New monitor

Hello guys, recently bought new (not realy new, sacind hand) pc and im torn to change my monitor.
Specs :
Gpu: gtx 1080 ti (11gb)
Cpu : ryzen 7 3700x
Ram : 32gb@3000(4x8)
Psu: rn not realy sure if its 650w or 700 and im not even sure if that plays somehow big role, will edit once i get to it.
Curent monitor : asus 24" 1080p 60hz refresh rate

As u can see, my monitor is pretty much bottleneck-ing my gpu and cpu i would like to change that, but im not realy sure what to get. 1440p@144hz(or maybe 120)? 1080p@144-160hz? 4k@>100hz? What will be better? I mostly play wow and time to time some lol and stuff, no fps, but lets keep it as “overal” best choice if possible ( do some details if u like) i realy cant decide what will be the best, a lot of people is saying that 144 over 60 is a huuuuge jump.
Also, i dont know what my gpu/cpu can handle so dont realy want to buy something that wont even work because of low gpu.

Thanks in advance my technical gurus.

in short: 27" 2560x1440 or 34" 3440x1440, 120-165hz, IPS or VA

my experience has been that if you’re using a mouse, high refresh makes an incredible difference regardless of what you’re doing. if you’re using a controller or touchpad, it doesn’t matter so much.

it’s less about what you see, and more about how it feels. high refresh feels so responsive and smooth, whereas 60hz feels sluggish. this is true regardless of game. but the difference is much bigger with a mouse, because it’s such a fast way of interacting with stuff.

the biggest difference from refresh comes from the 60 to 100hz jump. the higher the better, but most would say diminishing returns starts hitting around 144-165. 240hz and 360hz are pretty niche products atm.

computer’s power supply has no relevance to your monitor.

4k is great on tvs, but it doesn’t make a very big difference at the monitor size. 1440p does look a lot better than 1080p though. 4k brings a lot of problems at the desktop. the performance requirement is extremely high, particularly for high refresh. you’re also basically forced to use windows scaling to comfortably use it unless you have eagle vision, which can be annoying and buggy sometimes. 1440p is a great middle ground atm.

panel type is important. the main relevant ones are IPS, VA and TN. TN isn’t great outside of a few niche cases, so let’s forget about that one.

IPS and VA panels both have great colours. IPS panels are more focused on accuracy, whereas VA panels can be a bit oversaturated to make the colours “pop” a bit more.

IPS panels have better viewing angles, with basically no colour shift at all while VA panels have some when not viewing from the front. VA panels have better contrast, so blacks are a lot darker. this makes a big difference if you play in the dark. IPS panels generally have lower response times, VA panels vary a lot in this regard from model to model.

viewing angles and contrast are true basically all the time between the two. colours vary from monitor to monitor, as does the response times, but they’re overall patterns.

my general recommendation out of the 2 for someone who strictly consumes content without creating is VA. the sometimes oversaturated colours can be very pretty and the higher contrast makes for a better experience in the dark. the higher response times are not that big of an issue, particularly if you get one of the faster ones. the viewing angles are not nearly as problematic as TN, and you generally sit pretty straight on from your monitor.

Thanks for advanced reply. So in realy short, i should go for 1440p, 27" with 100-144 refresh, IPS or VA.

Any chance u could tell me, from your personal experience, if u have any in those, if Gsync is this much better than fixed 144(or any other) as people claim it to be?

my monitor supports freesync, so i’ve used that. gsync doesn’t work for me, so i’ve not used it with my nvidia card the past few years.

the higher the framerate, the less it matters. variable refresh helps in 2 big ways; “smoothness” and tearing.

if you use it when you’re playing at 60 or 40 fps or something, it’ll make it feel kind of like you’re playing at a higher framerate than you are. it’s not the same as actually having a higher framerate, but it definitely helps make lower framerate gaming more enjoyable.

it also fixes tearing. tearing becomes more noticeable the lower your framerate is because each frame will be displayed for longer.

the higher you go, the less useful these advantages become. it is “always” (i’m sure there are some niche cases where it is not) better to have it on than not though. it’s a feature you want to have if you can, and you should be able to. it’s very widespread nowadays.

Thank you for replies man, appreciate it.

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