DP 1.4 OUT (5 months ago): 4K 144HZ Monitors are coming - Are you going to Upgrade ??

[alcoholbob]

4K 144Hz is for people who are willing to buy a > $1000 Titan P just to play Dota 2 at max details at 4K lmao. It's a tiny segment of the market.

 

[therealnickdanger]

When playing Halo PC, my GTX 970 gets about 500fps at 4K, so I can't wait!

Most games over 3 years old can be played on modern hardware at 4K max settings well over 60fps. For those of us that buy games on 80% Steam sales, it works out pretty well. LOL

This guy does a bunch of "Old Games in 4K" videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/XSmasher4ya/videos

 

[A5]

I'll probably wait for 21:9 1440 with HDR and >100Hz refresh to be cheap before thinking about an upgrade. Something around the same height as my current 27" 1440, so I guess it would marketed as 32"?

 

[CFP]

Since 1080p is a clean multiple of 4k, gaming at 1080p should be a non issue as long as we're not talking 35 inch monitors here. At smaller screen sizes (say, 27 inch) the pixels are bunched up so tight anyway that in groups of four you won't be able to tell much loss of graphical fidelity -- is that correct?

If so, 4k doesn't sound all that bad if you need the high resolution for ~something else~ and just came at half or 1/4 the resolution.

 

[CP5670]

It should work that way in principle, but apparently neither the displays nor the Nvidia/AMD drivers support exact 1:4 scaling like that.

However, I spend at least 75% of my gaming time with older games that would be great at 4K on my 980. I might eventually need a new card solely for the DP 1.4 output though, unless someone makes converters for it.

 

[CFP]

It should work that way in principle, but apparently neither the displays nor the Nvidia/AMD drivers support exact 1:4 scaling like that.

Huh, that's actually really disappointing. Do you know why not?

 

[JAG87]

Huh, that's actually really disappointing. Do you know why not?

Because scaling doesn't work like that, period. Whoever started spreading that "4K is exactly 4x 1080p and therefore it displays that way" is a dunce. 4K panels would look like absolute shit if 1080p mapped 1:4.

All displays with a scaler inside use bilinear or bicubic scalers (the ones with better image processing use the latter to produce a sharper upscaled image). Same with your GPU if you choose to have your GPU upscale the signal.

 

[boed]

4K 144Hz is for people who are willing to buy a > $1000 Titan P just to play Dota 2 at max details at 4K lmao. It's a tiny segment of the market.

I hear that statement a lot - it is a small market segment, that is a niche market etc. on just about every forum I'm on - doesn't matter if it is cars, TVs, discs, video cards, monitors... Usually when someone doesn't like the idea that something they bought isn't perfect or when someone recommends something that is out of their price range.

If I go to Honda's forum and suggest they offer a Honda with a better seat - someone will say that may increase the car by $1000 and people willing to pay for better seats is such a small percentage... Or $40,000 cars are a niche market - a niche market occupied by tiny companies like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Acura, Infiniti along with at least a dozen others.

Just because a $5 million dollar home is way way way outside my income bracket I don't post in forums saying that is such a tiny market segment. I can drive 10 miles and probably every home in Beverly Hills, Pacific Palisades, etc. exceeds $5 million. I certainly don't begrudge them for their success, nor their ability to buy very nice houses. I also wouldn't say they have a small market share because I know I can find over 1 million homes in CA alone that exceed that price.

I get you want to buy something cheaper but please stop assuming because you can't justify buying a nice toy, no one else will.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

i have 3 x 5k displays, but my pref gaming pc is 1080p 120hz.

this pc is going to stay at 1080p until it lasts (i think 5y)

 

[alcoholbob]

I hear that statement a lot - it is a small market segment, that is a niche market etc. on just about every forum I'm on - doesn't matter if it is cars, TVs, discs, video cards, monitors... Usually when someone doesn't like the idea that something they bought isn't perfect or when someone recommends something that is out of their price range.

If I go to Honda's forum and suggest they offer a Honda with a better seat - someone will say that may increase the car by $1000 and people willing to pay for better seats is such a small percentage... Or $40,000 cars are a niche market - a niche market occupied by tiny companies like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Acura, Infiniti along with at least a dozen others.

Just because a $5 million dollar home is way way way outside my income bracket I don't post in forums saying that is such a tiny market segment. I can drive 10 miles and probably every home in Beverly Hills, Pacific Palisades, etc. exceeds $5 million. I certainly don't begrudge them for their success, nor their ability to buy very nice houses. I also wouldn't say they have a small market share because I know I can find over 1 million homes in CA alone that exceed that price.

I get you want to buy something cheaper but please stop assuming because you can't justify buying a nice toy, no one else will.

Lmao my actual point was not about cost, but the ineffectualness of single GPU driving 144Hz 1440P. My rig costs far more than what most people spend on a 1440p system so I don't begrudge anyone spending money. You act like I'm some old man witha Pentium 4 in my sig shouting at the sky. I'd like to see what kind of system are running.

 

[whm1974]

Me? I'm keeping my 30" Dell 1600p display for for at least three more years to get my moneys worth.

 

[Despoiler]

I'm waiting for an HDR 4k monitor. My current Eizo Foris FG2421 is easily the best monitor I've ever owned. IPS and TN can suck my black levels and calibrated contrast.