New 32in monitor - is my system up to it

TonyM19

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My ageing set up is i5-3450, 8Gb RAM, AMD HD7850 graphics card. I'm a relatively casual gamer and not into online FPS etc. Currently playing through Prey on a Ilyama 24in monitor at 1920 x 1080 resolution and I'm happy with the performance. Th enext game I'm going to play is likely to be Wastreland 3 so nothing too graphically demanding on that front. The plan is to upgrade the monitor now (Xmas and b/day present) and the rest of the system next summer.

I fancy a 32in monitor, mainly for work. It would be really handy to dsplay 2 full A4 documents side by side. Having to scroll through separate pages is a real ballache for a certain part of my job. Not something I'd do 8h a day, maybe 5 hours per week, rest of the time as a genaeral workstation/web browser/casual gaming. There are some good deals to be had on an AOC Q3279VWFDB at the moment that has had some positive reviews as a budget monitor and is in my price bracket (sub £200 atm - <edit> actually sub £150!).

My question is, is my system going to be too much of a bottleneck for this monitor?
 
In a word, yes.

I have to tone down settings on 1440p with a 1060 mobile, and that is like 120% faster than your 7850 :(

Even an entry level 1050 is 10% faster than your 7850.

You can scale the monitor to letterbox 1080p and it will perform the same for games, but you lose the extra size. If you try to full screen 1080p it will look horrible, I know as I tried that too.
 
The plan for the new system is pre-built from OCUK, i5-9400F, 16Gb RAM, GTX 1660.

Is that going to be able to deal with a 32in monitor?
 
Just a gentle bump on this one. Just want to take advanatge of any BF deals this week. Am I on the right trrack with my suggetsed spec to do a 32in monitor justice?
 
OK, so yes, you're likely going to be fine.

When considering whether you have the power to run the screen, it's the resolution you want to look at rather than the raw size. That monitor is QHD/1440p (2560x1440), which I would say is about as high as you want to go with that GFX card (the new one, the 1660p). You're not going to be running all your games at "ultra" detail but it's still going to be good. I wouldn't go to 4K with that card.

Your old card will handle the higher res on the desktop just fine, you might just need to turn games down to 1920x1080 until you get the rest of your system upgraded. I'd say go for it.
 
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