Higher Resolution or Higher Refresh Rate For ARR?

[MizoreShirayuki]

Sup Oleas!

Thinking bout going with the ASUS PB278Q & a GTX 790 when it comes out... Or two 780s. How have you been?

[Issachar]

I'd say get a good, high-res screen and lock the framerate to 60. If you have a GPU that can keep up, then 120hz would make little sense.

[Xeroeth]

I'm not thinking about any upgrade for another year or so, but if I was, I would still wait for new Maxwell from Nvidia and Haswell from Intel.

Just think about it, performance gains in both GPU and CPU market were minimal in the last 2-3 years. All they achieved is taking manufucture process to as small as possible (that's 22nm as of today), this will be 14nm for Haswell if everything go as they plan.

So, we have better energy consumption, which give us better cooling and OC capabilities, but nothing more aside that.
I just hope that performance gains will be as high as they say. Would it be 10x faster for Maxwell comparing to todays Kepler ? I don't think so, but it could get pretty close to that.

And going back to topic, IMHO 120Hz is the best choice for any gamer, BUT you need a beast to generate enough frames for this 120Hz to make any sense. And the most important thing to remember, if you buy that kind of hardware, your PC will age at much faster pace than if you had normal 60hz monitor.
Why ? Becose today you may have good rig, but in 1 year that rig will toast to generate enough framerates for that 120Hz. Well, it still will be ok for normal 60Hz.

PS. Sorry for not taking AMD/ATI (which is also AMD ? ...) into comparison, but most of the times I always had Intel/NVidia rigs, so I'm basing on those.

[Valmonte]

120hertz Monitors are overkill, most if not all of your source material like games and movies are still 24/6o hertz. not to mention TN panels are, well....still TN panels.

My advice get a nice IPS panel or 2, they'll give you that extra smoothness and make everthing look beautiful to boot.

[SirOleas]

Sup Oleas!

Thinking bout going with the ASUS PB278Q & a GTX 790 when it comes out... Or two 780s. How have you been?

Been good! Just waiting on ARR while I work on home projects =P
I like that ASUS monitor...IPS is a pretty nice new tech for monitors though I haven't read much about it.
If you are waiting for next gen graphics cards then you don't really need to worry much about ARR's performance as they will obviously be powerful enough and driver updates -should- increase their performance with ARR over time making them even more beastly.

[Riv]

I don't like the way 120 Hz looks.

[Dhalmel]

I don't like the way 120 Hz looks.

Only CRT monitors can do it well in my opinion.

[ispano]

Been good! Just waiting on ARR while I work on home projects =P
I like that ASUS monitor...IPS is a pretty nice new tech for monitors though I haven't read much about it.
If you are waiting for next gen graphics cards then you don't really need to worry much about ARR's performance as they will obviously be powerful enough and driver updates -should- increase their performance with ARR over time making them even more beastly.

You mean PLS right? IPS has been around a while. A good IPS panel of that size would likely cost more.

[Valmonte]

You mean PLS right? IPS has been around a while. A good IPS panel of that size would likely cost more.

They are expensive but there well worth the extra cost.

[ispano]

They are expensive but there well worth the extra cost.

Oh no argument there, currently using a Dell U3011