1440p 144Hz upgrade route

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Hi,

I'm just looking for a little advice...

We've currently got two machines, both running 6GB 1060s with 60Hz 1080p monitors (Dell Ultrasharps).

The first is a Haswell i5 4460, 16GB RAM. This is my old general purpose machine, it runs Windows, Linux, is used for light coding, some database work, remote access, and various other work bits and bobs. Game wise, I'm mainly using it for Total War and other less strenuous games like Grim Dawn, and a bit of Diablo 3 now and again. Nothing too strenuous, really.

My son has a Ryzen 1600, which I've O/Ced to 3.9, with 16GB of RAM running at 3000Mhz. It's a little over a year old now. He's playing R6 Siege, Fortnite, Overwatch, Titanfall 2 etc. So, mainly twitchy shooters.

I'm thinking of splashing out and buying two of these Samsung monitors for Christmas. One for each of us:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...-hdr-widescreen-curved-monitor-mo-235-sa.html

I'm looking at these as long term purchases that we'll upgrade towards, and realise that the 1060s aren't going to be ideal to start with, particularly for my son.

What I'm wondering is whether or not his 1060 is going to manage pushing 1440p? I know that Freesync isn't going to be of any use to start with, but will it be playable at that resolution? He's more keen to improve framerates than get massive amounts of detail, so will be happy dropping settings to increase framerates.

Second thing I'm wondering about is whether it'd be worth swapping our 1060s out for RX580s, given how cheap they are these days. It seems performance wise they're pretty similar, but we'd get the benefit of Freesync if we switched. Worth it or would it be better to stick with the 1060s for now then jump up to Vega 56 cards as our next upgrade?

Longer term I want to replace the Haswell machine with another Ryzen, and it'll probably be a 2700 or whatever the equivalent 8c/16t processor is at the time. Not sure if the i5 would bottleneck a Vega card at this stage?

Finally (wow... this ended up longer than I expected!) should I be looking to upgrade our power supplies to drive a Vega 56? We've current got a Seasonic Focus Plus 550W Gold in the Ryzen and a Bequiet Pure Power L8 530W powering the Haswell machine.

Cheers for reading if you made it this far!
 
I have also been looking for 1440p 144hz monitor and I was seriously considering getting the samsung you linked. I have a vega 64 so need the freesync.

But for the same price you can get the ASUS 90LM03S0-B01170. 32" and it has some pretty good reviews.

Anyway the main reason I responded was to warm you about a issue with Focus Plus PSUs and vega. There is a compatability issue between them affecting certain models from a certain time period.
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/seasonic-focus-plus-psu-compatibility-issues,news-59464.html

I found out about it after installing the vega 64 I got for black fri, after playing a game for a few mins my PC would switch off. The statement originally said it affected PSUs made before jan 2018 (I bought mine on the 2nd of jan). But they seem to have extended it to ones made before April 2018. If your affected you can contact them and they will RMA it, and send you a replacement.
 
ryhoper1 said:
Anyway the main reason I responded was to warm you about a issue with Focus Plus PSUs and vega. There is a compatability issue between them affecting certain models from a certain time period.
https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/seasonic-focus-plus-psu-compatibility-issues,news-59464.html
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Thanks for the warning, ryhoper1. I bought mine in August 2017, so it's something I'll need to bear in mind if I do end up changing the card. Unfortunately, 27" is about as big as we can go monitor wise due to space limitations. I also want these monitors to double up for work/homework, so don't really want them too big with lower pixel density. In my eyes 27" seems the sweet spot as far as 2560x1440 goes.

LeMson said:
24 inch 1080p 144hz freesync and look to swap to amd new 7nm cards next year
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Thanks for the suggestion. Are you saying run 1080p 144hz monitors with our current 1060s, then switch both the cards and the monitors some time next year to go to 1440p? My only issue there is that I'd have to buy then replace the monitors later, but I guess at least I'd be able to drive them with what we currently have card wise. If our 1060s are pushing 90-100 fps at the moment will we see the benefit of a 144hz monitor (despite not having g-sync or freesync)?
 
Cheers, LeMson.

If I decide to stick to a 24" 1080p panel for now, does anyone have recommendations for a 144hz monitor that size?
 
That samsung is what i will be getting and since i have a gtx 1070 i will get an amd gpu in the future and also the samsung is somewhat of a hot pick imo.
 
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