Will you damage your graphics card if you run it at 4k resolution?

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Will you damage your graphics card if you run it at 4k resolution? even though your gpu's max card can only do 2560 x 1600?

I have a 4k monitor that somehow my recommended resolution is 4k so I am running it at 4k @ 30hz.

OS: win10
gpu: radeon hd 6850 (using win10 auto update driver of amd catalyst)
cpu: i5 quad core 3ghz

thanks.

 

[rowdymoody]

You are running 4k on an hd 6850? I highly doubt that. It must not actually be running at 4k resolution. If it is, your experience can't be good at all.

 

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You are running 4k on an hd 6850? I highly doubt that. It must not actually be running at 4k resolution. If it is, your experience can't be good at all.

yes it is.. but only at 30hz. Even running at 2560 x 1440 I can only do 30hz

I was running the same on windows 7 but I went down to 2560 x 1440 @ 30hz

 

[rowdymoody]

Yeah, it won't be damaged, you just won't have a good time. I am pretty surprised to hear a hd 6850 can even run 4k.

 

[xcrossover]

No, your graphics card without intervention will generally run at the maximum workload it can do (which will depend on the cpu processor, rez,hrtz and program)
Ignore the 'max resolution' gumph. The newer drivers have enabled a setting for that resolution but as you have noticed its a bit 'slow'.Still the same max workload tho.As Rowdy points out you may not be at full resolution,but it will not 'Damage ' anything,just perform badly.

well its good to know it wont damage my card. how do I know its not running at 3840 X 2160 even though its selected?
If I go down to 2560 x 1440 it looks huge (icons) compared to 3840 X 2160.

I compared it to my brother

I do not find any performance issue except for the 30hz max frame rate.

im currently set 3840 X 2160 @ 30hz. I even went to the card properties under list all modes and I can run at 3840 X 2160 @ 30hz with 32bit true color

 

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Yeah, it won't be damaged, you just won't have a good time. I am pretty surprised to hear a hd 6850 can even run 4k.

i was surprised too, the best i was hoping for when i got my 4k is running at 2560 x 1440 @ 60hz. But all i can manage was 30hz. Why i also did not use 3840 x 2160 on win 7, because my welcome screen was reverting back to a different resolution on my welcome screen. Welcome screen was smaller like a centre wall paper and not stretched. Plus Windows 7 kept crashing when i was trying to tinker with the resolution.

That is why I had to buy win10 in case there was a limitation in windows 7 resolutions (which there was). I get the same results in windows 10 but not the annoying smaller scaled welcome screen.

so yes it is running 3840 x 2160 @ 30hz. But was hoping to get to 60hz because my 4k monitor has a native refresh rate of 60hz by spec (75hz according to windows 10)

 

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oh additional info, i don't play games on PC so i doubt i would get to see any performance issues (graphics wise) when doing photo editing. 4k is awesome... windows 10 is cool (need to do tutorials to understand win10 better)

 

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run speccy. look at graphics card, should tell you current settings.

is that some app? i'll try it when i get home. But the AMD catalyst and card properties have 3840 x 2160 @ 30hz. Window 10 display settings recommends the 4K resolution.

 

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I ran Speccy and it says

In Graphics>
Under Monitor:
Name: Acer on AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Current Resolution: 2194 x 1234 pixels
Work Resolution: 2194 x 1194 pixels
State: Enabled
Monitor W: 3840
Monitor H: 2160
Monitor BPP: 32bits per pixel
Monitor Frequency: 30 hz

Under ATI AMD Radeon HD 6800 series
Just says the normal AMD specs..


So does it mean I'm not really running 3840 x 2160 but rather running 2194 x 1194?

 

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