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    Is OLED Burn in Resistance Good enough now?

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    5 hours ago, SolarNova said:

    Also a FYI. LGs 42" OLED display is scheduled for 1st half of 2022 now, they delayed it for marketing reasons. So if u think 48" is to big u may want to hold of till next year to grab the 42".

    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?

    Is OLED Burn in Resistance Good enough now?

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    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.

    What's the best 27" 1440p gaming monitor with crosshair overlay?

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    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.

    Looking for a budget Laptop

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    11 hours ago, ToolMan said:

    So, I did some reading on other forums, and a lot of people say upgrading the ram won't void the warranty if nothing goes wrong during the install. To be safe I would check the warranty terms for the device before opening it up. So, I guess it depends on the device and manufacturer. 

    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...

    Looking for a budget Laptop

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    16 hours ago, ToolMan said:

    @Saheed Yeah, I do agree that would make it more affordable, and upgrading your laptops ram is always a good idea. But since its a new machine upgrading the ram could void the warranty. So if it stops working during the warranty period, the manufacturer wont fix it. But if OP's friend is ok with losing warranty, upgrading the ram a good option. 

    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.

    Looking for a budget Laptop

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    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.

    What should I be looking for when buying a usb to ethernet adapter?

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    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?

    How Open are Iphones?

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    1 hour ago, Mateyyy said:

    You can connect it to your Windows PC and throw MP3s on it through iTunes. You just sync your device first with your PC, and afterwards it's fairly straightforward, but I've had times where I needed to resync my iPhone, therefore deleting the music that was on it which wasn't particularly pleasant but that happened on a new Windows install, and quite a while ago iirc.

    So I have to download iTunes onto my PC and get MP3s through iTunes to share MP3s from my PC to an iPhone?

    How Open are Iphones?

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    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?

    Any good g14 competitors with a built in camera?

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    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.

    Display makers creating what we don't need?

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    8 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

    Well, as far as fastest, there are newer TNs and also 240Hz IPS ones for a better color. 
    You can get 4K run desktop and single player games or other online non shooter games, but in shooters just lower it, easy. Also which monitor you have? There are 1440p 144Hz IPS that are actually faster than equal TN ones, like both models from Asus for example. If you'd want the best you'd get a 240Hz anyway. QLED is still not as great as OLED too. 

    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

    Display makers creating what we don't need?

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    23 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

    There are some rather fast new monitors though, as far as input lag, response time and low ghosting. It's all LCD tech and LCD is slow among other things so.

    Another thing, why does everyone think they need to run online fps games at native resolution? You can lower it no? You can get a 4K screen and play like 1080p easy. If you want balanced spec like monitor for a good budget then 1440p 144Hz IPS is a nice option. You can get those fairly cheap too.

    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.

    Display makers creating what we don't need?

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    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.

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