Should I get a 4k monitor?

[Duranson]

I'm considering picking up a 27" 4k 144hz monitor for gaming and productivity. However, I've heard that 27" and 4k on windows 10 can be weird and make text hard to read because of windows scaling or something. Is this true, and should I just stick to 1440p? Or will a 27" 4k monitor be fine? Thanks!

[jaslion]

4 minutes ago, Duranson said:

I'm considering picking up a 27" 4k 144hz monitor for gaming and productivity. However, I've heard that 27" and 4k on windows 10 can be weird and make text hard to read because of windows scaling or something. Is this true, and should I just stick to 1440p? Or will a 27" 4k monitor be fine? Thanks!

I'd advise a 1440p it's the perfect resolution at 100% scaling as 4k is alright on 27inch but can be small in applications that do not scale well. Also in games a 4k screen is much much harder to drive for not too much difference between 1440 and 4k at 27 inch. So I would go for a 1440p screen either way.

[SupaKomputa]

It's up to you, scaling is still a problem in windows as a lot of apps don't scale well.

For 27inch 4K you will need to scale 150% to be able to read text comfortably.

[Daniel1]

I use a 4k monitor mostly for work and I scale it at 150%.  I have not experienced that much problems with scaling in Windows.  

[Duranson]

1 minute ago, SupaKomputa said:

It's up to you, scaling is still a problem in windows as a lot of apps don't scale well.

For 27inch 4K you will need to scale 150% to be able to read text comfortably.

I mean, I'm just planning on playing fullscreen games (which windows auto-resizes/scales in my personal experience), and then doing stuff in chrome and video editing applications. Not sure what that means for 4k 27".

[dizmo]

I'm just going to throw this here...

 

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Get an ultrawide.

 

[Duranson]

Just now, Daniel1 said:

I use a 4k monitor mostly for work and I scale it at 150%.  I have not experienced that much problems with scaling in Windows.  

Is it 24" or 27"? Because I think that makes a difference with windows.

[Duranson]

Just now, dizmo said:

I'm just going to throw this here...

 

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Get an ultrawide.

 

Well yes, that would be cool, but I can't for 2 reasons:

 

1. I record and stream games at 16:9 and can't switch to 21:9

 

2. my desk isn't big enough for anything over 27".

[SupaKomputa]

2 minutes ago, Duranson said:

I mean, I'm just planning on playing fullscreen games (which windows auto-resizes/scales in my personal experience), and then doing stuff in chrome and video editing applications. Not sure what that means for 4k 27".

Modern games will scale in windows, no need to worry.

What you need to worry is do you have enough gpu power to run 4k?
If you have mid end gpu like 2060 you might be better with 1440p.

For editing higher resolutions means bigger space to work with.

 

4 minutes ago, Duranson said:

Is it 24" or 27"? Because I think that makes a difference with windows.

You want bigger monitor for 4k, in 24' the pixels will be too small.

But this is a matter of taste. Personally 27inch is my limit.

[Duranson]

2 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

Modern games will scale in windows, no need to worry.

What you need to worry is do you have enough gpu power to run 4k?
If you have mid end gpu like 2060 you might be better with 1440p.

For editing higher resolutions means bigger space to work with.

 

You want bigger monitor for 4k, in 24' the pixels will be too small.

But this is a matter of taste. Personally 27inch is my limit.

I'm planning on picking up a 3080 or 3090, so I'm not too worried about GPU power. And reading text in chrome/watching movies and stuff should be ok?

[Daniel1]

10 minutes ago, Duranson said:

Is it 24" or 27"? Because I think that makes a difference with windows.

I have a 27" 4k ips monitor

[SupaKomputa]

1 minute ago, Duranson said:

I'm planning on picking up a 3080 or 3090, so I'm not too worried about GPU power. And reading text in chrome/watching movies and stuff should be ok?

Browsers are fully optimized for native scaling, you don't have to worry about it.

[e22big]

16 hours ago, Duranson said:

I'm considering picking up a 27" 4k 144hz monitor for gaming and productivity. However, I've heard that 27" and 4k on windows 10 can be weird and make text hard to read because of windows scaling or something. Is this true, and should I just stick to 1440p? Or will a 27" 4k monitor be fine? Thanks!

scaling can be annoying sometime but it isn't bad once you scale the UI and mouse a bit, content consumption isn't that different in 4k but unlike what most people like to say, it actually make a lot more impact in game - so yeah, if you value fidelity in your gaming need go for it, most of the basic apps scale well enough with it