Time to get a bigger monitor

ShiWarrior

ShiWarrior

ShiWarrior

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currently have a DELL 22" LCD


im set at my desk and i feel the monitor is far too small, need something bigger

not really sure what size and type to get (Budget unknown at this time, but not spending £500 + on a monitor)

I'm quite happy with the quality with what i already have, been playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided and it works flawlessly on the default setting (High)

so I need some advice on what to get, ive been looking at the super wide screens ?
in my bedroom i have a 40" LED TV and when turn that off and look at my monitor its just too small !
 
I'm in the same boat and got advised to go by your set up (is if you have nvidia you'll have to consider Gsync). I've also got the Titan X so I'm having to look at monitors at 2k resolution and up to 144hz. Unfortunately that's where the budget goes through the roof!

I'm currently looking at the popular Dell S2716DG which some have been lucky enough to get for a hundred quid. It's 5 x that amount at the moment and there are plenty of people on here waiting for it to drop in price to snap one up.

I imagine others will ask which 28" 4k screen you're looking at because if it doesn't compliment your current set up, it's unlikely to be recommended by other forum members.
 
Looking at the Samsung @ £300

Currently got,

I5 skylake, windows 10, 16gb RAM, AMD 7850, but will be upgrading to rx 480 this year
 
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well, i am future proofing myself, which ever monitor I buy, i will NOT replace it again

i will change my GPU all in good time, waiting for the Vega AMD cards to arrive so i can think about getting 2x RX480s or a single AMD card

so i think 4K is the way to go, upto £400 budget ?
 
Is there really such thing as future proofing given the fact that in the next 2 years we'll likely see high refresh rate 4k monitors, HDR, and then further on from that OLED?

considering the graphics card ur rocking, i wouldn't invest in a 4k/60hz screen cos by the time u get around to upgrading ur card, there will probably be 4k/144hz screens available cheaper or even 21:9 screens available at a similar cost...
 
4k on 28" is a very high pixel density... If you've ever seen a 1080p 15.6" laptop screen, it's about 12% denser than that. IMHO, for a desktop monitor at normal distance, that mandates scaling the Windows UI, which results in everything looking worse than if you had a monitor with less pixels. Meanwhile you need a more expensive GPU to drive it in games :/

Personally I would aim for 2560x1440 for anything below 32".

(Hook your PC to the TV as a second screen and game on that when appropriate? :) )
 
Thanks guys, might be worth just buying a second hand normal LCD monitor, like mine, but bigger to keep for a couple of years then upgrade?
 
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