Hi all. I bought a gaming build pc for my son but not monitor. Which gaming monitor do you advise?
Spec of the pc:
Intel Core i9 14900KS / 1700 Tray
Gigabyte GP-AORUS WATERFORCE X II 360 Liquid Cooler
Gigabyte Z790 AORUS TACHYON
Corsair DDR 5 96G (48x2) 6400 CL32 Vengeance
PRO BASE DARK quiet be 901!
Corsair PSU 1500W HX1500i Ultra Low Noise Modular Platinum
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 (DLSS 3) GV-N4090AORUS M-24GD
Samsung SSD 2.0TB 990 PRO NVMe M.2
Samsung SSD 500GB 980 NVMe M.2
What games?
Budget?
Preferred size?
Multi monitor ?
Id go for some 1440p160+ hz monitor, OLED preferrably.
4090 for 4k is not optimal, especially if you want high FPS
Hi. First of all, thank you for reply.
First what do you think about pc?
Second I want 4k monitor. What I saw that my
graphic card can work 4k @ 144 hz and not more
The biggest OLED with all the Hz
Can you adopt me?
Get an LG C3 42" for $900. Cheaper than all the top end monitors and gives you a way bigger and nicer screen and still is 120hz oled for gaming.
Man, if a 4090 isn’t optimal for 4k. . . what is???
I will state an UNPOPULAR opinion here(and maybe going from the wrong side of the problem). But this is basically my experience.
Take your kid for a check up at an eye doctor (a good one). Only after that consider gaming monitors. The reason here is the backlight. One would think that higher Hz means that it’s easier on the eyes. But my example is a 2012 BenQ 60Hz monitor, which to this day I struggle to switch just because I have eye problems (and even without that I spot a difference in things like the quality of the white background).
For the size. Well. This is also debatable. Yes, people can go even 50", or even a projector (why not). But it is debatable in terms of comfort (also the question of distance to the monitor). Maybe a 27" would be more than enough.
And from that point my best suggestion would be (if you have the possibility) to take your kid to the store, sit infront of the monitor for at least 5-10 minutes (try reading text, watching videos), and only then choose. Why? Because the really “good” problems like to kick in with time (some eye pressure, eye strain and so on). I personally fail this test for 9 out of 10 monitors.
For the vendor. Well… if I understand how things are done today, a monitor is somewhere of a prebuild. You have a panel (Samsung, LG… I think that’s all of them), and you have the controller+box. Yes, they may differ in tuning, but beside that I have a feeling this is all the difference.
Also, the last thing would be to cheap out. I had my left eye severely damaged by a laser pointer (good old days of public schools… and kids never being aggressive). For the result… well, when I got to a point where I got my first job and had my own money, that damage was irreversible, and my other eye started to degrade because it was working for two. So now I’m wearing glasses.
Maybe the Blackwell version of it will (5090?). Right now, IIRC most of the AAA games can only go around 90 hz on ultra settings while on 4k.
Its the 1440p that looks good and plays good.
Eyes dont work like kidneys.
Yep, but if your sight becomes something like -1(left) 1(right), then give it time and that good 1 will continue to degrade.
One alternative for bifocals is to have one contact lens for near vision and one for far vision. After a week or two your brain figures it out and you can see normally.
I’m not saying your eyes didn’t get worse, but the difference between the two may not have necessarily been the cause.
Eye strain from monitors is quite real. I like to use a 65" screen about 6 ft away, it’s a comfortable focal distance for me.
Thanks for all replies. He is wearing “monitor glasses “ and he has C1 for his Xbox. I was thinking something 27-32 inches. My confusion is fps… It depends on game or graphics card? Some games are 100 fps and some @ 4k.
Nothing, we’re not there yet, it might be a while before we can game at 4K at framerates that match a monitor’s high refresh rates. It’s all good, we hit the point where resolution isn’t what holds back image quality anymore when 1080P became a mainstream resolution.
My eyes are in that small area, where contact lenses can’t do the right correction. I tried wearing a few, but the last one’s a did at a really good and experiences eye doctor, who told me about that sweet spot. Also eye lenses… I had ONE (where One is more than enough) experience where one of the contacts fell out… but I thought it didn’t (and for the next day… and a visit to a doctor… tried to find it in my eye).
Yep. And I imagine that after sitting at such a monitor a few hours, it clearly doesn’t go into benefit for the health.
Well. Both. There are games that lack optimization. For such (good old Crysis and Stalker jokes) there is no defined (beside a dedicated server room maybe) hardware, that would run them good.
But for the majority. Well. 4K 100fps+ for modern AAA titles… well, it’s a coinflip. Should work, but no promises. And there’s no promise that tomorrow’s game will not run at 60fps at 4K on a 4090. But eeeem 2K(1440p), that should be fine for running 100fps+ with 4K.
Things like 200FPS+ monitors I would believe are more for Counter-Strike and other popular but not that demanding games.
I would see a 27" 144Hz+ 1440p monitor to be a sweet spot.
A separate note for this. People think that you buy “monitor glasses” and that’s it - zero percent harm. No, I really doubt it. Keep in mind that eye is somewhere a muscle - if you don’t exercise it(all those excercises where you need to look close for a few minutes, then far… I can tell you they are not a joke), it will degrade.
By this I mean that eyes should be checked (with the modern age of people switching from a monitor just to look at the smart phone) constantly.
If you dont use Ultra settings then many AAA games run 100+ fps.
For that setup I would go for a 4k @ 120-144 Hz. Either a dual monitor setup or an ultrawide.
While the 4090 is not quite enough for that screen, you now will have something to grow into as your kid upgrade their PC, and the screen(s) should be good for at least 15 years.
Having the ability to run one game fullscreen and a walkthrough, friends list or similar on the other is just mind blowing