Dell announces 32" 8k monitor for $4,999

southernorth · 5 Jan 2017 at 18:57

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/5/14098224/dell-up3218k-8k-computer-monitor-price-features-ces-2017

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3155...ch-8k-display-the-ultrasharp-32-ultra-hd.html

"32-inch, 8K desktop monitor with 1.07 billion colors, aluminum construction, 100 percent coverage of the AdobeRGB and sRGB color gamuts, and a monster $4,999 price. The UP3218K has a resolution of 7680 x 4320 (for a pixel density of 280ppi), which is as many pixels as you’d get from four 4K displays or 16 Full HD panels"

and rather surprisingly....

"The $4,999 UP3218K goes on sale on March 23rd"

A bargain!

TNA · 5 Jan 2017 at 19:04

Interesting indeed. Hmm, might have to order one

Westie · 5 Jan 2017 at 21:51

Lol no ultrawide.. no thanks

southernorth · 5 Jan 2017 at 22:15

Westie said:
Lol no ultrawide.. no thanks

Aren't there major issues with programs and app/games not working properly with ultrawides though?

Nexus18 · 5 Jan 2017 at 22:54

southernorth said:
Aren't there major issues with programs and app/games not working properly with ultrawides though?

Nope.

The only people that seem to keep saying that there is little to no support are the ones who don't own an ultrawide monitor in the first place

95% of the stuff I do on my 21.9 monitor works superbly and any game that hasn't supported 21.9 has been easily fixed with a simple click of a button via flawless widescreen or going through a config file to change a few lines. AFAIK, there is only one game that has awful 21.9 support and that is overwatch (developers seem to think that it adds a competitive advantage yet their other games have 21.9 support...)

The game that was the biggest faff to get 21.9 working was fallout 4 as you have to go through about 4-6 config files to get proper 21.9 support.

Personally, the only way I will move back to a 16.9 display for my PC is for OLED tech or possibly a HDR with full array zone back lights...

As for 8k, lol... we are still at least 1-2 years of until we can play games at 4k with a consistent 60 FPS and satisfactory settings....

TNA · 5 Jan 2017 at 22:55

southernorth said:
Aren't there major issues with programs and app/games not working properly with ultrawides though?

Yea. Quite a few games released in 2016 did not seem to get day one support. People end up having to look for a work around. But mostly it works these days. It is still pretty niche. But like all things, once you like it, you may not want to go back.

TNA · 5 Jan 2017 at 23:01

Nexus18 said:
As for 8k, lol... we are still at least 1-2 years of until we can play games at 4k with a consistent 60 FPS and satisfactory settings....

I am happy to play 30fps if it means better graphics. But not sure how much of a leap there will be going from 4K to 8K in games.

Most likely I will end up staying with 4K for a long time. A lot of games going forward will be optimised for that resolution and with my next upgrade I should be able to get 60fps easily with tweaking settings

southernorth · 5 Jan 2017 at 23:45

TNA said:
Yea. Quite a few games released in 2016 did not seem to get day one support. People end up having to look for a work around. But mostly it works these days. It is still pretty niche. But like all things, once you like it, you may not want to go back.

Yeah, seems a shame that 21:9 isn't supported on release. I still see that Netflix doesn't support 21:9 natively, yet amazon video does. So odd.

Nexus18 · 5 Jan 2017 at 23:47

TNA said:
Yea. Quite a few games released in 2016 did not seem to get day one support. People end up having to look for a work around. But mostly it works these days. It is still pretty niche. But like all things, once you like it, you may not want to go back.

Most of 2016 was very good for game support on day 1.

Back when I got mine in middle of 2014, game support was very patchy and due to 21.9 being relatively new, you weren't able to fix issues with certain games but it picked up in 2015 with more fixes becoming available and drastically improved in 2016 with the vast majority of games having very good support and if not, it was pretty much guaranteed that there was a fix out there. Some developers have even gone back and updated their games to include 21.9 support too.

Given the popularity of 21.9 now, I think the lack of 21.9 support on day 1 will be a thing of the past (someone posted a steam survey image several months back and iirc 2560x1080 + 3440x1440 had overtaken 4k res. users)

And yes, it is hard looking at any 16.9 display when you have used 21.9 for quite a while, everything looks so squashed on 16.9

TNA said:
I am happy to play 30fps if it means better graphics. But not sure how much of a leap there will be going from 4K to 8K in games.

Most likely I will end up staying with 4K for a long time. A lot of games going forward will be optimised for that resolution and with my next upgrade I should be able to get 60fps easily with tweaking settings

Horses for courses, personally I can't stick anything lower than 50 fps on PC

I would say it depends entirely on the person and the distance they sit from certain sized displays.

With the introduction of 4K HDR monitors and pretty much every relatively new TV having 4K as standard now, I think this will be 4k's year to really shine though!

EDIT:

southernorth said:
Yeah, seems a shame that 21:9 isn't supported on release. I still see that Netflix doesn't support 21:9 natively, yet amazon video does. So odd.

There are multiple extensions for chrome and firefox to add 21.9 support for netflix etc.

southernorth · 5 Jan 2017 at 23:53

I am aware of that. But you shouldn't need to use a third-party extension just to watch video at the correct aspect ratio. It should just work on ultrawides, without any additional fiddling.

Nexus18 · 6 Jan 2017 at 00:11

southernorth said:
I am aware of that. But you shouldn't need to use a third-party extension just to watch video at the correct aspect ratio. It should just work on ultrawides, without any additional fiddling.

I don't disagree, it should be standard and I'm sure at some point it will be but for now, it is a super easy fix.

Vega · 6 Jan 2017 at 00:36

Anyone know the input configuration on this thing?

southernorth · 6 Jan 2017 at 02:13

Vega said:
Anyone know the input configuration on this thing?

The 8K monitor has two DisplayPort 1.4 ports, which support 8K.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3155...ch-8k-display-the-ultrasharp-32-ultra-hd.html

RidingTheFlow · 6 Jan 2017 at 10:20

"Dell announces" - stopped reading after that.

Still waiting for that Dell OLED

Vega · 6 Jan 2017 at 13:06

A bit different, this one has been announced with a close, specific release date of March 23rd.

BluD · 6 Jan 2017 at 13:25

Pff only 60hz, how am i gonna play counterstrike?

JediFragger · 6 Jan 2017 at 13:27

BluD said:
Pff only 60hz, how am i gonna play counterstrike?

Very badly?

BluD · 6 Jan 2017 at 13:35

No change there then, phew.

mjallan123 · 6 Jan 2017 at 15:22

For a screen that is equivalent to 4 * 4K screens, $5000 actually seems quite reasonable.

southernorth · 6 Jan 2017 at 15:37

BluD said:
No change there then, phew.

I wonder how many generations we are from 8k @144hz anyway, 3? It might only be possible well past 2020 and even then for like 5k