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p.2 #8 · p.2 #8 · 5-yr old PC enough??? seems so, but you know..... | |
sjms wrote:
display port cables have been problematic. and 4K may be higher detailed but lower color accuracy. 8K is out the door too. you have to get out of the "gaming" mindset. I'm near 60 and gaming isn't high on my want list.
I'm NOT in the gaming mindset. I just turned 50, and don't game. My point was, the slower, lower energy consumption card may be more than enough for general 2d graphics work, and is capable of driving 4k, should he want to go there at some point. I updated my 3 year old machine with the slower card, without needing to do a power supply update, and find it works quite well.
Even tried the same card here at work, where it made a tremendous difference in some 3-d spine modeling I was performing. I did not measure, but it was significantly faster than the build in HD4600 graphics on the i5-4590. For that situation, the 960 would be measurably better still, but don't think I'm going to be able to get the powers to be to updated the power supply on a leased, desktop machine.
As for DP cables, as I mentioned elsewhere, the work supplied Z27s was shipped with 1 HDMI cable and 2 DP cables. One of the DP cables would not drive my Z27s 4K@60hz, while the other would. Once that minor issue was cleared, all has been well. Just need to ensure the cable meets the DP 1.2a specification.
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