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21:9 vs 16:9

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Hi guys, i hope you can help me out on this one.

 

I need to decide wich will be better for me, a 27" but really quick and with like 144Mhz refresh rate or a 21:9 29" monitor, 75Mhz refresh rate and 5ms quick

 

Can you guys help me out? I'm going to play mostly dirt rally, project cars, assetto corsa, gta V, cs:go, and flight sim.

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Hi guys, i hope you can help me out on this one.

 

I need to decide wich will be better for me, a 27" but really quick and with like 144Mhz refresh rate or a 21:9 29" monitor, 75Mhz refresh rate and 5ms quick

 

Can you guys help me out? I'm going to play mostly dirt rally, project cars, assetto corsa, gta V, cs:go, and flight sim.

Seeing as you're mostly playing simulators and racers, I'd go for the Ultrawide. Immersion factor for those sorts of games is 100% worth it IMO. Getting one myself soon. Specifically, the exact one in your first pic.

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No, not MHz for refresh rates. Just normal hertz. Not millions of them.

 

Since I haven't been exposed to the glory of 144hz I'd go for the ultrawide.

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Not all games support 21:9, Not all games have the option to select it, Sometimes you have to edit config files to manually add that 21:9 resolution.

Some games just flatout wont run at a native 21:9 res and will stretch 1080p/16:9 resolutions across the ultrawide, making it look stretched n shit.

 

 

Things to consider if you wanna go that route.

Investigate the games you wanna play before you buy one, by going here to the widescreen gaming forum - http://www.wsgf.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=95

Also another resource of information - https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/

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I own an ultrawide and just wow is how to describe it.

For games it's just vision filling and putting 2 Web browsers side by side works so well.

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Not all games support 21:9, Not all games have the option to select it, Sometimes you have to edit config files to manually add that 21:9 resolution.

Some games just flatout wont run at a native 21:9 res and will stretch 1080p/16:9 resolutions across the ultrawide, making it look stretched n shit.

 

 

Things to consider if you wanna go that route.

Investigate the games you wanna play before you buy one.

With my triple 1080p surround I have to deal with that with 48:9 and for the majority of titles it's pretty much okay. Also I think that playing at 16:9 wouldn't be too distracting for me on an ultrawide...just with the borders.

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With my triple 1080p surround I have to deal with that with 48:9 and for the majority of titles it's pretty much okay. Also I think that playing at 16:9 wouldn't be too distracting for me on an ultrawide...just with the borders.

16:9 looks fine and is kinda annoying because you have screen you cannot use but is fine

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With my triple 1080p surround I have to deal with that with 48:9 and for the majority of titles it's pretty much okay. Also I think that playing at 16:9 wouldn't be too distracting for me on an ultrawide...just with the borders.

I just wanted to make the OP aware that 21:9 not as 'set and forget' as it may seem...

On some game titles I mean, not all, and investigating for more info may indeed be good to do before buying a game.

I'm curiously happy to wanna try Ultrawide as well, but have not yet, the itch is real tho.

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Thank you guys! I think all of the games i'm playing support 21:9 but i will still check that out though, by the way, i'm still planning the parts i will be using for my build, can you give me an opinion on that too? 

 

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No, not MHz for refresh rates. Just normal hertz. Not millions of them.

 

Since I haven't been exposed to the glory of 144hz I'd go for the ultrawide.

 

Oh my mistake, sorry

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