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Hey guys, I have been unable to decide on a good graphics card for this 1440p monitor (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-pb278q). Or if I should just switch to a 1080p (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-vg248qe). Any us shop will do and I have a $450 budget on the graphics card.

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650 dollars budget on the GPU alone? That would be like an 980 budget..

A 980 is good for 1440p

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GTX 980. Any one you want. Best bet, get one with a pre attached water block, and water cool and overclock it.

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sorry ment to put $450

A GTX 970. Still good for 1440p. Otherwise you might want to look into the AMD R9 290(X).

I'm not a huge high end AMD guy, so I don't know a lot about that one, but I can say the GTX 970 is great

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Since you're going above 1080p, higher VRAM will help and the r9 290/x, gtx 970 seem to be your best bet.

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Just got my GTX 970 and the performance is amazing. FC4 @ultra is so smooth, Skyrim HEAVILY modded is smooth, Shadow of mordor is ultra smooth with max settings. I can defo recommend it for performance.

 

My Far Cry 4 only runs at 45fps on Ultra :'(

 

But it runs at around 60fps with SMAA instead of TXAA and I like so SMAA so I guess it's okay. Still should be able to run it Ultra @ 60fps *huffs*

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My Far Cry 4 only runs at 45fps on Ultra :'(

 

But it runs at around 60fps with SMAA instead of TXAA and I like so SMAA so I guess it's okay. Still should be able to run it Ultra @ 60fps *huffs*

Really? I think I was getting ~60 and I have the same card as you, same RAM but my CPU is a 4770K, maybe that. 

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Really? I think I was getting ~60 and I have the same card as you, same RAM but my CPU is a 4770K, maybe that. 

 

I watched a benchmark on YouTube and he had a 3570k overclocked to 4.4ghz (same as mine) and he got 60 :'(

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Hey guys, I have been unable to decide on a good graphics card for this 1440p monitor (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-pb278q). Or if I should just switch to a 1080p (http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-monitor-vg248qe). Any us shop will do and I have a $450 budget on the graphics card.

GTX 970 with the 1440p monitor is good and if you somehow decided to buy 2 more monitors but 1 card aint pushing it. Get another 970. That's how cheap a 970 is and the performance of two 970 beats the 980 and the price of 2 970s is the price of 1 980 (+$90?).

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GTX 970 with the 1440p monitor is good and if you somehow decided to buy 2 more monitors but 1 card aint pushing it. Get another 970. That's how cheap a 970 is and the performance of two 970 beats the 980 and the price of 2 970s is the price of 1 980 (+$90?).

so I just need one 970 for the 1440p monitor?

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so I just need one 970 for the 1440p monitor?

970 at 1080p is overkill though. At 1440p it'll handle it well. But for 4K, 980 is the choice if you're gaming with it, 2 970s would work for 4K but SLI can be a pain in the ass for some games without any support or issues with it. To answer that, yes a 970 would be enough for 1 1440p monitor

 

A single 970 can handle BF4 at 1440p Ultra averaging around 45-55fps and a 980 can handle it about 3-5fps higher, do the math and see if it's worth it to get a 980 for almost the same performance without a noticeable difference. You can always SLI a 970 for the same price of the 980 but better performance, that's the bonus

 

Note: Not all games will have issues with SLI, so if you want to go 2-way SLI 970 it will be the best bang for your buck and I recommend you do it.

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A 970 is good, but you won't be maxing newer games at that res on 1 970.

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