New Year's Resolution

Denny_Crane · 31-12-2016 4:10pm #1

3440 x 1440 for me same as last year.

Digital Solitude · 31-12-2016 4:16pm

Got a good chuckle, still sitting at 1080p.

Really gone off my graphical whoring lately, I play most games at medium settings now, looks fine and the 290 doesn't get under too much pressure so it's not loud and I get a solid 60fps, more important than running 1440p or 144hz to me anyways.

K.O.Kiki · 31-12-2016 5:03pm

If there is a successor to the Fury X (same form factor) I will be very interested...

tadcan · 31-12-2016 5:36pm

Same here, had enough of washed out colours/greys and pixelated text, on my 4 year old 27inch monitor, since I do lots of reading and some writing during the year. In hindsight, I probably should have saved money and bought a 24inch. Maybe something like this. Slowly getting tempted by an M.2 drive, which I don't really need, but the dark side is calling....

Denny_Crane · 31-12-2016 5:37pm

I have to say after playing with a Rift and then selling it, curved UW have a real gaming niche, I'm not really into the massive frame rates 60FPS seems to do me just fine. My rig has had many homes but recently got put in a 400Q and put back in the wardrobe. Silent gaming FTW! :pac:

TerrorFirmer · 31-12-2016 5:47pm

I bought a 4K Predator to replace my 1440p one, but I'm not sure if I'll stick with it as it's a 60hz panel (hasn't arrived yet). Other than that, think it'll be a quiet enough year hardware wise for me.

Supergurrier · 31-12-2016 6:01pm

Finally replace my 10 year old ailing laptop

tadcan · 31-12-2016 6:18pm

TerrorFirmer, what are you doing with the 1440p predator, eehhh, asking for a friend.

Serephucus · 31-12-2016 7:08pm

1080p here. I keep thinking I'll upgrade, but I just can't be arsed knowing I've been using the same monitor for almost four years and it's fine, and we'll probably have OLED readily available in another four.

.G. · 31-12-2016 8:50pm

4k, 43" about a half a meter from my face and feeling fine, looks great and plays great. Don't let anyone tell you we can't game at 4k, you don't need ultra settings for a game to look great. It's especially superb for the driving sims I frequent.

wotzgoingon · 31-12-2016 8:50pm

4K would be nice even though they are only 60Hz but I don't think it will matter. My first 144Hz monitor was at 1440P and I wasn't too impressed with 144Hz. I do not really notice the difference. Saying that with 4K I would go for a larger screen size but I'm sure if there is many 4K screens that have freesync and are larger than 32 inches.

EoinHef · 31-12-2016 11:58pm

Be a cpu and case upgrade for sure this year,then maybe a new PSU with a braided cable set.

Qnix still going strong at 100Hz (1440p) so that will tide me over monitor wise.

My old 3570k has served me well but its time i upgrade at this point i think. Already have a 1080 so that will be me sorted for a few years upgrade wise.

kevovek · 02-01-2017 11:20am

Sticking at 1440P for now sort of tempted by 4K, I plan to upgrade after Ryzen is released and finally replace my FX6300. Also thinking of going back to crossfire by adding a 390x to my 290x 8GB should do me for another year at most resolutions.

Denny_Crane · 02-01-2017 11:46am

I wont move to 4K (again) until there is a UW resolution and 34" UW.

K.O.Kiki · 02-01-2017 12:35pm

Denny_Crane wrote: »

I wont move to 4K (again) until there is a UW resolution and 34" UW.

But... If it's 4k, by definition it can't be UW.

Denny_Crane · 02-01-2017 1:08pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

But... If it's 4k, by definition it can't be UW.

Meh you know what I mean, also it could be 4K it's just need to be an odd resolution with fewer vertical lines.

But for the sake of clarify, I won't be making the jump to 2160p until etc. etc.

Lu Tze · 02-01-2017 2:16pm

Denny_Crane wrote: »

Meh you know what I mean, also it could be 4K it's just need to be an odd resolution with fewer vertical lines.

But for the sake of clarify, I won't be making the jump to 2160p until etc. etc.

Well its almost there already, horislzontal resolution of 4k, lower vertical resolution to make it ultrawide

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-3840x1600-FREESYNC-WideScreen-Super-Wide/dp/B01LW54S4U

wotzgoingon · 02-01-2017 2:19pm

Lu Tze wrote: »

Well its almost there already, horislzontal resolution of 4k, lower vertical resolution to make it ultrawide

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-3840x1600-FREESYNC-WideScreen-Super-Wide/dp/B01LW54S4U

Look at the price though!

Denny_Crane · 02-01-2017 2:20pm

More looking for the 2160p with the higher horizonal - in many many years!

