How to drive an OLED

[Taemero]

I want to get an LG CX OLED for my family.

We currently watch Tv using a 1080p Tv hooked up to a Dell optiplex 3040. It has a 6th gen intel i3 and 4 gb ram no dedicated gpu. 

We don’t really watch traditional TV, it’s all online Asian TV.

 

I’m just curious if the PC we use is enough to watch high quality content.

The online videos aren’t in 4K but with the TV upscaling I’m hoping to get high quality content that is if the PC can output it or does that not even matter?

 

Please let me know!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

3 minutes ago, Taemero said:

I want to get an LG CX OLED for my family.

We currently watch Tv using a 1080p Tv hooked up to a Dell optiplex 3040. It has a 6th gen intel i3 and 4 gb ram no dedicated gpu. 

We don’t really watch traditional TV, it’s all online Asian TV.

 

I’m just curious if the PC we use is enough to watch high quality content.

The online videos aren’t in 4K but with the TV upscaling I’m hoping to get high quality content that is if the PC can output it or does that not even matter?

 

Please let me know!

Check to see if the service manual for that desktop states the HDMI port is HDMI revision 2.0. If it is and you have a high speed HDMI cable, you should be able to run 4K from that machine no problem. The integrated graphics of the Skylake CPU should support 4K @ 60Hz. 

https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/support/products/88355/graphics/graphics-for-6th-generation-intel-processors/intel-hd-graphics-520.html.

 

For more details, check out this helpful thread one of our mods has put together. 

 

 

[Taemero]

4 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Check to see if the service manual for that desktop states the HDMI port is HDMI revision 2.0. If it is and you have a high speed HDMI cable, you should be able to run 4K from that machine no problem. The integrated graphics of the Skylake CPU should support 4K @ 60Hz. 

https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/support/products/88355/graphics/graphics-for-6th-generation-intel-processors/intel-hd-graphics-520.html.

 

For more details, check out this helpful thread one of our mods has put together. 

 

 

Okay! Looks like the desktop is HDMI 1.4. But what your saying is I should be able to run regular 1080p content and have it upscaled on the OLED?

[Duckson McQuack]

Why would you buy a 4K then watch content at 1080p?

Get a better source. Ideally with DP 1.4. You won't even have 120hz 4K.

[jones177]

I use an LG OLED TV and I stream through it and not my PC.

When I stream through the computer it is either 720p or 1080p with the exception of Netflix app and YouTube.

 

The CX is HDMI 2.1 and the only video cards that support it are the new ones coming out this month from Nvidia. 

[Taemero]

4 hours ago, Duckson McQuack said:

Why would you buy a 4K then watch content at 1080p?

Get a better source. Ideally with DP 1.4. You won't even have 120hz 4K.

Wouldn’t the TV upscale the content?