First of all would like to say Hello! I'm new~. Have been building PC's for a while now for myself and friends, no crazy nonsense with all the watercooling and whatnot, just straight up simple pc builds. Planning on doing a watercooled workstation some time in the next year for myself
I have been browsing around the internet for the last few weeks in search of a new monitor/set of monitors to add to my build. Last month, my GTX780 died on me and had to be returned to MSI, I've found out now that I will be getting a credit equivalent of my 780 since they do not currently have any in stock at the store I bought it from nor will MSI send me one.
Now this is where my problems begin, at the moment, I still don't know how much I will be given in credit, I assume it will be enough to buy a GTX970 (which is what I have also been told by the store, don't want to mention names) and with the current scandal in the market, I'm unsure if now is a good time to buy into the 970. So my first question here is, shall I spend a little more and get a 980, or shall I bite the bullet and get a 970?
I have previously used AMD cards, and since moving to nVidia, I can happily say I enjoy the experience because of the lower noise, power and heat levels. Below is my current build:
Intel i7 4770K @ 4.2Ghz using a BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 for cooling
Asus ROG Hero Z87 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2x8GB) 1600Mhz RAM
GTX750Ti MSI GAMING Edition (my spare card)
Samsung 840 EVO SSD 250GB
2x2TB HDD's (WD Green and Seagate Barracuda)
Asus D2X Soundcard
750W XFX Pro Series Semi-Modular PSU
I'm currently using a Samsung Syncmaster 2433 24" 1920x1200 monitor. I can't remember how old it is as I bought it second hand as an upgrade to my old 15" generic monitor (lol)
One of the reasons I am choosing to stick to nvidia over AMD is because of the CUDA cores, in certain applications which I use (Adobe Suite) this makes a difference and therefor AMD is out of the picture. I feel that I need a 980 to make use of the extra cores in this sense but is it worth the extra £100?
Now moving on to the monitors. As stated above, I use the Adobe suite, mostly for video editing and compositing in after effects and premiere pro. But I am also of course a gamer. Currently I am a student, so I don't need to go crazy with the colour gamuts and 10bit displays, I just need something that, out of the box, will look good enough for me to get good colour reproduction at an entry level. I don't particularly want to faff about with all the settings too much, minor tweaks at most.
Some things I have considered:
Getting 2 monitors, one for gaming ( 1ms, 144hz but no gsync/freesync) without caring too much about colours, 1080p is fine for the games I play. And another monitor for color critical work (an IPS panel, 1080p)
Getting 1 monitor for everything, higher resolution, sacrifice high response time and frequency, but play "like i'm playing now" just at higher resolutions. At university we use 2560x1440 Dell U2713HM monitors. These are pretty darn good for colours and whatnot but the high response times make it a not so viable option for gaming. Gaming 1440p monitors are hard to come by, and the ones that I have come by are either ridiculously expensive (ROG Swift) or have bad colour reproduction or both...
I have a budget, I'd like to keep total costs for monitors/cables/adaptors to under £400, and at a stretch up to £500. Even if i don't get colour perfect monitors, it would be nice to get the real estate (e.g. 2 1920x1080 monitors at least, one specifically for gaming at 1ms/144Hz and other just there to put all the menus on) I have also considered going for 3 1080p monitors @ 60Hz/2ms for the much lower price point but I thought I'd ask around before clicking buy on something that wont be good for what I want.
The games I play at the moment are League of Legends, CS:GO, TerA and occasionally Need for Speed Rivals as well as some other single player games (mostly the JRPG's that are coming to steam now). I would say that multi-monitor gaming isn't a big thing for me, I like the single monitor 1080p gaming just fine, with a 2nd/3rd monitor for other apps (watching tv on the side and whatnot). The most important thing for me is real estate for my uni work, doing 3D on a single monitor is a pain when you get used to using 1440p or dual monitors at university.
I do kind of know what I'm looking for but the issue for me is everyone is saying different things about the monitors I have looked at. I want a kind of general idea of what people might be using for their workstation setups. Another thing that is quite important for me is uniformity. Even if the monitors have different bezels they should somewhat fit together nicely.
TL;DR : I need new monitors, for gaming and university work. Would like good colors and lots of real estate but dont want to spend more than £500. Don't care about gaming on anything past 1440p, 1080p gaming is just fine for me anyway.
Thank you in advance folks!
