My 1440p monitor died on me so I’m looking to upgrade to a 4K monitor, to be used with my home+work laptops, some older game consoles and an aging Linux PC.
The aging PC is the problem: it’s an i5-6600 on an Asus B150M-A. It lacks DP and its HDMI port can’t do 4k60.
I vaguely recall there being super cheap graphics cards meant for exactly this sort of thing, just a low end GPU with a bunch of ports, but I can’t seem to find much, especially not AMD (Linux + Nvidia remains meh)
Suggestions? Perhaps a minimally invasive upgrade to the PC? Or just stick it out at 1440p (non-integer scaling, ugh) until I can upgrade properly?
Any GPU made in the last 10 years with will have displayport 1.2 which will do 4k 60. That’s Radeon 6000 series (2010) or Nvidia 600 series (2012)
Just browse FB marketplace, or your local used junk suppliers and sort by price low to high. New low end GPU prices are insane, don’t spend that money on them.
If your PC is that old and bad, why don’t you just use your home laptop instead?
I think the most bang for your buck would be the Arc A380. 4 displays, 8k60 and AV1 acceleration. Not sure how good the linux support is but the drivers aren’t closed source like nvidia so I imaged it’ll be decent.
There’s always AMD ofc but I don’t think the 9000 series does anything special IO-wise. Might as well look at the cheaper 7000 series