Living room build

[cytg111]

What I want to do
Have a 4K tellie in the living room and a HTPC (and Steam Streaming on occasion, not 4K obv.) to deliver content to it.
The HTPC will also act as proxy (ms remote desktop, its just the best remoting software windows-2-windows) to my main haswell rig upstairs so I can get "my code/geek on" sitting comfortable in the couch.
Now for HTPC I've got an old Sandy i3 box idling on a shelf, I plan to upgrade this with a 4K capable Gfx card.

Sounds good right?

What I plan to get
55inch 4K tellie : Samsung HU7500 (I am aware of the input lag ~70ms)
For the 4K "HTPC" unit : 750ti

This is where I stumble a little, googling 750ti I get pages like this

http://hardware.techassistbox.com/3...nvidia-750ti-with-34052-possible_5859715.html
- from 12th august

On the tellie I understand that it has "OneConnect" .. All in all, how do I go about this the smartest way? Is the 750ti a bad idea?

Thx.

 

[Termie]

I wouldn't count on that actually working. If it were that easy, Nvidia would have included that full RGB option in the drivers. I doubt the HDMI 1.4 port on the 750 Ti can magically increase its bandwidth to provide that full color support at 4K/60Hz.

I have used my 780 Ti at 4K/60Hz on my Samsung TV. It works fine, but you do lose some color information, which is noticeable on the desktop, but not in games/videos.

Note that the new GTX 970, releasing tomorrow, offers an HDMI 2.0 port and will likely be the ideal video card for high-end HTPC use. It may be around $400, however, so it's not equivalent to a 750 Ti in that regard.

 

[cytg111]

Damn, back to the drawing board then.

The 750ti is on this list

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/4k/supported-gpus

Yet ;
"One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One mini-HDMI"

And then there is DID .. holy moley, thought this should be close to a nobrainer .. Thank god i started digging before I went shopping...

just read that the 970 should be priced around 300$ .. looks like thats the one I want .. (and replace the i3 with an i5 ..)


Thanks 🙂.