BenQ TK850

[RoMax]

thanks guys, WOC, it still has its plastic stickers on it, my guess is its hardly used.

[Wizard of Coz]

Sounds like a great deal unless it was used for mining bitcoin and it had been overworked and overheated.

[Dax]

Sounds like a good deal! Congrats on the find!

[RoMax]

Thanks to everyone for their help. I bit the bullet on this:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/alienwa...?skuId=6427083

Alienware - Aurora R11 Desktop - Intel Core i7 10700F - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER - 1TB HDD + 512GB SSD - Lunar Light

Got an open box for $1100 plus tax, pretty good deal methinks

[RoMax]

thanks gawlfa

[Gawlfa]

Look at this review for this card and scroll down to the benchmark section. You can see the fps for 4k for all the games is less than desirable:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA....386281.0.html

[RoMax]

https://deals.dell.com/en-us/product...Fc1LAQodpbIPLw

How about this one?:

Processor
10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10750H (12MB Cache, up to 5.0 GHz, 6 cores)
Operating System
Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English
Graphics Cardⁱ
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2070 8GB GDDR6 with Max-Q Design
Display
15.6 inch FHD(1920x1080) 300nits WVA Anti-Glare LED Backlit Display(non-touch), 144Hz refresh rate
Hard Drive
512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
Memoryⁱ
16GB DDR4-2933MHz, 2x8G
Primary Battery
4-Cell Battery, 68 Whr (Integrated)
Wireless
Killer™ Wi-Fi 6 AX1650 (2x2) 802.11ax Wireless and Bluetooth 5.1

[Gawlfa]

https://www.gpucheck.com/gpu/nvidia-...8700k-3-70ghz/

[Dax]

It is a bit weak. Are you sure you need a 4K image? If yes, then I suggest a 2080 super or 3070 if you can find one (I believe the 3070 will be the better card and so do not pay more for the 2080).

[RoMax]

Thank you Gawlfa. What website were you looking at?

[Gawlfa]

I'm not an expert, but I think you want an RTX version and not a GTX version. When looking at benchmark websites, it said it can handle 4k at 29fps, which is really bad. (Rated it one star.)

[RoMax]

Found one with these specs: Intel Core i7 - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti Max-Q - 512GB SSD

Do you think it will work pushing tgc in a 4k signal?

[GungHoGolf]

If you didn't spend $2500+ on your laptop new, it won't have a sufficient GPU. But still fingers crossed for you!

[RoMax]

Thank you to both of you! I have an i7 laptop with a 512mb ssd and 16 gb of ram, no idea on the graphics card, will check tonight. My ceiling is 11' tall and the screen I am looking to build is 14.5x8. I'm hoping shadows won't be an issue. I got an awesome deal on this light cannon and won't spend anywhere near Ron' $4k, hopefully!

[GungHoGolf]

You'll need a laptop or PC with a minimum gpu of a GTX 1080 to push 4K pixels in TGC or E6 Connect. When you think 4K, think about $4K for projector and PC.

That said, I love my BenQ TK850. Throw is a bit long, so beware of shadows if you can't mount the projector high (mine sits 18' back and 10' high from 16x9' screen and I hit from 12' back, and just barely don't have shadows).