Upgrading my monitor, 1080p 144hz or 1440p 60hz?

[bacon4life]

Right now I have a 1360x768 TV that I use as a monitor. Next week I am buying a used R9 290x and I figured I will upgrade my monitor as well however I cannot decide on which to choose.

It would be nice to get high settings with 60+ FPS, but I have no problem turning it down to med to high settings to get at least 50FPS on some games. The only concern I have about the 1080p 144hz monitor is that I have the i5 4460 and it may not have enough horse power to push 144 FPS.

The 1080p 144hz monitor is $180, while the 1440p 60hz monitor is 200.

Games I play:

Rainbow Six Siege

Rocket League

America's Armyroving Ground

Squad

BeamNG.drive

What do you guys recommend on getting?

 

[JalYt_Justin]

This is kinda tough because your system won't really be made for either of the two. At higher resolutions the GPU is taxed more heavily, and I doubt that you'd be able to reach 60 fps @ 1440p without heavy tuning of each game. Your CPU also isn't exactly the greatest, and you'd have to do some tuning to get 60 fps on that end as well. You shouldn't even bother getting a 144 hz monitor because on nearly all games you're not going to reach 100+ fps with those specs.

Your ideal here is 1080p/60Hz. With your system, you won't be able to push much farther than 60, which is why 60 hz would be better. However your GPU will not be powerful enough for 60 FPS @ 1440p without the turning down settings down to low.

EDIT: If you really must choose between the two, I would suggest going 1080p/144 Hz. Upgrades in the future will be more meaningful, since higher FPS will actually be useful on a monitor that supports higher frame rate.

 

[bacon4life]

This is kinda tough because your system won't really be made for either of the two. At higher resolutions the GPU is taxed more heavily, and I doubt that you'd be able to reach 60 fps @ 1440p without heavy tuning of each game. Your CPU also isn't exactly the greatest, and you'd have to do some tuning to get 60 fps on that end as well. You shouldn't even bother getting a 144 hz monitor because on nearly all games you're not going to reach 100+ fps with those specs.

Your ideal here is 1080p/60Hz. With your system, you won't be able to push much farther than 60, which is why 60 hz would be better. However your GPU will not be powerful enough for 60 FPS @ 1440p without the turning down settings down to low.

EDIT: If you really must choose between the two, I would suggest going 1080p/144 Hz. Upgrades in the future will be more meaningful, since higher FPS will actually be useful on a monitor that supports higher frame rate.

Thank you for the detailed response!