Which is the better display for WoW?

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Just a quick run down; I’m purchasing a gaming laptop and need help with choosing which display to get which would best serve WoW, which is pretty much the only game I play besides a few old titles from long ago.

It’s between a 17.3’’ UHD 3840x2160, 120Hz, NVIDIA G-SYNC & 17.3’’ FHD 1920x1080, 480Hz, NVIDIA G-SYNC

The GPU will be a 3080 Ti

I’m torn because 17.3’’ seems small for the high resolution display but would WoW benefit from the 480Hz refresh rate?

All help and insight is much appreciated.

Thanks

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I understand that feeling of being torn.

The 4k resolution of the first is nice, but it is a question of being able to tell the difference between that and the second one on a screen that size. You’d also have to consider the trade-off between quality and FPS, not to mention battery life.

For the 480Hz, that’s just a lot of cushion room for screen drawing. Barely any games will be pushing FPS that would warrant screen drawing that fast unless it’s a low-resource game or a really old one played on modern hardware. Even then, the most I’ve personally seen is 300FPS.

I prob wouldn’t want to play 4k on a game like WoW in a raid/dungeon setting with all sorts of spell effects going off. Then again, you don’t have to play the game at those settings and could always change it. 4k on a laptop is meant more for productivity.

I’d personally go for the second for the FPS @1080 and battery life. Though, I’d try to find a nice middle-ground 1440 laptop.

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I honestly can’t see you ever getting enough FPS to benefit from 480hz. I’d go with the higher resolution for sure. 120hz is still great.

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Assuming the overall quality of the panel is the same in every other way - I’d probably go with the 1080p screen. It will look better on a screen of that size, IMO.

My real concern is a 3080 TI in a laptop. It’ll be pretty interesting keeping that sucker cool.

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27" 2560x1440 144hz is a great middle ground. I’m going to assume that 17" was a typo.

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you have a 27" laptop?

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My personal vote would go to the 4k 120HZ. 120HZ is already plenty smooth and added image clarity from the higher resolution will be nice to look at imo. I personally play on a 27" 4k 144Hz Monitor.

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4k 120hz. Also, respectfully ofc! It’s WoW…Doesnt need much lol