hi, need info on 4k projectors & gaming

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Not here to discuss money, rather the components. Basically I just need to know what graphics cards & how many I would need to play on a 4k resolution projector @ max settings? I don't know if it matters on how big you have the screen set, but I've seen them go to 100 inches and much bigger. I'm wanting to game and watch movies on 100 inches..
 
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Just look into the details for anything at 4k a projector is no different than a monitor when it comes to the usage on graphics card.
To play most games at that resolution I'm assuming 2 980 would be ideal to start? I don't think anything is out yet that will play every game at maximum settings.
I'm just going to assume 4x titan or 980. But, I'd also be curious if waiting for the 990 would be ideal? Assuming there is one to come out.

I'm curious how a projector will perform for gaming. Let us know how this turns out for you.


The people questioning the 4k project. Have you not been to a movie theatre? They do not play at 1080...
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I don't know about projectors, but I've gamed on TVs and monitors. You'll need at least 3 GPUs to run 4k smoothly, and 4k if you want to dominate it to make sure there would be no problems.
 
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Just look into the details for anything at 4k a projector is no different than a monitor when it comes to the usage on graphics card.
To play most games at that resolution I'm assuming 2 980 would be ideal to start? I don't think anything is out yet that will play every game at maximum settings.
I'm just going to assume 4x titan or 980. But, I'd also be curious if waiting for the 990 would be ideal? Assuming there is one to come out.

I'm curious how a projector will perform for gaming. Let us know how this turns out for you.


The people questioning the 4k project. Have you not been to a movie theatre? They do not play at 1080...
 
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Well, that sucks for gaming, but not really for watching movies like he said above. Except for there are like no movies in 4k yet :/
 
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4k projectors have existed for a little while now, but only as very expensive, tens of thousands of dollars units that only theaters or very wealthy individuals can afford. I'm not even sure if you can buy one directly yet or if they're only available through professional home-theater builders.
 
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I don't think our thread creator here has a limit on $ :)
 
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You should also learn to look stuff up before proclaiming it to be the correct answer. That JVC projector is not a native UHD project, it can simply accept a 4K signal from HDMI and downscale it, similar to what you can do on any monitor. It's like the EDTVs of yesteryear that claimed to be "1080 HD" or w/e but were only native 1280x720 or 1366x768 and could just accept and downscale a 1080i signal.
 
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See that's why I've asked repeatedly on this site this question. Your answer is the best so far. Can you point me to a 4k projector that would play the games like bf4, crysis 3, etc...?? If this is not a viable option then could you also point me to the biggest 4k monitor for cpu use?
 
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http://www.christiedigital.com/en-us/business/products/projectors/3-chip-dlp/pages/christie-d4k3560-3-chip-dlp-4k-projector.aspx

Here's a high frame rate projector.

Something to note. Look at the the bulb lifetime. Then look at the cost. The major difference you'll notice between projectors and tvs is the fact that projects do involve a cost over time and it is an expensive one.

Here's a TV out that's big and 4k. You won't find a tv at 4k that's above 45 herts (fps). If you do you'll be lucky. I recommend curved for immersion. Otherwise what's reason to buying such a big display if not immersion?
http://televisions.reviewed.com/news/lg-flaunts-flexible-4k-oled-tv-219-uhd-display-4k-streaming-more

 
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ok, checked the links out. I guess I should have given more information. I won't go the projector way. But I will go with a monitor. Im new to the cpu world as far as the frame rates and monitor go. Is there such a thing as 3D 4k monitors? if so could you provide me a link?
 
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http://www.cnet.com/news/4k-tvs-with-passive-3d-finally-a-good-use-for-all-those-pixels/

The way it sounds many 4k tvs will have some 3D features. But, you won't find large 4k monitors. Only TVs. which have downsides of a plethora. Sometimes TVs don't cooperate with devices as a monitor would. I could go on forever. It's not bad really. Depends on what you specifically want out of it. color accuracy, higher fps. Etc


 
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Sorry to resurrect and hijack this old thread, but Sony just came out with a Native 4K projector in the US. The VPL-VW350ES. I have one and a Gaming Computer with a R9 295x video card. The problem I am having at the moment, is that the computer only thinks the projector can display 1920 x 1080, and I know it can do much more. There are no windows drivers out for the Projector, any way to trick the R9 into outputting higher resolutions?

I am hoping the limitation is not one put in by Sony to protect it's Blue Ray market....
 
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What input are you using to plug it into your GPU?

DVI-D or HDMI 2.0 are the only options for 4k if I'm not mistaken.
 
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So MiniDisplayAdaptor 1.2 to HDMI Cable. It looks like this AMD card does not currently support HDMI 2.0, I had read that the card supports 1.4b, which should be able to send 4K @ 30hz. Not ideal for gaming, but I wanted to try. I got screwed by AMD again. The highest end nVidia card does support HDMI 2.0 spec.


 
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From what I've read there's almost no sense in trying to run this right now. I was going over similar cases and here you can read over this guy's experience
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2258794/powering-hdmi-devices-mini-gpu.html


From the sounds of it this is entirely firmware related issue in the AMD gpu series. While the Nvidia as you mentioned do have support. You might be able to find some special adapter. But, at this point a gpu change appears your best option.
 
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