Here at Tom's Hardware we like high-end hardware and games, and certainly you do, too. The good news we come bearing today is that Samsung announced that it will be bundling a game with one of its 4K monitors and some of its SSDs.
The game in question is Assassin's Creed Unity, and you'll get a download key for it upon purchase of Samsung's U28D590D monitor or an 850 Pro SSD with a capacity of 256 GB or higher.
The Samsung UD28590D is a 4K monitor with a 28-inch diagonal. It is built with a TN panel and has viewing angles of 170 degrees horizontally and 160 degrees vertically. It has a brightness of 370 cd/m2 and a static contrast ratio of 1000:1.
Because of the TN panel, the response time is also very fast, with a gray-to-gray time of just 1 ms. Two HDMI ports and one DisplayPort interface handle I/O connectivity, with the DisplayPort interface allowing for a 60 Hz refresh rate. The monitor has a T-shaped stand, although unfortunately, it only supports tilting, and there are no VESA mounting holes. The biggest gripe we have with this deal is that you'll need a very powerful machine to be able to drive Assassin's Creed Unity at this resolution, because the game has some very high system requirements.
The Samsung 850 Pro SSD is the company's highest-end SATA SSD, and it has transfer speeds of up to 550 MB/s read and 520 MB/s write. They are built with the company's 32-layer V-NAND, which allowed the use of a larger lithographic process, making the drives very durable. So durable, in fact, that Samsung ships them with a very respectable 10-year warranty. You can read our review here.
Participating retailers include Best Buy, Amazon.com, Newegg.com, Microcenter, Fry's and Tiger Direct. Sam's Club, ABT, and Electronic Express are also participating, although they only have the deal on the UD28590D monitor.
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