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4asus swifts monitors running on a 1080 seahawk x....possible?

trylle
Level 7
I havent used this forum in a while, but im slowly planning my dream monitor setup which is gonna be 4 monitors. I do not get alot of money and its gonna take me a while to get the 4monitors. its gonna happen in a span of 4years.
They will not be used in surround,mostly for productivity but gaming on main monitor.
Im in college right now and there is gonna be alot of web designing, programming, WM, server maintenance. So more stuff open when I work will be very helpful.
Yes,I do not need these monitors for that,but that is only part of why I want the monitor setup.
So Im planning on buying the 279q as my main monitor.
On each side of the 279q Im planning on getting pg348q and the 4th monitor will be the pg27aq uhd monitor as my temperature measurements and surveillance for everything like gpu,cpu,hdd's fan's etc
dont play much games on my PC,but I do game Guild Wars which I will be playing on the pg279q.
So I have the MSI seahawk X which I hope will be enough but I have no idea if will be possible. If not I might need a secondary seahawk x in the future.


If you plan on saying stuff like why do you need all those monitors blablabla...please save it.
If its not possible where does the limit go though?
is it only possible with 1x pg279q and one 348q?.
So will there be a problem when I have multiple monitors on different hz? like 279q as 144hz and 348q on 100hz and the pg27aq on 60hz.
Will it be possible to operate with all these different hz when in windows and my main monitor is in a game,maybe my 348q in a other game, or my second 348q in movie mode?
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Crashcourse316
Level 9
everything you are asking SHOULD be do able by a 1080. just keep in mind with multiple games its going to need a lot of CPU power so make sure your CPU isnt going to tank you entire system. I would hope you have an i7 4th gen or higher. the 1080 is a monster. it won't have any issue displaying 4 screens at different resolutions AND hz. All you do is go into the Nvidia control panel and set them all to whatever you want them at. As long as you aren't running BF1 on the 279q and gears of war 4 on the UHD both at ultra you should be fine. I would say just keep checking out the update summarys for nVidia drivers so you get an idea of whats being fixed and also search up how other people are running their setups with different monitors. 4 years is a long time for new things to come out.
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everything you are asking SHOULD be do able by a 1080. just keep in mind with multiple games its going to need a lot of CPU power so make sure your CPU isnt going to tank you entire system. I would hope you have an i7 4th gen or higher. the 1080 is a monster. it won't have any issue displaying 4 screens at different resolutions AND hz. All you do is go into the Nvidia control panel and set them all to whatever you want them at. As long as you aren't running BF1 on the 279q and gears of war 4 on the UHD both at ultra you should be fine. I would say just keep checking out the update summarys for nVidia drivers so you get an idea of whats being fixed and also search up how other people are running their setups with different monitors. 4 years is a long time for new things to come out.


Thanks alot for getting back to me,ive been waiting for a response for some days now:)
I do have a 5930k.I hope a hexa core cpu will be enough though. its stock speeds,not oc'd
The uhd monitor just for keeping up with any temperature changes and temps.

My goal is to use only 1 gpu,Im planning on buying a nvidia HBM3 gpu when it comes along in a few years.

Im not a FPS player,Im never really going to play bf1 or geow.
And I agree 4years is a long time,but ive been dreaming about the 279q for some while now,I only have a 60hz IPS panel without gsync.
it wont matter to me if the 4k monitor is 60hz since 4k is too demanding and I have no interest in gaming in 4k.

The only thing I was hoping that would be released in the future is a 27 IPS 1440p 165/144hz gsync with 10bit panel with srgb atleast,but that would be insane expensive.

how does 100hz work when scrolling in windows? I mean for the 348q. I know on 60hz it kinda feels like its lagging when scrolling up and down on websites.

Crashcourse316
Level 9
I haven't tried 100hz. I'm not sure what you mean by lagging at 60hz. are you talking about the fact that its not as smooth as the 144/165hz? I can notice a huge difference between the 60hz and 165hz for sure. I haven't really compared 100hz to 165hz.
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I haven't tried 100hz. I'm not sure what you mean by lagging at 60hz. are you talking about the fact that its not as smooth as the 144/165hz? I can notice a huge difference between the 60hz and 165hz for sure. I haven't really compared 100hz to 165hz.


ye,that is the excactly what I mean.

Thought it would be great to hear from someone with a 348q aswell.

trylle wrote:
ye,that is the excactly what I mean.

Thought it would be great to hear from someone with a 348q aswell.


its probably somewhere in between the two......... 🙂
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trylle
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if its bad that kinda destroys my monitor dream setup.Guess Ill just have to wait and see for any other users or me buying it in the future.