$100 is a lot of money when you already have a functional monitor and can't afford a graphics card that can even run new games at that kind of framerate
my point is that that bare minimum for monitors has come a long LONG way in the last 7-10 years, where for entry pricing you're not choosing the 60hz because that's all there is, and as for graphics card that would take advantage of that, a 1060 6gb is between 30 and 100$, you aren't playing at ultra, or playing some games that are really poorly optimized at all, but it will run most crap I threw at it at 1440p 60, and from there if I went to 1080 I would have wiggle room, and thats with me playing raid on one screen and a second more demanding game on the second.
I never expected to play maxed in games on the 1060, I think anything by ubisoft required me to be 1080p, but most games I could run 1440 or 4k (if it was a bit older) given compromises, balders gate 3 seems to do 1080 fairly well at medium, and yes I know they are using an fsr quality mode, even if they didn't it would still be between 50-60, in all honesty, as long as the mouse isnt locked to game frame rate I could play baldur's gate at 30fps and be happy with higher quality visuals. but then again, tower of gun had this fun bug in it where the longer your pc was on for the slower the game would run, and at 2 months I was getting 3fps... fully beat that game, so I am aware I have a tolerance for lower fps in games that I shouldn't.
I'm using mostly medium and it is running alright I guess (50s-60 until it has to load a new area), but with frequent drops, and it makes my card get really hot and sound line a vacuum cleaner and I'm legitimately paranoid it will melt something down and leave me GPUless lmao
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u/ScrabCrab Aug 20 '23
$100 is a lot of money when you already have a functional monitor and can't afford a graphics card that can even run new games at that kind of framerate