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I have been looking to upgrade from my 1080p monitor for quite sometime, the display is washed out and I want a higher resolution for how close I am to it. However I have just recently, and quite vocally, acquired a GTX 780. It's maxes everything out at 1080p with little to no issue, however I am wondering if I should wait to purchase a GTX 980 Ti or it's successor and go with 4K, upgrade and stay with my 780, or go to 1440p while keeping the 780? Thanks.

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27" 1440p... or 30" 1600p if you want to use it for productivity and can find an old (and cheap dell 3007WFP or similar)

 

4K is just not a pleasant experience right now for anything outside gaming. Not to mention even when scaling works - at 50% you end up back at about a 1440p display anyway.

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A single 780 is much better suited for 1440p. A single 780 will struggle at 4K in modern AAA games.

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A single 780 is much better suited for 1440p. A single 780 will struggle at 4K in modern AAA games.

With filters yes, however at 4K I was under the impression from the videos thus far that with that high a pixel density that I wouldn't need many filters, thus reducing the strain on the GPU and my FPS. 

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With filters yes, however at 4K I was under the impression from the videos thus far that with that high a pixel density that I wouldn't need many filters, thus reducing the strain on the GPU and my FPS. 

Anti-aliasing, yes. What games do you play?

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Should be fine with 1440p gaming at 60fps.

4K is going to cost you a lot more money.

Yeah, but 4K is the future and things like Windows and Google applications can be upgraded as my machine is basically a gaming and internet browsing machine however as January rolls around I will be doing a large relaunch of my gaming channel. 

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4K is still kinda pointless and not very refined. I say go for 1440p.

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Planetside 2, Dragon Age Inquisition, The Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, etc. 

Stick with 1440p

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I am basically asking if at this point in time is it worth upgrading to 4K as there are many amazing monitors and there is a GPU capable of running it and it will be the future. 

well, you can always downscale a 4k monitor to 1080p without all of the scaling nonsense. I guess i would go for it. there aren't going to be 144hz 4k monitors anytime soon, so you don't really have to worry about it going obsolete. 

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1440p for now. It's gonna cost anybody a crap ton of money before they can efficiently run 4k.

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My only issue with this and others advice is that 4K monitors are relatively the same price. I don't want to pay for an inferior product. 

25" 1440p...this monitor is amazing and a STEAL at its price.

 

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1440p for now. It's gonna cost anybody a crap ton of money before they can efficiently run 4k.

 

Not it's not. A 980Ti runs 4K perfectly fine.

 

It's just that 4K isn't good for either gaming or productivity is just a gimmick atm

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well, you can always downscale a 4k monitor to 1080p without all of the scaling nonsense. I guess i would go for it. there aren't going to be 144hz 4k monitors anytime soon, so you don't really have to worry about it going obsolete. 

 

Next year 4K 120hz

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