4K TV and borderless window gaming

[sparkikuss]

I've just purchased a Samsung 4K television and was wondering if borderless window use was damaging it.

I have a 290x 8GB graphics card and it supports 3840x2160 at a 30hz refresh rate in fullscreen with v-sync on.

When I switch to borderless window, it doesn't use the v-sync and the FPS almost doubles in most games, which is very nice.

The TV supports 1000hz motion processing if that makes any odds.

Question is, should I not be using the borderless window and stick to fullscreen?

Thanks for your time in advance!

 

[THM01]

Although I don't have any real technical specs to back this up, to the best of my knowledge borderless window should have no effect on the display. Changing from borderless to windowed might affect how much your graphics card is working, but it shouldn't do anything to the actual display itself. I've played thousands of hours and dozens of games in borderless mode on the same monitor over a period of 7 years now and the monitor is still going strong. I can't see any reason why it would affect the TV itself.

You just might want to pay attention to how hard your graphics card is working and how hot it gets. If there's warm air coming out of your case, it's probably time for some more cooling of some sort.

Also, Vsync just limits the amount of frames intentionally to prevent screen tearing. Screen tearing has absolutely no effect on the health of your monitor/tv, it's just a technical term for how the display looks when more frames are thrown at the monitor.

Here's more about Vsync: http://www.techhive.com/article/229024/geek101_vsync.html

I personally run my games with Vsync and they stay at 60 FPS with my monitor. I like this because anything over 50 I feel like is unnoticeable and when I don't have it on it's kicking out 150+ FPS and really making the graphics card work harder than it has to.