Monitor 2560x1440, 27 inches IPS on old hardware?

Question

Iron

Does it make sense to buy a monitor with a resolution of QHD 2560x1440, 27 inches IPS, primarily for work, so that it is pleasing to the eye and watching movies / videos, sometimes playing Warcraft and Battlefield 4.
Hardware old i5 2500k, P67H2-A3, DDR3 8GB,
RadeonHD 6850 - support for HDCP, HDMI, DisplayPort, HDMI version 1.3a.

It’s also interesting if I play, set the FHD resolution already in the game, will the picture be blurred?

Answer 1

In general, it will pull but at the limit.

In games I think there will be very little fps, in games set the resolution to 1280x720 as you were advised above.

Answer 2

If you set 1280x720 (HD Ready) in the game, then on a 2560x1440 monitor, each pixel will be displayed as a 2x2 square and the picture will not be washed out.
If you want to display exactly FHD (1920x1080) in the game, then you need a 3840x2160 (Ultra HD 4k) monitor to scale without distortion.
In short, just multiply/divide these numbers from the resolution by exactly two.
But in general, your video card cannot produce 4k at 60Hz, and you won’t be able to fully enjoy 4k video either. Unless in the office / ide it will be fine.
So it's worth thinking about replacing the video card, or buying an inexpensive 4k video set-top box for movies for about $30.

Answer 3

A QHD 2560x1440 resolution 27 inch IPS monitor is ideal for work, I've tried smaller monitors, larger monitors with different resolutions, but this size and with these pixels is the most convenient. 4K seemed to me too small in terms of pixels for work, and FullHD at 27 inches, on the contrary, too large pixels.
If we say what will pull, what will not pull, then to work at the level of programming, surfing the Internet, watching videos. As far as I remember, 2048x1536 is the maximum possible resolution for a VGA connection, but a digital HDMI connection will handle office tasks with any video card!
As for games, Warcraft will pull the RadeonHD 6850 as you like, and Battlefield 4 you just put the game in the window and it will be fine. The game in a window on a sufficiently large monitor looks fine, make the window of the desired resolution when it does not slow down. If the window is small, and you really like Battlefield 4, or maybe you want to play the 5th, buy a new video card. For mining, they use any video cards of the 10th green series, but you can buy something like the GTX960-970 used and they hardly mined in their past (it was completely unprofitable on them before). Buying a new video card in the spring of 2021 is expensive, the prices are too high, but this is not a reason to postpone the purchase of a monitor, your eyes will like it: when I switched to such a monitor, all others seem uncomfortable.

Answer 4

If the "work" requires intensive use of the video card (3D graphics, streaming video...) then of course the card
will NOT pull.
If this is static graphics or programming, then your eyes will thank you without any problems.
Definitely YES.