Thread: 2560 Monitors

Originally Posted by HeavyG

If you are moving UP to a 2560 x 1440 res screen, then the 16:9 will be fine. Moving down from 2560 x 1600 to 2560 x 1440, you may notice the loss of usable space, but I currently prefer the wide form factor for gaming. If I was using the screen more for programming, photoshop, etc, then I may have leaned towards the 16:10.

Yeah, the issue is that a lot of the cheap 30" 16:10 monitors are dogs or unknown quantitites. Then there is the Dell U3014 which has issues. The only 30" 16:10 monitors I am sure of are the HP zr30w and the NEC PA302 series which is out of my price range for now.

Ed. Part of the reason for my choice of the ASUS is that I am going to pay a premium for a good gamut for sRBG and Adobe RBG.

-H

CES had some 2560 x 1440 res monitors at 120Hz with NVIDIA GSYNC. I was reading fantastic things about them. I would hate losing the beautiful picture of the IPS panel, but getting 120Hz and GSYNC for $899 could be pretty awesome.

Either way, I am holding out a few months for these new products to launch before upgrading my monitors.

Any that only do hdmi 1.4 will only do 30hz. If they support hdmi 2.0 they should do 60.

Of course pushing UHD or 4K with a single video card is going to be..... problematic.

Originally Posted by RhysJD3

4k monitors are going to start making a presence but I'm not sure all that detail and resulting lower FPS would be worth the premium. Also, you have to be careful with refresh rates. 60 is the highest at 4k resolutions but some only do 30hz at 4k resolutions...

The interesting thing about 4k is the size problem, for image editing 4k with color correction wins even at 30hz, but you will not see a whole lot more unless your face is right next to the screen if you try to use it for gaming.

-H