4K Gaming - Help Please!

[ShortWarning]

For me personally, gaming at 4k is not worth it over 1440p, I guess depending on what monitor you have.

I have a 4k Gigabyte m28u. Graphically, it's not improved enough for the potential trade offs. I'd rather a 1440p OLED. I have a 9070xt and don't have any real problems with frames @4k but at no point have I though "I'm so glad I'm gaming at 4k and not 1440".

I only have a 4k monitor because it also connects up to a macbook. For some reason, Apple haven't figured out how to deal with text at a lower resolution.

 

[iamgigglz]

I recently bankrupted myself for a 5080 and a 4K oled - it's lovely, but I have a feeling my next purchase will be a 1440p monitor when the 5080 can't keep up any more.
4K has more than double the pixel count of 1440p, which in turn is only 50% more than 1080p.
I really wish there was a ~1800p resolution for 32".

 

[deviation]

I recently bankrupted myself for a 5080 and a 4K oled - it's lovely, but I have a feeling my next purchase will be a 1440p monitor when the 5080 can't keep up any more.
4K has more than double the pixel count of 1440p, which in turn is only 50% more than 1080p.
I really wish there was a ~1800p resolution for 32".

Once you go 4K, you cant go back. I have a 31.5" 144Hz 4K monitor, and the pixel density is insane - I genuinely could not believe how much it lived up to the hype, I could never go back to 1440P.
You'll be set for years with a 5080, and at worst, use transformer DLSS/FG/Reflex 2, when required.

 

[iamgigglz]

Once you go 4K, you cant go back.

I hate how right you are.

 

[Vimes]

Once you go 4K, you cant go back. I have a 31.5" 144Hz 4K monitor, and the pixel density is insane - I genuinely could not believe how much it lived up to the hype, I could never go back to 1440P.
You'll be set for years with a 5080, and at worst, use transformer DLSS/FG/Reflex 2, when required.

I also have the same spec 4k monitor as yourself, along with a 27" Dell 1440p screen next to it.
Outside of gaming the 4k is simply wonderful for the amount of screen size it has. It would have helped if Windows could allow less than 100% scaling, as they used to , for the 1440p screen. Now that I am used to the desktop being scaled as it when at 4k I would not wish to use a 1440p one.
In gaming, somewhat mixed, albeit the bigger screen of the larger 4k monitor has influence here. Some games that I play allow UI scaling, helping the 1440p screen. For others that do not allow that 4k comes into its own.
The screens that I do not care for are UW, or curved and, generally, VA panels. So if I got a curved UW screen that used a VA panel.........................that would be grim, lol...!

 

[deviation]

I also have the same spec 4k monitor as yourself, along with a 27" Dell 1440p screen next to it.
Outside of gaming the 4k is simply wonderful for the amount of screen size it has. It would have helped if Windows could allow less than 100% scaling, as they used to , for the 1440p screen. Now that I am used to the desktop being scaled as it when at 4k I would not wish to use a 1440p one.
In gaming, somewhat mixed, albeit the bigger screen of the larger 4k monitor has influence here. Some games that I play allow UI scaling, helping the 1440p screen. For others that do not allow that 4k comes into its own.
The screens that I do not care for are UW, or curved and, generally, VA panels. So if I got a curved UW screen that used a VA panel.........................that would be grim, lol...!

I agree with literally everything you've said
I also hate UW's, curved screens and VA

I hate how right you are.

It's worth the financial crippling it requires to keep it

 

[andyrp2001]

Thought I'd share a little update on this build. I built the PC up over Christmas and spent a good day tweaking Windows 11, removing start up items and various scheduled tasks / updaters etc all with the aim of minimising boot time, it is currently at 13.2 seconds. I used my old Corsair H75 AIO cooler on the 9950x3D, bit of a mistake as things were running a little hot between 85oC and 90oC with some peaks of 105oC according to HWInfo, a Corsair Nautilus 240 AIO soon brought the temperatures down and now sitting at 75oC under load (BF6). With respect to the 4K gaming, the purpose of my original post, I am using the ROG Astral 5080OC and running BF6 at 4K with all settings maxed out, and no frame generation or DLSS, and getting 135 FPS which I am happy with and a big improvement on the 95 FPS with my old build using the 5080.

Thanks for the help earlier on.

 

[Calin Banc]

Thought I'd share a little update on this build. I built the PC up over Christmas and spent a good day tweaking Windows 11, removing start up items and various scheduled tasks / updaters etc all with the aim of minimising boot time, it is currently at 13.2 seconds. I used my old Corsair H75 AIO cooler on the 9950x3D, bit of a mistake as things were running a little hot between 85oC and 90oC with some peaks of 105oC according to HWInfo, a Corsair Nautilus 240 AIO soon brought the temperatures down and now sitting at 75oC under load (BF6). With respect to the 4K gaming, the purpose of my original post, I am using the ROG Astral 5080OC and running BF6 at 4K with all settings maxed out, and no frame generation or DLSS, and getting 135 FPS which I am happy with and a big improvement on the 95 FPS with my old build using the 5080.

Thanks for the help earlier on.

Is it worth it to mess around too much with Windows for that alone? With start apps I've only left the ones from the image, boot time the same... 13.2s (5800 x3d, x470).