Me old friend is getting a little dated. Lately my monitor shows signs of nearing the retirement age. It's still usable though. But for the day it starts biting the dust I looked a bit into new monitors to be prepared.
Mainly I use my rig for working (code, Excel, stocks) and on Sundays mornings for Assetto Corsa (all settings to low, max 4 opponents and sometimes I get CPU heat warning).
These ultra-wide monitors look cool. Should I get a 49 inch ultra wide? Or is it to big? I like to sit far away from the monitor (110cm), would love to sit even more far away from it. Don't need that Gsync, FreeSync is good enough as I will be using AMD/ATI graphics card in any case (NVIDIA can respectfully **** themselves for their lack of good Linux drivers). Or would 2 or 3 smaller monitors be better?
But such a large monitor will probably overpower my old graphics card. Honestly, I'm not up to speed on today's hardware.
Here are my current specs:
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM (link)
CPU: Intel i7-920 8 Cores @2,67 Ghz (link)
Motherboard: MSI ATI Raedon r5770 Hawk (link)
Memory: 12 GB
SSD: Fairly new, bought this year
So, what would you do if you had my rig to upgrade? Budget-wise I'm flexible but I prefer to only replace broken components and keep using what I have until it breaks. My goal is to keep playing Assetto Corsa.
Thanks.
Mainly I use my rig for working (code, Excel, stocks) and on Sundays mornings for Assetto Corsa (all settings to low, max 4 opponents and sometimes I get CPU heat warning).
These ultra-wide monitors look cool. Should I get a 49 inch ultra wide? Or is it to big? I like to sit far away from the monitor (110cm), would love to sit even more far away from it. Don't need that Gsync, FreeSync is good enough as I will be using AMD/ATI graphics card in any case (NVIDIA can respectfully **** themselves for their lack of good Linux drivers). Or would 2 or 3 smaller monitors be better?
But such a large monitor will probably overpower my old graphics card. Honestly, I'm not up to speed on today's hardware.
Here are my current specs:
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM (link)
CPU: Intel i7-920 8 Cores @2,67 Ghz (link)
Motherboard: MSI ATI Raedon r5770 Hawk (link)
Memory: 12 GB
SSD: Fairly new, bought this year
So, what would you do if you had my rig to upgrade? Budget-wise I'm flexible but I prefer to only replace broken components and keep using what I have until it breaks. My goal is to keep playing Assetto Corsa.
Thanks.
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