Advice on a gaming monitor

[rickss69]

Looking to upgrade from my seven year old Dell 24' monitor. Got my eye on one of these atm... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236293. Any thoughts on it? I don't care much about 3D, but that 120/144Hz sure sounds good. Currently using two GTX 460's SLI'd and they have the DVI ports which I hear you need to use to take advantage of these screens. I wanna see FC3 in all it's glory. :)

[Witchdoctor]

That's a nice screen .............. :thumbsup:

Going to need more than 2x 460's to push max settings .......... :ohcrap:

I have 2x 580's and on max settings it dips into the low 20's at times

looks dam good doing it though :laughing:

MW3 in 3D is off the chain though

[rickss69]

Thanks buddy...think I will order it this morning. With settings on ultra Fraps says I get as low as 30fps at times with my current set-up. I'll just wait and see before considering card upgrades. What do you think about the idea of running a moderate sized ssd only for the gamer ? Just the OS and and a couple of Steam games on it at any one time. :thumbsup:

[Kal-EL]

I put a 64gig ssd in for my son's gamer, damn games are so huge now-a-days, two games and no space anythin else, had to dig up another 64gig ssd out of a netbook (which I bigfooted the screen one day).

[rickss69]

Screen on order...I'll consider the ssd later. :)

[Witchdoctor]

I use ssd's for everything now, They have spoiled me to the point that my old HD's have been reduced to backup storage,

Trust me, they are worth every penny and are easily the biggest upgrade to any computer reguardless of the specs

I will post some crystalmark results, once you see them you will be out another couple of hundred ............. :laughing:

Hell I do not even have the patience to load modern games on a standard hard drive anymore and loads Win 7 in 10 minutes

Sammy 830's are the bomb, if you can find them, newegg has been sold out forvever

Edit

Here is the 128GB 830 and a 500GB WD Black

the other on is a friends computer I am working on with a OCZ Vertex 4

[rickss69]

WD - Are these the settings you are using for FC3?


http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry3_d3d112013-01-0117-17-31-14.jpg

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry3_d3d112013-01-0117-17-16-71.jpg

[Witchdoctor]

looks like it, but I have AA maxxed out & full screeen

[rickss69]

With those settings I see 35-40fps in game with the 460's...I'll try fullscreen for effect.

[Witchdoctor]

yea I see from 70 to 95 90% of the time but it has dips into the 20's from time to time

have my cards as far as they can go on air,

Once the 780's release and I am done benching them want to do a custom build 780 SLI build using the Boras chiller

[rickss69]

Just changed to fullscreen and fps jumped to 45-65 fps lol...the only time I see below that is when I click out of game. These cards are at default clock. I'm going to throw the Classified and 980X in the Lian Li case for the gamer so I don't have to listen to the fans like I have been on the bench rig.


http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry3_d3d112013-01-0118-33-19-39.jpg

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry3_d3d112013-01-0118-34-10-12.jpg

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry3_d3d112013-01-0118-32-56-73.jpg

[Witchdoctor]

That's awsome .......... :thumbsup:

[rickss69]

Just tried the AA...that kills the game for me. :taunt:

Wonder what the "Borderless" view does?

EDIT: Now I know that "Windowed" and "Borderless" are frame rate killers. "Fullscreen" is good to go. :thumbsup:

[Witchdoctor]

Never tried it in a window or borderless :)

good to know though, did you order that 830 yet .............. :rofl

[rickss69]

Can I stack four 30GB I have on hand instead? :taunt:

[Witchdoctor]

Cool, it really is night and day

[rickss69]

Got another rock! :thumbsup:

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry3_d3d112013-01-0123-38-59-63.jpg

[rickss69]

Just out of curiosity...does this font size/color bother or annoy anyone here? If so I will stop. :)

[Witchdoctor]

fine with me ........... :thumbsup:

[rickss69]

Crazy stuff WD - Just finished the new gamer but havent swapped the cards in yet...running a single 8800GT lol. Just for giggles I went into game and almost beat my best score haha! Not as pretty, but ity is definately playable.

Classified mb
980X
Zotac 8800GT (heehee)
Coolit Vantage cpu cooler



http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/FC3-CoolitVantage.jpg

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry32013-01-0203-11-52-01.jpg

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry32013-01-0203-12-05-11.jpg

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry32013-01-0203-12-57-93.jpg

[GFDuke]

I use ssd's for everything now, They have spoiled me to the point that my old HD's have been reduced to backup storage,

Trust me, they are worth every penny and are easily the biggest upgrade to any computer reguardless of the specs

I will post some crystalmark results, once you see them you will be out another couple of hundred ............. :laughing:

Hell I do not even have the patience to load modern games on a standard hard drive anymore and loads Win 7 in 10 minutes

Sammy 830's are the bomb, if you can find them, newegg has been sold out forvever

Edit

Here is the 128GB 830 and a 500GB WD Black

the other on is a friends computer I am working on with a OCZ Vertex 4

Can you run the AS SSD benchmark on those for me?

[Witchdoctor]

no problem, hit me with a link bro :)

[Witchdoctor]

Found it :thumbsup:

[rickss69]

WoOhOo!!! New monitor scheduled for delivery tm! :clapping:

[GFDuke]

Found it :thumbsup:

Thanks WD.

Have fun Rick!!

[Witchdoctor]

Turn the vsync off and let er rip .................. :thumbsup:

[Kal-EL]

Wea da link? Like try my 8 hdd raid on um

[rickss69]

Got the monitor set up and it is awesome! Colors are much more vibrant vs the Dell, but I have to allow for my old monitor being seven years old I'm sure. Can't wait to try some MP action to see the improvements.

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/144Hz.jpg

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq69/rickss69/PC%20Gaming/farcry3_d3d112013-01-0401-22-13-82.jpg

[Witchdoctor]

got to push the frames to realize the beifits of running over 60Hz

Here ya go soups

http://www.filehippo.com/download_asssdbenchmark/