The Asus ROG SWIFT PG278Q – a 27” 1400p 144Hz Monitor with G-SYNC

RetrogamerX said:
Welcome to the club mate:D
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Just hope it's a 'cool' club and not a 'wtf did I do?' club in a few weeks :)

On a more serious note i'm fairly worried that the RAM my GPUs have is getting a little short these days - and i'm hoping to wait it out for the next series of GPUs since the 7x0 series isn't much of a jump (well, for reasonable money). For those that game at 1440p do you find it much of an issue?
 
dangel said:
Just hope it's a 'cool' club and not a 'wtf did I do?' club in a few weeks :)

On a more serious note i'm fairly worried that the RAM my GPUs have is getting a little short these days - and i'm hoping to wait it out for the next series of GPUs since the 7x0 series isn't much of a jump (well, for reasonable money). For those that game at 1440p do you find it much of an issue?
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You will struggle @ 2560x1440 will lots of AA - atleast that was my experience with BF3 running SLI 480's at 2560x1600. The 3GB which come with the 7 series is perfect.
 
dangel said:
Just hope it's a 'cool' club and not a 'wtf did I do?' club in a few weeks :)

On a more serious note i'm fairly worried that the RAM my GPUs have is getting a little short these days - and i'm hoping to wait it out for the next series of GPUs since the 7x0 series isn't much of a jump (well, for reasonable money). For those that game at 1440p do you find it much of an issue?
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2gb of ram will be fine for a while yet at 1440p, but my Asus Striker 760's are 4gb. so I have no issue there. I had a 2gb 770 and my 1440p was fine. It might be a issue next year with newer games maybe? Sell your 670 now and get a 780 780Ti or do what I did. I had 2 780's and downgraded to 2 760's but 4gb cards. 2gb are near it's end really.
 
dangel said:
On a more serious note i'm fairly worried that the RAM my GPUs have is getting a little short these days - and i'm hoping to wait it out for the next series of GPUs since the 7x0 series isn't much of a jump (well, for reasonable money). For those that game at 1440p do you find it much of an issue?
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I play games at 1440p on an IPS screen, with a GTX780ti 3GB card and have no problems with graphics memory.
 
Thanks - good feedback that pretty much confirms what I've been thinking. Not sure it's really worth jumping to the 7x0 series now given the new cards aren't that far off. I suppose at this stage I'll just wait and see how I fare with the games I'm playing. I've noticed some choking now at 1920x1200 but it's mostly avoidable with a few settings changes. Plus, of course, I don't know how much AA I want at this new res - I might be happy avoiding oversampling AA anyway (and there are a heck of a lot of different alternatives to try..).

I monitor things pretty closely (have a small 4 line char display below the monitor with stats like gpu use/gpu mem use) so I've a pretty good idea of when I'm hitting limits. Irritatingly it's not processing power just unexpandable memory... Grr. The cards are still at stock ffs hehe
 
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dangel said:
Thanks - good feedback that pretty much confirms what I've been thinking. Not sure it's really worth jumping to the 7x0 series now given the new cards aren't that far off. I suppose at this stage I'll just wait and see how I fare with the games I'm playing. I've noticed some choking now at 1920x1200 but it's mostly avoidable with a few settings changes. Plus, of course, I don't know how much AA I want at this new res - I might be happy avoiding oversampling AA anyway (and there are a heck of a lot of different alternatives to try..).

I monitor things pretty closely (have a small 4 line char display below the monitor with stats like gpu use/gpu mem use) so I've a pretty good idea of when I'm hitting limits. Irritatingly it's not processing power just unexpandable memory... Grr. The cards are still at stock ffs hehe
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If I were you I would wait until the 800 series releases near the end of the year. I would say september or oct for 800 series, but the first 2 releases aren't high end. they'll just be replacement 700 series card. The real high end cards 20nm will release early next year. I would wait for those. Your 670 will be fine with AA turned down until Maxwell. That's what I'm doing:D
 
RetrogamerX said:
2gb of ram will be fine for a while yet at 1440p, but my Asus Striker 760's are 4gb. so I have no issue there. I had a 2gb 770 and my 1440p was fine. It might be a issue next year with newer games maybe? Sell your 670 now and get a 780 780Ti or do what I did. I had 2 780's and downgraded to 2 760's but 4gb cards. 2gb are near it's end really.
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It's not just the RAM though, it's the memory bandwidth too. So at 1440P it tends to be one or the other causing issues. It's such a shame that nVidia cheaped out so hard on the kepler GPUs when it came to RAM quantity and memory bandwidth, else they'd have a fair amount more longevity in them.
 
spoffle said:
It's not just the RAM though, it's the memory bandwidth too. So at 1440P it tends to be one or the other causing issues. It's such a shame that nVidia cheaped out so hard on the kepler GPUs when it came to RAM quantity and memory bandwidth, else they'd have a fair amount more longevity in them.
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True, but tbh mate I'm totally fine now at 1440p. This just shows you even more that 4k is a utter joke atm.
 
Phixsator said:
Darn it. Should have preordered then. I just dont like having money out flying around when you have to wait for the stock to even arrive before they can send you the product. To many links in the chain can go wrong.
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This is the reason I very rarely pre order from Ocuk, I hate having to lay down the entire cost on the hope the ETA is accurate, which in the component world is rarely spot on.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Ocuk, make a pre order option of 10% non refundable up front and the rest on dispatch, that way you don't loose out if someone cancels
 
pgi947 said:
This is the reason I very rarely pre order from Ocuk, I hate having to lay down the entire cost on the hope the ETA is accurate, which in the component world is rarely spot on.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Ocuk, make a pre order option of 10% non refundable up front and the rest on dispatch, that way you don't loose out if someone cancels
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wtf 10% non refundable just to preorder?

thats even worse than the current system
 
Sem said:
wtf 10% non refundable just to preorder?

thats even worse than the current system
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This.

The current system is in place simply because not charging up front causes issues, such as:-

1. Card provided at time of pre-ordering does not charge at time of shipping, expired, no funds etc.
2. Customer forgets about their pre-order, then they all of a sudden get an unexpected bill.


Paying upfront secures your slot and it is paid for and done with, no surprises. :)
 
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