Replacing ancient monitor

Pasbear

Pasbear

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Hi,

I have an ancient 17" digimate monitor and replacing it has finally come to the top of the purchase list. I am a bit bewildered though by the choice and wondered if anyone could help me out of my misery :) I do a bit of gaming (mostly WoW and things like Farcry) and I'll be wanting to do a bit of photo-editing, though nothing serious, just tweaking the occasional shot.

My main problem is that I can't afford to upgrade my graphics card very often. I currently have a Geforce 560Ti which I hope to upgrade to a GTX 970 in a few months, but then that will be it again for quite a while. I do like however playing games on max settings which has worked out ok to date with my ancient 1280x1024 display. I'm assuming from what I've read that I therefore need to steer clear of anything over 24" and 1920x1080 if I want to keep on max settings for a while? Also, does this also mean I need to avoid 144htz monitors as well?

If 144htz doesn't put too much of a strain on graphics cards, I've narrowed my choice down to the AOC G2460PG if I go for a TN panel, or the Dell
U2414 or U2414H if I go for an IPS. I really don't know if I'll notice ghosting on the latter given I'm assuming my ancient monitor has a really slow response time given its age and it doesn't jump out at me on that. However I do want the colours to be better than my current monitor and, daft as it sounds, the only thing I have to compare it to is my iPad air. Would the TN panel look worse than the iPad in terms of colour accuracy/sharpness? I'm presuming the IPS would definitely be better?

Many thanks :)
 
If you are after value for money I would get a 290x and a monitor for £100-£150 price range. Just seems odd you want to spend £300 on a monitor but keep a 560 TI.

If you want to use G-sync 144mhz 1ms stuff go for the AOC then save up for a 970.
 
It's not that I want to keep the 560, it's that I've put off changing the monitor for years so I'm going to do that first as I'm fed up of the poor image and small size. I'll then upgrade the graphics card in a few months and that will be it for a few more years. The monitor I intend to last a long time, hence why I'm prepared to spend up to £300 (the AOC seems to get good reviews for colour accuracy for a TN). I'm just confused as to a) whether 144hz is a strain on a graphics card and thus best avoided unless you can upgrade regularly and b) how close a TN monitor is to iPad colour quality/sharpness. If it's a lot poorer I'll go for the Dell.
 
PurplePhoenix said:
If you are after value for money I would get a 290x and a monitor for £100-£150 price range. Just seems odd you want to spend £300 on a monitor but keep a 560 TI.

If you want to use G-sync 144mhz 1ms stuff go for the AOC then save up for a 970.
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I did it like this myself, I brought a 1440p monitor awhile having a HD 7850 then upgraded to crossfire then onto R9 290.

@OP I have had both TN and IPS, I tried upgrading to a UHD TN panel but color shift killed it for me so I went back to IPS 1440p. In you price range either a 24" TN 120/144hz monitor or 27" IPS 1440p is the best you can do. Only thing is with gaming you do need to be careful with the amount of input lag you get with IPS.
 
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