Anybody try a 27" 4K monitor is everything too small ?

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Subzerok11

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I once had briefly a 32" 4K monitor and for it to be comfortable I had to scale to 150% large size for it to look okay to me, no way I could go smaller. Is it a pretty safe bet to say 150% large for a 27" 4K for me won't work ?

What about older PC games in 4K, will it be fine 98% of the time or no it will look crappy or hard to see icons ? Sometimes I like to play old Rainbow six games and other games from the early 2000's. I'll just stick with my 27" 1440p if it's too much of a hassle.

 
Worst case scenario with an older game, just play the game at 1080P. Every square of 4 4k pixels becomes 1 1080P pixel and everything should work great.
 
Yeah. I have 3 27" 4K monitors.
At max resolution and 100% mag, it's just BARELY readable for me. And I'd go wall-eyed if I left it that way.

I have it set at 150% mag. So yes, I'm technically losing screen real-estate, and could have saved half a grand by going with the 1440p monitors instead.

Here's my desktop downsized to 1080p.

At full resolution (6480x3840) and zero magnification, the window in the center is a 1400x900 remote machine seen in TeamViewer.



DesktopExample-1080p.jpg
 
So at 150% is it fine ?

I currently have a 27" 1440p at 125% and it's perfect. Wondering if I'm missing out on anything at 4K ?
 
Subzerok11 said:
I currently have a 27" 1440p at 125% and it's perfect. Wondering if I'm missing out on anything at 4K ?
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That is equivalent to using 175% scale on a 4k 27". You are missing out on text clarity (where 1440p isn't that bad on 27 but 4k is still an upgrade). I tested 4k at 32" and 27" both were usable (settled on 32 for now where I consider 4k the bare minimum for text clarity), if I had an unlimited budget I would want 5k on 32" and at least 4k on 27". For gaming you don't miss out on anything, actually for now it's better to have a high refresh 1440p for gaming, but this will also change in the coming (2-3) years when driving native 4k will also be possible with mid range GPUs...
 
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