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atavax

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  1. Is there a setting in my phone that could be the problem? What should I be looking for? I have a google pixel 5
  2. It seems like the options are usually either a hard cover that cracks when in my pocket with my keys or a soft one that will have at least 1 bubble no matter how hard I try? Are there any legit screen protectors?
  3. meh; it's replacing a 55" display, I think 48" will be fine. thanks for the tips. If you use multiple displays, can you hide the task bar in only one or do i have to have it hidden in all of them?
  4. there isn't like some HDR content not done particularly well that won't give me a good appreciation of HDR?
  5. I ordered an OLED TV. I'm curious what is the best way to appreciate the HDR goodness it is capable of.
  6. I have a primary computer monitor and am looking at a tv/gaming display for playing pretty games on, watching youtube, streamers, or movies from the PC. The great colors make OLED very tempting along with it's low input lag and response time. I think at this point I'm mostly concerned about burn in.
  7. I've gone into my google drive and nothing out of the ordinary appears there, so I don't know why I got this notification and if I should be worried. I don't speak whatever language this is
  8. does this have crosshair overlay? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M6B6T1H?tag=amazondn01-20
  9. usually when you make such a claim you would link to the monitor with the same panel you're referencing...
  10. So, my current gaming monitor is starting to die on me. I do take FPS fairly seriously. I use a 27" monitor, and might be open to going down to a 25". I want to upgrade to a 1440p display. I do kind of hate horribly when shooters remove the crosshairs from me. I was thinking about alienware AW2721D although it's fully color doesn't work at high refresh rates? Also I don't think it has crosshair overlay? Is there a monitor with this panel that has crosshair overlay? I think about $1200 is probably my max budget.
  11. Right now my laptop has 2 sticks of 8gb ram 8x8 for 16gb total. 1 of them is soldered. The laptop supports up to 32gb of ram. Can I stick a 32gb stick into the unsoldered slot and have 32gb of ram or can I only get 16gb from a single slot? Edit for clarity
  12. I mean, HP lets you customise the laptop and one of the customization options is 16gb of ram for $10. I wouldn't have to open the laptop at all. HP would ship it to me with 16gb...
  13. i mean, if there is an option to customize the laptop by changing the ram from 8gb to 16gb of ram, would it really void the warranty? I'm still buying it with 16gb of ram, not installing it myself.
  14. I could do something like this and upgrade the ram to 16gb for $10 https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-laptop-15t-7df84av-1?jumpid=ma_back-to-school-sale_product-tile_top-deals_2_7df84av-1_hp-laptop---15t&source=aw&subacctid=166580&subacctname=Slickdeals&adcampaigngroup=111627&awc=7168_1597145202_952a08c4815f66692c152280063d7016&jumpid=af_gen_nc_ns&utm_medium=af&utm_source=aw&utm_campaign=Slickdeals
  15. are there many laptops for $600 with a 4700u? It seems like getting a higher end cpu and having to like, get 8gb of ram instead of 16 is going to be worse long term.
  16. Trying to pick out a Laptop for a friend. They have a $600 budget; starting to get into photography and wants something capable of photoshop. She already has pretty large external storage, so I think we can skimp out on that, mainly concerned with just build quality of the laptop for a price like that. I was thinking probably just a 4 core cpu, maybe a 6 core amd; with 16gb of ram and a low end discrete graphics or maybe amd integrated graphics.
  17. I bought the new g14 laptop and i'm thinking one of the ways to get more use out of it is to use it as a secondary pc to stream myself playing games on my desktop. I'm thinking something like described here: https://www.obs.live/articles/2019/5/1/how-to-stream-with-two-pcs-using-obs-studio-and-the-ndi-plugin Should it make a difference whether it's usb a or usb c to ethernet? will one yield better bandwith? Are there any classifications I should be looking for to determine a higher quality adapter?
  18. So I have to download iTunes onto my PC and get MP3s through iTunes to share MP3s from my PC to an iPhone?
  19. I'm thinking about getting the new Iphone SE, but this would be my first apple device since I got an ipod shuffle like 15 years ago and I just don't know how much freedom do you have with iphones. Can I connect it to my windows PC and upload mp3's onto it? How is the Navigation system? What are things a Windows/Android guy should know about the switch to an Iphone?
  20. I really like the materials of the g14 and how the aestetic isn't very gamer, and the size seems like the best balance between portability and performance. But In this day and age, I feel like I need a laptop with a camera. I know laptops are just beginning to come out with ryzen 4000 series CPUs, but are there any of laptop versions basically fighting for the same segment as the g14 but actually, you know, has a camera? If it is supposed to come out soon, but hasn't that would be fine.
  21. OLED still has burn in issues which is especially problematic if you use it with PC gaming. Maybe if you upgrade your display every other year it wouldn't be an issue, but if you want to upgrade after improvements in technology justify it instead of because of the short life expectancy of the product you bought, you still need to get an LCD display. I think a large 4k monitor playing at 1080p presents a worse gaming experience than a 1080p gaming monitor at whatever size you consider ideal for a 1080p gaming monitor and a small 4k monitor trying to be ok for playing shooters with is going to present a worse gaming experience for something like cyberpunk 2077 than a relatively low input lag TV. My monitor is the BenQ XL2720Z
  22. I haven't seen any decent color monitors as fast or faster than old TN panels in terms of input lag. As for native resolution. Either you buy a display with the size to appreciate 4k, in which case, running it at 1080p looks horrible, or you buy a display that is small enough to make 1080p look good but then even if it is capable of 4k, you can't notice the detail of 4k. It also doesn't help things that the type of game you want to play at 1080p 144hz is the type of game you're typically very close to your display for and want higher pixel density for, and the type of game you don't really care about refresh rate of input lag for and want 4k to enjoy the graphics, is the type of game you're typically farther away from your display for.The problem with a 1440p 144hz IPS display is still worse for gaming than an old 1080p 144hz TN and is a giant step backwards in image quality from something like a QLED 4k TV you can get at the same price.
  23. I have a 6 year old 27" 144hz 1080p TN panel. Logically with all these displays with higher resolutions and refresh rates and better colors, I was looking into getting a new monitor. Then looking at sites that measure input lag, I realize, they all have worse input lag than my current monitor. Further, I look at the prices, and all the good ones cost like well into 4 figures. Then there is the fact that driving these higher res displays at high rates for online FPS is going to be incredibly expensive and often times impossible. So the prospect is to spend maybe like $2k on a monitor that is worse than my 6 year old monitor in competitive gaming, doesn't create as good picture as a sub $1k TV and is going to be a bitch to play games on at the native resolution and a fps that takes advantage of the high refresh rate of the monitor. Probably causing my to spend twice as much on videocards to drive it. Or, you know, you could spend half as much on a TV with great color and decent input lag, use it for every game you don't need a high refresh rate and great input lag, and use your old TN panel for games you want that high refresh rate and low input lag for. And need to upgrade my videocard half as often because I'm not trying to drive a 4k monitor 120+hz monitor at native resolution and 120+fps I get some people wanting the newest and greatest thing or some people not having the space for two displays, but it seems like the vast majority of gamers would be far better off having a dedicated competitive display and a separate high resolution, good color display.
  24. Is it just an issue of space or are the louder or draw more power than typical case fans?
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