Well, the wait was worth it! The only downside is that after getting used to a 4K desktop it makes a regular HD monitor look pretty grainy in comparison.
Windows 10 paired with a 980 seems to work well, using the same DPI enhancements as was found in Windows 8.1. Things such as Steam look a bit blurry, but not unbearably so.
My old 3D Vision Acer screen is now playing second fiddle to the 4K Acer screen and it shows up a few Windows anomalies. Run Winver, for example, and it looks fine on either monitor. Drag the window from one to the other and you see it resizing DPI-wise on the fly. Other programs such as Task Manager can only run at one DPI setting, so dragging it from the 4K to the HD screen just makes it appear *massive* on the HD screen.
Browsers and such seem to just work, with Firefox knowing that one screen is high DPI and the other isn't.
Games wise - I was surprised to see that WoW ran fullscreen with everything on Ultra or High at mostly 59-60fps (it was doing 110-120fps on the old HD monitor, or around 70fps with my old 670). Flying to a more complicated area in the middle of Pandaria took that down to the low to high 50s and it still looked pretty darned smooth, not quite as smooth as the old 120Hz monitor but much better than the less-than-60 fps would suggest. Diablo 3 runs at an effortless 60 throughout; I'll need to run some more demanding games to give it a full workout!
For those with 980s and somewhat less demanding games, 4K is here. And it's sharp!
Windows 10 paired with a 980 seems to work well, using the same DPI enhancements as was found in Windows 8.1. Things such as Steam look a bit blurry, but not unbearably so.
My old 3D Vision Acer screen is now playing second fiddle to the 4K Acer screen and it shows up a few Windows anomalies. Run Winver, for example, and it looks fine on either monitor. Drag the window from one to the other and you see it resizing DPI-wise on the fly. Other programs such as Task Manager can only run at one DPI setting, so dragging it from the 4K to the HD screen just makes it appear *massive* on the HD screen.
Browsers and such seem to just work, with Firefox knowing that one screen is high DPI and the other isn't.
Games wise - I was surprised to see that WoW ran fullscreen with everything on Ultra or High at mostly 59-60fps (it was doing 110-120fps on the old HD monitor, or around 70fps with my old 670). Flying to a more complicated area in the middle of Pandaria took that down to the low to high 50s and it still looked pretty darned smooth, not quite as smooth as the old 120Hz monitor but much better than the less-than-60 fps would suggest. Diablo 3 runs at an effortless 60 throughout; I'll need to run some more demanding games to give it a full workout!
For those with 980s and somewhat less demanding games, 4K is here. And it's sharp!
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