Planned to buy a 29:1 monitor, but...

Volgore

Hi folks!

I planned to buy a 29" 21:9 monitor to retire my trusty old 24". I have an i5@4.8 and a OC 970 and that combo is capable of much more than my 24" can provide.
For a minute i was thinking about getting a 4k monitor, but after checking the pros and cons, to me it looked like in order to get playable fps, i would have to lower my ingame settings so far that UHD wouldn't make up for the overall visual quality loss i'd have to take to even run a game at 50fps+.

Now, checking the market for 21:9s on the other hand, i found that they all seem to be stuck at 60Hz max.
I didnt really follow the hype around 144Hz, but i thought that 100Hz is a must have nowadays. To my understanding a monitor can only display as much fps as the Hz allow to. So no use in having killer hardware that easily hits 100+ fps in your favorite game when you are stuck with 60Hz...?

So, in that regard, would it even make sense to buy a 60Hz monitor nowadays?

Thanks for your input.

mmoguy43

I personally wouldn't buy a new monitor for gaming unless it was IPS, 120+ Hz and 27". I'm done with ghosting 60Hz and poor color quality of TN panels. It's mostly a matter of price, high refresh rate ones are still too expensive.

Vrika

It makes a lot sense to buy 60Hz monitor because higher FPS requires a lot more GPU power but gives only a marginal increase in how good fast movements look on the screen. Often people want to use that GPU power for higher resolution instead of higher FPS because the higher resolution looks better.

PS. The new monitor you'd be buying would be a lot wider than the old one, but if your old monitor is 16:9 or 16:10 then the old one is taller than the new one.

Volgore

Thank you for your replies so far.
I've been looking at this one, 29", IPS, but 60Hz.

http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-29UM67-P-ultrawide-led-monitor

My old monitor is a 16:9, so the height is about the same as the LG 29". I'm ok with that and 34" would be too big for my taste.

Quizzical

When I used a 1280x1024 monitor, most of the things I did on a computer were primarily limited by vertical height, not horizontal width.  I haven't used 1920x1080 much, but I'd imagine that it would be even more the case there.  So adding more horizontal pixels but not more vertical doesn't necessarily gain you much.

I could understand buying a 21:9 monitor if it's super cheap.  But $450 hardly qualifies as super cheap.  For that price, you're not far shy of getting one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236466

Wraithclaws

Volgore said:

Thank you for your replies so far.
I've been looking at this one, 29", IPS, but 60Hz.

http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-29UM67-P-ultrawide-led-monitor

My old monitor is a 16:9, so the height is about the same as the LG 29". I'm ok with that and 34" would be too big for my taste.

I use this one, no issues http://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-25UM56-P-ultrawide-led-monitor

Cleffy

If you are most concerned about visual quality at around 60 fps, than you should be looking at 16:9 1080 or 1440. You are not going to get a good gaming experience out of a 21:9 monitor. They are mainly for professional applications where they use 2 monitors or for cinema. The sizing is also different which you have to take into consideration. The 29" is the same height of a 24". The 34" is the same height as a 27". 21:9 also is not supported well by most games.

You should also pair the monitor and GPU with sufficient hardware. That being a Core i5, i7, all memory dims occupied and an SSD. Although GPU is king, without sufficient hardware it will be bottlenecked.

Ryker

I bought me a 32 inch vizio tv 1080 and it looks great and works great with all the games ive played, most of the popular mmos and fps. I havent seen any drawbacks yet.