Which one should I keep?

[BoostedWagon]

I currently have an Aorus 2080 Super that I have been using for a little over a year now. I recently won the Newegg shuffle and bought an ASRock Phantom Gaming RX 6700XT. I had to buy it bundled with a motherboard. I'm going to build my son a pc since I have an extra Ryzen 5 3600 and some other extra stuff laying around. I want to keep the better card for myself though as he is 12 and only really plays Roblox, Minecraft, and many other non demanding games. I mainly use my pc for gaming.

[Eighjan]

1 minute ago, BoostedWagon said:

I currently have an Aorus 2080 Super that I have been using for a little over a year now. I recently won the Newegg shuffle and bought an ASRock Phantom Gaming RX 6700XT. I had to buy it bundled with a motherboard. I'm going to build my son a pc since I have an extra Ryzen 5 3600 and some other extra stuff laying around. I want to keep the better card for myself though as he is 12 and only really plays Roblox, Minecraft, and many other non demanding games. I mainly use my pc for gaming.

So; whatever you use, 'son' gets the other one?

What resolution/refresh rate do you favour for gaming, or - in simpler terms - what monitor do you have?

[BoostedWagon]

5 minutes ago, Eighjan said:

So; whatever you use, 'son' gets the other one?

What resolution/refresh rate do you favour for gaming, or - in simpler terms - what monitor do you have?

Yeah my son will get the one I don't use. I have this monitor

Dell S2716DG

[BoostedWagon]

I play at 2560 x 1440 @ 144 Hz

[Eighjan]

13 minutes ago, BoostedWagon said:

Yeah my son will get the one I don't use. I have this monitor https://www.dell.com/lv/business/p/dell-s2716dg-monitor/pd

Both cards are OP for that Dell 27" monitor (1440p/60, if Dell's site is correct).  It 'seems' to only support G-Sync, so would probably be better suited to the 2080.

If the 1440p/144 monitor is happy w/ Freesync, then there's your 'pairing'.

 

EDIT:

Ugh... "search fail"; that link took me to a Latvian page, for some reason.

Yes, the model no. takes me to a 1440p/144 monitor, but the question will still be "Freesync support".

[BoostedWagon]

1 minute ago, Eighjan said:

Both cards are OP for that Dell 27" monitor (1440p/60, if Dell's site is correct).  It 'seems' to only support G-Sync, so would probably be better suited to the 2080.

If the 1440p/144 monitor is happy w/ Freesync, then there's your 'pairing'.

Yeah I agree... The monitor is kinda old but It works great. I been thinking about upgrading. Maybe I should upgrade and give him this monitor. 

[Eighjan]

Just now, BoostedWagon said:

Yeah I agree... The monitor is kinda old but It works great. I been thinking about upgrading. Maybe I should upgrade and give him this monitor. 

I edited, above...

[BoostedWagon]

Yeah this monitor doesn't have Freesync. It only has G-Sync.

[Eighjan]

1 minute ago, BoostedWagon said:

Yeah this monitor doesn't have Freesync. It only has G-Sync.

Does 'sons' monitor have Freesync...?  May boil down to something as simple as that.