Experiences with Seiki 4K 50"
Posted: 25 Jan 2014, 05:15
Well, my friend finally got enough funds to purchase the Seiki 50" 4K, got it on sale at Sears for $650 (plus tax, $697.something).
Got home, plugged it in, and it was pretty decent. Unfortunately did not get any pictures, but I'll give a short summary of the experience. We hooked up a desktop for today, though didn't get to use the internet (so no 4K videos, just pictures and single-player games).
Regular 4K, 30Hz. Desktop was GINORMOUS. Pretty awesome amount of workspace. 30Hz was felt, and the backlight strobing was visible and annoying to me, but my other two friends couldn't see it. Tolerable, to an extent. Playing games, was definitely a stutterfest. Most games he couldn't run with his GTX760 at decent specs at 2160p, and even when they did the amount of tearing was horrendous, unplayable. Vsync helped incredibly, even at 30Hz/30FPS, though input lag was of course incredibly high.
GTA: IV was....surprisingly smooth, with Vsync. No real tearing/stutters, just 30fps slideshow-ish, but still. 4K looked good. I was overall impressed.
Tomb Raider, brought the card to its knees and couldn't play it. At the 4K res, though, it looked a little better, but I don't think its really worth it in this game.
CS:GO was pretty cool, but really showed the tearing. The FoV, horizontally and vertically, and the detail from characters from far away was pretty astonishing. I'd like 4K 120fps for this, please.
Just Cause 2, gave a huge FoV as well. Much tearing. Not too sure it was worth it though, it just kind of made everything bigger, and didn't look as sharp as other games. This ones an 'eh'.
Left 4 Dead 2, I could NOT get to work. at 4K, this has major issues. Looking up online, I couldn't find any record of anyone trying the game in 4K, and was sad. Tried all sorts of things, but to no avail.
Trine 2, looked awesome. Loved it. Could not recommend more for 4K.
Super Meat Boy. Stupid. Don't know why, but lots of input lag and didn't look much better in my opinion. So that is whatever.
Bioshock Infinite, hard to say. Lots of tearing, didn't really spend much time in it either.
That was about all he had installed and ready to play, right now. My other friend had his laptop and got Battlefield 4 working with the display as well, and it looked pretty good, though had some issues with the screen turning black for a few seconds randomly, but that happened at desktop too. Maybe the cable.
As far as overclocking: worked beautifully for 1080p 120Hz. Most of the games (not GTA though) really looked great at 1080p 120Hz. Got 1440p at 90Hz fine, but the picture was pretty blurry, and quickly stopped that. 720p was just too god-awful to look at, and didn't bother with it. Tried 4K at 35 Hz, and was getting a few issues, though it worked, but not going to use it. Didn't try anything inbetween, but my friend said the 1080p at 120Hz was mostly what he wanted, and 4K occasionally too.
Display itself, colors were alright. Blacks didn't get very black, and when on 1080p with a dark gradient background, got weird shapes moving around that I believe might be weird artifacts from the scaling algorithm, but thats just a guess. Backlight was decent, there was a spot in the lower right hand corner worse than the rest of the monitor, but only visible on really dark backgrounds, and other than that was not visible any other times.
As far as "blur busters" goes, the 120Hz 1080p mode was nice. I didn't run any real tests on it, and since we didn't have internet I couldn't go to testufo.
Overall...a decent purchase. Myself, I would wait until 60Hz 4k, at least. It was defintitely cool though, but it could be better.
Got home, plugged it in, and it was pretty decent. Unfortunately did not get any pictures, but I'll give a short summary of the experience. We hooked up a desktop for today, though didn't get to use the internet (so no 4K videos, just pictures and single-player games).
Regular 4K, 30Hz. Desktop was GINORMOUS. Pretty awesome amount of workspace. 30Hz was felt, and the backlight strobing was visible and annoying to me, but my other two friends couldn't see it. Tolerable, to an extent. Playing games, was definitely a stutterfest. Most games he couldn't run with his GTX760 at decent specs at 2160p, and even when they did the amount of tearing was horrendous, unplayable. Vsync helped incredibly, even at 30Hz/30FPS, though input lag was of course incredibly high.
GTA: IV was....surprisingly smooth, with Vsync. No real tearing/stutters, just 30fps slideshow-ish, but still. 4K looked good. I was overall impressed.
Tomb Raider, brought the card to its knees and couldn't play it. At the 4K res, though, it looked a little better, but I don't think its really worth it in this game.
CS:GO was pretty cool, but really showed the tearing. The FoV, horizontally and vertically, and the detail from characters from far away was pretty astonishing. I'd like 4K 120fps for this, please.
Just Cause 2, gave a huge FoV as well. Much tearing. Not too sure it was worth it though, it just kind of made everything bigger, and didn't look as sharp as other games. This ones an 'eh'.
Left 4 Dead 2, I could NOT get to work. at 4K, this has major issues. Looking up online, I couldn't find any record of anyone trying the game in 4K, and was sad. Tried all sorts of things, but to no avail.
Trine 2, looked awesome. Loved it. Could not recommend more for 4K.
Super Meat Boy. Stupid. Don't know why, but lots of input lag and didn't look much better in my opinion. So that is whatever.
Bioshock Infinite, hard to say. Lots of tearing, didn't really spend much time in it either.
That was about all he had installed and ready to play, right now. My other friend had his laptop and got Battlefield 4 working with the display as well, and it looked pretty good, though had some issues with the screen turning black for a few seconds randomly, but that happened at desktop too. Maybe the cable.
As far as overclocking: worked beautifully for 1080p 120Hz. Most of the games (not GTA though) really looked great at 1080p 120Hz. Got 1440p at 90Hz fine, but the picture was pretty blurry, and quickly stopped that. 720p was just too god-awful to look at, and didn't bother with it. Tried 4K at 35 Hz, and was getting a few issues, though it worked, but not going to use it. Didn't try anything inbetween, but my friend said the 1080p at 120Hz was mostly what he wanted, and 4K occasionally too.
Display itself, colors were alright. Blacks didn't get very black, and when on 1080p with a dark gradient background, got weird shapes moving around that I believe might be weird artifacts from the scaling algorithm, but thats just a guess. Backlight was decent, there was a spot in the lower right hand corner worse than the rest of the monitor, but only visible on really dark backgrounds, and other than that was not visible any other times.
As far as "blur busters" goes, the 120Hz 1080p mode was nice. I didn't run any real tests on it, and since we didn't have internet I couldn't go to testufo.
Overall...a decent purchase. Myself, I would wait until 60Hz 4k, at least. It was defintitely cool though, but it could be better.
