sharp 32" 4k monitor - who else is planning on getting it?

Having to run Eyefinity in order to get this screen to work properly is a huge downside.
 
Vega said:
Having to run Eyefinity in order to get this screen to work properly is a huge downside.
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Yea Im waiting on the Nvidia compatible 120hz lightboost version of this display, its supposed to come out in 4th quarter of 2013 per tomshardware and only $499 more expensive!
 
l88bastard said:
Yea Im waiting on the Nvidia compatible 120hz lightboost version of this display, its supposed to come out in 4th quarter of 2013 per tomshardware and only $499 more expensive!
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Wait, wut? 4k@120hz? You kidding... :eek:
 
What's the viewing angles like? Does it suffer from the "white glow" like most other IPS computer monitors?
 
Why not just buy a second one and run games at 5760x2160? (3 half sections on 2 screens and run the forth as an accessory display)

Bezels only slightly in the way.
 
nothing ati has can power this well... it takes 3 titans for me to run far cry 3 maxed at 4k

from the HardOCP titan 3-sli review:

We've noticed this for years, we've seen it, we've talked about it, and it is very evident the more GPUs you add. It seems 3-way CrossFire really shows it the worse.
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Op it seems to me that if your just gonna live with 30 Hz you would be better off with the 50 inch seiki display instead?
 
I pulled the trigger on the Seiki.

Now I have to get rid of my U3011, lol.
 
notarat said:
I pulled the trigger on the Seiki.

Now I have to get rid of my U3011, lol.
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You could keep it around for gaming =) I am keeping my yamakasi 27 inch @100Hz around and hooked up for when I want to run games (on another desk). Although on the off chance I am able to get 60Hz out of the seiki via 2xHDMI then I probably wont be using the yamakasi very much.

I just entered the delivery range for my Seiki so it should be at my house in the next 4 hours and I am working from home =).

I will be testing giving it 2x 1920x2160@60Hz signals as well as overclocking to get >30 Hz @ 3840x2160 (via single HDMI) as well.
 
I see that the latest Nvidia drivers now support DP 1.2. Do they now allow you to run 4k @ 60Hz?
 
houkouonchi said:
You could keep it around for gaming =) I am keeping my yamakasi 27 inch @100Hz around and hooked up for when I want to run games (on another desk). Although on the off chance I am able to get 60Hz out of the seiki via 2xHDMI then I probably wont be using the yamakasi very much.

I just entered the delivery range for my Seiki so it should be at my house in the next 4 hours and I am working from home =).

I will be testing giving it 2x 1920x2160@60Hz signals as well as overclocking to get >30 Hz @ 3840x2160 (via single HDMI) as well.
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Congrats on teh delivery today! I hope it arrives undamaged and you're able to test it out.

I will have to wait until the 2nd week of May :(

I was going to hop on it the day I first posted the link, but I was undecided at that time if I wanted to go the dual 7970 route or not. Turns out all my procrastination did was cause myself a further delay down the road... *sigh*
 
Additional information about its performance here

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/6658/1299-uhdtv-seiki-50-se50uy04-/p1

yeah, it's not a full-blown multipage review but he touches on the items I am interested in and he answers the comments with additional information :)


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Here's one of his comments:

My current 3840 x 2160 desktop is pixel perfect as far as I can tell. I am literally one arm length away reading text which is not clearly visible at 5 feet away. The amount of detail is there. This single monitor now replaces a couple of monitors we were planning on getting.
 
notarat said:
Congrats on teh delivery today! I hope it arrives undamaged and you're able to test it out.

I will have to wait until the 2nd week of May :(

I was going to hop on it the day I first posted the link, but I was undecided at that time if I wanted to go the dual 7970 route or not. Turns out all my procrastination did was cause myself a further delay down the road... *sigh*
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Yeah I ordered it the second or third day (I also delayed a bit) it was out and got it for $1199. It did save me $100 waiting and it shipped out on the 15th but its just arriving now.

notarat said:
My current 3840 x 2160 desktop is pixel perfect as far as I can tell. I am literally one arm length away reading text which is not clearly visible at 5 feet away. The amount of detail is there. This single monitor now replaces a couple of monitors we were planning on getting.
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Sounds like that guy has pretty shitty vision. I can read text on my 22.2 inch 3840x2400 display from 2.5 feet away so I don't see why I could not read it from a 50 inch display from 10 feet away (with pixels more 4x the size, and the display being more than 4x the size)

22.2 inch vs 50 inch:
(18.8 width and 11.8 height vs 43.6 width and 24.5 height). 4.8 times the size in viewable area and the 50 inch is lower resolution than my 22.2 (3840x2400 vs 3840x2160).
 
houkouonchi said:
You could keep it around for gaming =) I am keeping my yamakasi 27 inch @100Hz around and hooked up for when I want to run games (on another desk). Although on the off chance I am able to get 60Hz out of the seiki via 2xHDMI then I probably wont be using the yamakasi very much.

I just entered the delivery range for my Seiki so it should be at my house in the next 4 hours and I am working from home =).

