As per the title, I'm looking to get a bit more screen area. No gaming, occasionally some YouTube, but mostly photo editing and multiple office document work. If you've got one up and running, what TV and graphics card combo are you running? All info greatly appreciated!

https://www.techspot.com/article/1439-using-4k-tv-as-desktop-pc-monitor/

 

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I'm running a 32" 1440 Dell monitor on my PC. Photo editing, a bit of Huge Tube and a spot of work too. I have a 1070 8GB gfx card so I am a bit overequiped for what I use it for, but after i put my Datacolour Spyder colourimeter on it I have very nice colours  It's a few years old now and if I was doing it again I'd be looking at a 4K version. but 1440 is fine for my needs really. I have 100% sRGB and nearly 100% RGB too.  

 

32" works well for two side by side docs at a normal working distance so i certainly wouldn't go any bigger in size. 

 

 

ps I do have a couple of games, which I rarely play, but if I do i can run them with everything switched to max in the gfx settings   

Thanks for the input. I currently run a 30" wide gamut monitor 2560x1600. For photo work it is spot on, However, I'm sometimes working on reports where I'm drawing down information from 4 or 5 documents at a time, so having 6 documents on screen at once it's what I am after. The 30" is just too small for this.

Have you thought about just adding another monitor (or three !) I sometimes have four monitors connected.

Edited 5 October, 20187 yr by io1901

6 hours ago, Chris GB said:

Thanks for the input. I currently run a 30" wide gamut monitor 2560x1600. For photo work it is spot on, However, I'm sometimes working on reports where I'm drawing down information from 4 or 5 documents at a time, so having 6 documents on screen at once it's what I am after. The 30" is just too small for this.

 

 

Funnily enough I put the Spyder on my LG OLED tv and set up the colours. It makes a superb monitor for photo editing as the blacks easily beat my Dell (although anyone looking at the same images will probably see the blacks looking a little crushed if they are viewing with an LCD/LED monitor), but does mean there is a chance of burn out if I used LR or Photoshop all day. I wouldn't recommend it on cost, although there are some LG 55" OLED C7s around for about £1,100 and they would be an epic monitor for work as well as incredibly slim so would stack against a wall. I set up a memory on my OLED for sRGB as I doubt they would go as far as full RGB as they are 10bit with look up tables. 

I'd love a good oled monitor in large size. My laptop is oled and is a lovely thing to work on at a small 12" size. The reason I'm looking specifically at 43" monitors is that they will give me higher pixel density and more working area, but currently, there are no oled monitors at this size. Going bigger drops pixel density down a fair bit.

 

I'm looking at building a new PC at the moment and want to future proof it to an extent. Something I have noticed about the newer graphics cards is that none of them seem to be able to support the 2560*1600 monitor via DVI-D, otherwise I would probably keep the existing DVI-D only monitor.

Wouldn't recommend a big for tv for any sort of media editing, Perhaps for preiviews etc but not editing in fine detail. Remember, Unless its a very small 4k tv  you'll have to be miles away to not lose visual sharpness .I personally  wouldn't go bigger that 27" if its for media/photography editing.

 

In terms of of GPU, No need to go overboard if its just for editing/office work......It wont make any difference.

Edited 17 October, 20187 yr by Mickmartin