Is one 970 enough for 2 k

[Sohlegerste]

My Setup is an Amd FX 6300, one Asus strix 970, 16 gigs of ram and an Asus M5a97 R2.0 Mainboard. I was thinking about getting an Asus Rog 1440 p 144hz monitor is my Rig enough or should I upgrade something?!?

 

[Guest]

Absolutely - though usually you'd stick to FXAA and maybe no max textures. My 970 can use 1440p DSR with nearly any game on near-ultra settings (if it could run that same game and settings at 1080p).

[wyattzx]

I'm running an EVGA SSC 970, with an FX-6300 overclocked to 4.3ghz. I am getting bottlenecked hard in Grand Theft Auto V. By hard, I mean like.. There were several times tonight where, whilst flying my Helicopter, I saw dips as low as 15fps, and it stayed in the 15-30fps range while flying. The FX-6300 is going to hold your 970 back at 1080p, let alone 1440p. I'd recommend a CPU upgrade before a monitor upgrade. 

[SkywardKkalox]

Kinda a waste of money. You won't even see 60fps let alone hit the 144 fps on ultra, cause your CPU will bottleneck the card. Hard.

[XTankSlayerX]

My 770 can do well @1440p @ ultra settings in BF4 Op Locker.

 

a 970 should have no issues

[Sohlegerste]

So wich cpu would you recomend on Amd site because of money issues

[ShadowCaptain]

 

My Setup is an Amd FX 6300, one Asus strix 970, 16 gigs of ram and an Asus M5a97 R2.0 Mainboard. I was thinking about getting an Asus Rog 1440 p 144hz monitor is my Rig enough or should I upgrade something?!?

 

 

 

1440p is not 2k (just saying, its more like 2.5k if you want) 

 

A 970 will do well at 1440p, but you will not be hitting 144fps in most games, barely even 60 in most games at high/ultra

 

If you want to get a ROG Swift, I suggest upgrading GPU

 

 

 

So wich cpu would you recomend on Amd site because of money issues 

 

For gaming, none, I would just look into getting a 1440p 60hz monitor, and an i5 and mobo (if it was me)

[GM_Peka]

Well it depends on what games you're playing really, also, a lot of games don't look bad on medium-high guys, it's low that looks like garbage usually, I have a 970 and a ROG swift and I have no problems running it, although the first thing I put down is MSAA to 2x if I don't reach my 90fps target.

 

I say it depends on the games, cause the games I run 90% the time run at 140fps+ no problem (mainly WoW vanilla, Competitive TF2 and Osu!).

 

In alot of games, you will be held back by your CPU as people have said, although, increasing resolution only really puts more pressure on the GPU, so you might not even get much of a frame drop in CPU heavy games. In TF2 I went from like 30% usage on my 970 at 1080p to 40% usage at 1440p.

 

In addition, if you find yourself playing a lot of old games, due to good modern games being scarce (IMO), 1440p 144hz in a no brainer.

 

Anyway, I'll stop rambling about various stuff in an un-organised fashion and say that it really depends on what your happy doing, we can't tell you if a 970 is good enough for 1440p@144hz cause it depends on what settings you are happy running, what FPS you target, what genres and games you play, the list goes on.  

[GM_Peka]

Oh, and just one tip on gsync, download rivatuner and set a global FPS cap of 140 or less, if your fps gets high enough, input latency will actually get worse, (you'll get about 1-2 extra frames of input latency so about 7-14ms at 144fps), I think the thresh hold of when the latency starts to appear is about 142fps.

 

You might also wanna OC your graphics card if you have the thermal headroom, I got my card running at 1441mhz Max (stock is 1306mhz max) and plus 336Mhz on the memory.

[Hero7750]

A 970 can do 'okay' and 4k so 2k should be perfectly fine.

[Sohlegerste]

Are 144hz even worth all the Money I would have to spend on Gpu and cpu upgrades?

 

P.s Thanks for all the good help

[Thony]

Are 144hz even worth all the Money I would have to spend on Gpu and cpu upgrades?

P.s Thanks for all the good help

Thats subjective. I for example am gonna buy some cheap up to £200 Benq 144hz to see how it is and if im serious about it then i will get g-sync in 2016 or 2017.

[Warren Pnigel]

You don't need a gpu upgrade. The 144hz gives you the option to get a gpu upgrade in the future if you want (perhaps another 970 in a year or two) but you will be getting 60fps in most games at ultra. The great thing about 1440p is that you only need like 2x msaa on. You do however need a cpu upgrade. I'd invest in an i5 4690k or if that's too steep an i5 4460. 

[Warren Pnigel]

lmao my bad I just realized your motherboard isn't an LGA1150 Socket, so I can't help you with what cpu to get  

[IateMApoo]

I'm running an EVGA SSC 970, with an FX-6300 overclocked to 4.3ghz. I am getting bottlenecked hard in Grand Theft Auto V. By hard, I mean like.. There were several times tonight where, whilst flying my Helicopter, I saw dips as low as 15fps, and it stayed in the 15-30fps range while flying. The FX-6300 is going to hold your 970 back at 1080p, let alone 1440p. I'd recommend a CPU upgrade before a monitor upgrade. 

Strange i dont have that with my 6300 and 960, whilst flying in night or day i actually get much better fps than i am on ground.

[Badger906]

2k is 1080p as it has 1920 horizontal pixels same was as 4k has 3860

[TrickedProGaming]

Yeah it works perfectly as long you stick to FXAA/SMAA. I'm playing GTA V with it on Very High-Ultra settings at 1440p with my overclocked and it runs pretty good however the framerate dips to 35-45 when I'm on grassy areas.  I recommend upgrading your CPU btw.

[Sotti]

Once for all guys:

 

2K reference resolution is 2048 × 1536 pixels, may also refer to resolutions like 2048 × 1556 (full-aperture), 2048×1152 (HDTV, 16:9 aspect ratio) or 2048 × 872 pixels (Cinemascope, 2.35:1 aspect ratio).

 

Please stop bullshiting.

 

Answering the question:

 

You can play games pretty decently with a 970 at 1440p, but event a 970 SLI is not enough to max out all games. With two 970 well overclocked you'll be near tho.