1440p/144Hz when paired with 1080p 60Hz

[chowbaaron]

I recently built a new PC with a 2070 Super and was hoping to spend some cash and upgrade a monitor as well. I currently use a 24" 1080p 60Hz 2ms HDMI monitor as well as a random Samsung 1080p TV as a secondary monitor. I'd love to replace the latter, and am trying to determine which is the best option. From my research, 1440p 144Hz monitors are much too expensive for me (I'm hoping $200 range), and in terms of choosing one over the other, 1440p is better to boost graphic quality while 144Hz can help make everything seem smoother, as well as theoretical response time in FPS games, for example.

 

My first question is whether 1440p or 144Hz should be the priority if I have to pick one; my second question is regardless of the choice, are there downsides to have two different monitor types next to each other? For instance, have a 1440p main display and a 1080p secondary (or the same but 144Hz paired with 60Hz). My intuition tells me there may be some quality of life issues looking back and forth between monitors at the resolution or frame rate change.

 

Please let me know your thoughts!

EDIT: If anyone has suggestions for affordable monitors in any of these categories, of course feel free to include them

[Juular]

If second display is just uh, secondary, then i don't see how there would be any QoL issues, if you would've used it constantly like you're doing some work on them both (CAD, photo editing) then i see that it might be an issue. As of price, there's VA AOC CQ27G1 display for 250$ (and some other VA displays a bit higher), if it's just for games then it would be good if you're not playing competitive shooters as there might be some ghosting\slow pixels because it's VA, i have 1080p 144Hz VA display and it's good for me but i mostly play slow\mid-paced games.

[Juular]

In general if you can't afford 1440p 144Hz then just get 1080p 144Hz, higher refresh rate would be a huge QoL upgrade and if it's 24" the pixel density would be just about the same as on 1440p 27" panel anyway. You can get VA AOC C24G1 for like 120$ (if you'll find it in stock) or AOC 24G2 IPS for 200$ (yes, AOC is slaying prices hard), but there's some MSI, Acer & LG displays too for comparable price, it's just that they most likely use the very same Samsung display panel so why pay more for other brands.

[Hidden Orange]

1 minute ago, Juular said:

You can get VA AOC C24G1 for like 120$ (if you'll find it in stock)

It's back-ordered on Amazon, but Office Depot has it in stock: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/9511933/AOC-236-LED-Curved-Gaming-Monitor/. Same model as people who picked it up said that the box says C24G1.

And do note that Office Depot's return policy is different. They are running a holiday return policy, though.

[kilrath81]

I currently have a 72hz(down clocked 144hz thanks to the discontinued DVI-D) 1080p, 1440p 144hz, 1080p 60hz Portrait set up. I set the positions in the Multiple Monitor set up so that things scroll straight across. The only issues i have is that the edges where the 1440 or the portrait 1080 arent the same size and mouse gets stuck till you get to the right spot. The other issue you will have is that if you run a hardware accelerated application on the 60hz it will likely either knock your 144 to 60 and/or make it stuttery in game. I did 72hz so that it was less stuttery on half refresh cycles. It still sometimes knocks my 144 to 72 though.