re: UPDATE: New build: Monitor choice drive GPU choice or the other way around?

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Decide what resolution you want to play at and what your budget is and then work from there.

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Fair enough - and part of the reason I started this thread was to get some analysis.

Staying with AMD - with VSR, can I stay with a 1080 resolution, or should I go QHD/1440 and try to hit the sweet spot of value to performance?

Is Ultrawide an option - driving 40% more pixels rather than 3x or 4x with 4k?

OR, since I believe 4k is the future - just gut it up, get the best 4k within budget today and upgrade the card as necessary?

How are the last gen/second tier with 4k? Like a plain 980 or 390?

I mean, one can always wait forever for the next thing. And I know this thread is asking a lot, but $1000 - $1200 (roughly for GPU and monitor) is a lot of money to stake on tech that seems in transition.

I know I want to move up from 24" class, but should I be looking at 34" ultrawides, 30" IPS 144mhz or 27/28" 4k at 60hz?

Which is, perhaps another choice that will narrow things down, significantly.