Looking to upgrade to 4K

[Galilford]

Hi, I currently have a 1080p monitor and wondering whether my current PC will be able to run games I play at 4K resolution.

My specs are:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
Windows 10
16 GB
With 2 x 1TB SSDs

I'm looking at investing in the MSI MPG 321URX 4K monitor, or the ASUS PG32UCDM depending the best bang for my buck this coming black friday. Otherwise, I might pick up the MSI MPG 271QRX for 2K gaming instead however I'm wary I'm bottle-necking my gaming experience for the future considering the monitor upgrade will be a lot of money regardless.

Any suggestions/advice will be much appreciated!

Thanks everyone,

George

[Hi Im Swat]

Wrong forum section.

You want the forum linked below. The helps and tips forum is for getting help with the Steam platform not your PC.

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/11/

[✪NSL]

You should probably stick to a 2K monitor, your GPU might not be able to handle the latest titles in 4K, AMD Framegeneration and upscaling might be coming in clutch for you, but I would stick with the 2K variant

[Ogami]

A RTX2060 SUPER is too weak for 4k gaming.
I have a RTX 2080Ti and even with that most new releases cant hold 60 FPS in 4k on medium settings.

Just stick with 2560x1440. Its a LOT sharper then 1080 (71% more pixel density) and on monitors below like 40 inch you wont see a difference to 4k anyway.
1440p is still the sweat spot in my opinion if you dont want to buy the newest 1000 bucks+ GPU every 2 years.
Also there is nothing wrong with using a 4k monitor in 1440p.
I bought a 4k 27inch monitor a few years ago and i exclusively play in 1444p on it and it looks great.
1080p looks a bit blurry but 1440k is fine.

[Galilford]

Messaggio originale di Ogami:

A RTX2060 SUPER is too weak for 4k gaming.
I have a RTX 2080Ti and even with that most new releases cant hold 60 FPS in 4k on medium settings.

Just stick with 2560x1440. Its a LOT sharper then 1080 (71% more pixel density) and on monitors below like 40 inch you wont see a difference to 4k anyway.
1440p is still the sweat spot in my opinion if you dont want to buy the newest 1000 bucks+ GPU every 2 years.
Also there is nothing wrong with using a 4k monitor in 1440p.
I bought a 4k 27inch monitor a few years ago and i exclusively play in 1444p on it and it looks great.
1080p looks a bit blurry but 1440k is fine.

Hi! See yes this was an idea, get a 4K monitor, use it at a 1440p resolution for until I get an upgraded graphics card in the future, however I'm seeing that playing in 1440p on a 4k monitor makes the picture fuzzy? Would this be a viable option then, do you reckon? Thank you!

[Ogami]

Messaggio originale di Galilford:

Hi! See yes this was an idea, get a 4K monitor, use it at a 1440p resolution for until I get an upgraded graphics card in the future, however I'm seeing that playing in 1440p on a 4k monitor makes the picture fuzzy? Would this be a viable option then, do you reckon? Thank you!

I can of course only speak for myself but on my 4k 27inch monitor 1440p looks super sharp and clear and not fuzzy at all.
Even 1080p still looks good but at that res you can see some bluriness in games.
But 1440p works perfectly fine.

It has a lot to do with the size of your screen, 4k really comes into play the bigger the screen is.
Sometimes i read at least 32 inch, sometimes 40 or more.
But at the usual monitor sizes below 30 inch that most people use you dont really see that big of a difference.
I am sure its THERE but i cant really tell during gaming.

[Galilford]

Messaggio originale di Ogami:

Messaggio originale di Galilford:

Hi! See yes this was an idea, get a 4K monitor, use it at a 1440p resolution for until I get an upgraded graphics card in the future, however I'm seeing that playing in 1440p on a 4k monitor makes the picture fuzzy? Would this be a viable option then, do you reckon? Thank you!

I can of course only speak for myself but on my 4k 27inch monitor 1440p looks super sharp and clear and not fuzzy at all.
Even 1080p still looks good but at that res you can see some bluriness in games.
But 1440p works perfectly fine.

It has a lot to do with the size of your screen, 4k really comes into play the bigger the screen is.
Sometimes i read at least 32 inch, sometimes 40 or more.
But at the usual monitor sizes below 30 inch that most people use you dont really see that big of a difference.
I am sure its THERE but i cant really tell during gaming.

I think I am leaning more towards the 2K option; other places I have made this post people are saying my CPU and my graphics card will bottleneck my 4K experience and I'm not ready to spend so much money right now, however I'm certain on upgrading to a HDR + OLED experience this black friday. Maybe the fuzziness I'm reading is due to a 32 inch monitor at 4k doing a 1440p resolution. And if I was going to get 4K it'd be a 32 inch monitor for sure.