CPU and Video Card for 32" 4K Monitor
So I'm hoping to buy a 32"4K monitor if there's a good Black Friday sale. I don't game much and I want extra real estate for productivity tasks (Excel, Lightroom, browsing etc). My plan is to also look for a 1080 ti video card on BF sales. I think that will take care of the video card requirements and allow me to do some gaming if I start to get into it.
For my CPU - is there a minimum I need to drive a 32" 4K monitor? I'm actually thinking of going the cheap route and upgrade my ancient i7 920 CPU to a Xeon X5650 with 6 cores and easy overclocking. EBay sells them for around $30. I also have 12Gb of triple channel RAM. If this doesn't suffice, then I'll have to upgrade the whole platform to a current generation Ryzen or Coffee Lake. However, because I don't game, I'm hoping I can continue using my X58 platform.
Any advice?
For my CPU - is there a minimum I need to drive a 32" 4K monitor? I'm actually thinking of going the cheap route and upgrade my ancient i7 920 CPU to a Xeon X5650 with 6 cores and easy overclocking. EBay sells them for around $30. I also have 12Gb of triple channel RAM. If this doesn't suffice, then I'll have to upgrade the whole platform to a current generation Ryzen or Coffee Lake. However, because I don't game, I'm hoping I can continue using my X58 platform.
Any advice?