some advice for a noob please!

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Hi all

I upgraded my PC late last year and have the following specs:

HD 7970 GHZ edition
i7-4770K
Asus z87 Maximus VI Hero Mobo
8 Gig Ram
Windows 8.1

I have recently been playing Wolfenstein New Order and Watch dogs, both which were lacking in smoothness, I had annoying screen tear I couldn't remove/reduce, even using CCC for the GFX card.

I started looking at my monitor specs and realised this could be the cause, I was using a Sony Syncmaster TV/Monitor: I didn't realise the resolution...ww.lg.com/au/it-monitors/lg-L194WT-SF-monitor

The LG monitor is capable of 1440 x 900 and as soon as I went back to this monitor and set the higher resolution in the games options the screen tear was gone, so my query is, does a resolution of 1440 x 900 really make that much difference when compared to 1360 x 768?

If so I will look to buy anew monitor as I need a DVI and HDMI connection, my LG monitor only has a DVI connection.....

Appreciate any help...
 
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Please can you remove the link for the first monitor, as it unforunately counts as a competitor. As for the issue with screen tearing that was probably due to the fact the monitor is a TV/Monitor combo, so is likely more designed for showing a simple TV/Movie stream at ~30FPS. With a 7970 at a lower resolution like that you're likely pushing well over the 60Hz the monitor can handle.

The LG monitor not only has a slightly higher resolution (thus decreasing your FPS, although not by much with that GPU), it also supports 75Hz which would lessen the screen tearing from higher FPS somewhat.
 
When using the Samsung monitor I had vsync in game and via CCC and combos of both, neither made a difference to the screen tear, now I have swapped monitors and upped the resolution in game to match the screen tear has stopped, watchdogs is also running much better..
 
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