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    News - Nvidia GeForce 331.82 WHQL driver offers 4K gaming boost

    Also the GeForce Experience 1.7 launches with 'ShadowPlay' game recording.
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    Re: News - Nvidia GeForce 331.82 WHQL driver offers 4K gaming boost

    Why are the constantly pushing 4k on us. Honestly it's not to the point where it's decent enough to use, it's an expensive product, and I find my 1080p dual monitor setup to be more of a use than a huge resolution screen. Too early, too much. I can see 4K being used for image creation but for gaming, we really don't need it

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    Re: News - Nvidia GeForce 331.82 WHQL driver offers 4K gaming boost

    Quote Originally Posted by soljakwinever View Post
    Why are the constantly pushing 4k on us. Honestly it's not to the point where it's decent enough to use, it's an expensive product, and I find my 1080p dual monitor setup to be more of a use than a huge resolution screen. Too early, too much. I can see 4K being used for image creation but for gaming, we really don't need it
    As a user of a 2560x1440 display with a 1080p as a secondary I find 1080p to be less useful, I can't really put two windows side by side effectively as there just isn't enough horizontal space, if you start reading blogs or programming then you'll soon be wishing for more vertical space as well.

    That said, I'd love to move to 4K but first the price tags have to come down. I can order a 4K TV from china for £500-1000 (and probably will do once I have some money), but because HDMI 2.0 has only recently been released and none of the TVs have displayport I'd be limited to 30fps which is the most HDMI 1.4 will do. If I want 4K @ 60fps I'd have to spend at least £3000 on a monitor from Asus and that's not worth it compared to a huge pile of 1440p monitors for £300 or so each.

    The bandwidth limit of HDMI 1.4 means that the display is only really suitable for films and office applications, which is fine but video at least has a lack of 4K content atm so gaming is the best possible use.

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    Re: News - Nvidia GeForce 331.82 WHQL driver offers 4K gaming boost

    Whilst I'm using a two monitors currently, I think I would prefer a continuous larger 4k display than to stick with multiple monitors. Would also get more screen estate in games, although at the moment it is far too expensive - both for the screen and then for the GPUs to handle the resolution.

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    Re: News - Nvidia GeForce 331.82 WHQL driver offers 4K gaming boost

    Quote Originally Posted by soljakwinever View Post
    Why are the constantly pushing 4k on us. Honestly it's not to the point where it's decent enough to use, it's an expensive product, and I find my 1080p dual monitor setup to be more of a use than a huge resolution screen. Too early, too much. I can see 4K being used for image creation but for gaming, we really don't need it
    Hi Pixel density screens are absolutely gorgeous to play on. Go grab an ipad 1 and a nexus 10 and sit them next to each other, even at the same brightness theres no contest. The problem of course is how things scale, which windows isn't great at, and neither are a lot of games (huds in particular).

    Nvidia are rather obviously pushing it because it will drive GPU sales. I suspect we're two generations away from mid range cards hitting 4K, but the top end of this generation is getting there, and you'd expect 880/R10 290 (R9 390?) to easily handle it.

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    Re: News - Nvidia GeForce 331.82 WHQL driver offers 4K gaming boost

    I personally won't be buying into 4k.....at 2560x1600 on a 30" I already find it hard to see the difference between AA on and off.....higher resolutions aren't going to make that much difference unless you are talking about a gigantic display.....

    As for these drivers, used them last night for BF4 and they worked really well, great performance.
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