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  • ToTTenTranz - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    Why do these monitors have such low PPI?

    If we have smartphones with 5.5" 1440p displays doing 120Hz, why do large displays need a low PPI to achieve similar refresh rates?

    Honest question. Is there a technical limit here?
  • guidryp - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    Not every monitor is for you. There are 27"-28" 4K monitors if you want higher PPI.

    This is perfect PPI for me. This means I can use Windows without scaling (which is a mess in Windows), and as an added bonus 1440p is easier for GPUs to drive.
  • gerz1219 - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    The technical limit is with current GPUs. Most AAA games barely give you 60fps at 4K on a 1080 GTX Ti -- a $1000+ card that was used by 0.75% of Steam users last month. A 120Hz 4K monitor would be overkill with current hardware because very few modern games can hit that frame rate.
  • ToTTenTranz - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    That's not a valid reason at all... Monitor purchases are usually much less regular than GPU upgrades. High-end GPUs from 2020 may target 4K 144Hz for a great number of games.

    Besides, even a current mid-range like the RX480/580 can perfectly reach over 100 FPS @ 4K in older games or esports titles with lower IQ settings, still taking advantage of the reduced input lag of FreeSync 2 while making good use of the higher resolution.
  • guidryp - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    BS. Most people don't think RX580 is good enough for 1440P let alone 4K at high frame rates.
  • gerz1219 - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    Supposedly there will be 4K FreeSync/Gsync panels coming out over the next year. If you want to pay $1500 soon for a monitor you won’t really be able to use until 2020, rather than paying $500 in 2020 for a monitor you can use immediately, then who am I to tell you how to spend your money?
  • Sttm - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    Meh, id rather have the 4k Now, and just play games at 1080p on it when I want the ultra high framerates, then upgrade the GPU later to enable 4k high framerate. The overall monitor experience is greatly improved with the higher resolution at that large size.
  • Fnnoobee - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    Umm... Just, no. Having owned the RX 480 in desktop form and a laptop with an RX 580 (both 8GB VRAM variants), neither was hardly capable of pushing at least 60 FPS @ 1440p (which is quite low in this day and age) on most modern games (Dark Souls 3, The Witcher 3, etc.). Never mind 4K, whether you have Freesync monitor or not (which I did). Even a GTX 1080, which is far more powerful than the 480/580 series, struggles to get 60 FPS at 4K on many demanding games, even with VSYNC off and on G-Sync monitors.
  • Death666Angel - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    Please read what he posted:
    "older games or esports titles with lower IQ settings"
  • niva - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    He said older games, and probably wasn't thinking of Dark Souls 3 or Witcher 3 in that category. He's probably thinking of games like WOW, or the original starcraft :)
  • Death666Angel - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    The smaller the pixels, the better it looks at non-native or non-integer divisible resolutions. So I'd take a 27" 8k monitor with my GTX 960 no problem. Also, 4k is a 1080p integer resolution, so is 8k. You would get the clarity while doing non-intensive stuff and the framerates while gaming without losing fidelity.
  • edzieba - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    Not a 'limit', but severe diminishing returns. Fabbing LCD (and OLED) panels is a lithographic process, like fabbing silicon chips. The bigger the monolithic piece, the more likely a defect (or defects) will be present. This is why smartphone panels are nowhere near as dense as microdisplays, and why large desktop or TV panels are not as dense as smartphone panels.
  • Dug - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    As someone that owns a 32" 4k monitor and a 32" 1440P, I can honestly say I prefer the 1440P for gaming and this is with a 1080ti. It's just so much smoother because of frame rates. If you are really gaming, then you aren't paying attention to the ppi unless you stick your head right up to the screen. For work, I prefer the 4k monitor but still have to raise the scale to 125% or everything is too small.
  • spe1491 - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    If this was ultrawide I'd be a lot more interested. All the other specs look great.
  • justaviking - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    What is that "stick" from behind the right side of the monitor? Maybe I missed it in the article.
    It looks like an antenna. Or a windshield wiper control.
    Maybe a giant on/off switch for the LEDs?
  • ianmills - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    lol good catch. it makes this thing look like a mystical unicorn
  • ezridah - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    At first I thought it was a WiFi antenna which seemed very odd, but after thinking about it for a few more seconds I'm guessing it's a headphone stand.
  • justaviking - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 - link

    I actually considered it might be a place to hang you headphones, but then thought, "Nahhh, it couldn't be that. That would be so ugly." But you're probably right.

    Although... my "LED switch" could ba cool feature. Every "gamer" will want one. Variable brightness based on how far you rotate the switch. And if you twist it, maybe you could change the colors too. Ooo! I wonder if I should patent it. Soon you will have similar switches on your case, your coolers, your memory sticks, maybe even on your cell phone! Remember, you saw it here first.
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  • Average Joe - Friday, November 16, 2018 - link

    sorry to be a necromancer and raise the dead post here, I'm looking for a new screen but black Friday is so close I may as well wait. Doesn't a 24" 1080p panel have a PPI of 109 and a 32" 1440p panels also have a PPI of 109? Windows 10 is dreadful with scaling fonts so people with 27" 1440p screen think they look a bit crisper and 32" screens are identicle to 24" 1440p panels.

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