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A recent development is the arrival of the affordable 4K monitor - we hadn't expected to see these so soon. We've seen a couple of models break under the £600 mark, with several more due from rival manufacturers, and most of these models sport 28in, 3,840 x 2,160 pixel panels.
There are upsides and downsides to this number of pixels, however. The good news is that such a high resolution gives amazing clarity to images and onscreen text, as well as a huge amount of desktop real estate to play with. Quality is surprisingly decent, too; since this new breed of budget 4K monitors use the latest in 10-bit TN panels, the technology in question is a far cry from the calibre of 6-bit TN panels found in bargain-basement models.
The main drawback of a 4K monitor is that you'll almost certainly need to run Windows 8.1 in order to take advantage of its scaling capabilities, since it's necessary to crank up the text and scaling settings to 200% to keep text and applications at a workable size.
The final side effect of such a sizeable resolution is gaming performance - powering a single 4K screen is equivalent to driving four Full HD displays simultaneously. Unless you have a pair of the fastest graphics cards currently available, you'll need to dial down the detail settings in games or reduce the resolution for more demanding titles - you may want to think hard before upgrading to 4K.
Read more: The 10 best monitors of 2014 | Buying Guides | Features | PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/389...best-monitors-from-200-to-2-000#ixzz3BKLjE1m7
