Paul <
nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:
It's an RTX 3060. That's fairly recent vintage stuff. Better
than what I've got.
Yep, already noted that, and the resolutions it can support. The OP, in another subthread, said he is using a Samsung S24C366EAU. That is a 24"
curved monitor, but with only 1920x1080 (full HD) for its native
resolution. His video card is far more robust than is his monitor.
HD 1280 x 720 pixels
Full HD: 1920 x 1080 pixels <-- OP has this on 24"
2K 2048 x 1080 pixels
4K or Ultra HD 3840 x 2160 pixels
8K 7680 x 4320 pixels
10K 10240 x 4320 pixels
Big monitor, but low resolution (relative to the monitor size), seems to indicate the pixels will be large. The monitor is okay for viewing at a distance, but close up the pixels will be too large to have sharp text.
With its curved surface, it's meant for immersion when watching video.
But its large size and relatively low native resolution means it isn't
for text.
When visiting a brick and mortar computer store, you'll see all the
monitors hooked to a video source that is constantly changing. Makes
the monitors look better since showing a static image, like text, would illustrate which monitors are poor for reading text.
I remember seeing a monitor at a great price with good specs, but it was
fuzzy on text. They had it hooked to a common video source, so the
screen was constantly changing. I changed the hook up to a computer
with a static screen showing windows with some showing text. I kept
adjusting the monitor's controls figuring someone had set it up wrong.
Then eventually I noticed the .41 dot size in the specs. Geez, way too
big for use as a desktop monitor where you're only maybe 19" away, or
less, from the monitor, and when viewing text. There were other folks
watching me doing the test, and when I realized the dot size was so
huge, I said something like "No wonder it's so fuzzy. Won't ever get
this monitor to look sharp for text." Everyone walked away from this
great "deal". No one bought it after seeing what I found out. Of
course, the store reconnected the crappy monitor to the video source to
hide how poor was this cheap monitor in displaying static images or
text.
A 16:9 24" monitor is probably 20.92" wide by 11.77" tall. 1920 pixels
across 20.92" is about 92 pixels per inch, or about 0.28 mm dot size.
Not bad, but the bigger the monitor the fuzzier it will look at the same resolution (1920x1080). My monitor is 27" with 2560x1440 native
resolution. It's a 16:9 ratio, so width is 23.53" giving a dot size of
about 2560 pixels over 23.53", or about 109 pixels per inch, or 0.00919"
per pixel, or 0.23 mm dot size. If I were to buy a new monitor now, I'd
want 0.21 or even down to 0.19 mm dot size.
Oops, the measurements I gave is called dot or pixel pitch: distance
between pixel centers. That would be the maximum dot size, but it could
be different (smaller) if the pixels had gaps between them. At 8 feet,
a 1 mm dot size is okay for viewing moving images. The lower the pixel
pitch, the closer you can view the monitor. The higher the pixel pitch,
the farther away you view the monitor.
Another problem users encounter is they buy a higher resolution monitor
(that isn't much different in size from their old monitor), but all the
text gets smaller. That's because the same number of pixels are used
for form the text characters, but the higher resolution means the pixels
are smaller so then are also all the text characters. Users have to up
the DPI to make text look bigger to be legible. There are still some
old, and even new, apps that are not DPI-aware which means an element in
which text is display is not resizable, so the bigger text inside the same-sized element ends up lopping off the top or bottom of the text, or truncating the text.
Higher pixel density costs more. The Samsung S24C366EAU is their
"Essential Monitor" costing about $190 MSRP from Samsung, but down to
$120 at other e-tailers. Not sure why, but curved screens seems to
lower the native resolution of the monitor, so get a flat screen. A 24" 2560x1440 monitor, and staying with the OP's choice of the Samsung
brand, will cost another $180 to $260 more (Newegg prices,
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=101702297%20600030619%204814%20600557170%2050001077).
As with PSUs, don't go cheap on monitors, either. Quality costs more.
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