1440p 144hz or 165hz for GTX 1080 w/ 6700K or should I wait ?

[You Silly Humans]

Already have the above setup and a 4k monitor.
Would like some advice

Looking to grab a 1440p monitor. I see some at 144hz or 165 hz. ( Looking at Acer predator IPS XB271HU 144hz vs The Asus Rog PG279Q at 165Hz. ) Asus is 100 dollars more.

I’m also planning to upgrade the GPU in the future when the 2080 ti prices are more affordable. Is a 1440p monitor worth it or just wait for future monitors? No idea what it takes to run 4k beyond 60 frames or if DP even supports it in the 2080ti. I am assuming it doesn’t.

If it is worth it to grab a 1440p which of the two above would you recommend ? Both the reviews for each monitor are not perfect, hate monitor lotteries. So I was curious for the opinions of people here.

[mikel3113]

I bought the Asus Rog same model about 8-10 months ago now. I was upgrading from a LG 24 inch 1080p 60hz TN display so it was admittingly a huge leap. After seeing the difference and the Gsync I think impressed me the most I had wished I had done the upgrade much sooner.

It changed gaming for me in the way that I no longer had to spend upwards of an hour on some games combining different settings in-game and through Nvidia control panel to try to find a balance in input lag, screen tearing, and stuttering all while maintaining a decent frame rate. It was so frustrating and this monitor made that like magic all disappear overnight with Gsync( other modes are nice like ULMB too)

I looked at the Acer you mentioned and found nothing really wrong with it either. I did see people prefer the menu and controls on the one I bought the Asus. It is nice and easy. I use the OSD frame rate counter all the time. No need to run fps counter software in the background when configuring games which is nice. I heard horror stories about both as well talking about colors, blacklight bleed and dead pixels. I had no problems with mine. Don't think you'll go wrong with either, but personally I can speak for the Asus and love it.

Fyi the 165hz is only in overclocking mode and the trade off is it can produce ghosting. I didn't see any, but I also can't run really anything at 165 fps anyways unless I turn game settings to low or something. Basically, don't let that be a deciding factor because you'll most likely unless you have an sli setup not overclock the monitor and 144 hz is fine for most people.

What GPU do you have now, since you're considering upgrading to the 2080ti?

[🪻🧋Sylvie💮🍃]

Originally posted by You_Silly_Humans:

Already have the above setup and a 4k monitor.
Would like some advice

Looking to grab a 1440p monitor. I see some at 144hz or 165 hz. ( Looking at Acer predator IPS XB271HU 144hz vs The Asus Rog PG279Q at 165Hz. ) Asus is 100 dollars more.

I’m also planning to upgrade the GPU in the future when the 2080 ti prices are more affordable. Is a 1440p monitor worth it or just wait for future monitors? No idea what it takes to run 4k beyond 60 frames or if DP even supports it in the 2080ti. I am assuming it doesn’t.

If it is worth it to grab a 1440p which of the two above would you recommend ? Both the reviews for each monitor are not perfect, hate monitor lotteries. So I was curious for the opinions of people here.

You should wait since new high refresh rate 1440P and 4k gaming monitor are most likely going to be announced at CES 2019. Thus, save your money.

[You Silly Humans]

Originally posted by mikel3113:

I bought the Asus Rog same model about 8-10 months ago now. I was upgrading from a LG 24 inch 1080p 60hz TN display so it was admittingly a huge leap. After seeing the difference and the Gsync I think impressed me the most I had wished I had done the upgrade much sooner.

It changed gaming for me in the way that I no longer had to spend upwards of an hour on some games combining different settings in-game and through Nvidia control panel to try to find a balance in input lag, screen tearing, and stuttering all while maintaining a decent frame rate. It was so frustrating and this monitor made that like magic all disappear overnight with Gsync( other modes are nice like ULMB too)

I looked at the Acer you mentioned and found nothing really wrong with it either. I did see people prefer the menu and controls on the one I bought the Asus. It is nice and easy. I use the OSD frame rate counter all the time. No need to run fps counter software in the background when configuring games which is nice. I heard horror stories about both as well talking about colors, blacklight bleed and dead

pixels. I had no problems with mine. Don't think you'll go wrong with either, but personally I can speak for the Asus and love it.

Fyi the 165hz is only in overclocking mode and the trade off is it can produce ghosting. I didn't see any, but I also can't run really anything at 165 fps anyways unless I turn game settings to low or something. Basically, don't let that be a deciding factor because you'll most likely unless you have an sli setup not overclock the monitor and 144 hz is fine for most people.

