I like my 4k wasabi mango uhd400.
It's not perfect, but I find it satisfactory.
Right now with the us market, and likely the eu market, alot of the 4k's will be the 1st gen.
The supposed final ver is uhd ver's of 4k, 10bit and beyond. (Edit: I mean hdr, not uhd, I got a darn cold and can't think straight)
The media format is almost non-existent though, not much for 4k or 4k+10bit, lots of Japanese bdr 1080p 10bit though, not actually sure if those rips were from a 10bit disk or not though.
The os ui's aren't ready for it btw, in windows for example you have to switch out of dwm mode or whatever it's called, no aero, win8-10 there is no aero anyways...
But if I remember right it needs full screen anyways, I couldn't get it to work, just haven't been using windows enough to care.
Mac I think wasn't prepared for it at all, and Linux, well, it's a mess, you can force it, and see all the little bugs that come with that.
The prob is transparencies.
4k is nice, even for casual use (after you adjust everything...).
But I don't recommend one with a tuner for sure, the lag is bad enough with the va/ips panels and the res/screen size.
My plan was to make my own tuner box out of a pi, pi3 for now, later on one that does hardware 4k playback and can handle a 4k desktop.
A easycap capture stick, and maybe someday a usb stick that does us digital tv if I can find one (I got one for eu sat, and that's useful for sdr, but it's not tv...).
Vga though, this 680 mine doesn't care for 4k.
I hope volta comes out soon, I was hoping to use my tax returns on that and maybe an impact wrench and a few other odds and ends if possible.
I haven't even played through gta5 yet because I've been waiting on maxing it out on 1080p, and now it's 4k lol.
Anyways, intel...
The reason why we haven't gotten the bigger core counts is because in terms of clocks you know it wouldn't satisfy some.
Say there's a 4ghz 6core, 2-3 years later or so then there's an 8 core at the same speed.
It's not that they can't give those cores, it's just that they apparently feel that it's not ready yet.
That and at least a slight lack of competition and actual demand for anything over 4 cores for the mainstream.
Content creators are considered professionals for ex.
And so are peeps that tend to buy the xeon's...
The only reason why 4 cores are no longer going to be top mainstream is because things like content creation have become more mainstream.
People need to beable to game, and encode or stream at the same time.
That and you know, they've been around forever now, quad cores.
There's a point were if you can get the same clocks you used to get on the quad, you might as well give them more cores, as long as it fits in tdp.
As for the ext's...
My 4930k has what I want and the stuff I don't it doesn't have, no remote admin.
I found it odd that the 4960x was missing virtualization instructions :\.
At least that was specs were back then...
That sorta stuff I don't agree with... sure
And I don't like artificial limits either, with multiplier locks and such.
Regardless, amd has made it so it's not 6 cores, it's 8 cores that's now the mainstream to go on.
Intel will charge $1000 still for there top end.
But it's likely now you'll see 8 cores at the 500 range and 10 cores at the 1000 range.
You would of seen that anyways but now it could get more interesting maybe.
Anyways don't take this and an endorsement for intel.
I'm all for amd taking a lead somewhere.
I spent a ton of money on my intel rig, much more then any amd rig I wuld of put together, and the reason was because I saw no benefit to upgrading to an amd from what I had, a 1090t.
There would of been a benefit, but not enough for me to justify, I wanted to hand my rig down, and I needed something with more power behind it to do things that the amd couldn't.
At least finally, now there's a upgrade path on the amd side ^^.
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