Super High Resolution Displays Craze Question

[xaeniac]

What is with the super high resolutions these days on computer monitors? How do I know what resolution is good enough? Is there any reading guides on what one should get? Are these high resolutions mainly for gamers/movie watchers? Can someone break this down into noob terminology or point me to some reading materials?

 

[tential]

Super High Resolution Monitors are for people with a lot of money to blow for gaming. It currently doesn't apply for much else.

If you don't have at least ~$800-1000 burning a hole in your pocket, it's really a waste of time to start diving into.

And then it's a continual large amount of spend afterwards to upkeep it.

 

[Railgun]

And photography.

And graphic design.

Upkeep? It's a monitor. Not like you need to buy things for it every month.

 

[BFG10K]

Upkeep? It's a monitor. Not like you need to buy things for it every month.

He's talking about graphics cards. 4K requires four times as much GPU performance as 1080p.

 

[4K_shmoorK]

And photography.

And graphic design.

Upkeep? It's a monitor. Not like you need to buy things for it every month.

The exception being design and professional production work. Otherwise, to game at high resolutions it is most definitely pay to play.

 

[rsutoratosu]

I have 2 asus 27 VE276, 27" at 1920x1080. I deal with a lot of giant excel sheets, thought of going to 2 34" ie dell u3415w. My laptop can't drive it.. so its going to be a desktop solution. still in planning stage, need more research..

less scrolling in excel = faster work done

 

[swapjim]

He's talking about graphics cards. 4K requires four times as much GPU performance as 1080p.

The exception being design and professional production work. Otherwise, to game at high resolutions it is most definitely pay to play.

Here is how I understand and see things.

You can always lower the resolution in games and tell the display not to scale it, so it's going to be a smaller frame in the center of the screen.

You will effectively have a smaller monitor in games but since you have smaller pixel size (as far as I understand that's the thing with 4K monitors) you can always place the monitor closer to your eyes -- for as long as you play a game at least.

Now you may be wondering what's the benefit from doing all that. To which I would respond: higher pixel density when processing video or doing other visual work.

Does that make sense?