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Can you recommend a 4K monitor?

RaymandRaymand Posts: 62
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

After waiting literally months, I finally broke through the Nvidia waiting list and snagged a 1080ti Founders Edition. Now I’m setting up a new pc. But my two Samsung monitors are  6 years old and 1920x1280. I’m thinking of getting a single 27” or 32” 4K monitor. Do you have any recommendations? I don’t do gaming (though I’m sure the 1081ti is great for that), so I’m more interested in color rendition than ultra fast response time.

 I would greatly appreciate your suggestions. Thanks.

Comments

  • Seven193Seven193 Posts: 1,111
    edited April 2018

    I don't own a 4k monitor, but from what I've been reading on it, 28" should be the minimum size.  I wouldn't get a 27" 4k monitor.

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,333

    You'll probably want to visit Office Depot or WalMart and see for yourself 4K montitors and whether 27", 28", or larger is needed for your eyesight. You can certainly buy a 27" 4K or 28" 4K montitor and use the accessibility features of your OS to view the now pin point fonts and icons and such. Even 32" 4K will be pretty tight.

    You might be better served with a dual montitor setup: FHD for normal use and 4K for rendering, animation, and so on. You'd want to use Blender, DAZ Studio, and such on the FHD monitor but the render windows & gaming windows & such on the 4K monitor. 

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 24,876
    I have a Dell P4317Q. It is huge and the DS text is big enough to read at max resolution.
  • nickalamannickalaman Posts: 196

    Be warned that Daz studio plus 4k and windows 10 scaling is broken. It might take a while to get fixed. As it's been like that for a very long time. The problem is the menu items do not scale and are impossible to read. I have found 2 fixes for that, one do not use windows scaling and switch resolution to 2560 x 1440 on a 27 inch monitor. (only while in daz) or buy a monitor that's at least 40 inches... at 40 inches you can run native 3840 x 2160 with no scaling.. (it ends up having the same DPI as a 27 inch momitor at 2560x1440)

  • RaymandRaymand Posts: 62

    That all sounds like good advice. One thing that may help me there are my glasses. I do have reading glasses. But since I work in front of monitors all day, I had an Rx made for mid-range glasses, measured for a 30” working distance. For me, they are awesome for viewing a monitor.

     I also wondered if anyone here uses “wide gamut “ monitors like the Benq SW320 or Asus ProArt. Eizo and Lg have models too. They cover a larger amount of the Adobe RGB space and are individually calibrated. But they’re more expensive.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,865
    nickalaman said:

    Be warned that Daz studio plus 4k and windows 10 scaling is broken. It might take a while to get fixed. As it's been like that for a very long time. The problem is the menu items do not scale and are impossible to read. I have found 2 fixes for that, one do not use windows scaling and switch resolution to 2560 x 1440 on a 27 inch monitor. (only while in daz) or buy a monitor that's at least 40 inches... at 40 inches you can run native 3840 x 2160 with no scaling.. (it ends up having the same DPI as a 27 inch momitor at 2560x1440)

    It's not broken here, I just right-clicked on the destop, Display settings, and set the scaling to 125% - DS immedaitely resized, including menus.

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