What GPU do you have now, since you're considering upgrading to the 2080ti?

I’m running the GTX 1080 with 6700k intel process and 16gb of ram. My current 4K is an acer as well, I enjoy the G sync but wasn’t sure if it made sense to downgrade resolution for performance if I would be waiting for a better GPU.

But I would assume the answer would be even if I upgraded the GPU, I would still get more frames at 1440p than at 4k.

Originally posted by Sammy:

Originally posted by You_Silly_Humans:

Already have the above setup and a 4k monitor.
Would like some advice

Looking to grab a 1440p monitor. I see some at 144hz or 165 hz. ( Looking at Acer predator IPS XB271HU 144hz vs The Asus Rog PG279Q at 165Hz. ) Asus is 100 dollars more.

I’m also planning to upgrade the GPU in the future when the 2080 ti prices are more affordable. Is a 1440p monitor worth it or just wait for future monitors? No idea what it takes to run 4k beyond 60 frames or if DP even supports it in the 2080ti. I am assuming it doesn’t.

If it is worth it to grab a 1440p which of the two above would you recommend ? Both the reviews for each monitor are not perfect, hate monitor lotteries. So I was curious for the opinions of people here.

You should wait since new high refresh rate 1440P and 4k gaming monitor are most likely going to be announced at CES 2019. Thus, save your money.

Yeah I’m not in a hurry, but was tempted by 100 dollar savings for Black Friday. Was hoping for something new, maybe with less of a lottery aspect in terms of quality.

[Chompman]

A lot of sites will allow you to return monitors for dead pixels or bad ips glow for free so when in doubt buy from those places when you can.

In either case you will really not notice the difference between 144hz and 165 hz normally.

[mikel3113]

Originally posted by You_Silly_Humans:

Originally posted by mikel3113:

I bought the Asus Rog same model about 8-10 months ago now. I was upgrading from a LG 24 inch 1080p 60hz TN display so it was admittingly a huge leap. After seeing the difference and the Gsync I think impressed me the most I had wished I had done the upgrade much sooner.

It changed gaming for me in the way that I no longer had to spend upwards of an hour on some games combining different settings in-game and through Nvidia control panel to try to find a balance in input lag, screen tearing, and stuttering all while maintaining a decent frame rate. It was so frustrating and this monitor made that like magic all disappear overnight with Gsync( other modes are nice like ULMB too)

I looked at the Acer you mentioned and found nothing really wrong with it either. I did see people prefer the menu and controls on the one I bought the Asus. It is nice and easy. I use the OSD frame rate counter all the time. No need to run fps counter software in the background when configuring games which is nice. I heard horror stories about both as well talking about colors, blacklight bleed and dead

pixels. I had no problems with mine. Don't think you'll go wrong with either, but personally I can speak for the Asus and love it.

Fyi the 165hz is only in overclocking mode and the trade off is it can produce ghosting. I didn't see any, but I also can't run really anything at 165 fps anyways unless I turn game settings to low or something. Basically, don't let that be a deciding factor because you'll most likely unless you have an sli setup not overclock the monitor and 144 hz is fine for most people.

What GPU do you have now, since you're considering upgrading to the 2080ti?

I’m running the GTX 1080 with 6700k intel process and 16gb of ram. My current 4K is an acer as well, I enjoy the G sync but wasn’t sure if it made sense to downgrade resolution for performance if I would be waiting for a better GPU.

But I would assume the answer would be even if I upgraded the GPU, I would still get more frames at 1440p than at 4k.

Well for one I would definitely not get a 2080 TI if you already have a 1080 for one. Reviews are out and it's not a huge leap forward and the new ray tracing and ai are not widely adopted yet and Ray tracing at least is less than stunning on performance. At 4K with battlefield v ( only game so far) with new features you be running 40 to 60 FPS. I would rather run your 1080 card on a 2K monitor without the new features and know that you'll be running at higher fps. Before these cards were even announced, since I financially invest in Nvidia so am familiar with company inside and out, had reason to believe that these first RTX series cards would be lackluster. On that note I have reason to believe a mid- late 2019 card will be released that will be significantly faster then the first round of RTX cards. I would wait on the GPU.

Yeah unfortunately I think you jumped the gun on the 4k monitor and it would be nice to play at 2K instead with the higher frames. Whether you have the money to do that since you've kind of done things backwards that's up to you. I personally would rather play at 4K when I can run games at 80-120 fps. Right now most games with all features enabled that's too hard to do. I'd say 2 K is the sweet spot for now. I'd say we're still a couple years from 4K at hundred-plus frames, especially when you tack on the hit of Ray tracing