4k/5k monitor under £500?
Discussion
NoIP said:
It's also worth noting that 4k scales terribly on a lot of Windows progs if you're planning to use it for normal PC stuff. W10's scaling is a lot better than previous versions but still has plenty of niggles and annoyances. You'll find on a lot of stuff (Adobe products for one) that when you try to rescale it so that you can read the text, the buttons and menus don't rescale at the same time. You find yourself in situations where text is covered by buttons or buttons and menus are off the edge of the screen if you scale it too much one way.
Its got a lot better - there is an additional compatibility scaling mode in the 1703 update that you can specify exes to use, and almost all modern applications are fine too. I have 4K 32" monitors on my desktop and a 3200x1800 13.3" display on my laptop and rare I have any problems at all.Photoshop CS5 is the only one which gives me any any trouble, and that's actually because Adobe wrote it in such a way that it declares to Windows that it'll handle scaling, then does absolutely nothing to scale any UI elements. On the desktop this isn't really an issue, you can cope at native resolution. On the laptop I put in a custom manifest for the application which allows me to force DPI scaling, not ideal as it also scales up the image you're working on, but makes the UI usable.
well being an IPS panel colours will be good but response time is not as good as a TN panel, it depends what you want from your monitor
A gsync enabled monotor can be had for the price but it's only a 24" panel, for a 27" you need to be looking at the £500+ bracket. Ive linked the page in question for gsync monitors here https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/moni...
What I will say is i don't think you need to spend that money on a panel, at the end of the day a gysnc panel won't get the full benefits of a 144hz refresh yes you may get say 80-100 depending on the game of course but i donubt you would see the difference unless you had the setups side by side
I'd just get a decent TN 27" panel and not spend your money, i've got 2 24" iyama panels which cost about £120 each and i am happy with these
A gsync enabled monotor can be had for the price but it's only a 24" panel, for a 27" you need to be looking at the £500+ bracket. Ive linked the page in question for gsync monitors here https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/moni...
What I will say is i don't think you need to spend that money on a panel, at the end of the day a gysnc panel won't get the full benefits of a 144hz refresh yes you may get say 80-100 depending on the game of course but i donubt you would see the difference unless you had the setups side by side
I'd just get a decent TN 27" panel and not spend your money, i've got 2 24" iyama panels which cost about £120 each and i am happy with these
Thanks Chris.
I'll have a look into this
I'll have a look into this
- this looks alright at a reasonable cost
Edited by Djtemeka on Thursday 20th July 06:59
Gassing Station | Computers, Gadgets & Stuff | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff