I’ve been toying around with buying new monitors for a while now, eBay and a pretty good price on Samsung U28E850R (U28E85KRS) monitors tipped me over. 4k, 1ms, 28″ and all sorts of little features made this hard to pass up.
The monitors are great, fit on my existing monitor arms, even though the monitor arms say only 24″. Very clear picture, great packaging and cables (yay for displayport cable). They did come with 100% brightness by default, so you get blinded first use.
4k is easy to read (in my opinion) at this screen size, yes everything is small and some programs obviously do not scale well with the extra resolution. Being able to tile four 1080p programs on the one monitor is just amazing, thank you windows 10.
To set the scene, my computers aren’t great, old CPU’s and GTX770 and GTX970 videos cards, but they seem to hold up well for 4k in World Of Warcraft. Yes they aren’t going to be winning any performance/FPS contests. But everything seems playable, so far.
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