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re: Please help me choose a new monitor/TV

Posted on 2/17/15 at 10:25 am to
Posted by ILikeLSUToo
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 2/17/15 at 10:25 am to
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Is there anything particularly wrong with the monitor I posted besides the price?


As blue already said, the monitor you posted looks really nice, but it's honestly just too many pixels for a GTX 770. I'd be reluctant to use it even with my 980s because of the memory bandwidth bottleneck.
Posted by schwag
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2014
264 posts
Posted on 2/17/15 at 1:26 pm to
I appreciate the input guys. I don't want to be the guy who "asks for advice then does what he wants anyways" but here is my plan. After doing some reading a few posters claimed a 770 can run games... just not at highest settings with this tv. The games I play aren't terribly hard on a video card (Diablo RoS and Borderlands 2/PS). I'm thinking I can use this monitor with my 770 and Display Port. Come Black Friday I can start searching for a nice video card upgrade that can truly push the monitor. I'd rather have my video card be the limiting factor rather than the monitor. Thoughts?

Here is a quote from Amazon Q&A about the monitor.

Just a couple points: Diablo3, run the game in Fullscreen(Windowed) mode, and this forces it to see your desktop resolution, which is 3440x1440, and it then let's Diablo3 play at that rez. Just the character screen will show a 16:9 view, but actual in game will be 21:9. Now, usually you don't want to run games in windowed mode, as alot of people with this monitor are running two vid cards. Most games require FULLSCREEN to enable both vid cards. Not every game needs fullscreen to use both vids though, not sure about D3. I run windowed fullscreen and 1 of my old 580's is able to run it great still.

Also, this monitor will give you 3440x1440@60hz just fine on display port. It will only get 50hz max using HDMI
This post was edited on 2/17/15 at 1:28 pm
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