I will be testing giving it 2x 1920x2160@60Hz signals as well as overclocking to get >30 Hz @ 3840x2160 (via single HDMI) as well.
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Let us know your results. The Seiki is definitely the most interesting panel, since at 50" it makes 4k actually usable.
 
kache said:
Let us know your results. The Seiki is definitely the most interesting panel, since at 50" it makes 4k actually usable.
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Ive said it once but I will say it again. I have been using 4k on a 22.2 inch for a lot of years which is very usable. For a TV 50 inch or lager makes sense for 4k but for a monitor 50 inch is kinda too big. Would have rather had a 30-35 inch instead for use as a monitor.
 
houkouonchi said:
Ive said it once but I will say it again. I have been using 4k on a 22.2 inch for a lot of years which is very usable. For a TV 50 inch or lager makes sense for 4k but for a monitor 50 inch is kinda too big. Would have rather had a 30-35 inch instead for use as a monitor.
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Good for you.
For me anything under 110PPI is unusable as a PC monitor. My perfection is around 80PPI, which is why I love my 1080p 27" monitor.
 
kache said:
Good for you.
For me anything under 110PPI is unusable as a PC monitor. My perfection is around 80PPI, which is why I love my 1080p 27" monitor.
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eye cancer! 1080.. ugh.. well.. on my surface pro's 11" screen 1080p is fine :)
 
I do hope nVidia comes up with a solution relatively quickly. The PN-K321 seemed like the ideal 4K monitor to get.

Why can't DisplayPort 1.2 be used in the same manner as Dual Link DVI where the even pixels get one stream and the odd pixels get the other?
 
I think this panel pixel doubled at 1080p would be ideal for a lot of us wanting bigger, clearer font in our ui. Can windows do pixel doubling as os x does, or is it only dpi settings? (which as much as I think is technically superior, that is to try to adjust the interface windows to any selected font size, it won't easily and seamlessly take advantage of the high ppi of the screen here).
 
well.. 7990s are ass (like anything touching crossfire)... so NVidia driver wizards are my only hope.
 
This thing is going to be $5500? What the fuck? The Seiki is 50" and only $1500.
 
Megalith said:
This thing is going to be $5500? What the fuck? The Seiki is 50" and only $1500.
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The Seiki has 36% less resolution (137.68ppi vs 88.12ppi) than the Sharp, making it quite inferior to the Sharp for desktop usage.

Personally, I want at least 150ppi so I'll be waiting for a smaller version. Something in the 27-29" range will be perfect.
 
Bastich said:
The Seiki has 36% less resolution (137.68ppi vs 88.12ppi) than the Sharp, making it quite inferior to the Sharp for desktop usage.

Personally, I want at least 150ppi so I'll be waiting for a smaller version. Something in the 27-29" range will be perfect.
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True but if you sit farther away from it than you would a 30 inch monitor you kind of get the same effect.
 
houkouonchi said:
True but if you sit farther away from it than you would a 30 inch monitor you kind of get the same effect.
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So what you are saying is that if you were in a jerk-off booth and the transvestite hooker on the other side of the glass was far enough away to trick you into thinking he was a chick, that it's the same thing as if you were jerking off to an actual woman up close?

That's what I got out of your post anyway. Did you mean something different?
 
Bastich said:
So what you are saying is that if you were in a jerk-off booth and the transvestite hooker on the other side of the glass was far enough away to trick you into thinking he was a chick, that it's the same thing as if you were jerking off to an actual woman up close?

That's what I got out of your post anyway. Did you mean something different?
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Lol, hilarious post and well put.
 
houkouonchi said:
True but if you sit farther away from it than you would a 30 inch monitor you kind of get the same effect.
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I wouldn't worry about taking crap from people for going with the Seiki.

In a year when the sharp is $799 you can get 3 of them and still have spent less than the $5k it costs now
 
Bastich said:
So what you are saying is that if you were in a jerk-off booth and the transvestite hooker on the other side of the glass was far enough away to trick you into thinking he was a chick, that it's the same thing as if you were jerking off to an actual woman up close?

That's what I got out of your post anyway. Did you mean something different?
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ROFL
 
any illusion that is impossible to differentiate from reality is for all purposes, real until proven otherwise.

In both cases regarding screens, nothing is up close since they are both vieing virtual worlds. A more appropriate pornographic comparison would be web cam ho's on screens at different distances and ppi's.

In the actual details of the monitors themselves, the idea was that people wanted these at desktop use, where 50" to most people is ridiculously outside of your focal range to its extents physical screen-size wise, and its ppi would seem a lot larger.

Relative PPI and screen sizes are dependent on your distance from the screen, which is why 1080p 46" - 65" screens are fine viewed further away, especially for movies/videos.

personally I have no interest in low hz screens for gaming at all. For desktop use outside of gaming, at a decent price I'd consider a quad full hd ips , but with 2560x1440 ips screens avail for $350 or less I wouldn't be jumping at buying an epensive higher rez screen any time soon.
 
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Bastich said:
The Seiki has 36% less resolution (137.68ppi vs 88.12ppi) than the Sharp, making it quite inferior to the Sharp for desktop usage.
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Uhhh.... They have basically the same resolution (ok, the Sharp has around 6.25% more resolution since its 4096x2160 vs 3840x2160 of the Seiki)

Now, the Sharp has a much higher pixel density thus making its sharper at equal viewing distant.
 
Josh@NVIDIA said:Currently tracking this for our R325 branch drivers, but don't quote me on that things can slip as you know =/
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must... find.. beta.. drivers...
 
I am also waiting for their linux next linux drivers which fix HDMI in linux so I can finally get the full refresh rates out of my 4k seiki.
 
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