# Recommendations for 4K monitors?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-4k-monitors/737130>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 9, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-4k-monitors/737130 "2015-11-09T19:57:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Bering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bering)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-4k-monitors/737130/1 "2015-11-09T19:57:46Z")

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Hi, I’m thinking of buying a 4K monitor for my PC, I would browse art a lot and I think it would be nice for that.

This is the one I’ve been thinking of:

> **[Samsung LU28E590 28 Inch UHD 4K Monitor - Ultra HD 3840x2160, 1ms - 2 x HDMI,...](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-U28E590D-28-Inch-LCD-Monitor/dp/B00WUACE4S)**
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> Buy

Is there any point in waiting for a new model to be released or does this look good?

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-4k-monitors/737130/2 "2015-11-09T22:07:56Z")

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Are you sure that the PC will be able to handle 4K?

[Here’s an interesting article.](http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/what-hardware-do-you-need-to-run-stuff-at-4k-resolution-on-your-pc/)

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-4k-monitors/737130/3 "2015-11-09T23:31:50Z")

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> [@Bering](#):
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> This is the one I’ve been thinking of:
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> [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-U28E590D-28-Inch-Monitor-3840/dp/B00WUACE4S/ref=sr\_1\_5?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1447014200&sr=1-5&keywords=4k+monitor](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-U28E590D-28-Inch-Monitor-3840/dp/B00WUACE4S/ref=sr_1_5?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1447014200&sr=1-5&keywords=4k+monitor)

Don’t buy that one. It uses a TN panel, which is great for games, but less good for art. You want an IPS, VA, or OLED panel. How big should the monitor be? And what is your budget?

The monitor you listed is a Freesync monitor - do I presume correctly that you have an AMD GPU?

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**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendations-for-4k-monitors/737130/4 "2015-11-10T01:36:33Z")

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Is all you want to do is browse art? Do you play games?