[GTALUG] 40" 4k Philips Monitor for $699.95 at BestBuy, Jun. 8 and 9 only

[ted leslie]

you can drive it , just not at 4k so what's the use.
I tried and researched, only solution is a 9 series (not sure ati
solutions),
you can get cheap card for i think 150$ range.
You could drive it at 2560x?? and later upgrade your video card.

-tl

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Giles Orr <gilesorr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 June 2016 at 14:30, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com>
> wrote:
> > I bought this same 40" 4k Philips monitor for $699.99 at a Black Friday
> sale
> > last year at BestBuy and it has been working great(*). The Wasabi Mango
> was
> > an LG IPS panel. This one is a VA panel. Theoretically, the IPS panel is
> > supposed to be "better" but I really do not have any objections to the
> video
> > quality on the Philips. I have not noticed any dead pixels and the
> > brightness is uniform throughout. It has an easy-to-use joystick control
> and
> > a hard power switch. I have an ASUS GT 960 Strix video card running the
> > nVidia binary driver on Fedora 23 driving the monitor through a
> DisplayPort
> > cable.
> >
> > (*) Once every few months, I have to update the binary driver (it's not
> > automatically updated) when I lose X after a kernel update. Occasionally,
> > I'll see a flickering of a window that is not in the foreground. If I
> move
> > the mouse, the flickering will disappear, which has me suspect the video
> > driver and not the monitor. It's not frequent enough to be anything more
> > than a minor irritant. Neither of those things are particular to this
> > monitor.
> >
> > With a panel this large, I have not found any need for font-scaling.
> There
> > is no way I could read text on a 28" 4k monitor without font-scaling. It
> > would be hard to beat the price/performance of this monitor and with the
> > weaker Canadian dollar, monitor prices have been firm. You will not see
> this
> > monitor at this price very often.
> >
> > In short, it's a great buy if you've been thinking of upgrading to a 4k
> > monitor.
>
> I assume you mean this:
>
>
> http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/philips-philips-40-4k-uhd-60hz-3ms-gtg-va-led-monitor-bdm4065uc-silver-black-bdm4065uc/10381634.aspx
>
> Is there any practical way to drive this from a Linux-based laptop
> that doesn't currently have an appropriate video card / output?  (I
> don't consider "buy a new computer" to be a helpful answer: I'll be
> ready to do that in about 18 months.  But I'll understand if the
> correct answer is "no."  :-)
>
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