Need quality new monitor - does 4K res. work well in Windows?

[Ship69]

Hello

I need a new monitor because my old 24inch 1920 x1200 monitor appears to be about to die (it has started taking longer and longer to warm up and come to life!)

How well does Window 10 handle "4K" resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels) ?Or should I stay at 1920 x 1200?

Here is the spec of my system:
- Motherboard: Intel DP55WB (MA TX)
- Processor: Intel Core I5 750 2.66GHz RAM: 8GB = (2GB 1066 DDR3 Memory) x4 modules
- Hard disk: SSD 300GB, "INTEL SSDSA2CW300G3 ATA Device"
- Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 5770 http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/5000/5770

I like a fairly high resolution screen, but I need colour fidelity to be pretty accurate. I do quite a lot of graphics heavy work (3D CAD, web design, graphics design)

- Any advice on what resolution works best in Windows 10 for a large monitor?

- Where can I find any good reviews for high resolution monitors?

I am based in the UK.
Budget: c. GBP 500.

With thanks

J


PS The applications that I shall be using will include: Office 2017, various browsers (chrome, firefox, edge etc), Photophoto, Xara Designer Pro X10 , Mindjet Mind manager, MyLifeOrganised, TextPad, X1 Search, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5,

 

[Tim Locke]

I think that you may want to start with...what will your video card support. Can it do DisplayPort? HDMI 2.0? Does it have enough onboard memory? If not you might want to consider that first. If it turns out that you DO need a new video card to support 4k then does your PSU have enough power headroom. Some of these new powerful graphics card use a LOT of power. For colour rendering is the IPS type display the way to go?

I am being devils advocate here.


ps. My wife just bought a new 1920 monitor and video card but she doesn't game nor do video but she does use Photoshop.

 

[Grizzly]

The HD 5770 can max do a resolution of 2560x1600 on the display port.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/5000/5770#

• UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator

• Advanced post-processing and scaling

• Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction

• Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)

• Independent video gamma control

• Dynamic video range control

• Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2

• Dual-stream 1080p playback support

• DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support

• Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP

• Max resolution: 2560x1600

• Integrated DisplayPort output

• Max resolution: 2560x1600

• HDMI® (With 3D, Deep Color and x.v.Color™)

• Max resolution: 1920x1200

• Integrated VGA output

• Max resolution: 2048x1536

• 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support10

 

[Tim Locke]

Ship69 you will need someone many kilometres closer to the UK to advise on where to find your new monitor !

 

[Ship69]

Okay so the graphics card can only deliver 2560x1600.

But my question remains... how well does that are the highest resolutions work well in practice on a large screen (say 24 to 27inch) on Windows 10?

J

 

[Tim Locke]

THis article about the Surface Studio suggests that W10 can do 4k with no trouble

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016...en-clever-engineering-but-a-mediocre-product/