Anyone gone from superwide monitor to 4k smaller monitor

[bakes0310]

Bit of a dilemma I currently have a superwide monitor but it's on its way out so need to to get a new monitor. I am wondering if I should get another superwide or go 4k.
All I do is game on the pc and do some studying. I will be getting an Xbox series x that could go with the 4k monitor as it doesn't support superwide but am I better off just using my Xbox on my lounge TV that's 4k 55inchs. Also my pc is a bit old to be running games at 4k on a 6700k and 1080 graphics card.

 

[Quartz]

Bit of a dilemma I currently have a superwide monitor but it's on its way out so need to to get a new monitor. I am wondering if I should get another superwide or go 4k.

I had a 34" 3440x1440 UW monitor but broke it. I have a 27" 4k monitor. I had both at the same time and some games - notably driving games, flight sims, and the like - play better on one and some better on the other. And a GTX 1080 is just fine for 4k as long as you don't want ultra quality or RT in AAA games. I was running games at 4k on a 780 Ti at a mix of medium and high settings.

 

[bakes0310]

My budget is £850 and I see I can get a 4k 32" gigabyte monitor with hdmi2.1 which would be good for the Xbox. I have a man cave and my partner would happier to have all my gaming devices in there so she can hog the TV.

Gigabyte Aorus 32" FI32U 3840x2160 4K SS IPS 144Hz 1ms HDR400 FreeSync HDMI 2.1 Widescreen Gaming Monitor

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Or hardware unboxed recommend this monitor but it's £50 over my budget but my partner will pay the £50 to get me to have my gaming systems in the mancave.

MSI 32" Optix MPG321UR QD 3840x2160 4K IPS 144Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync Widescreen Gaming Monitor

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I do plan on getting a new gaming system next year which should cope well with a demanding resolution. In the meantime I'm happy to dial settings Down for now.

 

[EsaT]

M32U is same monitor, but without gamer gimmicks.
Gigabyte 32" M32U 3840x2160 4K SS IPS 144Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync KVM HDR Widescreen Gaming Monitor (SKU: MO-00Q-GI) = £719.99
Response times are good, but colour gamut is mediocre falling clearly short of DCI-P3
And HDMI 2.1 is half assed with only 24 Gbps capability and needing DSC or very lossy chroma subsampling for above 60Hz 4K.

That MSI again has very wide also AdobeRGB covering gamut with more purer greens/cyan than in DCI-P3.
That gives very vibrant colours in games depicting nature. (grass/foliage, sky, water, etc)
Also HDMI 2.1 is true 48 Gbps port instead of half.
But response times of that panel aren't exactly great, if you're after fast paced gaming.

Asus ROG Swift PG32UQ review - TFTCentral

32" gaming display with 4K resolution and 144Hz refresh rate. Also with HDR 600, ELMB-sync and HDMI 2.1 connections for consoles

tftcentral.co.uk

 

[bakes0310]

M32U is same monitor, but without gamer gimmicks.
Gigabyte 32" M32U 3840x2160 4K SS IPS 144Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync KVM HDR Widescreen Gaming Monitor (SKU: MO-00Q-GI) = £719.99
Response times are good, but colour gamut is mediocre falling clearly short of DCI-P3
And HDMI 2.1 is half assed with only 24 Gbps capability and needing DSC or very lossy chroma subsampling for above 60Hz 4K.

That MSI again has very wide also AdobeRGB covering gamut with more purer greens/cyan than in DCI-P3.
That gives very vibrant colours in games depicting nature. (grass/foliage, sky, water, etc)
Also HDMI 2.1 is true 48 Gbps port instead of half.
But response times of that panel aren't exactly great, if you're after fast paced gaming.

Asus ROG Swift PG32UQ review - TFTCentral

32" gaming display with 4K resolution and 144Hz refresh rate. Also with HDR 600, ELMB-sync and HDMI 2.1 connections for consoles

tftcentral.co.uk

Great reply very informative. I don't play any fast paced games like COD I'm more into story driven games like RPGs and third person games.

 

[EsaT]

Great reply very informative. I don't play any fast paced games like COD I'm more into story driven games like RPGs and third person games.

Very wide gamut would be more usefull for those than faster response time.

AU Optronics panel used in MSI:
https://tftcentral.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/default_2-1.png
Innolux panel of Gigabyte:
https://tftcentral.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/default_2-1.png
Gamut reach is better especially in greens/cyan, but also red is deeper.

 

[Moeks]

I have done this actually, I used to use an AOC CU34G2X 3400x1440 monitor as my primary one, a few months ago I bought a Samsung Odyssey G7 S28 4K monitor (28 inch) which I am driving with a 5900X and a 3070 ...the IPS S28 is better in every respect for what I want other than where a wider FOV is useful really, it's a higher spec panel in every other regard really (contrast not withstanding of course as you really can't compare a VA and an IPS in this regard) It works fine with the horsepower I am throwing at it, weather or not a 1080 is upto to the task really depends on what exactly you ask it to render at 4K, I've found that now I have 4K I am making use of DLSS to keep my FPS higher though, it's a LOT harder to drive than the 1440 ultrawide however this isn't an option you have on your 10 series card, you can probably leverage AMD FSR though depending on the game. This particular monitor would work really well for your Xbox aswell but if I was you, I'd leave it on your TV as that's what consoles are for right TV based gaming with a controller. If you sit at a desk I think you may aswell use your PC.