Need help deciding on an ultrawide

[Christopher McClure]

Hi there.

I am looking to get an ultrawide monitor, I will be saving up so anywhere between £200 and £400, the cheaper the better haha. I will be using it for productivity. I will be getting a gaming monitor later on that has 144hz or something similar.

I currently have a 2600x with a 1060 6GB GPU. I will upgrade the GPU middle of 2021, it is a new PC I built 2 weeks ago.

Would it be good to go for a 1440p ultrawide with 144hz, I found a iiyama G-Master GB3461WQSU-B1 for £399.99 that is 3440 by 1440 with 1ms response time and 144 Hz. Would this be ideal?

I would be getting a gaming monitor that's 27" and the ultrawide would be 34".

Any advice would be great.

P.S. I am a cyber Security student so the ultrawide is so I can have several things open and visible at once and I would also use it when I am streaming. I currently have 2 1080p 60Hz 27" Monitors that I am using until I get an ultrawide.

 

[Marine-RX179]

1060 6GB is really a 1080p card.

If you are hoping for pushing 1440 and with averaging 100fps+, you will need a faster graphic card.

 

[Moeks]

Initially I was going to suggest you combine it all into a 144hz ultrawide, such as the Iiyama you mentioned as this is going to push the top of your budget and then a bit more depending on stock levels and the market etc, there is both a curved VA and a flat IPS offering from Iiyama that are similar in price. I have the 34" AOC CU34G2 myself which I'm pleased with, I haven't had any of the flickering problems I have read about other people having with the similar offerings from Gigabyte and Iiyama and I have been running with adaptive sync on, I turned it on and just forgot about it essentially.

However, I note you said you want to stream aswell, as far as I know in the world of streaming there is a strong preferance for sticking with 16:9 rather than 21:9 ...also I think having more than one physical monitor is very beneficial then, then again you have your 2 1080p monitors aswell right ? ...I don't stream but even I find having a second physical monitor really useful, I have a 27" 1440p alongside my ultrawide, however if you asked me to choose either 1 x 1440p ultrawide or 2 x 1440p 16:9 displays I would opt for the later, it's just so useful and flexible in a way a single panel isn't. I don't think I have offered you much much help here exactly, probably muddied the waters more than anything but think very carefully about how you plan to use this setup before committing if you can't afford to just buy all the things.

If it's of any help, I actually work in an IT role, I'm not a security specialist but an infrastructure specialist (what that really means is I have to know a lot about a lot of things in reality), however my role covers security to an extent aswell, in other words I work in IT and use probably a lot of the same tools you will and use scren space in a similar way and an ultrawide is fantastic for that, I don't really think it's better than 2 x 1440p 16:9 monitors though, it's just different.

In your position I would really want 2 monitors, weather one is an ultrawide or not, I wouldn't want to just have 1 ultrawide on its own though, I've tried it and it's just frustrating to me.

Incidentally, I have a sale thread open for an MSI 100hz 1440p Ultrawide at the moment. I replaced it with the AOC I mentioned above. Could be a way to save money. Sorry for the self plug there but I thought it might be of some interest.

 

[Chaos666]

I would say for productivity just get a second monitor..
1060 ia a 1080p card.. Jist buy a good 1080p high refresh monitor and another (same size ideally) 60hz monitor so you can have more workspace

If you are planing to upgrade your gpu next year than 1440p ultrawide makes sense but you will need 2080ti/3070 or higher

 

[Moeks]

If you are planing to upgrade your gpu next year than 1440p ultrawide makes sense but you will need 2080ti/3070 or higher

Obviously if you are buying a new GPU then you want to make sure you have the power! ...but don't think you can't use and enjoy a 1440p ultrawide without having a 2080Ti or faster, because you can, it depends on what you are playing though of course.

 

[Christopher McClure]

Thanks everyone for your great advice.

Just so you's know I will be upgrading my gpu at a later state, most likely around may time to a 2060 super or slightly better depending on budget at the time.

@Moeks thank you for the help. I seen an iiyama monitor that is 144hz and 1440p which would be ideal. I would be using my 60hz 1080p monitor along side it for now if I am streaming since most people will be watching either at that quality or less anyways for now. The streaming isn't the major important part aslong as my equipment will do well with what I need for the start of my career then I am more than happy.

I found an iiyama G-MASTER GB3461WQSU-B1 32" at 3440 by 1440 1ms response time and 144hz. it is £399.99 the now but I will be buying around black friday time so I will have a better idea at that point haha.

I tried to click the link for the monitor you have on for sale but it gave me an error.

thank you both @Chaos666 and @Moeks for your help.

also @Moeks is there any advice i could get from you in regards to an IT career. At the moment I am looking to start doing my own small projects, get a github portfolio sorted and get better knowledge but not sure where to start haha.

 

[Chaos666]

No worries mate.. Thats what forums are for.. Remember that everyone has different needs and you may find that something works for you and you only.
Don't be scared to try something different. Especially if its for work.

 

[Moeks]

I tried to click the link for the monitor you have on for sale but it gave me an error.

also @Moeks is there any advice i could get from you in regards to an IT career. At the moment I am looking to start doing my own small projects, get a github portfolio sorted and get better knowledge but not sure where to start haha.

Oh I hadn't noticed your account is new, you can't access the 'Members Market' area without a certain level of time served and posts iirc.

Err well the advice I would give to someone starting out would be, it's more about demonstrable experience than it is about pieces of paper that say you have X Y Z, don't get me wrong, they are useful for getting interviews in the first place and also necessary for partnership programs some companies will have etc also can be handy for justifying pay rises etc, but in the industry as a whole, people want to see that you actually know your stuff and can do what you say. Secondly I would say things seem to be very much heading in the direction of automation via software based systems, Cisco ACI being an example and centralised change controlled config repos, you have probably come across the likes of Ansible and Terraform etc, even in the world of security and network infrastructure these are looming large now, so get in on that I would say.

Not sure what you would do as your own project though, at least from my perspective it's not like software development, you can't really produce your own projects really, I would try and gain employment as a junior members of a team and learn that way and be a part of whatever projects the business needs and build up a skillset and portfolio of experience that way. Software development is different, because that is something you can just code for, security and infrastructure isn't like that.

 

[Christopher McClure]

I am so glad I joined these forums. Best advice and help I have had in a long time haha. I am going to do my best to help others out aswell on here.

I will get looking into them right away. Currently doing scythers and virtual machines at the moment at University. I have done CCNA 1 and 2 and done some programming, so I will build on what I have learned and I am applying fot internships along side part time jobs so I can get decent money while also getting the experience I need. Happy to work as much as possible to get my way up.

hope yous are staying safe and keeping well, and once again thank yous for your help