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4K gaming possible at full settings on todays hardware?

Sorry if this is a noob question but what is the relevance of the monitor frequency to gaming. I'm seeing a lot of people talking about 30/60/120 - would a 30Hz monitor not really display more than 30fps (even if the gfx card is easily capable of this)?
 
AlexTrickle said:
Sorry if this is a noob question but what is the relevance of the monitor frequency to gaming. I'm seeing a lot of people talking about 30/60/120 - would a 30Hz monitor not really display more than 30fps (even if the gfx card is easily capable of this)?
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No, if you disable V-sync to try to do so you will see tearing.
 
Just fired up Crysis 3 at 4K and thought I would check VRAM usage in it :eek:

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jh30uk said:
No, if you disable V-sync to try to do so you will see tearing.
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I've always disabled v-sync out of habit since my old CS 1.6 gaming days back on CRTs as it was always advised to do so.

Should I use v-sync with modern games/monitors? What does this 'tearing' look like as I can't think I've seen anything resembling tears?

Again apologies for noob questions, never really taken an interest in monitors until recently but all this 4K discussion has peaked my interest :)
 
@ jktmstokes23, If you run out of Vram you will know about it as it will then use System Ram and then finally HDD as Virtual Ram.
 
jh30uk said:
@ jktmstokes23, If you run out of Vram you will know about it as it will then use System Ram and then finally HDD as Virtual Ram.
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I have read many reviews and whatnot but have not come across the effects that this would have on performance. Would you happen to know?

I know tomshardware did the article that VRam isn't as needed as people think but that was at lower resolutions and I know a lot of their findings have been getting called into questions because of the testing methodology.
 
Yes, I think we all know that. The question is, just how much. 2 GB is good for 1080 and 3 is good for 1440-1600. Is 4 the bare minimum or is it enough for 4k? That is the question here.

Along with previous ones I had :) Like, will my i5 3570k be a bottleneck or should I upgrade.

If I remember correctly the Toms article did do tests below 1080p which I thought was a waste of time, but maybe that's just PC elitist talk.
 
Like I said guys, what is seen and what is needed is key. I didn't monitor frames but can say that it was very slow and very unresponsive and guessing around 25-30 but will give it a bench tomorrow to verify. AA would need turning off and maybe some other settings dropped as well to get playable and this in turn would massively drop the VRAM usage.
 
jktmstokes23 said:
Yes, I think we all know that. The question is, just how much. 2 GB is good for 1080 and 3 is good for 1440-1600. Is 4 the bare minimum or is it enough for 4k? That is the question here.

Along with previous ones I had :) Like, will my i5 3570k be a bottleneck or should I upgrade.

If I remember correctly the Toms article did do tests below 1080p which I thought was a waste of time, but maybe that's just PC elitist talk.
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Max settings you need more than 4GB and a couple of GPUs.

But do you need to run max settings at 4K? That's for each person to weigh up. I would be a bit sad to have a 4K monitor and not run max :p.
 
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