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I run both unless gaming. It does indeed make a differance. I just did not see a need to have the 1080ti power the monitor when my monitor is a 1600 x 900 monitor. My next one will be 1920 x 1080. I figured save the milage on the 1080 ti and VRAM overhead for rendering.
I will be gaming, my new monitor is already ordered. I am getting a samsung 27" curved screen , 1920 x 1080.
I dont really see a need for 4k, especially since I dont think most MMORPG's will benefit from it..
But i will be getting a second monitor, I plan on running 2, one for gaming the other to either stream, monitor daz's rendering progress, or monitor temperature/fan usage.
Multiple monitors are great. I have a triple setup at work, paid for by the job obv., and love it. More and more I wish I'd bought two really good 1080 p high refresh rate monitors instead of the one 4k that I did buy.
That sounds weird. Not enough resolution for that size, and curved too? I thought curved might only make sense in those ultra-wide screens?
I wish my 24's had curve... it IS noticable or say it is wonderful when they ARE curved.
Never seen a curve on less than a1440p ultra wide but who knows there are a lot of monitors out there.
I own two of the LG 38" 4K curves. There are pros and cons to them.
The cons - When making anything for print, eg: book covers, posters, or marketing prom material for 2d print, they do distort the work. I have an old Wacom Intuos 30 + somthing-ish tablet (the largest they sold) but because I had to look up at the monitors (cannot see work on tablet) I had to replace it with Wacom Cintiq Pro 16" so I didn't have to deal with looking up, left and right, on my 4K monitors while designing graphics or doing Photoshop post work. I swear to god they give you whiplash in full screen mode. I find the majority of the time, for non-animated, non-immersive work/tasks I use them in half screen mode and if you do live screen capture of your work (for tutorial/youtube purposes) you have to be pretty inventive with output scenes and source sizes. Most Youtube videos view better in a half screen mode. Despite reports that these curved screens are easier on the eyes/neck I disagree.
The pros. Gaming and videos or more immersive. DAZ scenes/workspace wraps nicely. Easier on the eyes when viewing fast action, movies etc (engaging viewing not scrutinizing details). It offers a more engaging experience. Great forcreating 360 HDRI's or doing post work for fish-eye camera photos.
It depends on what you do. If you game or animate they are perfect. If you design precise graphics, comic books spreads or book covers, don't toss your flat screens because there are slight distortion issues in even the most expensive curves.
For those who don't think they can build their own pc. >>>YOUTUBE<<< Just watch the howto videos on youtube on building your own pc! My main system is just a Alienware area 51 r2 case that looks cool but the guts are homebuilt. I have just upgraded to a intel XEON 10 core 20 hyperthread processor for about $160 US and it just kills renders. Just make sure you get rid of the static electricity before touching pc parts or wear cheap rubber gloves.
@ArtAngel thanks for the pros and cons... I DO detailed design and plan to live stream and make tutorials so I may end up with 1 of each!
Honestly for a design pro I'd just go with 2 monitors, which is also a good way to do streaming.
My plan is 1 curved and 1 flat.
Hp Pavilion Laptop, Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40GHz, 2401 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) 8gB of RAM, operating on Windows 10
So this is what I use to render for DAZ Studio. I can render 3 - 4 G2, G3, or G8 characters plus a room scene with multiple lights no issue. It's an HP Laptop, and I have never had an issue with it in the 3 years I have had it. Basic, out of the box laptop with no overclocking or anything upgraded, just the stats you can see above. At the time it cost me $1000.00 AUD, and has been a great laptop. I have render just under 300 images in that time to completion (many cancelled ones too), so I guess it has served me well.
Nothing custom about it, still works well for DAZ.
...my one suggestion. Upgrade the OS to W10 Pro as it gives you more direct control over your system concerning MS updates and configuraiton than Home Edition allows.
...I did the same for about 100$ more six years ago. Currently involved in an extensive upgrade project.
...I have a dual setup (wide screen 1080p) on my main system where I have just the viewport with the render options and scene tabs on one and the rest of the tabs I use for scene setup on the other. Leaves me with a nice and uncluttered viewport while reducing the need to open and close tabs which helps with workflow.
...indeed and it really stifles upgrading. As I mentioned I am in the midst of a major upgrade and the best CPU I can install is a 6 core Westmere Xeon. To ge a higher core count to match that of a Ryzen (basically Sandy Bridge generation) I would have to replace the LGA1366 MB with an LGA2011 one which is a major expense I cannot afford.
Well folks, if the new AMD rumors are anywhere close to being accurate, you might want to wait until about May to build your big machine. Keep in mind NONE of this has been confirmed, however the info comes from 2 different sources, and one of those sources has been spot on in the past. I have been waiting to see what Ryzen 3000 might hold. If this is true, I am SOOO buying a 16 core R9. And May would be about the time I have plenty of cash saved up for a good machine. Moreover, while the AMD GPUs cannot be used for Iray, you have to consider that Nvidia still needs to compete with them. So again, if these are correct, we might see some price drops. Its been a couple days, but I haven't seen anybody post it here.
AMD Ryzen 3000 Series Alleged Specs
...yes it is budgetary resons for now as I am on a fixed income. No point in paying for a new MB for teh same core/tread count which I already have. Yes the AM4 socket is more "future proof" (up to the new Ryzen 3000 series mentioned above), however it also would mean moving to W10 which I have no desire to do. Not just that there are features of W10 I don't care for but it doesn't support some of my other hardware which would mean even more expense for replacements.
Currently planning to network my two systems together for Carrara rendering which will give me a total of 20 cores and 54 GB of memory.
Intel Sandy Bridge and later generations allow for more than 6 cores and if I did come into some extra cashflow I am considering a dual socket workstation board and two Xeon 10 or 12 core CPUs for Carrara rendering .as again that engine is CPU based and will take advantage of multiple CPU threads up to 100.
I watched that video. OMG. Horribly built. He explained it perfectly.
The Beast arrived two weekends ago. There was an issue getting the 4th hard drive installed. To be more precise, it didn't show up in Device Manager and I originally thought it wasn't there at all; turns out it was, just that the BIOS wasn't set up to recognize it. I"ve gotten that fixed and now all four hard drives are recognized and in use.
The bottom line - this thing screams. Its soooo fast. Really, seriously fast! I do miss the lack of an internal optical drive. From speaking with my students, they nearly all still view an optical drive as standard equipment, if only for loading up old games, adding music and movies on CD and DVD to I Tunes, and generally eliminating cable clutter. I do wish that manufacturers would recognize this and not eliminate them too quickly.
Overall, I'm very happy. I'm getting around 150 FPS on Battlefield V on moderate settings, and sometimes on higher settings. I tried playing the original Half Life and got over 200 FPS. Wow!!!! I was able to do some test renders and the 2700X/2080 combination spit ot a nice render in about 15 minutes that the old I-7 5500u/GTX 850 laptop would require several hours to do well.
Congratulations.