4K or 21:9 1440p?
Manufacturer: AU Optronics
John Smith
Christian Gomez
>Not 3840 x 2160
>No major drawback
Good joke
Also
>2000 €
Landon Lopez
There is a 27 inch 144hz 4K IPS with similar specs otherwise.
If you have PPI issues with a 1440p monitor then you are sitting too close.
Not to mention even an ultrawide 1440p is like 30% easier to run than 4K.
Brandon Phillips
I know, its not on the market and costs 2500 €. I didn't win in a lottery unfortunately. Also, even if I were rich, who could drive 4K144 unless he got a prototype 3nm GPU from NVIDIA in SLI?
I bought a 4K60 screen with Gsync in 2015, it was horrible in the beginning, but definitely worth. I'll use it at least until 2020, upgrade the GPU, then think of a new screen. I pay max 1000 € for something that lasts 10 years. My 1080 Ti barely handles 60 FPS.
Zachary Perez
These monitors are serious future-proofs, it is smarter to wait for similar monitors at a time when GPU's can run them effectively off a single card.
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Regardless, these monitors are like 6 months away still.
Blake Bell
Yes and not affordable, there is no reason to buy these now. They will probably cost 600-1000 in 3 years when 4K becomes the new mainstream. 1440p was always a solution in between, but I wanted to future proof. 4K60 is still enthusiast tier and only works with the biggest GPU if you play AAA titles.
Liam Peterson
It literally is though, 16:9 is a shit aspect ratio
Joseph Torres
I explicitly stated I was in the UK so he's not wrong
Friday evening and I have nothing planned on Saturday. Good morning by the way, I just woke up.
Hudson Morgan
> These monitors are serious future-proofs
Running TF2 at 200Hz UWQHD is plenty possible on my 1070. Running Witcher or modded Skyrim on a UWQHD, true 10-bit HDR at more than playable framerates should also be possible. Then there's the multitasking capability - I can keep maybe 3-4 files open and tiled at once on my 1080p, imagine the possibilities with this new monitor; while the colours will be a gigantic step-up from my 5 year old gaming TN.
In other words, there's plenty of reasons to use one right now, and I don't even have a 1080.
Hunter Diaz
So how long until these become cheaper and better? Reminder that the 100Hz version came out a few years ago, and hasn't really dropped in price much, if at all, since then. Comparing this to the 4k boom is all well and good, but there's a wide variety of different 4k panels, with good and bad ones, and including a huge market in TVs, and a lot of competition. These panels by definition can't have much variety because we're talking about a very precisely defined set of specs, and they're being produced by one single manufacturer with no competition on the horizon, as well as a relatively niche market (only monitors, and then only very high-end monitors, and then only very high-end monitors with an emphasis on gaming).
In other words, I highly doubt anything will change 6 months after release, or a year, or 2 years. Beyond that point we might start getting close to MicroLEDs, and things could start changing, but even so I don't anticipate a price drop for this monitor nor MicroLED competitors being market ready with similar tier of specs for at least 5-6 more years at the earliest. Another new technology might emerge, but short of a miracle that's going to take even longer to reach the markets.
TL;DR: is there any reason to believe that these panels will become any cheaper and/or better within 2-3 years, and hold off on buying the one in the OP due to that belief?