Icyseanfitz · 02-01-2017 6:15pm

have a 28 inch 4k right now but id really like to get a 34 inch UW 1440p, crazy money though

Denny_Crane · 02-01-2017 6:31pm

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

have a 28 inch 4k right now but id really like to get a 34 inch UW 1440p, crazy money though

Much like the catleap and QNIX there are bargins to be had.

wotzgoingon · 02-01-2017 6:36pm

Denny_Crane wrote: »

Much like the catleap and QNIX there are bargins to be had.

Didn't Linus but up a video recently of a cheap Korean ultra wide. Afair it was a Samsung curved display that they used for it.

Edit: Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvdvjralvs

Icyseanfitz · 02-01-2017 7:49pm

question is where can that be bought in ireland/uk/eu and will you get caught with tax in which case youd nearly be as well off to just buy a known brand (but even those brands have serious qc issues):D

Digital Solitude · 02-01-2017 8:40pm

kevovek wrote: »

Sticking at 1440P for now sort of tempted by 4K, I plan to upgrade after Ryzen is released and finally replace my FX6300. Also thinking of going back to crossfire by adding a 390x to my 290x 8GB should do me for another year at most resolutions.

Don't do that... Single card upgrade is always better than Crossfire and almost always better than SLI

Denny_Crane · 03-01-2017 3:38pm

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

question is where can that be bought in ireland/uk/eu and will you get caught with tax in which case youd nearly be as well off to just buy a known brand (but even those brands have serious qc issues):D

I think I paid about €40 on my Catleap.

Zillah · 03-01-2017 3:43pm

Moved up to 144hz/fps in 2016; could never go back.

4k@60fps < 1080p144 for me. Even 144 isn't as buttery smooth as I would like for fast paced games like Overwatch, but not sure I could justify another purchase at the extreme end of performance monitors.

Icyseanfitz · 03-01-2017 4:07pm

Denny_Crane wrote: »

I think I paid about €40 on my Catleap.

thats not bad at all, what % do they levy on the item?

Denny_Crane · 03-01-2017 4:13pm

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

thats not bad at all, what % do they levy on the item?

Aye that's the problem to be fair. Could be (almost) anything which is the risk with going first!

Digital Solitude · 03-01-2017 6:14pm

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

thats not bad at all, what % do they levy on the item?

Supposed to be 23% on the items value plus shipping, if you ask the seller to mark the value down they might, but you get screwed for insurance if it's damaged in transit

EoinHef · 03-01-2017 7:21pm

My Qnix was marked down as €200 and i got charged €60,i didnt push customs on it as the only reciepts i could produce showed i paid €300 for it

Blazer · 05-01-2017 2:33pm

had gone 1440p g-sync but sold it as a car I wanted came up..now back to 1080p but gtx1080 and 1440p again soon

ShadowHearth · 05-01-2017 3:47pm

I jumped last year to 3440x1440 so monitor wise I am sorted until 4k ultrawide. I need only 60fps, 144hz is meh for me. ultrawide, IPS, 60hz >144hz.

PC wise I am not sure, but I think I will do something about it for sure after I see what AMD pulls out ( hopefully not a floppy willy again ). It would be funny if my next upgrade would be AMD CPU + GPU. :pac:

I have a good base:

Corsair 750w
Corsair 500r case
256gb + 520gb ssd

So I am not sure what I will do now after seeing kabylake being such a disappointment.

Might just build New PC from ground up for general gaming and PC, then keep my old 2500k+1060 for racing sims. Or gut my my trusty current pc update cpu,gpu,ram and move on. Would be a shame to waste 2500k barebones though.

Gehad_JoyRider · 06-01-2017 11:18am

So this
Item|Price
AMD Black Edition AMD FX 8350 / 4 GHz processor|€173.40
ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX - 2.0 - motherboard - ATX - Socket AM3+ - AMD 990FX|€145.35
Sapphire VAPOR-X HD 7950 OC with Boost graphics card - Radeon HD 7950 - 3 GB|€280.00
Seagate Barracuda 7200 1000GB, SATA 6Gb/s|€60.89
Samsung SH-118AB schwarz|€12.79
Super Flower SF-550P14HE Amazon 80plus|€45.39
BitFenix Merc Alpha - mid tower - ATX|€31.68

Shipping|€18.99
Total|€735.20

It's nearly 4 years old : eek: It's been a trooper can't complain it's played over 2000hours of gaming. It's edited video footage, I've edited over 500,000 raw images
I've broken 2 hard drives only changes since then are hard drives and ssd's water cooling fro the cpu corsair h60 more fans and that's about it.

I;m looking forward to ryzen and vega.

Tho first I must get married then I'm allocating a small country's deficit on my next machine

which will be AMD and as much water cooling as posible.
Would also like to mover to 1440p or 4 k we will have to see

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