You got 2 options.

Change the monitor to 1080p or get the 1440p monitor and whilst in game, change the resolution to 1080p to stop low FPS.

Down voting gets old when you have no clue what your on about.

JaffaCakeNotBiscuit wrote A 285/380 won't max games at 1440p, especially ARK and Battlefield.

No one said it would, but 1440p with some settings turned down is better than 1080p ultra. Adding a 2nd 285/380 would definitely help performance at 1440p as well

@Xiggy- just because stock cooler will suffice, doesn't mean it's good. Stock cooler can be pretty loud and ugly IMO. Sure though, stock cooler would be fine. Since OP has the money for a cheap cooler, he might as well get one. Even a £15-£20 cooler will be a nice upgrade over stock cooler.

1440p is close to double the number of pixels as 1080p, considering a 390/970 is going to soon be the sweet spot for 1080p as game engines and graphics overall are improving, running a 285 at 1440p for several years is very impractical.

I'm sure Craig would disagree with you, considering he ran 4k with a GTX 770, which is NVidia's 285 competitor.

Also, considering a single 285 will max BF4 at 1440p with 30+FPS, OP will be fine, especially with XFire support. I'm sure you imagine you know better though :coffee:

380 @ 1080p w/ medium-high settings averaging 45-50fps, drops to 40fps at many points.


BF4 @ 1440p getting <30fps (skip to 5m43s)


Can this thread be closed, OP has been given builds.

Sanctorum wrote I'm sure Craig would disagree with you, considering he ran 4k with a GTX 770, which is NVidia's 285 competitor.

I agree some what.

Running games at 4k, as many of us know is a bastard.

But the beauty of having a 4k/1440p panel is the art of downscaling.

I only ever really ran 1 game in all it's glory at 4k and that was Euro Truck Sim 2, it hated it. The card was pinned at 99% constant. The 770 could handle most games on medium/high settings at 1440p with no AA.

So the 285 is an "okay" card for 1440p res. Not the best but for the price it's okay.

For the price of the 285, I'd say grab it. Just be prepared to turn down SOME, but not all of the settings.

For the price, the 285 is by far the best choice. £100? That's like 260x price. It's a steal at that price, and the fact is that the 285 will run 1440p at med-high settings on AAA titles. Adding a 2nd 285/380 will allow OP to run 1440p @ ultra, especially if DX12 is going to stack VRAM in multi-GPU set-ups. Of course, there are better cards but that doesn't mean the 285/380 can't play 1440p, and it'll easily run 1440p well. 285 with a 1440p monitor is going to look much nicer than a 390 on a 1080p panel.

Sanctorum wrote For the price, the 285 is by far the best choice. £100? That's like 260x price. It's a steal at that price, and the fact is that the 285 will run 1440p at med-high settings on AAA titles. Adding a 2nd 285/380 will allow OP to run 1440p @ ultra, especially if DX12 is going to stack VRAM in multi-GPU set-ups. Of course, there are better cards but that doesn't mean the 285/380 can't play 1440p, and it'll easily run 1440p well. 285 with a 1440p monitor is going to look much nicer than a 390 on a 1080p panel.

Very true, but if it were my money, I'd be grabbing the 390 with a 1080p panel.

It wont "look" much nicer, yeah 1440p is ok. But I'd still opt for the 390/1080p option.

390 + 1080P with AMD scaling to make 1440P/4K > 285 true 1440
EDIT: it's what I would take..

Honestly, if you're sacrificing motherboard quality, you might as well do something like this IMO;
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No SLI support or anything, stock cooler, but better GPU and you can still get the 1440p panel with a cheap keyboard. 780 will perform pretty similarly to something like an R9 290.