GPU for £370 or less?? Help!

[nashathedog]

I think we need to vet these newbs before allowing them in the hardware section to post 'advice'...

+1

Although I sometimes think the oldies need to re-sit there test too, I often see info being posted that was fact years ago but not today.

 

[Neutral]

Yeah I am settled on the 1070 FE with free PSU... And a 1440 monitor.

Silly question, but can a 1440 still run a game set to 1080? I don't know how it works.

So... if I am running a game in 1440 and the FPS is really struggling, if I change the settings in game to be 1080p, how would that work on a 1440p monitor?

Or am I talking utter rubbish?

It can do but it's better to just turn down AA, jaggies are less noticable at high resolution

 

[Andy_Curtis]

It can do but it's better to just turn down AA, jaggies are less noticable at high resolution

So just change the visual settings like "shadows" or "anti alias" rather than just drop the resolution?
That makes sense.

 

[Neutral]

So just change the visual settings like "shadows" or "anti alias" rather than just drop the resolution?
That makes sense.

Yeah, I'm playing at 3440x1440 with an rx 480 and just turning off AA gets all games playable (freesync tho lol), and u don't even notice the lines

 

[nashathedog]

From my limited experience when I had to spend a few days gaming on my 4770k's on board graphics dropping the resolution made it look worse than I thought it would so if you can go with lower settings instead I would.

Depending on the gpu you get it's worth noting that you can also use vsr/dsr to up the resolution with a 1080p panel, I always did that with my 1080p panel as it improved the image quality, Basically I used it as another in game setting like all the others, I was unable to run the majority of my games at 4k but most ran fine at 1440 so it's a great way to extend a monitors life. I didn't use it on the desktop although you can, I only used it for games, If I had had a 27" 120-144hz 1080p panel with adaptive sync I would not of bothered upgrading I'd of simply used dsr/vsr instead and that way when you haven't got the gpu power for 1440p you can run 1080p natively.

 

[nashathedog]

Yeah, I'm playing at 3440x1440 with an rx 480 and just turning off AA gets all games playable (freesync tho lol), and u don't even notice the lines

I wanted to go 3440x1440 but played it safe and went with a 144hz 2560x1080 monitor instead, that way my Fury can keep my fps well north of 50 and inside the working range of freesync, It's disappointing that AMD don't have dsr/vsr working for 21:9.

I wonder if Nvidia do,

Anyone?

 

[ed79]

I wanted to go 3440x1440 but played it safe and went with a 144hz 2560x1080 monitor instead, that way my Fury can keep my fps well north of 50 and inside the working range of freesync, It's disappointing that AMD don't have dsr/vsr working for 21:9.

I wonder if Nvidia do,

Anyone?

Yep, I've just got a 2560x1080 29" and GTX 1060 and run Asetto Corsa at 5120x2160