upgrade vid card or monitor first

[online_olympian]

I am currently playing all games at 1080p with fantastic results on my current build. I am wondering if I should upgrade my monitor before I upgrade my video card? I will be waiting to see what the 1070 does so I have a little bit of time. 

[NoobCase]

Depends on your current graphics Card and the desired  resolution you would like to game on. 

[online_olympian]

you can see it in my sig. its an evga sc 780ti running at 1200

[NoobCase]

Aha..  Look at sig..  current is 780 ti.  Should be good enough to push 2560x1440. If that's is your desired resolution go for a Monitor if that res first. 

[NoobCase]

2 minutes ago, online_olympian said:

you can see it in my sig. its an evga sc 780ti running at 1200

Yups...  go research Gaming benchmarks for your Card at 2560 x 1440 or 4k. 1070 might not be enough for 4k

[Simon771]

55 minutes ago, NoobCase said:

Yups...  go research Gaming benchmarks for your Card at 2560 x 1440 or 4k. 1070 might not be enough for 4k

First you upgrade GPU, then monitor if you ask me.

 

So if you upgrade to 4K now, you will have a lot of lagg untill you buy new GPU.

But if you buy new GPU now, you will have great performance at 1080p, and when you get 4K, you won't have lagg there because you already have GTX 1080.

 

I did buy 1440p monitor when I still had R9 270X ... had to buy R9 390 soon, because FPS drops and spikes were killing me  

 

[online_olympian]

6 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

First you upgrade GPU, then monitor if you ask me.

 

So if you upgrade to 4K now, you will have a lot of lagg untill you buy new GPU.

But if you buy new GPU now, you will have great performance at 1080p, and when you get 4K, you won't have lagg there because you already have GTX 1080.

 

I did buy 1440p monitor when I still had R9 270X ... had to buy R9 390 soon, because FPS drops and spikes were killing me  

 

my 780ti oc'd is on par with that 390

[Simon771]

25 minutes ago, online_olympian said:

my 780ti oc'd is on par with that 390

Well I just posted my benchmark of R9 390 nitro on 1440p ultra setting in valley. average is 40fps.So if you concider that cool, go for it.

But I would advice not to play on ultra, and turn down settings a bit so you can get decet 60 fps