Looking at 27-28"ers. 1080 or 1440?

[BlitzPuppet]

Been wanting to get a bigger screen for the better part of a year now, but I am now seriously looking at my options.

I play a lot of flight sims so a bigger screen will help me see distant visual contacts (I'm on a 24" at around 2-3' away from the screen). I'm currently on 1080P on a GTX980 and can run anything on max. I'm really curious if it'd be worth hopping to 1440 or if I'd be better off saving my money and staying with 1080 for now.

I definitely would like to stay away from 4k since they are so expensive. While I understand 4K scales down to 1080 perfectly in regards to performance concerns...the cost just seems a tad high for me right now.

So what do you think?

• 1080- It's fine, just go with it
• 1440- Spend a little more, it's worth it
• 4K- Eat the cost and keep the monitor for the next 100 years.

 

[Mercennarius]

Whats your budget?

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Whats your budget?

I'd like to stay below $450.

 

[Mercennarius]

If you hunt around you can find a pretty decent 4K monitor in the $400 range now. They have dropped quite a bit in price this year. At the minimum I would go 1440P.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

Eyeing the Asus PB287Q Still deciding though.
http://smile.amazon.com/PB287Q-Moni...F8&qid=1448396987&sr=8-1&keywords=ASUS+PB287Q

 

[maddogchen]

i would go with 1440. The Asus PB278Q. Yeah, confusing just switching two numbers around. Almost the same price too....

Or the Benq GW2765HT which is cheaper. There is also a sale on Adorama for a Dell U2715H

 

[jdoggg12]

PB278Q Refurb for $329 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236498&Tpk=N82E16824236498

 

[therealnickdanger]

I'd like to stay below $450.

One option is to trade the extra processing power of 1440p in for higher frame rates at 1080p:

27"
1080p
144Hz
G-Sync
Currently $500, but bounces between $450 and $500 pretty regularly.

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-XB270H-Abprz-27-inch-Widescreen/dp/B00NUCRBCU

 

[JimmiG]

1080p is cheaper and requries less GPU power to drive = higher AA/quality settings OR higher framerate OR can get away with a cheaper GPU. E.g. with a GTX 960 and 1440p, you might have to play at Medium with only FXAA, but at 1080p you can play at High with MSAA which will look better despite the lower resolution.

However you don't get any more screen real estate than a smaller 1080p screen. Everything just gets bigger.

I play a lot of flight sims so a bigger screen will help me see distant visual contacts (I'm on a 24" at around 2-3' away from the screen).

If the distant objects are less than a few pixels across, getting a bigger screen at the same res. might not improve visibility. A higher res screen might do more to improve visibility than a physically larger screen, since more pixels would be used to represent the objects.