The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[saaya]

ive always spend most of my money on the monitor. 150$ gpu is good enough to enjoy games, 100$ cpu, and everything else under 100$. my monitor is worth 750$, i got a IPS back when i had no idea that was good, i just wanted a 27" 1920x1200 monitor, and they were all about 1000$ then.

wow, 27" 1080p ips sounds veeery nice... thats a great idea... you get a huge screen without a massive pixel count youd need multiple gpus for to drive...

it was like a whole new computer going from 1280x1024 to that, and just last year i was testing a 30" 2560x1600 for a friend who was getting it for xmas, and so i got to check for dead pixels by using it for a few weeks. and i really did not want to give it up. in WoW that 40% extra res really makes a life of difference, and cause the dot pitch is smaller i can pull it closer and have to turn my head to see the edges of the screen.

hahah, but why would you move your head that close?
idk how big the pixels are on your 27", but on my 23" i need to get REALLY close to see them

Fallout3 was stuttering to hell, but ive never felt so immersed. would i pay 1000$ for one, no, but if they came down to 600$ i would have jumped on it quick. but honestly now with multi monitor setups, im just waiting for a no bezel, or practically no bezel screen to appear, and jump on 3 of them for some 3600x1920 goodness, for hopefully under 800$

i share that dream with you... but i think its just a dream... especially the 800$ part ^^

i think if youd get a 30" screen youd regret it after some time... cause youll be doomed to life at the the edge of plabale fps or having to play below native res
and everytime a new killer graphics game comes out you will probably have to upgrade...

but i totally agree, upgrading the display is a much much much better investment and makes a much bigger difference than upgrading the vga, cpu or memory... id say the most useful upgrade right now is an ssd, after that a big display and after that a nice vga...