** HERE COME ASUS WITH THEIR 4K 28" OFFERING!! **

Can i ask a theoretical Q...
How are these likely to handle with a 1080p signal, do they have hardware upscaling which would effectively make it look better than a 28" 1080p monitor, or is it going to look stretched and ugly?

Gaming doesnt really seem achievable without £800 worth of GPU, and its one hell of a leap in pixel growth compared to what we've had in the past, and while developers push things as GPU hardware makes gains, pushing 4x the pixels isnt going to be done out of the box.
Its not helped by the fact that i'd be looking to buy three of these not 1 :D i dont forsee me getting 120fps with 4K eyefinity on a 270x with anything this side of the millennium :(

So, while i dont foresee it being with this model, is it possible that people would still be able to make use of a 3x4K desktop, and then simply game at 3xHD without it looking poorer.
Im just wondering what my options are, i'll have to go down the 2nd hand route for a 3rd matching monitor (23" 2048) for now, but i would like to go bigger but spending £600 on 3x 1080p 27" seems more wasteful than paying £1800 for 3x 4K which are initial release models, so im just wondering whether i could make 4K work this way (1080p upscaled gaming) in the future, because of its benefits for working in 4K, which would be easily 8-10hrs a day, every day.

Im tempted by using my two 2048x1152 monitors in portrait, with 3840x2160 not being too far off, but i've absolutely no idea how that'd work for games/eyefinity.
 
check out gregsters review, he did some benchmarks using a single card - although it is a titan. You would be fine going a single 780 with medium settings - dont expect 120 fps though, that aint going to happen!

I don't recall the source , but I remember reading that using anything other than the native res leaves things a bit blurry/fuzzy - but from what greg says, he's tried 1080p and says it's pretty good
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

Asus come back with pricing and confirming £599 is the price, so no movement.
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Shame.

Makes AOCs offer look the most promising IMO. You can get the Samsung offer earlier, but AOC do offer a better stand.

As Gregs review points out the picture on the Samsung is great, but the stand is a bit wobbly, but then again all 3 options are great low cost 4k options.
 
llamadal said:
check out gregsters review, he did some benchmarks using a single card - although it is a titan. You would be fine going a single 780 with medium settings - dont expect 120 fps though, that aint going to happen!

I don't recall the source , but I remember reading that using anything other than the native res leaves things a bit blurry/fuzzy - but from what greg says, he's tried 1080p and says it's pretty good
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Thanks for that, i had to google to know what that meant :D, i hadnt thought to look in the GPU section for that.
Had these been available today, i might have bought one and a WC'd 290x and see what happened before getting another pair. Plenty of time to judge feedback, and i'll start by reading that thread now.
 
If I was to get a 4K monitor this would be the one I want the most but at £100 more than the AOC which is also vesa compatible I would get that and put my stand on that.
 
delpy8 said:
Can anyone tell me if this has a vesa mount as it look like it does from the rear view picture?
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It does. I was looking to get 3 of them, but in the ended turned out i needed them sooner than expected so went with 3x 29" Dell 2560x1080's they had on offer on Thursday.
The other 2, annoyingly, dont have the vesa mounts, but are £100 cheaper.
 
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