upsizing to bigger monitor on gaming computer ??

[Duke of Kidderminster]

Hi all,

currently running a 27" monitor on a gaming computer (3.2 i5, 16gb ram, NVidia 1070). All works great.

Would I notice any detrimental effect to upsizing to a 32" monitor? Would the graphics card support the 2580x1080 resolution just as well or would it struggle? Otherwise, would maintaining 1920x1080 on the bigger screen just look poo?

Cheers

[davepoth]

Well, that's about 1/3 extra screen. If you stick at the current resolution you won't gain anything apart from stretching the image, and if you do up the resolution your graphics card will have to work harder to fill the extra screen space with stuff. The internet says it will support that resolution (as far as I can tell) but you will probably see a bit of a frame rate hit.

[130R]

Do you want to go to a bigger monitor or maybe just a better resolution? Personally I'm not sure I'd want something as big as 32". I have a 27" 1440p (2560 x 1440) monitor and it is a big step up over 1080p.

[chow pan toon]

I'd say 27" is big enough, especially for 1080. If you want to go up in size then have a look at the Ultrawides. For me the difference in aspect ratio makes a much bigger improvement to immersion than just a bigger screen.

[MattyB_]

It also depends how far you sit from it, to a certain extent.

I've got a sofa in the spare room, so if playing a controller-based game I sometimes sit about 7ft away to play games, which means my 27" screen isn't *quite* big enough (especially at 1440p) with small text.
However, when I'm sitting 1ft away and typing, I wouldn't want anything bigger or any higher resolution.

FPS is important to me too, I saw a big drop in FPS going from 1080p to 1440p on my 980GTX. So bear that in mind too.

[Duke of Kidderminster]

all good points, thanks. the 27" is fine but I need to buy another monitor for a different computer so am considering using the 27" for the other computer and get a bigger screen for gaming... just because :-)

It's not the jump in resolution I'm really after but wondering if a bigger screen would make it more immersive for Forza Horizon 3 (sat in front of the computer on a desk) I can run Forza on all the highest settings and it runs lovely, so don't want to jeopardise this really, hence wondering if the bigger screen on the same resolution was a good idea or not.

[mp3manager]

If it's immersion you want, then nothing beats VR. I have an Oculus Rift and the level of immersion in Project Cars/Euro Truck is astounding.

[Eddh]

Depends on the games you play, I play RTS and MOBAs and wouldn't want a monitor any bigger than 21-24" as you need to move your eyes further around the screen to see important aspects of the game.

[thecremeegg]

I have a 34" 3440x1440 monitor with a 1070 and it runs games like GTA5 and BF1 maxxed out at 60fps if that helps?

[RobDickinson]

The 1070 should run a 2580x1080 monitor fine.

Step up to 4k and you really need a 1080

[Duke of Kidderminster]

thecremeegg said:

I have a 34" 3440x1440 monitor with a 1070 and it runs games like GTA5 and BF1 maxxed out at 60fps if that helps?

Ah. And there was me having just written off a bigger monitor! Might go for it then as I'm not looking at a screen that big :-)

Thanks

[Thorburn]

2560x1600 monitor and a GTX 1070 here, copes really well with most things I throw at it.

The screen SIZE doesn't matter - its all about the screen resolution. A 5" 1080p phone screen would need just as much GPU performance as a 100" 1080p TV.

Edited by Thorburn on Monday 20th February 09:45