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Using different res on 4k monitors?

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I'm planning on getting a Samsung 4k monitor and was just wondering if I don't have enough GPU horse power for gaming at 4k can I drop the res to like 1440p and will it look good or fuzzy.

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I have a Samsung 4K monitor, and although it's possible it looks pretty fuzzy.... But turning down the settings works just fine for me.

 

Btw, hope you end up getting one. It's such a great monitor :)

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I would recommend getting a 1440p monitor then and later getting a 4k monitor and having dual monitors

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It will look fuzzy at 1440p, yes. What are the specs of your pc?

 

Honestly, if you don't have at least SLI 780 or AMD equivalent (XFire 290), then you shouldn't use 4k for gaming.

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In my experience 2560x1440 still looks perfectly sharp on a 4K screen ingame. Anything lower than that is noticeably fuzzier. Mine doesn't support simple scaling though (direct 1-to-4 pixel mapping) so a monitor which can do that should in theory be able to run at 1080p natively, and it would look just like a regular 1080p 28" monitor.

(EDIT: Those of you who say 1440p is fuzzy, I'm curious have you actually seen it or are you just saying it's fuzzy automatically because it's a non-native res?)

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I've got a 290x and I'm buying a second soon

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