Getting into 4K gaming. Need a little advice!

[Anthaleus]

Hello everyone,

 

first time poster here, love the YouTube videos and you all sound like the right guys for the right input

 

Right, so I'm venturing out of 1080p gaming into the outer rim for 4K gaming. It's my first adventure into it, but with all the new technology available, especially in the monitor department, I could use a little advice on which monitor is going to be the right purchase for 4K gaming, or if a ultra wide would produce the better gaming experience.

 

I purchased a bunch of parts already for my 4K build, and here is what I got so far:

 

cpu: i7 7700k.

gpu: GTX 1080 ti.

ram: 16GB DDR4

PS: 850W (if I need more I can exchange for larger. I may do SLI)

 

Thank you you guys for the help and recommendations in advance

 

-Anthaleus.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What program?

 

You can edit 4k on pretty weak stuff just fine. My old laptop with a 2720qm and 3000m m will edit 4k in premiere just fine with proxys.

 

Id probably get a r7 1700 instead of a 7700k.

 

 

[Princess Luna]

I would get a 1440p ultrawide, they give such an unique experience, myself after I tried ultrawide I can not go back to 16:9

[Damascus]

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#r=344001440&sort=a8&page=1&qq=1

[Anthaleus]

Hello again,

 

thank you to everyone for the quick responses

 

i greatly appreciate the links inks and advice thus far. None of my parts are open yet, so as we go along if I should swap out any parts for better, please feel free to recommend! I know the 1080ti is a little overkill, but hey. At least I 1 year proofed lol.

[TheRedViper]

18 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I would get a 1440p ultrawide, they give such an unique experience, myself after I tried ultrawide I can not go back to 16:9

X34 fanboy

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, Anthaleus said:

I know the 1080ti is a little overkill,

For ultrawide 1440p and 4k it isn't, it is actually the sweetspot card.

 

2 minutes ago, TheRedViper said:

X34 fanboy

More like Asus ROG swift PG348 [:

[TheRedViper]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

For ultrawide 1440p and 4k it isn't, it is actually the sweetspot card.

 

More like Asus ROG swift PG348 [:

why not x34

[Princess Luna]

Just now, TheRedViper said:

why not x34

I suppose nothing much but preference

 

[Sauron]

Personally I think 4k monitors are superior to ultrawides, they simply have more pixels (and hence screen space). Ultrawides tend to be larger though, so if you have doubts about your eyesight they may be the better option.

[Anthaleus]

Thanks again to the feedback

 

so so I have been able to narrow it down, but need a little more advice: 4K at 60hz, or ultra wide with that 100hz? Yes that Predator caught my eye lol, so which would be the smoother gaming experience overall? I play a lot of games like witcher 3, Andromeda, Old Republic, Battlefront, etc.

[Biecher]

I can tell you that much, I got a GTX1080 and a 4K screen without gsync and I'm not happy with it. I would definitely pick a monitor with at least 100Hz and gsync. 

[samiscool51]

8 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

I would get a 1440p ultrawide, they give such an unique experience, myself after I tried ultrawide I can not go back to 16:9

same

it's another world with a 21:9

can't wait till someone makes a 4K version...

then my dreams will come true

i wounder if that unicorn will appear if it does come true....