Dream monitors, 4k or Ultrawide?

[TNewrose]

Guys, I'm struggling - later this year the Acer Predator  x27 and x35p monitors are coming out, and I can afford one of them!!!! ; but which? 

 

I've been doing the maths:

The x27 has 67% more pixels.

They are both the same vertical size, but the x35p is 30% wider.

 

(I don't care about the difference between 200hz and 144, and should I care about tobii eye tracking?) 

 

I'll be upgrading from a 29'' 1080p 60Hz Ultrawide and:

I love the extra horizontal space while playing games like Witcher 3 or GTA 5. And for productivity.. having full-size documents side by side is a dream.

but 70% of the time I have black bars:

While watching youtube, playing Overwatch, Starcraft, or Dark Souls 3, and the constant switch to 16:9 for cutscenes in all games is not great.

 

If you could buy one of these beauties, which would you pick and why?

 

Other info:

(I don't do video editing)

(I do spend 10h+ a day at my computer for work/play)

(Till I get a tv, my monitor is where I watch movies/tv)

(I have a GTX 1080)

[ImNotThere]

x35P

[Bcat00]

Hands down x27

 

thats the limit the industry can push right now so of course the bleeding edge.

[TNewrose]

Batcat00, what helped you make up your mind? Do you have a 4k monitor?

 

1 vote for the x35p, one for the x27.

[MGsubbie]

If money was not an issue, I would choose the X35P.

 

1) Ultrawide means great immersion. Pretty much your entire peripheral vision is used. It's super easy to split-screen Windows itself.

2) Lower pixel count means more room for the GPU to push the framerate instead.

3) The lower pixel density is somewhat mitigated by the fact it's not a massive TV.