My current monitor will be going to my other PC, which currently has no monitor and is being used as a doorstop.
Thank you in advance for any help I may get!
I have been browsing around the internet for the last few weeks in search of a new monitor/set of monitors to add to my build. Last month, my GTX780 died on me and had to be returned to MSI, I've found out now that I will be getting a credit equivalent of my 780 since they do not currently have any in stock at the store I bought it from nor will MSI send me one.
Now this is where my problems begin, at the moment, I still don't know how much I will be given in credit, I assume it will be enough to buy a GTX970 (which is what I have also been told by the store, don't want to mention names) and with the current scandal in the market, I'm unsure if now is a good time to buy into the 970. So my first question here is, shall I spend a little more and get a 980, or shall I bite the bullet and get a 970?
I have previously used AMD cards, and since moving to nVidia, I can happily say I enjoy the experience because of the lower noise, power and heat levels. Below is my current build:
Intel i7 4770K @ 4.2Ghz using a BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 2 for cooling
Asus ROG Hero Z87 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance LP 16GB (2x8GB) 1600Mhz RAM
GTX750Ti MSI GAMING Edition (my spare card)
Samsung 840 EVO SSD 250GB
2x2TB HDD's (WD Green and Seagate Barracuda)
Asus D2X Soundcard
750W XFX Pro Series Semi-Modular PSU
I'm currently using a Samsung Syncmaster 2433 24" 1920x1200 monitor. I can't remember how old it is as I bought it second hand as an upgrade to my old 15" generic monitor (lol)
One of the reasons I am choosing to stick to nvidia over AMD is because of the CUDA cores, in certain applications which I use (Adobe Suite) this makes a difference and therefor AMD is out of the picture. I feel that I need a 980 to make use of the extra cores in this sense but is it worth the extra £100?
Now moving on to the monitors. As stated above, I use the Adobe suite, mostly for video editing and compositing in after effects and premiere pro. But I am also of course a gamer. Currently I am a student, so I don't need to go crazy with the colour gamuts and 10bit displays, I just need something that, out of the box, will look good enough for me to get good colour reproduction at an entry level. I don't particularly want to faff about with all the settings too much, minor tweaks at most.
Some things I have considered:
Getting 2 monitors, one for gaming ( 1ms, 144hz but no gsync/freesync) without caring too much about colours, 1080p is fine for the games I play. And another monitor for color critical work (an IPS panel, 1080p)
Getting 1 monitor for everything, higher resolution, sacrifice high response time and frequency, but play "like i'm playing now" just at higher resolutions. At university we use 2560x1440 Dell U2713HM monitors. These are pretty darn good for colours and whatnot but the high response times make it a not so viable option for gaming. Gaming 1440p monitors are hard to come by, and the ones that I have come by are either ridiculously expensive (ROG Swift) or have bad colour reproduction or both...
I have a budget, I'd like to keep total costs for monitors/cables/adaptors to under £400, and at a stretch up to £500. Even if i don't get colour perfect monitors, it would be nice to get the real estate (e.g. 2 1920x1080 monitors at least, one specifically for gaming at 1ms/144Hz and other just there to put all the menus on) I have also considered going for 3 1080p monitors @ 60Hz/2ms for the much lower price point but I thought I'd ask around before clicking buy on something that wont be good for what I want.
The games I play at the moment are League of Legends, CS:GO, TerA and occasionally Need for Speed Rivals as well as some other single player games (mostly the JRPG's that are coming to steam now). I would say that multi-monitor gaming isn't a big thing for me, I like the single monitor 1080p gaming just fine, with a 2nd/3rd monitor for other apps (watching tv on the side and whatnot). The most important thing for me is real estate for my uni work, doing 3D on a single monitor is a pain when you get used to using 1440p or dual monitors at university.
I do kind of know what I'm looking for but the issue for me is everyone is saying different things about the monitors I have looked at. I want a kind of general idea of what people might be using for their workstation setups. Another thing that is quite important for me is uniformity. Even if the monitors have different bezels they should somewhat fit together nicely.
TL;DR : I need new monitors, for gaming and university work. Would like good colors and lots of real estate but dont want to spend more than £500. Don't care about gaming on anything past 1440p, 1080p gaming is just fine for me anyway.
Thank you in advance folks!
My current monitor will be going to my other PC, which currently has no monitor and is being used as a doorstop.
Thank you in advance for any help I may get!
