decided to go for the 32" gsync monitor.
In terms of the graphics card, is it worth spending more? or would I just be paying an absolute premium for a few more FPS?
So that you're chained to be Nvidia's slave when AMD is returning with new high end GPU architecture next winter and with also Intel joining discrete graphics card competition next year?
Strategy games have no use for highest frame rates, so for them it wouldn't be big deal if you couldn't find say over 100Hz FreeSync monitor.
While there's choise of FreeSync monitors at least to 144Hz.
And that returning competition also makes any super expensive graphics cards very likely to be bad at holding value.
While already paying notably higher prices for some "special" edition graphics card has very bad actual performance returns for extra price.
AMD no doubt made years ago plans for real return to high end competition, but with limited resources those had to wait until getting CPU business back on track.
And for longevity don't see reason for buying Intel now.
It's true that Intels have now varying amount of advantage, but only reason for that is second rate GlobalFoundries limiting clocks of current Ryzens:
Because of GloFo being unable to develop 14nm node they bought one from Samsung, who originally designed it for low clocks phone/tablet CPUs.
TSMC's 7nm high performance node is going to fix that, while being also more advanced than anything Intel has for high end in near future.
In CES AMD demoed eight core Zen2 engineering sample matching 9900K's performance at 50W lower power consumption.
So there's certainly room for tweaking clocks to release, while maturing of 7nm node likely gives some extra.
With chiplet design confirmed and AMD strongly hinting to another jump in core count and overall performance per buck, 8c/16t is likely going to be rather cheap.
So just eight threaded CPU is likely going to look rather mediocre at summer.
Strategy games would be actually among the games with developers having easiest time in taking more cores and threads into use.
AI for high number of units hogs serious amounts of processing power.
At least for better AI than that "good old" which gets units stuck in obstacles or makes them take weird routes.
Or some unit ordered to attack charges enemy with weapon pointing to opposite direction to give enemy first shot...
