24" 4k monitor or 28" 4k monitor or another 24" 1080p monitor? Which to Buy?

[WelshDdraig]

Hey everyone.

 

I have had basically two monitors since the day I built my PC back in January, since 1x1080p display was nowhere near enough space for my needs, referencing college documents, watching films while doing work, guides for gaming and Server admin stuff such as TS, Minecraft and recently a Gmod server, ect.

 

My current monitors are an AOC E2460S - which can super-sample to 4K and a Samsung S24D590L.
The AOC is TN and the Samsung is PLS, and I love the colours on the PLS panel and use it way more than the AOC, for uses such as Photoshop.
A major gripe I have at the moment is the AOC is a true 24" panel while the Samsung is a 23.8" panel and is slightly out off line with the other monitor. That + Self-diagnosed OCD = A lot of frustration, daily.

 

Well the same has happened to me yet again, only with 2x 1080p monitors. 3840x1080 is not enough for me. 

I was thinking about selling my monitors for around £250 for the pair (My friend is interested at the moment in them)

and saving a bit of money to invest in a 4k monitor. 

 

If I really try, I could get a third 24" monitor, but I really wouldn't be comfortable with the positioning since it would be practically half off the desk, and with the rate i keep banging my desk, I don't want it to fall over.

 

Question 1:
Should I go with a 24" 4k IPS monitor - Dell P2415H or a 28" TN Monitor - AOC U2868Pqu or get a third 1080p monitor for 5760x1080?

My max price would be £350 if I sell the 2x1080p monitors and save a little, or £100-£110 for a third monitor

 

My graphics card is an Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4GB card - I have the intention on going SLI in the distant future or selling the card for a new card depending on the price.

 

i anticipate your input on the matter and appreciate your response. 

[GoodBytes]

Dell has a 27inch version of the 24inch. Dell is better than AOC in all aspects.

That said, 24inch monitor is similarly small to using a Surface Pro at 100% DPI. You can go to a store that sales Surface Pro's, go in the settings of the system and switch the DPI to 100%. It will look like this. If you have good eyes, it should be fine, if not, then it will be a bit of a problem.

The idea of 24inch is that you can use the monitor with say 125 or 150% DPI, and get a mix of high-DPI for smooth detailed text, icons and images, while gaining more work area.

If you want the max work space possible, than you better off with a larger monitor so that you can better see the text. 32inch would be better. 28inch is still fairly small.

The upside of the 24inch, is that you can play games in 1080p, and they would look like native resolution as not only 4K is 4x 1080p (well UHD 4K or if you prefer: 16:9 variant of 4K) and that makes 1080p on 24inch which is the perfect size for it, mix with (as we can't forget that the LCD grid makes what I just said not very true), a very good interpolation system that Dell put on the monitor gives you great result. Not perfect at 100% for small regular text but for gaming it is great, or so I am told and from review sites. Wile 1080p on 28inch is not great. Looks like a TV upclose showing 1080p (tested).

[Maslofski]

set a custom 4K resolution in your nvidia control panel and see ive you can even run 4K

[WelshDdraig]

SNIP

While the 27" Dell would be more preferable compared to the 28" AOC, it costs around £500, too far over my budget unfortunately. 

 

I was thinking the 24" Dell P2415Q since it is around £350/£375 and I am used to the 24" form factor and would appreciate the extra desk space.

Also, adding @Maslofski input,

As for the 4K and scaling, I am fairly okay with the super-sampled result at about a 2 foot distance, but due to the panel not "officially" supporting it, it does seem to be a bit blurry and difficult to read, so maybe minor scaling would be needed.

 

Thanks for both of your inputs.

[Glenwing]

Dell has a 27inch version of the 24inch. Dell is better than AOC in all aspects.That said, 24inch monitor is similarly small to using a Surface Pro at 100% DPI. You can go to a store that sales Surface Pro's, go in the settings of the system and switch the DPI to 100%. It will look like this. If you have good eyes, it should be fine, if not, then it will be a bit of a problem.The idea of 24inch is that you can use the monitor with say 125 or 150% DPI, and get a mix of high-DPI for smooth detailed text, icons and images, while gaining more work area.If you want the max work space possible, than you better off with a larger monitor so that you can better see the text. 32inch would be better. 28inch is still fairly small.The upside of the 24inch, is that you can play games in 1080p, and they would look like native resolution as not only 4K is 4x 1080p (well UHD 4K or if you prefer: 16:9 variant of 4K) and that makes 1080p on 24inch which is the perfect size for it, mix with (as we can't forget that the LCD grid makes what I just said not very true), a very good interpolation system that Dell put on the monitor gives you great result. Not perfect at 100% for small regular text but for gaming it is great, or so I am told and from review sites. Wile 1080p on 28inch is not great. Looks like a TV upclose showing 1080p (tested).

Depends on the monitor really, the Dells are very good with lower resolutions but something like the ASUS PB279Q is much blurrier at 1080p than the P2715Q even though the physical panel is the same. So it seems interpolation algorithms still are applied at 4K, rather than displaying 1080p natively with 4:1 mapping.

[Roughryder69]

Hey everyone.

 

I have had basically two monitors since the day I built my PC back in January, since 1x1080p display was nowhere near enough space for my needs, referencing college documents, watching films while doing work, guides for gaming and Server admin stuff such as TS, Minecraft and recently a Gmod server, ect.

 

My current monitors are an AOC E2460S - which can super-sample to 4K and a Samsung S24D590L.

The AOC is TN and the Samsung is PLS, and I love the colours on the PLS panel and use it way more than the AOC, for uses such as Photoshop.

A major gripe I have at the moment is the AOC is a true 24" panel while the Samsung is a 23.8" panel and is slightly out off line with the other monitor. That + Self-diagnosed OCD = A lot of frustration, daily.

 

Well the same has happened to me yet again, only with 2x 1080p monitors. 3840x1080 is not enough for me. 

I was thinking about selling my monitors for around £250 for the pair (My friend is interested at the moment in them)

and saving a bit of money to invest in a 4k monitor. 

 

If I really try, I could get a third 24" monitor, but I really wouldn't be comfortable with the positioning since it would be practically half off the desk, and with the rate i keep banging my desk, I don't want it to fall over.

 

Question 1:

Should I go with a 24" 4k IPS monitor - Dell P2415H or a 28" TN Monitor - AOC U2868Pqu or get a third 1080p monitor for 5760x1080?

My max price would be £350 if I sell the 2x1080p monitors and save a little, or £100-£110 for a third monitor

 

My graphics card is an Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 970 G1 Gaming 4GB card - I have the intention on going SLI in the distant future or selling the card for a new card depending on the price.

 

i anticipate your input on the matter and appreciate your response. 

also with your GTX 970 G1 Gaming Edition, you aint running 4k at steady frame rates.

[WelshDdraig]

also with your GTX 970 G1 Gaming Edition, you aint running 4k at steady frame rates.

For gaming, I will probably scale it down to 1080p, as for when using is by itself when on the web ect, I will probably use the native 4K. 

[Roughryder69]

For gaming, I will probably scale it down to 1080p, as for when using is by itself when on the web ect, I will probably use the native 4K. 

 

Dont think that'll be worth it really. 4K does not scale properly (windows 7 not sure about 8) also running games down scale to 1080P would apparently look blurred out. games are best set at there native res