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I just realized this possibility. I mean, there's got to be something that displays the little monitor menu. Like...it's not the CPU in my PC that does this. 

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Yeah of course, just like your microwave or washing machine.

Something has to turn a display signal from HDMI or DP into pixels on the screen.

 

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1 minute ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

So yes

Could you run Cinebench on it? LOL

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Chaos_Sorcerer said:

Could you run Cinebench on it? LOL

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Chaos_Sorcerer said:

Could you run Cinebench on it? LOL

 

 

no, it is a processor that is specifically designed for outputting video and displaying the menu. it cant run anything else

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2 minutes ago, Alexzz_ said:

no, it is a processor that is specifically designed for outputting video and displaying the menu. it cant run anything else

It depends on the monitor. I've seen monitors with pretty powerfull ARM based cpu's to run advanced image enhancing DSP routines. Cinebench might be a stretch but those would certainly be able to run a wide spectrum of software. The lack of a OS would probably be the biggest hurdle.

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3 minutes ago, Unimportant said:

It depends on the monitor. I've seen monitors with pretty powerfull ARM based cpu's to run advanced image enhancing DSP routines. Cinebench might be a stretch but those would certainly be able to run a wide spectrum of software. The lack of a OS would probably be the biggest hurdle.

It's not a CPU, it's an asic. It's hardware coded to process a digital signal and produce images. You can't run software on it unless  it is a real all-purpouse CPU like the ones in tvs. Afaik monitors don't have the capabilities that smart tvs do, so no, computer software cannot run on it.

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3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

It's not a CPU, it's an asic. It's hardware coded to process a digital signal and produce images. You can't run software on it unless  it is a real all-purpouse CPU like the ones in tvs. Afaik monitors don't have the capabilities that smart tvs do, so no, computer software cannot run on it.

Like i said, seen plenty of monitors with a generic purpose ARM cpu and flash ROM for the software. If you had the knowledge of how the monitor works internally and reprogram the rom you could make it run anything from pong to quake, as long as there is enough RAM and ROM space.

 

Those were all higher end monitors tough. Cheap monitors will idd include a ASIC or FPGA.

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28 minutes ago, Enderman said:

It's not a CPU, it's an asic. It's hardware coded to process a digital signal and produce images. You can't run software on it unless  it is a real all-purpouse CPU like the ones in tvs. Afaik monitors don't have the capabilities that smart tvs do, so no, computer software cannot run on it.

It depends, SOME monitors do actually have full cpus but they are not very many. More notably, many modern monitors have menus and functionalities that are difficult to hardware code, but I'm not sure if they do actually use a cpu or a particularly complex asic.

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12 hours ago, Chaos_Sorcerer said:

I just realized this possibility. I mean, there's got to be something that displays the little monitor menu. Like...it's not the CPU in my PC that does this. 

lots of things have microprocessors in, toasters even

 

 

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