Building A Gaming PC - Parts Advice Needed

Hey EG FG nerds, what's the best monitor currently for mixed use including consoles?

I've got a dell U2715H here which is fine for work, but missing good stuff like HDR, 4k and most importantly these days, VRR.

Looking for something that'll last a while as a gaming monitor for PC (1070/i5 build so needs upgrading) and console (currently Series X, maybe a PS5 one day).

Is there anything out there that'll tick all those boxes? Probably want 32" for it to be worthwhile having 4k? Maybe a cheaper option to go down to 1440p but feels like a bit of a cop-out.

I would suggest maybe considering ultra-wide. I got one a couple of years ago and it is lovely. Was also pleasantly surprised to find out that it is great for productivity as well as gaming. Mine is 1440p and it gives me much more screen space than just a regular 16:9 1440p screen.

I would say 32" is minimum if you are looking at 4K. You could probably get away without using scaling at that size, although eyesight dependent. Not sure about now, but it was basically impossible to get 32" at 4K a couple of years ago when I was looking. Gaming monitors were all 27" at 4K and that is just too small.

You also have to consider the amount of power you need from your GPU to push 4K for games. You won't be getting any high refresh rate either, even with top end cards. 1440p with 144Hz still seems to be the sweet spot.

Edit: just noticed the 1070/i5 in your post. You definitely will not be doing 4K games with that, I'm afraid. 1440p would likely be fine.

I actually have a 32 inch 1440p monitor (Gigabyte FI32Q) as my second monitor; the HDR is nonexistent and the blacks are rather grey but otherwise it's pretty good for an LCD. 170hz, USB-C for my Mac, nice quick panel - it only looks washed out when directly compared to OLEDs. The DPI is still the same as a 24 inch 1080p monitor so it's not too blurry on the desktop either, in my opinion, and the extra size is impressive for videos etc.

On the flip side, I love working with the Alienware OLED - the ultrawide aspect means that in practice you're not far off having two monitors' worth of work space in the space of one and a half and for PC games it's really great both in terms of when games support it and the picture quality. Expensive, though, and hard to get hold of.

If you're happy with 4K at 27 (which is extremely sharp) and can live without useful HDR there are a fair few higher refresh monitors on the market and with this year's models they are improving the high refresh rate through HDMI - last year's models had a lot of trouble in many cases. If you can check the Sony that might tick a lot of boxes.

One option on the PC side would be to run games at 1080 with an integer scale set through nVidia Control Panel which would look blockier but still very crisp.

It's basically a higher colour depth too, one of the big benefits playing Elden Ring on my Alienware is that it massively reduces the banding in foggy areas, as well as making darker areas easier to pick out detail. Guardians of the Galaxy looked great as well as it's got lots of bright, saturated colours.

It also means that individual super bright areas don't bloom out to pure white or affect the whole scene's brightness as much.

If you get the chance to check out an OLED screen or a higher end HDR LCD in a light controlled room I highly recommend it. It's less about the absolute max brightness (as I find that it just makes me squint) than it is making sure you can see more of the detail in a scene.

HDR>Resolution, but then again I’m crazy enough to use an oled on my pc.

Hi people. I have been putting off an upgrade to my aging PC for ages.
I just got an early access code for Baldur's Gate 3 and I'm thinking of investing in a new graphics card.

I'm not sure if I can just plonk a better card in my current system as everything is quite old.

So here's what I currently have:
i5-4690 - 3.5GH
16GB ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 Ti (don't laugh!)

I was looking at local Classifieds and saw a MSI Geforce RTX 2080 gaming X trio (8GB) for a decent price.

Is it feasible to swap the ancient 750 for the RTX2080?

It’s feasible, I had pretty much that system but with a 1080ti. 4690 is going to be the bottleneck in some games, it’s 4 cores without hyper threading, but you could always try and find a 4790, which is 4 cores/8 threads. Also worth checking if the mobo has a Z-chip on it, don’t remember if it was Z290 or Z390, but anyway, those allow overclocking, because the 4690K and 4790K could easily be pushed from 3.5Ghz to 4.5Ghz with a decent air cooler. But for that you also need a “K” processor, the regular 4690 doesn’t allow it.

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Nvidia event in a few more hours where it's expected to announce their next generation room heaters.

4090? 4080 12 & 16gb ?

Who the fuck knows ... 3090s have just tucked under the $1000 ceiling since the crypto crash and with rumours of excessive inventories still not released into the channel these will surely have to be a decent uplift to be worth the price premium


Ahh who am I kidding. I'll be in line for one so I can play ... err factorio a bit better?!

AMD seem to be pushing an efficiency angle with their new releases. I wonder if they'll eke out a few extra sales than they normally would have given the state of everythimg.

The power levels are getting a tad ridiculous now especially with Intel's new chips. AMD seem more bothered with the CPU market these days but the leaks around RDNA3 look surprisingly good.

Rtx remix seems to be some kind of ai rtx modding setup to allow you to roll old turds in glitter

They showed morrowind

4080 3x 3080. 12gb $899 and 16gb $1199