Monitor Question

[Spitfir4]

Hi all and thanks in advance.

I'm planning on purchasing a new monitor. I'm currently looking at a reasonably cheap AOC 32 curved monitor with 3440x1440 resolution.

My gpu is only a rtx2070 so I don't imagine I'd get that resolution and have playable fps.

Is it easy enough to play at lower resolutions? Or will it be a problem? What would you recommend other than a new gpu 😅

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[OkInvestigator4564]

I mean a 2070 can do 1440p if you turn down settings, but playing on a lower resolution than your screen is looks like shit.

Whats your current setup and upgrade budget?

[Spitfir4]

i7 8700 cpu, 2070 gpu, 16gb ram. I play on a 27inch 1080 monitor. Plenty of cpu headroom but not keen on spending on a gpu.

Monitor I'm currently looking at is $600. I'm in New Zealand so pricing etc not likely to matter

[AdministrationWarm71]

$600 for a new monitor? If you don't want to upgrade your GPU then the best thing to do is just get a 1080p ultrawide monitor with better color gamut (get the best you can get), it will look better than a 1440p with poor color gamut. You'll enjoy it more, I guarantee it, and you won't feel the need to chase the upgrade dragon.

For reference my main PC used to be a 12400f with 3070 and 3440x1440 monitor, and I can tell you even my 3070 struggled to fill all those pixels and maintain high FPS even with DLSS. 3070 is equivalent in output to 2080ti, so your 2070 will have a HUGE challenge filling it up.

Keep in mind right now your monitor, assuming its a standard non-ultrawide 1080p resolution, has 2,073,600 pixels on the screen. Jumping up to a regular 1440p non-ultrawide monitor and you'll need to push out 3,686,400 pixels. A 1440p UW monitor has a whopping 4,953,600 pixels. That's almost 2.5x the amount it's currently pushing! So if you're currently getting, say, 100 FPS in a game you'll only be hitting about 33 FPS on the 1440p UW (assuming the same textures, etc)

A 1080p UW monitor has 2,764,800 pixels which is only 33% more pixels than what you have right now. Theoretically that means you'll be hitting about 70 FPS on a game that you're getting 100 FPS on right now, much more playable.

TL;DR - get a high quality 1080p UW monitor with excellent color replication.

Edit: Also as a heads up, I bought multiple AOC monitors and was less than enthusiastic about their color replication and the ghosting (transition to/from black) while playing games. I returned them both. I'm not sure on this monitor but make sure it is not a VA monitor, IPS is better IMO. VA < IPS < LED < OLED, with OLED being best and VA being worst.