[SOLVED] Which Should I Upgrade First? GPU or Monitor?

[FortyNothing]

Hello all,

I've been playing at 60hz for a few years now and I'm interested in possibly moving up to a 144hz monitor. A 24" Asus Predator has caught my eye with 1ms response time and g-sync. I mainly play competitive online games. The problem though, is that my graphics card (GTX 1060 3gb) can't really get to 144 fps even at low settings. I usually hover around 90 fps which has been fine for my 60hz monitor I've been using for 5 years, but I'll need something better to give me that sweet 144hz. I'm only really interested in playing 1920x1080.

So my question is which should I upgrade first if any? My budget is $400 so I can only get one right away until I get paid again in two weeks. The graphics cards I'm considering are the GTX 1070 or the GTX 1660. Do you think those will get me the 144fps I'm looking for?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Specs?

 

[hang-the-9]

Hello all,

I've been playing at 60hz for a few years now and I'm interested in possibly moving up to a 144hz monitor. A 24" Asus Predator has caught my eye with 1ms response time and g-sync. I mainly play competitive online games. The problem though, is that my graphics card (GTX 1060 3gb) can't really get to 144 fps even at low settings. I usually hover around 90 fps which has been fine for my 60hz monitor I've been using for 5 years, but I'll need something better to give me that sweet 144hz. I'm only really interested in playing 1920x1080.

So my question is which should I upgrade first if any? My budget is $400 so I can only get one right away until I get paid again in two weeks. The graphics cards I'm considering are the GTX 1070 or the GTX 1660. Do you think those will get me the 144fps I'm looking for?

So the question is do you get a faster video card that would be wasted on the monitor you have now or a monitor that is wasted on the video card you have now? LOL

Does not matter one bit, toss a coin since one without the other does not make a whole setup anyway.

If it was my system, I'd get a nicer monitor to look at till I can buy a new card, especially since by the time I am ready to buy a card there could be newer ones that are faster for the same price.

 

[FortyNothing]

Specs?

• Motherboard: Pegatron Memphis-S LGA 1150 (came stock with the pre-built computer, one of the only original parts)
• Processor: Intel Core i7-4790 CPU @3.60GHz (the best cpu i can have in my current motherboard to my knowledge)
• RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM
• Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (I chose this based on price, but probably should have gone with the 6GB Vram one. Almost time to upgrade anyway)
• Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD (but thinking about adding a larger HDD soon)
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

 

[richmmeister]

There will be titles that you will be able to get fps for monitor so i would say go with monitor.

 

[rounakr94]

Get the GPU first, then the monitor. The 1060 3gb will hardly be able to push 144 on current games even in lowest settings. i would suggest the rtx 2060 or get the 1660super. Or if want to go the used route get the 1070

 

[MarzZzipan]

personally I would get the monitor first
that's what I did, I had an rx580 8gb which is a bit more powerful than yours and a ryzen 3 1300x and i got a 32inch 1440p 144hz monitor with no hdr or freesync or anything it was only about £240
i could play 1440p at around 80fps with medium settings on triple A games like Wolfenstein Youngblood

i realised my cpu was bottlenecking rather than my gpu so i got a ryzen 5 3600 and get 90-100 fps at 1440p easily in most games like call of duty which is more demanding than wolfenstein

 

[sizzling]

I too say get the monitor first. Even if you only get 60fps you will notice some benefit over 60Hz.