The official Philips BDM4065UC thread

El_MUERkO · 9 Jan 2015 at 16:48

I've been having this annoying problem where the monitor drops to 30hz, when I look in display settings it's refresh rates have changed from 30hz or 60hz to 29hz or 30hz. Anyone else getting that issue? Could it be the display port cable?

eyetrip · 9 Jan 2015 at 16:58

I had it one day, but if I remember correctly, I was changing drivers...

Really can't remember clearly, it was just one day specifically, and not had it again since (fingers crossed).

I think it was mostly after rebooting, windows would be in 30hz mode, and only a restart cured it.

Am sure changing drivers fixed it, but I would be wrong.

El_MUERkO · 9 Jan 2015 at 17:47

I've had it with 344.80 and now installed 347.09 and I'm getting the same issue

eyetrip · 9 Jan 2015 at 18:21

Did you do a clean install? And rebooted since?

Azrael1 · 10 Jan 2015 at 11:24

Interesting, that happened to me once when it defaulted back to 30Hz and It wouldnt let me change it back to 60Hz in windows ( it was 60hz in the monitor osd ) . I switched the monitor off and on again and it redected it at 60hz. ( I leave my monitor on since I bought it and just let it go into sleep mode )

studulike · 10 Jan 2015 at 14:35

its a little bug that sometimes tv kicked in 1.1 mode itself.

restart or go into menu change back to 1.2 it will run 60hz again.

R-TYPE · 11 Jan 2015 at 09:40

Was thinking of running this monitor from two 970gtx in SLI. Is this enough to handle this monitor's resolution?

eyetrip · 11 Jan 2015 at 09:56

R-TYPE said:
Was thinking of running this monitor from two 970gtx in SLI. Is this enough to handle this monitor's resolution?

That's what I am driving mine with currently.

Would I like more performance? Yeah.

Is it bad? No, not really.

Can't quite manage ultra on Dragon Age Inquisition, but can manage a lot of high settings.

Elite Dangerous I think I have maxed.

BF4 runs just fine, and I think that mostly on ultra settings.

Alien Isolation can be maxed.

But I do seem to notice tearing more lately - the main culprit of this being DA:I. It's not too bad if I limit fps to around 45. I would just enable v-sync with triple buffering, but get fair bit of stuttering...

I don't have a lot fo faith in these current nvidia drivers, but am not rolling back to the .80's which I think are better. Mainly because I just don't want to rely on hack to get correct colour range on screen.

R-TYPE · 11 Jan 2015 at 18:17

Hey eyetrip, many thanks for the in depth reply. Am teetering on the edge of going for two 980s but this is obviously a significant outlay...! Am reassured by your numbers provided above. So your 970s are water cooled? What are they running at?

eyetrip · 11 Jan 2015 at 19:25

They are only running 1450 and plus 350 memory.

Honestly, I would just get 970's. The current maxwell cards are not ideal for 4k in my opinion.

Sure they can do a decent job now, but with just two settings already take a hit and before long I think memory will hold them back even more.

I don't see the cards in my system as a long term thing. I may get a third if I can find one cheap second hand and hopefully hold out for next year, but It depends what the cards coming out are like.

El_MUERkO · 11 Jan 2015 at 21:24

The 980ti and Titan 2 will likely be announced soon, I'll be tempted by the Titan 2 if they have proper HDMI 2.0/2.1 and DP1.3 (ideally two DP connectors) support to future proof them.

exiges · 12 Jan 2015 at 10:30

R-TYPE said:
Hey eyetrip, many thanks for the in depth reply. Am teetering on the edge of going for two 980s but this is obviously a significant outlay...! Am reassured by your numbers provided above. So your 970s are water cooled? What are they running at?

I have 2x 980s (reference cards) and Elite runs just fine with everything at max. I run Dragon Age:Inq pretty much maxed out too.

My current monitor is an LG true 4K monitor (ie 4096x2160 rather than 3840x2160) so I'd hope for a 7% faster framerate with the Phillips

The good thing with 4K is that largely you can turn off any antialiasing options to help boost framerate.

I'm using an i7-5930K with an X99 mobo.

As it's a work PC, I don't overclock.

weird_dave · 12 Jan 2015 at 16:42

Is this monitor still the only realistic 4K solution? I don't think I could cope with a 32" or smaller. At this price range, I can't seem to find anything else in the monitor or TV range.
Wish they had put a curve in it though, would solve most of the viewing angle issues...

Gibbo · 12 Jan 2015 at 17:07

Hi there

More on the way, ETA of approx. 1-2 weeks.

exiges · 12 Jan 2015 at 17:08

Gibbo said:
Hi there

More on the way, ETA of approx. 1-2 weeks.

That's like FOR EVAR away .. Nooo !

Seriously though, thanks for the update, at least it sets expectations.

ICDP · 12 Jan 2015 at 19:01

Thanks for the heads up Gibbo.

Sledged · 13 Jan 2015 at 09:57

Gibbo said:
Hi there

More on the way, ETA of approx. 1-2 weeks.

Do we know if everyone who has pre-ordered will be covered by incoming stock?

Smurfin · 13 Jan 2015 at 13:23

I also run SLI 970s (overclocked, 125 core, 400 memory), and they work great with this monitor. Some games need the settings dialled back a bit, but the resolution more than makes up for it.

Also, if you have any games which don't scale well in SLI, simply select 1440p - which still looks good on this monitor

Gibbo · 13 Jan 2015 at 13:45

Sledged said:
Do we know if everyone who has pre-ordered will be covered by incoming stock?

Yes all covered and loads spare, we've got 100+ coming this time.

eyetrip · 14 Jan 2015 at 10:31

For all those waiting, hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Despite struggling with the game, Elite Dangerous is beautiful on this in either 21:9 or 16:9 (nice because its BIGGER!!!) with a flight stick, and sitting relatively close (for the size). It's like you are there in space

Now if only I could get used to all the actual gameplay aspects of the game!