What monitor for rtx 3060?

DNM96 · 18 Apr 2022 at 19:05

Been given some advice for a first pc on a different forum category and been looking into it abit more and learnt that i should get a monitor relevant to gfx card. I will be buying a rtx 3060 12g can anyone point me in the direction of what monitor i should be buying alongside this card?

gpuerrilla · 18 Apr 2022 at 19:13

What games do you play, what fps do you want?

DNM96 · 18 Apr 2022 at 19:50

Ill be playing the likes of battlefield, rust, forza, elden ring, warzone, rdr2 etc and just want to run the highest settings possible as smoothly as possible relative to my graphics card

gpuerrilla · 18 Apr 2022 at 20:01

1080p you have plenty of choice and quite cheap. What size you looking, what's your budget?

ASMB · 20 Apr 2022 at 20:00

Some games are much more demanding than others, so for instance the 3060 can easily play some games at 1440p and others it will struggle with at 1440p at max settings. Its not so true to match cards with monitor resolution any more not just because games vary but because there are now upscaling techniques that are good, as a result eg you can make a game play at 1080p on a 1440p monitor if your 3060 is struggling at 1440p.

personally I would buy a monitor that is going to last you years and you are going to enjoy using, if you keep a £300 monitor for 10 years then it only works out at £30 a year. If you buy a 1440p monitor you can always change the resolution to 1080p if your 3060 struggles. Plus if you upgrade your gpu at some point a better monitor will still be fine to use. As above we don't know your budget but this is a good monitor, however, it has gone of sale as it was just under £300 last week, doesn't stop you from shopping around LG 27" 27GP850-B 2560x1440 NANO IPS 165Hz 1ms FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible Widescreen Gaming Monitor | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk)

gpuerrilla · 20 Apr 2022 at 20:51

I also forgot, hz/fps matters too so that would be another metric in tandem with the genre of games you like to play.

As above, you could go by resolution years ago but nowadays its about the features (ports, kvm switch, mount etc) and the use case - so if you must have for example 144hz this automatically strikes out monitors that cannot produce this. Same can be said for the panel type you would suit.