4K Monitors

[KISSMAD]

Anyone have a 27" 3840x2160 4K monitor?

I'm considering in getting one but I'm wondering if the text will be too small.

Any chance someone could post a screen shot of the forum index page at 100%, 125% and 150% from a 27" 3840x2160 4K monitor?

[Bassnut]

I have a Dell 27" 4k and I have a bit of trouble with it. This forum and almost all apps are fine, they size up much the same as on any 27" monitor so I wont bother posting screen shots, but text is much smoother with the higher res. Only apps designed for 4k such as PS, LR and other graphics/video apps make use of 4k res in the presentation of images/video and menu/text size etc is settable.
The windows start-home screen (with classic desktop shell) has really tiny text and program icons by default, and I have found windows settings for this to be unreliable. Sometimes the PC powers up (win8) with default tiny text/icons, and sometimes larger with settings I have adjusted in windows. Icon positioning gets scrambled with each change of course. Im am used to this now, is not a deal breaker, I can just read the tiny text, no other app I use has this random problem. It might be a driver issue with the Dell monitor on power up.

Although most apps just look the same as on a normal 27" (but allow much more zooming out so more readable data shows, such as excel ), Some apps have problems. MYOB did until a recent update, CCD stack wont show many option pop up windows, I have to use it on a 2nd lower res screen.

The worry you have with small text I had too and is fair, but it occurs rarely as a problem and is usually reconfigurable within apps that utilise 4k. Im happy with 4k with the likes of PS and processing/watching video, its a big improvement.

[rat156]

Hi Bruce,

I have a 5k iMac 27". The screen is gorgeous text is so clear. So clear that you can easily tell text from images with text in them. I run Windows on the Mac using Parallels. All fine, had some scaling problems with VMware though.

Processing images with this computer is fantastic, when I can get some data that is.

Cheers
Stuart

[gavin]

Hi Bruce

No experience with 4K monitors and native Windows but I concur with Stuart that the 27" iMac is simply stunning. Running Windows 10 on Parallels on this monster is as good as it gets. :)

[KISSMAD]

Thanks Fred, Stuart and Gavin for your input.

I'm wanting the 4K monitor for Adobe CS6 software. The past few days I've been using 2 monitors for when I use CS6. As I don't have much desk space, I have to move the monitors and speakers around to use the second monitor. It's a bit of a pain to do so, another reason to have a single monitor on the desk.

[Bassnut]

4k is great with premier pro CS6 and PS/LR CC, text size is fine IMO. I havent tried it with PS CS6. I suspect it would be fine. I dont know what you can tell from the low res attachment (screen shot), but text is fine for me, and my eyes arnt great.

[KISSMAD]

Thanks.
Any chance you could do a 3840x2160 screen, please.

[Tandum]

I have a 65" 3840x2160 4K monitor. Aldi special.
I had to buy a new video card to get that resolution.
I drive it from a win7 media center computer.
You'll need a nvidia 730 at least. Not all cards do that resolution.
Even some of the hi end cards don't do that resolution.

[KISSMAD]

Well I got my 4k monitor. I must say the text is a bit small. I don't know if I can get used to it.
I had trouble setting it up. As it turns out, you have to use the Display Port cable and the HDMI cable at the same time. I just had the DP cable connected and all I got was my wallpaper in the center of the screen with no icons and no taskbar.