monitor or a high refresh rate monitor. I am going to be gaming, recording music, and video editing. If I wouldn't go with the ultra widescreen I would get three high refresh rate monitors and I would get the same convenience of a widescreen but I would have bezels which I don't really care for. However They would cost a little extra than just getting one widescreen monitor because of the stands and extra cables.

For the high refresh rate monitors, I would get : Asus VG248QE 24.0"

For the ultra widescreen I would get : LG 34UM95-P Black 34"

Please help me make a decision on a monitor. They would be around the same price for each but is the high refresh rate worth it? Or is the ultra widescreen worth it just for 60hz over 144hz? I haven't ever played on a 144hz monitor so I wouldn't know what it looks or feels like. If you can find a ultra widescreen with a higher refresh rate than 60hz, that would probably be the best balance of the two.

 

[Calnin]

I'd suggest the high refresh rate over the ultra wide screen if you're going to be gaming more than the video and music production.

If you're going to do more music production and video editing then the 34" would provide more work space on the screen.

 

[babernet_1]

If 60Hz monitors bother you, go with the 144Hz monitor. With me personally, 60Hz monitors are fine and I have a 30 inch 2560X1600 screen and love it.

 

[doubletake]

Only you can decide if a 120Hz+ monitor is worth it for you, it isn't as simple as having someone tell you that it's better to have and that's that. You'll have to try it out and see if you enjoy the much improved motion clarity and blur reduction more than the superior color and contrast of an IPS panel like the one in the 34" ultrawide. I personally didn't care to compromise in either direction so I settled on 3x120hz monitors in surround and a side 30" 2560x1600 NEC monitor for the times when I want better image quality over better motion clarity (photo/movie/video viewing, etc).

 

[Treyhu2014]

I might just go with the best of both worlds by getting three high refresh rate monitors mainly for gaming in surround and one 29'' widescreen above my center monitor. Mainly because I love the convince of three monitors and with the widescreen being on top I am still able to do mixing and mastering on that monitor while browsing/editing/gaming on the three monitors below. Plus, Do you guys think that the Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core and the Samsung 840 EVO 500GB 2.5" SSD would be capable of preforming all the tasks at the same time and maintaining a great speed even while gaming? Any other suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks for responding by the way

 

[Calnin]

Video editing would most likely use quite a bit of the CPU when you begin to render it, I'd imagine music might be similar. If you plan on having all of that at a single instance, I'd suggest maybe having enough RAM to support it all and also to distribute the CPU cores as needed. You might also want to consider having a secondary storage drive or something too.

 

[Treyhu2014]

Video editing would most likely use quite a bit of the CPU when you begin to render it, I'd imagine music might be similar. If you plan on having all of that at a single instance, I'd suggest maybe having enough RAM to support it all and also to distribute the CPU cores as needed. You might also want to consider having a secondary storage drive or something too.

Oh I was planning on getting 32gigs of ram which is plenty enough and the Western Digital VelociRaptor as another storage drive. I was just wondering if that CPU and SSD help keep it nice and fast while performing all of these tasks.

 

[Calnin]

I don't see any problems, probably good to go for the most part