Should I buy a 4K Monitor?

[Manuel Castro]

I have a 4k TV which is 50 inches from samsung, and I don't know if I should buy a 4k monitor since its fricking expensive and I can play games through the tv. 4k monitor here is PHP28000
I like the design of the Asus MX monitor, but its only 1080p and TN. I want a white themed build so I would go with white and black designs

I'm gonna be building a PC for gaming and school, My budget is PHP100,000 or about $2000 including all peripherals My parts are http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Q8R3Mp...

will be playin lots of BF Hardline, GTA V, COD, and CS:GO

 

[xxxlun4icexxx]

I have a 4k TV which is 50 inches from samsung, and I don't know if I should buy a 4k monitor since its fricking expensive and I can play games through the tv. 4k monitor here is PHP28000
I like the design of the Asus MX monitor, but its only 1080p and TN. I want a white themed build so I would go with white and black designs

I'm gonna be building a PC for gaming and school, My budget is PHP100,000 or about $2000 including all peripherals My parts are http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Q8R3Mp...

will be playin lots of BF Hardline, GTA V, COD, and CS:GO

If you want to go 4k and game there, get a gsync monitor. The acer xb280hk is good (it's what I use).

Also, if you want to play on anything above low settings you are going to need to get more GPU power. 1 970 won't cut it. When I had 1 980 I could play battlefield hardline on medium settings @ 60 fps. A 970 is a bit below that so I figure it'd be at the low-medium settings for a 60fps mark.

If your budget is 2,000 and you don't wanna spend ridiculous money on stacking 980s, I'd say your best bet is 2 970s. You'll just need to find the sweet spot for settings due to VRAM, as you run into that 3.5GB issue and at 4k you need every last .1 GB.

BF Hardline is optimized pretty well though. You should be good to go to play at high settings (no AA) at 60 fps with 2. Even if you don't get a solid 60 fps with whatever gpu setup you get, if you have a gsync monitor, it should still be pretty smooth.

Hope this helps, good luck!

 

[Snookslayer]

Or go 1440 and save a grand.

 

[xxxlun4icexxx]

Or go 1440 and save a grand.

In his defense, going back to 1440p after seeing/using 4k for a while is not so awesome.

 

[Solandri]

I would hold off on any 4k purchases until Hollywood and the industry gets in sync and puts out products which support both HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2. Right now, nearly every device has the capability to play future 4k movies (supports HDCP 2.2) but can't actually receive protected 4k movies from a player (HDMI 1.4). Or has the capability to receive 4k movies from a player (HDMI 2.0) but can't actually play them because their content protection doesn't support 4k (HDCP 2.1).

http://www.audiogurus.com/learn/news/4k-hdmi-2-0-compatible-hdcp-2-0/2718

Depending on how the whole HDCP 2.2 situation works out, any 4k devices you buy now may be incapable of playing movies released in 4k in the future.

If you aren't at all interested in movies and only want to use 4k for a monitor and games, then go right ahead. But if you're paying for 4k, wouldn't you want to be able to use it for movies?

 

[loki1944]

Or get a 1440p/1080p 27 inch+ monitor and use DSR. I run DSR on my 1080p 144Hz monitor and my 1440p 60hz monitor and the hit for 4K is massive on my 780Tis for some games, VRAM is usually not the issue either; I don't use much AA at 4K.
Here's what the hit looks like on my rig; keep in mind I benchmark waaay longer than review sites; usually 30 minutes to an hour so this is much more realistic:

Crysis 3 84fps-->36fps (4xMSAA)
Half Lif2 275fps-->124fps
Bioshock Infinite 202fps-->107fps
Shadow of Mordor 95fps-->45fps
X Rebirth (Modded) 57fps-->37fps
AC4 Black Flag 61fps (limit)-->42fps
Dragon Age Inquisition 96fps-->39.9fps
Skyrim modded, ENB 54fps-->36fps

As I said I don't use much AA, sometimes none, but as you can see the hit to my 780TIs in SLI is very heavy. I would imagine that for two 970s it would be even worse. You're better off getting a 295X2 or SLI 980s if you're wanting to stay playable at high settings at 2160p.

 

[Manuel Castro]

I have a 4k TV which is 50 inches from samsung, and I don't know if I should buy a 4k monitor since its fricking expensive and I can play games through the tv. 4k monitor here is PHP28000
I like the design of the Asus MX monitor, but its only 1080p and TN. I want a white themed build so I would go with white and black designs

I'm gonna be building a PC for gaming and school, My budget is PHP100,000 or about $2000 including all peripherals My parts are http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Q8R3Mp...

will be playin lots of BF Hardline, GTA V, COD, and CS:GO

If you want to go 4k and game there, get a gsync monitor. The acer xb280hk is good (it's what I use).

Also, if you want to play on anything above low settings you are going to need to get more GPU power. 1 970 won't cut it. When I had 1 980 I could play battlefield hardline on medium settings @ 60 fps. A 970 is a bit below that so I figure it'd be at the low-medium settings for a 60fps mark.

If your budget is 2,000 and you don't wanna spend ridiculous money on stacking 980s, I'd say your best bet is 2 970s. You'll just need to find the sweet spot for settings due to VRAM, as you run into that 3.5GB issue and at 4k you need every last .1 GB.

BF Hardline is optimized pretty well though. You should be good to go to play at high settings (no AA) at 60 fps with 2. Even if you don't get a solid 60 fps with whatever gpu setup you get, if you have a gsync monitor, it should still be pretty smooth.

Hope this helps, good luck!

I think I'll just wait for the 390x and freesync and then I'll decide

 

[jerdle]

Yeah, if you want to play games @ 4k, AMD Radeon is your best bet. Though it could take up to a few months before you can put a 300 series card in your computer.

 

[Manuel Castro]

Yeah, if you want to play games @ 4k, AMD Radeon is your best bet. Though it could take up to a few months before you can put a 300 series card in your computer.

I heard they would release the card in summer, so I guess I'll wait for Skylake