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[neogunhero]

Yeah I'm not affected for now since I have a 9000 series card now but it's still a pretty messed up business decision, especially since Nvidia still supports cards older than RDNA 1 and now that just today AMD has posted record profits with gaming still extremely strong for them. Business wise it makes sense, keep pushing the new hardware to make more profit, but terrible for consumers. If Nvidia dropped support of my RTX 2060 I may have been forced to buy a new GPU before I was ready to. Let's just hope the backlash has AMD thinking twice before shafting their consumers in the future.

 

[neogunhero]

I got my card at the perfect time. It was $369.99 on sale before tax when I bought it, not even a week later it's shot up to $419.99. Saved $50 which is almost how much shipping fees and tax were. The XFX Swift model went to $399.99 too, so I'm very happy I got the higher end Mercury model. This thing is a beast at cooling, barely hitting 50c in Oblivion Remastered, but then again I'm only playing at 1080p 60fps so that helps with temps too.

Looking to buy a very, very specific, maybe even niche configuration of monitor. I've found a few that check my boxes but still searching around.

This is what I want: 27 inches, 1080p, 75Hz, sub-5ms repsonse times, FreeSync, good brightness and color.

This is my reasoning: For now my card can handle pretty much any game at 1080p 60fps, most games can hit above that. I plan on holding onto this card for a long time like my last one.

I don't want to keep switching monitor settings per each game I play. Maybe one game can easily hit 1440p 120fps, the next game can only do 1440p 60fps, the next can only do 1080p 60fps. I would hate to play one game at full ultra settings 1440p 120fps but the next one I play I have to downgrade the resolution to hit a good frame rate.

So my thought process is that if I just force myself to 1080p 75hz, I won't ever get disappointed when a game doesn't run well at 1440p or whatever. This way I can reliably know most games I play will hit the full 1080p 75fps instead of having to switching around to find the sweetspot.

Does this make any sense? Would I just be better getting like a 1080p 120hz monitor and capping FPS in more intensive games?

My specifications are extremely specific, so it's hard finding good monitors with all of those features at a decent price. There are a couple options around $100, but others are much higher, which at that point does not make any sense. That's another thing, if I were to get a monitor exactly like that, $100 is pretty much the max I'd want to spend.

What's strange to me is that I know 75hz was a popular choice maybe ~5-ish years ago, so where are all of those monitors at? Besides Amazon, Newegg and Bestbuy, I can't seem to find like a monitor clearance store with actually reasonable prices.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I got my card at the perfect time. It was $369.99 on sale before tax when I bought it, not even a week later it's shot up to $419.99. Saved $50 which is almost how much shipping fees and tax were. The XFX Swift model went to $399.99 too, so I'm very happy I got the higher end Mercury model. This thing is a beast at cooling, barely hitting 50c in Oblivion Remastered, but then again I'm only playing at 1080p 60fps so that helps with temps too.

Looking to buy a very, very specific, maybe even niche configuration of monitor. I've found a few that check my boxes but still searching around.

This is what I want: 27 inches, 1080p, 75Hz, sub-5ms repsonse times, FreeSync, good brightness and color.

This is my reasoning: For now my card can handle pretty much any game at 1080p 60fps, most games can hit above that. I plan on holding onto this card for a long time like my last one.

I don't want to keep switching monitor settings per each game I play. Maybe one game can easily hit 1440p 120fps, the next game can only do 1440p 60fps, the next can only do 1080p 60fps. I would hate to play one game at full ultra settings 1440p 120fps but the next one I play I have to downgrade the resolution to hit a good frame rate.

So my thought process is that if I just force myself to 1080p 75hz, I won't ever get disappointed when a game doesn't run well at 1440p or whatever. This way I can reliably know most games I play will hit the full 1080p 75fps instead of having to switching around to find the sweetspot.

Does this make any sense? Would I just be better getting like a 1080p 120hz monitor and capping FPS in more intensive games?

My specifications are extremely specific, so it's hard finding good monitors with all of those features at a decent price. There are a couple options around $100, but others are much higher, which at that point does not make any sense. That's another thing, if I were to get a monitor exactly like that, $100 is pretty much the max I'd want to spend.

