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?

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    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.