“HOW CAN I HOOK THIS UP TO MY PC? I bought this to use as monitor, and NO NOT FOR GAMING. Everyone I ask about this brings this up, I'm NOT "gaming," I don't play games, and I don't now nor do I in the future intend to use this for "gaming." EVER. Now that that has been said. I will be video / digital image editing. I will be architectural and engineering drafting with CAD and REVIT and RINO and 3D MAX, and ..........I will be using for everything BUT GAMING. Capice? Good. Now, what is the BARE MINIMUM PC that I will need. Can you give me SPECIFICS, such as the MINIMUM video card I will need, the minimum RAM, the minimum CPU, memory, etc. I don't need brand name products, just specifications. The BARE MINIMUM specifications, specifically for an adapter from PC to Aquos 4k TV..”
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The PC isn't the issue as far as the TV goes but if your going to do video and Photo editing you'll need all the horsepower you can get. I Have a Quad core Intel I5 running at 4 ghz with 32 gbs of ram with the newest Geforce 970 video card and it still takes a few seconds to fully load RAW files on the screen in Photoshop. So it's a bit of a loaded question as to "minimum pc requirements" for what you want to do. I would recommend checking the recommended computer specs for whatever software like Photoshop, etc., that you are going to use and start from there. But that being said, I'd at LEAST get a computer with 8 gb of ram, an Intel I5 quad core processor, and a 1tb hard drive with this caveat; you need as much ram as you can afford and you'll eventually need more hard drive space. As far as this TV goes it makes an excellent computer monitor; That's what I am using it for. If you not a gamer and don't mind a slightly slower mouse response you can get away with any video card that has HDMI 1.4 and will do 3840 X 2160 @ 30hz. However, if you want as smooth an experience that you'd get with a smaller, say 1920 x 1080 monitor, then you'll want a video card that has the new HDMI 2.0 spec and will output 3840 X 2160 @ 60 Hz. Unfortunately there's only two cards out right now that will do that; The nVidia Geforce 970, and 990 cards. The 970 is between $320.00 and $350.00 depending on whose card you buy.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.DON'T DO IT! The complaints of this being poor for gaming are most definately true but the latency is so severe you will HATE this even for routine PC usage. I also am a CAD user and I didn't even get to the point of evaluating it in that usage. If I'm having trouble trying to grab a window corner to resize it, attempting to navigate the cursor constantly in CAD usage will get you into a padded cell and/or the TV on a one way flight through your office window. It is sad Sharp couldn't reduce the latency to the point where this would function reasonably as a PC monitor. But as is this flunks completely here. It is interesting you mention CAD usage as the increased screen real estate would offer an improvement over replicated monitors. However the poor off-perpendicular viewing of the edge fed backlight frustrate its use here which doesn't exist with independently positionable multiple monitors.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Yes you can connect this to your computer via HDMI. With my GTX 780's I am able to get 4K60fps. See my review "zakaweb" I can't give you the bare minimums but I can at least say that GTX 780 and above can work with this monitor. I have Intel i7-4930k CPU 3.8GHz, 32 GB ram but 4-8 would work, windows 8.1. I can run all of the newest games at 4K60fps over HDMI 1.3. I won't go into the egghead details of how Nvidia makes this possible without HDMI 2.0 but it works.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Hi Matty. Thank you for your recent inquiry in regards to connecting a PC to your LC43UB30U. We are happy to help. We would recommend contacting a local computer dealer for more assistance in regards to the specifications you are requesting. We would also recommend referring to the hardware requirements for the applications that you plan on using.
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