What's strange to me is that I know 75hz was a popular choice maybe ~5-ish years ago, so where are all of those monitors at? Besides Amazon, Newegg and Bestbuy, I can't seem to find like a monitor clearance store with actually reasonable prices.

No offense man but that sounds like youre over thinking it. With Freesync it wont matter what framerate your hitting it will just sync with the monitor as long as your minimums are over 40 or 48 or whatever the monitor you picks low end is. Vsync or a cap will make sure it doesnt go over the top.

With the high end now doing crazy numbers, 144hz is at the lower end these days for new gaming monitors. Just get a 1440p monitor and alter the graphic settings as required. I'd bet your card will do 1440 high or more in most stuff comfortably for a few years, especially when you can just enable FSR.

I had a 5700XT until last year, not much faster than your 2060 and getting a decent frame rate wasnt much work in any game.

 

[neogunhero]

No offense man but that sounds like youre over thinking it. With Freesync it wont matter what framerate your hitting it will just sync with the monitor as long as your minimums are over 40 or 48 or whatever the monitor you picks low end is. Vsync or a cap will make sure it doesnt go over the top.

With the high end now doing crazy numbers, 144hz is at the lower end these days for new gaming monitors. Just get a 1440p monitor and alter the graphic settings as required. I'd bet your card will do 1440 high or more in most stuff comfortably for a few years, especially when you can just enable FSR.

I had a 5700XT until last year, not much faster than your 2060 and getting a decent frame rate wasnt much work in any game.

You're totally right, I was letting the extremely minor inconvenience of having to alter my monitor settings get in the way of just picking up a decent monitor lol. I'm still wanting to get something fairly cheap so I'll be waiting until around Black Friday sales to really consider one. It honestly doesn't make sense to force myself to lock into 75hz. In my head it did since all I'm used to right now is 1080p 60 so it technically would be an upgrade but really I need to let my graphics card do its thing and go full 1440p 144hz. I can always dial it back for more intense games, but the ones that can hit that full spec, I'll sure be happy that I have a monitor to support it.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

And in 10 years it will be much nicer to have 1440p 144hz (for example) with whatever GPUs are around at that stage.

I keep a FPS counter on in Steam just out of habit, I doubt I could tell you the difference between 80-90 FPS and 144 which is my monitors max.

I'd forgotten you have a negative opinion of upscaling sorry to bring it up again there, I get it to a point because early on FSR especially wasnt great in some games. Personally I think it works quite well now and I use it a fair bit. In my experience games look better with quality upscaling at Ultra than at, say, medium without any but some of thats going to be subjective in several ways. Either way I think we'll all have to get used to it eventually.

 

[neogunhero]

And in 10 years it will be much nicer to have 1440p 144hz (for example) with whatever GPUs are around at that stage.

I keep a FPS counter on in Steam just out of habit, I doubt I could tell you the difference between 80-90 FPS and 144 which is my monitors max.

I'd forgotten you have a negative opinion of upscaling sorry to bring it up again there, I get it to a point because early on FSR especially wasnt great in some games. Personally I think it works quite well now and I use it a fair bit. In my experience games look better with quality upscaling at Ultra than at, say, medium without any but some of thats going to be subjective in several ways. Either way I think we'll all have to get used to it eventually.

My negative opinion mostly came from the fact that the RTX 2060 couldn't utilize DLSS properly and old school ways of thinking that hardware doesn't need AI upscaling to make them run good. However now I have a new card and am able to use FSR4, I will say that it's vastly superior to what I experienced with the 2060. I don't notice any blurriness, any smudged textures, textures popping in from turning too fast, FSR4 looks just as good as native raster at least in Oblivion Remastered. The only issue I have now is lack of FreeSync which causes terrible screen tearing, forcing me to turn off FSR so I can use Vsync.

I've also heard that at 1440p, medium-high quality upscaling settings still looks great, and at 1080p the lower quality settings are much more notably impacted.