Need advice on new monitor.

[MtSeldon]

I'm using a Samsung T260 at the moment. It is a multi purpose computer.
I use it for Word, Power point, internet, video games, watching movies.

I liked those curver 21:9 ,34' monitors , but i guess they are not good for a multi purpose computer. Video games maybe incompatible. Most movies will leave black bars at sides.

I'm going for 4k , 32'-40' monitor . But again , 4k is very taxing on GPU . Is there any 4k monitor , that can scale 1080p without blurring the picture?

Is the Freesync, Gsync war over yet? is it safe to buy a Freesync monitor?

 

[Ichigo]

Technically all 4k monitors should be able to scale to 1080p with pixel doubling but for some reason it doesn't work out so cleanly for many of them. Anyone know why?

 

[tweakboy]

Yes!

 

[MtSeldon]

So is there any 4k monitor , that can scale to 1080p with pixel doublling?

Because if i cant find such a monitor, it would be pointless to switch to 4k , since no gpu , even sli cant sustain 60fps in new games .

 

[postmortemIA]

Technically all 4k monitors should be able to scale to 1080p with pixel doubling but for some reason it doesn't work out so cleanly for many of them. Anyone know why?

Because every Windows graphics driver does interpolation for all non-native resolutions. The only way pixel doubling would work is if monitor does it on its own. Dell ultrasharp 3007 was known to do this.

Apple does nice trick in osx for retina displays. But good luck getting this on Windows.

 

[Deders]

I tend to find that about 85% of the games I play, especially modern games, have support for Ultrawide. With movies it's about 50/50, but the black bars aren't really a bother, it's just much nicer when it fills the whole screen.