What monitor can my rig handle

[barton.jack]

Hello everyone.
I have an EVGA 1050 ti, 8gb of ram, and an i3 7300 @4.0 GHz.
I mainly use my rig for gaming - diablo, elder scrolls and LoL..
I can easily run league on high settings with 144 fps..
I was just wondering if I should be shelling out the money for say, a 1400 p, 144 Hz, g-sync monitor, or something of the sorts. Will my setup be able to produce the frames etc. that I am looking for, or if not, should I be looking for a monitor with worse specs.. Don't want to spend unnecessary money.
I will never play an FPS, or an extremely demanding game like that - so I'm really just looking for monitors that I can play the highest settings on for the games listed above..
Any help appreciated! Thanks a lot!

 

[jr9]

For games like Diablo or LoL that are higher FPS games (less graphically intense), you should might get OK FPS, but not ideal if you spent that much on a display. I don't think you'd get above 100FPS without turning things down. You WILL see a big FPS drop as soon as you run the new display in games.

Another issue is that if you got a new display and swapped out the 1050 for something designed for 1440p like a 1070GTX, then you will start getting bottlenecked by your core i3 in certain games that are CPU intensive. It's not really the ideal gaming chip.

 

[dontlistentome]

If you're getting 144fps now, and you run at 1080p, then you won't get 144fps if you run at 1440p. As you increase resolution, you lose framerate. A rough way to estimate is to run the game at 720p high settings, 900p high settings, and 1080p high settings. Look at the percentage drop as you work your way up from 720p. Now you can project that same amount of loss as you go up from 1080p to 1440p.

Gsync is going to cost some money, you should already know if you need it or not. If you have to ask, then no, you don't need it. A lot depends on the size of the monitor you want. If you want something bigger than around 24", then 1440p would be a good idea. I personally would not buy a 27" 1080p monitor. You could get a 60hz 1440p monitor, no gsync but spend the money instead on just making sure the monitor is a good quality.