Buy a GTX 1070 or 970?

[Helgaiden]

Well I have a second PC I use for gaming in the livingroom occasionally with a 770 in it. I suppose the smarter move would to just sell the 770 (eventually) and put the 970 in that computer and use whatever I made off the 770 to upgrade to the new card, and then be happy and stick with that for a few years. Hmm. Decisions decisions.

 

[pcixopat]

I want to ask some question.Will my core i5 2400 3.8 ghz severely limits gtx 1070 in 2560x1440?I will play on 60 hz monitor.

 

[EarthDog]

Nope. it won't limit it at all.

 

[magellan]

Nope. it won't limit it at all.

Wouldn't there be some titles that would be affected? I had thought Ashes of the Singularity showed performance increases w/increasing number of cores over and beyond quad core parts?

 

[EarthDog]

There exceptions of course. The Division likely being another.

But in the vast majority of titles, it would not make a difference. Perhaps my statement was too closed.

 

[Sannakji]

THIS ^^^Same here, I can see the pixels when I game and can't tell 1080p from 1440p monitor. Just get a good monitor.

27" Dot pitch 1440p 0.2331mm 1080p 0.3114mm

This so much. At 27", 1080p is perfect. Had one of those Korean 1440p monitors, couldn't detect a difference. Going for 4K at 27" just boggles my mind... 40" I can understand, but not at typical monitor sizes.

 

[EarthDog]

Im shocked you cannot tell the difference... I can clearly tell the difference between a 1080 and 1440p monitor at 27".

 

[Sannakji]

Im shocked you cannot tell the difference... I can clearly tell the difference between a 1080 and 1440p monitor at 27".

It was certainly a glossier screen, and my icons were smaller but in actual games, they looked the same.