Upgrade monitor and/or video card.

vernon_smith_jr

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Current have a GTX 1070 paired with a 27" inch G-sync monitor but want to go bigger. Looking for suggestions without going SLI due to have an ITX board with one PCI-E slot.
 
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Vega is not worth it. Volta will be better than Pascal, but we don't know quite how much better, how much it will cost, or when exactly it will be released. HDR is starting to appear on Monitors, but is expensive. about 1000+ for a 4k HDR monitor right now. Samsung does a 27 inch 1440p, VA, 144 Hz, "HDR" monitor (not true HDR - but still very good looking) for about 600.

apower101

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Resolution? Are you at 1080, or 1440p? Do you want to go to 4k, or push better framerates? What is the rest of your system?

AS it stands, I would recommend waiting with monitor upgrades as HDR is right around the corner and will be a massive improvement to current monitors. A 1080ti is about as good as it gets for now with single cards. That will max out most games at 1440p, and run most games comfortably at 4k.
 

vernon_smith_jr

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The rest of my is:
I5 6600k overclocked to 4.0 ghz
Corsair Vengeance 3000mhz ddr4
Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI itx
WD 1TB HHD
Crucial MX300 m.2 for Oscar
Evga GSM 650 80+ Gold psu
I prefer frame rate so a large 1440p 144hz. I don't do creator content so 4K isn't necessary. But if there's a 4k monitor that will do 100hz or higher with a 30inch or larger screen and a 1080ti will push it, then I'm down. Also, would it make since to get a 1080ti or wait until next gen Nvidia cards or Vega cards become reasonable with the HDR monitors release? Just trying to get the best bang for buck.
 

apower101

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Vega is not worth it. Volta will be better than Pascal, but we don't know quite how much better, how much it will cost, or when exactly it will be released. HDR is starting to appear on Monitors, but is expensive. about 1000+ for a 4k HDR monitor right now. Samsung does a 27 inch 1440p, VA, 144 Hz, "HDR" monitor (not true HDR - but still very good looking) for about 600.
 
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