Question "Elder Eyes" and Monitor Size/Resolution

[Leyawiin]

Hey guys. I currently have a Dell 24" monitor @ 1920x1200. The size of text is a bit difficult for my 59 year old eyes. If I pull it closer it blurs and if I push it away its too difficult to read text. I was looking at either a 27" at 1920x1080 or a 31.5" at 2560x1440. The dot pitch is considerably lower on the 27" (so icons/text should be larger), but would the larger size of the 31.5" make up for that in larger text and images in general? Also, if I went with the 31.5" would it make sense to get a curved monitor? I'm having to decide this without actual going out to see them with the "shelter at home" order here. Thanks for your help.

Edit: I have a GTX 1070 and an i7-4770k @ 4.5 Ghz. Would that be good enough for 1440p in current games for decent settings?

 

[Steltek]

You wear glasses? With progressive lenses? The reason I ask is that I went through something similar recently. Ended up my progressives weren't working for near focusing (and I'm 7 years younger than you). I'm in the process of having a pair of glasses made just for computer work designed to focus at 3 feet or less.

 

[Sgt. York]

Get a "computer" scrip from your optometrist and order the glasses from Zinni. Mine cost $6 plus $4 shipping.

Yes, I have terrible eyesight.

 

[Leyawiin]

I do wear glasses - single vision. I know I need bifocals or computer glasses, but with my strong prescription the monitor is about half the price of pair (and my distance vision is fine with the current ones). Especially with all that's going on I'm not going into an optometrist's office several times unless I have too.

So yeah, just looking to get the question about the monitors answered right now.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Well, probably the optimal solution, is to get "computer glasses".

But as far as monitors go, I'm really happy with my 40" 4K UHD at 4K60, 4:4:4 chroma sub-sampling, over HDMI 2.0. (Currently using an RX 5700 reference blower card, and it looks be-autiful.)

Some of the icon text is a little hard to read, because I'm still at 100% text scaling in Win10, but if I bump it up to 125% or 150%, things get much easier to read.

I'm fairly eagle-eyed with my glasses, and for a while, I was using VSR (an AMD feature) to kick this display up to 5K resolution (2880P). Simply amazing for screen real-estate. But text gets VERY tiny. I do use some scaling factor in Firefox Nightly. Currently set at 133% for AT forums. (Is set on a per-site basis.)


Edit: The way monitor prices are going, 1440P is "botique", whereas 4K UHD is now the new "pleb standard", and you might just be able to find a 4K UHD monitor (or TV - but make sure it is capable of 4:4:4 chroma sub-sampling) for less than a 1440P (especially if the 1440P is a high referesh-rate, versus 60Hz for the 4K UHD TV).

Unless you want to game on it too, then yeah, given your GPU horsepower, probably 4K UHD would be out as far as gaming goes. But as far as text-viewing, IMHO, it can't currently be beat, for the price.

 

[mopardude87]

Having used many 1080p monitors from 22 right up to 40 if you wanna count a tv in the mix, i will say the 27'' is where it becomes a bit to much. I prefer the 24'' 1080p over anything else. I may make a exception for a future 24/25'' 1440p 1ms 75hz or higher freesync monitor. No such thing exist yet, doubt one will.

 

[mopardude87]

Looks like the monitor i want is this, hehe it does exist. Pretty intense. 1ms 165hz 24'' 1440p.

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[gk1951]

At nearly 69, my 43" Acer and 35" BenQ widescreen sure do help!

 

[mopardude87]

At nearly 69, my 43" Acer and 35" BenQ widescreen sure do help!

Your 43'' i assume a 4k? I like my 40'' 4k for slower paced stuff but for quick fps action its my 24'' 1080p monitor all day long. The tv has to much input lag for me.

 

[Leyawiin]

That Dell looked nice until I saw it was a TN panel. No more of those, thanks!

 

[Adonisds]

I think you can buy a monitor with very small pixels and high resolution and still use it comfortably if you use windows text scaling. Just buy a very big one. I have young eyes and like having lots of space, so I never used it and I don't know if it works correctly for every app.

 

[gk1951]

mopardude87, yes the Acer 43" is a 4k monitor.

 

[biostud]

Why not just increase scaling to 125 or 150?

 

[Hans Gruber]

I have a 43" TCL 4k in the center, mounted on the wall just above the center channel on my desk. A 31.5" 1440P 144hz on the left side of the desk with a gas arm mount. On the right side of the desk a 27" 1080P on a gas arm. The 4k for desk work is awesome. I am going blind. I may go to Canada for Lasik.

 

[mopardude87]

mopardude87, yes the Acer 43" is a 4k monitor.

I just find it crazy we got monitors now so big they double up as tvs.

 

[gk1951]

Yeppir, love watching Hallmark movies in 4k!