Windows 10: What determines or restricts monitor specs?

When considering a higher resolution monitor, what takes priority or restricts choice? Is it the system motherboard specs or the graphics card specs? Or does it depend on whether the monitor is to be connected to one or the other? Or is it more technical than that?

I have a 27" Samsung monitor with native resolution 1920 x 1080. I play DCS flight simulation and do get a pretty good picture but wondered if I could get an even better picture with a higher res monitor. I was thinking of increasing my ram to 32gig - the motherboard will handle that.

The graphics card is 'overclock edition' - I think that may mean it's factory overclocked - I don't enter the realms of overclocking.

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What determines what picture is shown in the Pictures tile?

The documentation I've read indicate that the photo is chosen randomly, and changes after every fifth visit to the Pictures hub...unless you change the pic yourself. Either way, the long-press you were previously advised to attempt does not work from the
tile, but rather from the hub itself. Once inside the Pictures hub, long-press on the background image and you will get the menu options regarding setting the background (and live tile) photo.

Hope that helps!

 

What determines what picture is shown in the Pictures tile?

Hi oneoreleven,

The pictures hub actually controls the tile on the Start screen. For more information on the pictures hub, please check out the following: http://www.microsoft.com/windowspho...hange-the-background-of-the-pictures-hub.aspx

 

It depends on what you mean by a better picture. If you are concerned about the color quality, you may just need to tune the settings on the monitor. If you think frame rate is your problem, then you should likely look in to a better video card. Simply increasing the resolution to a newer monitor may not make the picture "better".

Increase the amount of RAM will have nothing to do with picture quality. If it looks good to you now, why bother trying to change that?

 

Hi Aurondium. *Smile

Your question is ... What determines or restricts monitor specs?

I think the key factor is the A/V interface. The same graphics processing unit (dedicated or integrated) may yield different resolution when connected to different interfaces. As an example, see the specifications of a motherboard ... say B85M-G. It says:

If it is connected to a VGA or DVI port, it is 1920x1080; but when it is connected to HDMI, it is 4096 x 2160. If a larger monitor connected to the DVI port, display resolution will not be improved.

 

It's a little more complicated.

Dual link DVI supports 2560 X 1600. Digital Visual Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It was used on the 30" monitors that I used to lust after.

The resolution HDMI supports depends on its version number. HDMI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia If you want 4096 X 2160 at 60 Hz, apparently you need HDMI 2.0.

I'm running UHD (3940 X 2160) at 60 Hz using a DisplayPort interface.

 

Your video card(needs to support your maximum resolution at least) and the particular monitor manufacture specs. and video input/output connector types(HDMI, Display port, mini display port are pretty much state of the art video computer to monitor interface connectors). If you don't have a discrete video card then the onboard graphics chip on your motherboard and video input/output connectors must support your monitor . Don't go cheap on this and Do the comparisons. IMO

 

From my experience with higher resolution then 1920 x 1080 your video card specs are what is important, as i see from your video card your fine for it. The other thing i notice about higher resolution is it will work your card much more then when using lower resolution.
The card will increase in temps faster, fans will run faster. For gaming you may loose frames per second you might be better off with same resolution and higher refresh rate monitor for gaming.

http://www.sapphiretech.com/productd...C443D&lang=eng

 

All very enlightening and helpful, guys, and your taking time to reply is much appreciated. Thank you.

My current monitor does not have a Display Input, hence my question, although I do remember that old phrase- if it ain't broke don't fix it. I am currently exploring DCS Flight simulator and closing up on screen instruments helps - great fun.

It looks as though I maybe should have gone for a better quality monitor to give myself options that are presently not available to me.. Live and learn.

Thanks again.

 

If the monitor is the Samsung S27E390HS listed in your specs, its native resolution is 1920X1080. Both the HDMI and DB15 (VGA) ports will support that.

You'd need a different monitor to get more pixels.

 

The monitor I am now considering is a Samsung S34E790C. Any obvious reason I may have overlooked as to why that may not be compatible with my present system?

If it won't work too well..... unless I upgrade my graphics card.....hmmmmm. Or there is another solution to obtaining a larger screen - maybe by sticking with 1920 x 1080.

I really appreciate your input because I must confess to feeling a tad bamboozled by all the net searching I have done.

ETA- Spoken to my son who (in addition to explaining a few things to me) has a quad 1920x1080 professional set-up he is not going to have any use for shortly and he has kindly offered it to me plus the relevant graphics card so everything is on hold for the moment, but I do thank you all again for your very kind assistance.

 

Samsung does make very nice monitors. Your AMD Sapphire Card does support that resolution. On second look there are a number of Sapphire R9 280 X http://www.sapphiretech.com/catapage...id=74&lang=eng

So you do not really need to upgrade your graphics card. The thing with higher resolution is everything is going to become smaller on the screen (icons,text,etc...) and you may have to play with Scaling and other settings in Windows, you will not notice this with videos and games. With higher resolution you get more of a percentage of screen space to images and 25% or more sharper.

Wish you luck on whatever you decide if son doing this for you great.

 

Thank you, jds63. That is very helpful, especially to know my Sapphire Radeon DualX R9-280X can handle the Samsung S34 monitor I am considering.

 

Your Welcome ! Like i said before any 2K & 4K monitor especially with gaming is going to work your Graphics card more then using a resolution like 1920 x 1080, so a better Graphics card can help. I only have a 2K Monitor and i notice with gaming it stresses the card more then with my older monitor with lower resolution and was agreed when speaking to my Card manufacturer on this.

 

So it seems as though I might be better putting the money into a more powerful (and system compatible) graphics card and then looking at a better monitor when the cash is available a few months down the line. A compatible new graphics card should last a few years (probably outlast me- *Sad) and the monitor may come down in price a tad - yes?

Oh, decisions decisions. And unless I'm careful a new graphics card will probably put a new factor (or spanner) into the mix! Any suggestions? *Confused