Should I go for a 1440p or 4k monitor?

Spudgun

Spudgun

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Good morning everyone,

I'm having a bit of a dilemma at the moment as to what resolution I should go for on my new monitor.

I'm coming from a 12 year old Dell 27" ultrasharp 1440p 60hz monitor and have decided to step up to 32" but can't decide on the resolution.


I'm currently running a 8700k with all cores at 5ghz and no avx offset and a 3080fe which is undervolted and runs happily at 1850 as it is cool, quiet and less power hungry there.

I can't decide between 1440p @165hz at 32" which I would run at 100% scaling (I run the 27" I currently have at 125% as the text is far too small for my ageing eyes) - my current hardware should be able to run that fairly well and a gsync compatible monitor should make it fairly smooth.


Or should I step up to 4k @ 144hz? I know that I would need to set the windows scaling here and it will be beyond the capabilities of my current hardware to run at 4k at the max refresh rate if my monitor, but I might be able to get the 60fps experience that my current hardware delivers.

Also, if I keep this monitor as long as my old one, hardware should develop over time to make 4k more achievable at high frame rates.


Essentially, then, this might be a choice between resolution and framerate and I can't decide which direction to go in, so any thoughts, suggestions or direct experiences of anyone else in a similar situation would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, they are greatly appreciated. 32" is as far as I can go without a complete redesign of my home office.

I'd be interested if others shared your opinion than 4k@60fps is a better experience than 2k@120fps, especially if the screen size is limited to 32"

Whilst I enjoy a decent fps, I don't play online as I neither have the reactions or talent for that as I am the wrong side of 50.

Thanks again :)
 
Thank you all so much for sharing your thoughts, I do really appreciate it.

I've been doing some research as this thread has grown and would rule out an ultrawide as the width wouldn't fit, I really don't fancy a curved monitor and I also occasionally connect to a ps4 that doesn't support the wider resolutions and leaves some screen unused at the edges and thus negates having a bigger screen. Of course, this is something I should have noted in the opening post, so please forgive me for this oversight.

I'll make a decision on this tomorrow as I have the day off, so if anyone else has any thoughts then they would be greatly appreciated as I weigh up the pros and cons of 1440p v 4k at 32" screen size.


Thanks again for sharing so far
 
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