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hello
i need a new computer, considering a 2160p monitor.
do i need graphic card to use those resolutions at 60hz?
what will be a decent card for that?
it is for only web browsing, watching videos and other casuals, no gaming.
do i also need a specific motherboard for this?
anything else?
 
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+akv123 I don't personally own a 4K display. But I would think that any modern day video card should be able watch videos and of course web browsing. On the current 1920 x 1200 resolution screen that I'm writing this message on, I have hardware acceleration in Google Chrome turned off, and I'm currently watching 12 simultaneous twitch streams and my CPU cores utilization has not risen above 40% on my i7-5820K. What's interesting is that my 6-core i7-5820K CPU is bested in many tasks by the 4-core i7-6700K due to it's higher stock clock speed. My point is that I imagine that a i7-6700K can handle video playback at least as well as my machine. And an i3-6100 has almost precisely half the single and multithreaded performance of...
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GTX 980 or above for 60hz on desktop 4k. Anything less and monitor will turn off as it isn't getting a fast enough signal. I had a GTX 960 and had to upgrade for that very reason. A GTX 970 might do it

I don't know about AMD

Don't think you need specific motherboard
 
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GTX960 was too slow for desktop usage?
it is for web browsing and youtube videos, just for smooth scrolling and playback
i know there are laptops with 4k screen, with GTX950M which is much slower than the desktop version
thanks
 
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I've been using an RX 480 with a 4k 60hz tv for about a month and everything works great. It smoothly upscales games to 4k and some games play in native 4k at medium settings.
 
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thanks but this is overpriced and too much for my needs. it is not for gaming, i just want the computer to be able to run 4k at 60hz for daily basic tasks like web browsing and playback 4k videos.
 
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Yes, my gtx 960 wasn't sending a fast enough signal to my monitor, it kept giving me a warning saying as much on the screen, all the screen would show was the error bouncing around. Even on desktop, I honestly didn't try to play a game on it since it failed at running the desktop, and a 980 struggles to play games at 4k.
 
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well yea a single gtx 980 will struggle b/c it doesn't have enough vram to get the frame rates up , the least amount of graphic power to use with games on a 4k monitor was 2 gtx 970s in SLI it was struggling to the new games but a gtx 960 will definitely struggle on 4k it only has 2 gigs of vram , if you've done the math on a 4k res. you'll see that it takes 4 1920x1080 p screens to get 4k resolution I've seen that 2 rx 480s in xfire will run gaming in 4k if you turned the settings down to a minimum but it's not reconmeded
 
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It was best I could afford. I got 4k monitor as present, I was not expecting to have to upgrade from GTX 960 to anything as I was happy on 1080p. Can't not use gift if given by family so had to upgrade. Prices on TI were way over what I can afford (Prices in Australia suck) so I got this and figured one day in future i have a card that can play games on my screen... i can downscale but thats not the same. Its kind of nice having monitor to grow into.

I wouldn't give 4k away as all the extra space on desktop is addicting. Handy for word documents, can have 3 open side by side on screen
 
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thank you all
it's still seems like im missing something, according to nvidia website, the GTX950 and GTX960 both support: "5120x3200 at 60Hz with dual DisplayPort connectors."

so maybe i just need dual connectors was the problem? how did you connected the gtx960?
anyway, how do you connect dual displayport connection? the 2 displayports on the dell P2415Q is for dual connection(not DP1, DP2 for 2 different sources)?
if you would tell that it was not smooth, that would probably because of the gpu processing power. but you telling it was not working with low graphics requirements so i can't understand how nvidia claim it is for 5120x3200 at 60Hz, and it will not work on half of the resolution they claim to support.
right now i have i3-6100 that runs perfectly 1080P easily with the stock intel GPU, so it's hard to understand that i need GPU that costs 4 times the entire CPU+GPU 6100 to run at 4k.
 
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Err, for desktop only usage, you don't need much to power 4k.

Like even the gt 730s or whatever can run a 4k montior.

I think something else was going on with your 960 and 4k monitor colin.

But 4k on such a tiny screen is kinda pointless, you'd want like 28" at least I think for 4k, 32" is more ideal though I believe.

4k at 60hz requires a display port cable or an HDMI 2.0 cable, HDMI 2.0 video card, and monitor that supports HDMI 2.0.

 
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u r right on some connecters like dvi and some others excluding the dp cables need 2 cables to support 4 k resolutions but I use dp cable that can work
 
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oh the prices for things to game on 4k,,,,,lol,,,,, it can get pretty expensive, it cost me 850 dollars to game in 4k myself not wanting just the low end graphics , at least the 2 can can deliver a constant 60 fps and my older games more than that and alkv you ought to look up the connections desired for your monitor if you got a gtx 960 ? if so u said you have a 5k monitor you need top upgrade to the 10 models b/c the 900 series can't support 5 k resolution the 10 series can support up to almost 8k res.
 
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I don't know what to say - If I ran it on hdmi 2 or DP i got warning saying it wasn't getting fast enough signal while using a gtx 960 - and all it would show is a error bouncing around screen saying as such. Fact I can't find a image of error on web makes me question what I saw but that was 9 months ago now and me buying a 980 is not something I can reverse. Nothing physically has changed apart from that GPU since then so what else could it be apart from the card?

I know my motherboard itself can run 4k off integrated at 30 but I had a 60hz capable screen and I could tell difference between 30 & 60. It might have been mental, I may have wanted to use best screen could do.

And I knew he wanted desktop, its pretty much all I use mine for anyway. That and videos
 
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+akv123 I don't personally own a 4K display. But I would think that any modern day video card should be able watch videos and of course web browsing. On the current 1920 x 1200 resolution screen that I'm writing this message on, I have hardware acceleration in Google Chrome turned off, and I'm currently watching 12 simultaneous twitch streams and my CPU cores utilization has not risen above 40% on my i7-5820K. What's interesting is that my 6-core i7-5820K CPU is bested in many tasks by the 4-core i7-6700K due to it's higher stock clock speed. My point is that I imagine that a i7-6700K can handle video playback at least as well as my machine. And an i3-6100 has almost precisely half the single and multithreaded performance of an i7-6700K. Therefore it should be fine. If you're going to buy this week then I would buy an inexpensive GTX 950. I'd recommend the EVGA brand, simply because the GTX 1050 replacement is rumored to be released soon, and you would have the option of EVGA's 90 step up plan. Also, buy the GTX 950 from a website that has a no-hassle return policy (newegg, amazon, etc).

Addendum: I would suggest that you connect the display via a DisplayPort cable and ports. It just seems like the path of least resistance and you don't have to worry about whether you DVI cable is dual ink or not.
 
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thank you, that's what im planning to do. to get the GTX950. not this week, maybe i should wait for the kaby lake to arrive first.
i don't live in the US, so i get this locally the whole computer.
 
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yes, thank you for the correction. i will get the GTX950, thanks.
 
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