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So I would be just fine with HDR10? As my room is quite a dark and dim room and not gonna need that much brightness. I think I can get away with just HDR10 right? Thanks btw!!

model? what mobo is it on? PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D 3 GHz 8-Core Processor ($244.00 @ Amazon) Video Card: ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB Video Card ($689.99 @ Newegg) Total: $933.99 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-04-25 03:13 EDT-0400

excellent which region/city/town and I'll trawl eBay/GumTree and see if I can find anything that stands out? For example, this one!

I don't think you'll need a cloud gateway tbh. Why not just get a ER-X or something like that?

Same here, I get builder's anxiety each time but I think I have enough experience to avoid catastrophe. As for Newegg tbh even if I get 0 refund I can survive that. The graphics card and CPU are the big returns. An aside: friend suspects the motherboard may have fried the CPU because it started fine out of the box, and reports came out that MSI X670E Tomahawks were frying CPUs with high voltage. Not sure I believe it since there were no burns or bulges on the contacts but I resigned the thing wasn't going to work. Fwiw the new power supply is here now and I have no arcing noise.

Is your LG a PC Monitor or at TV? I have 3 PCs in my house hooked up to LG TVs (65" C6V - 65" CX - 42" C2) and HDR works flawlessly. Windows desktop looks like a Windows desktop (albeit a bit brighter). Click HDR mode using the Philips screen and everything goes dark, grey and washed out.

Hopefully your replacements work like they are supposed to. It's been a while since I've had issues with building a PC. The only company I would worry about is Newegg. There was a lot of controversial information brought to life by GN about their return processes. They were supposed to improve but I suspect it's been somewhat questionable still.

I have no clue what is up with HDR mode in Windows. I can only turn it on right before I play a game. Using the desktop with HDR enabled is the worst thing I've ever had to do in my life lol what is MS doing!

Yeah I tried clearing the CMOS, removing the battery, swapping out the RAM, pretty much everything I conceivably could. And fwiw the Be Quiet Dark Power 13 was probably a really good power supply if not for that (and missed opportunity calling it Dark Energy, seriously)

Adding to this. Did you tighten the four standoffs mounted on the backplate? @db_optic

Your PSU will run any card up to 4090. For that I would go 850 or 1000W

Agreed. My 436M6VBPAB is a great large 4k display but my god the HDR is awful, at least in comparison to the various LG OLED I use around the house. HDR on the Philips just looks grey and washed out. The LGs on the other hand look lovely and bright. While I don't, I could use the regular windows desktop in HDR mode without any real issues.

That is super weird about the CPU. Did you try clearing the CMOS, removing the motherboard battery, and all that? The PSU is an interesting one too. But I'll give you that one. These things are somewhat fragile and the shipping companies could care less. I don't doubt this one. PSUs are also built like rocks, especially higher end ones, but there is only so much they can take.

Are you sure your PC is just not stable, surely sounds like it. Also note if you got fast boot enabled/disabled in BIOS, it should be the same in windows. And yes, it'll crash your GPU driver, at least on 7000 series. Also check if ram is stable. If you got any OC on your cpu, consider removing that, that includes any custom settings for PBO as well. You can also try reinstalling GPU drivers, by first removing them with DDU. Remember to launch in safe mode, you'll get prompted when launching DDU. After restart into safe mode, go to options in DDU and toggle "prevent windows update from installing drivers". Choose remove and restart. After reboot, install GPU drivers. Also check if you got any updates for chipset (On the motherboard) https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html

I wonder how long it has been since the last time I have watch a PC building video... I'm glad I watched this one. Very entertaining.

So the marvelous engineers at Twitter didn't see the red flag of their implementation of targeting only the end of the string instead of the domain as a whole? Babies first regex.

Normally I am a huge fan of Philips products. But after owning an LG OLED tv... I cannot see myself going to any other brand. I ran from Samsung after the hot mess of "we will support HDR10+ on your panel" articles and then they NEVER delivered. Oh and apparently they don't publish change logs for television updates. WTF? I don't think a single built in app supported 4k streaming on my 2016 panel. Everything was better after I bought a set top box. The television supported 4k but couldn't stream it. Never again Samsung. Never again.

HDR400 is a VESA standard for the expected peak brightness of a screen. It basically helps consumers figure out how "good" a panel is by a simple measurement of peak brightness in HDR mode. There is HDR400, HDR600, and HDR1000. The higher the number, usually the better the HDR experience. Before this, there was no standard method of determining brightness and comparing between displays. Manufacturers could report whatever they wanted in the brightness measurements. And technically they still can. But unstandardized testing would mean they cannot use the HDR400/600/1000 logos and advertise it. So if you do not see these logos advertised on a product, then the brightness claims might be determined in a different way that could bump up the numbers. HDR10 is an HDR standard. It is not a measurement of anything the television can produce. HDR10 is a free alternative to Dolby Vision HDR. These are standards that panels can support... a simple yes or no. Most monitors only support HDR. Dolby Vision is typically found on higher end television products from LG and Sony. No, not Samsung. HDR10+ is another standard that is supposed to mimic Dolby Vision a little better, but I have not seen a huge differentiation between HDR10 and HDR10+ in terms of content.

Vanilla HDR is sometimes referred to as HDR10. HDR 10+ and Dolby Vision are somewhat comparable as their HDR meta data is dynamic. HLG is HDR for broadcast services like SkyQ in the UK. HDR400, 600, 800, 1000..... is really the display manufacture shouting about the peak brightness of their display (in Nits). The brighter the better really but don't pay much attention to that as there will be lots of other factors. I have a Philips Momentum display that has an HDR1000 setting. HDR on this screen is utter garbage!

See, I thought the exact same thing with the processor, but the repair shop I took it to told me that was the issue after running diagnostics on it. (I don't know exactly what he did, just dropped off the assembled PC) What I know is it actually worked just fine for the first boot. The second boot did not work, because I was attempting to install a new boot drive over my USB thumb stick onto an M2 drive. I changed the boot priority to USB and then when I tried to reboot it didn't post? I didn't do anything unusual afaik, I did basically the same thing I did on my old ASUS boards when I needed a new SSD boot drive. As for the power supply, the arcing happened in and outside my house (which was built in the 70s iirc) so no, it wasn't an arc fault in the house. The repair shop informed me of it. The sound happened while the supply was plugged in and then switched on via I/O. It seemed to function just fine but in lieu of any other explanation regarding the CPU, I RMAed this as well.

Did you fully tighten down all 4 screws?

Aren't they close to that price brand new?