Howdy… so please forgive the long winded question…
TLDR: Trying to decide on buying a monitor now, or snagging a new GPU first…
What I have now: 3080ti, Dell/AW 34" IPS from about 4 years ago (CPU is a 9800x3D)
What I really want: A “5k” 34" ultrawide (but this doesn’t seem to exist).
What I do: WoW, Eve, NMS, and also office work on some days when I’m WFH (monitor will be shared between my PC and office MacBook)
All that said… so I’ve been looking at the RTX 5080, and as underwhelming as that is, it still seems to be the “best” option for me, as a 5090 would be overkill, nevermind the heat and power issues. But the monitor I have is capped at 100hz, so getting just the GPU would be silly, as I’m not gonna gain much with that cap.
So I’m looking at monitors as well, and waffling between the OLED 32" 4k screens, or the OLED 34 Ultrawides, but, those don’t really improve over my current resolution. There also doesn’t seem to be a 38" ultrawide that would gain me much either.
I’d consider IPS, but there doesn’t seem to be a good gaming IPS in the 32-24" range right now… (Acer announced this, but it’s Q3 at earliest, and who knows what the cost would be)
I’m also somewhat concerned about getting the 4k screen first, and having my 3080ti push that plus my second monitor, and I can’t find reliable info on if that would be pushing too far.
I’d consider the 9070 xt, when and if that’s ever released (and may not find a 5080 before that anyway), but I’m rapidly loosing any confidence in AMD not screwing up that launch even more.
Do I sound confused yet?
Thoughts?