TigerHawk

FWIW for those worried about OLED burn in:
 
I've been using the 48" LG OLED 4k/120 TV as my main monitor on my PC since 2020 and have 0 burn in. I just checked on a blank white screen and a blank grey screen a couple weeks ago because I was curious.
 
Facts:
This is a monitor that sees a minimum of 10 hours screen on-time every single day of the week with browsing, gaming, office work, etc. It is no exaggeration to say I live, sleep, and eat in front of it.
OLED Light 90%
Contrast 90%
Brightness 50%
Color 80%
 
all you have to do is set your task bar to auto hide, and set a screen saver for like 15 minutes when idle. I do not feel this is unreasonable(no the screensaver does not come up when consuming full screen content).
It is used as a monitor 100% of the time. I do not use any of the built-in smart/TV functions. It is only a monitor running at 4k/120 via HDMI with Gsync enabled. GPU it is connected to is a 3090. 
 
My TV has done a total of two(2) pixel refresh cycles in the 2 years I've had it(purchase date 10-2020)
 
Unless I am somehow extremely lucky, and I think I am a pretty damn extreme usage case, burn in does not happen as easily as you think. This is over 7000 hours of screen on time with no burn in, as I rarely let my PC go idle unless I am cooking or having a shower or something so the screen saver is up for probably less than 1 hour a week. Screen is powered off when I leave the house or go to bed.
 
On the topic of the monitor, this is actually pretty sick. My buddy was just looking at getting a nice 27"-32" high refresh QHD screen and we were disappointed IPS is basically as good as you can get still and there were no OLEDs.
 
this is gonna be a pretty big seller I bet. Expensive to be sure, but a lot of people will buy it. Once you go OLED you can't really go back. 
 
 

FWIW for those worried about OLED burn in:
 
I've been using the 48" LG OLED 4k/120 TV as my main monitor on my PC since 2020 and have 0 burn in. I just checked on a blank white screen and a blank grey screen a couple weeks ago because I was curious.
 
Facts:
This is a monitor that sees a minimum of 10 hours screen on-time every single day of the week with browsing, gaming, office work, etc. It is no exaggeration to say I live, sleep, and eat in front of it.
OLED Light 90%
Contrast 90%
Brightness 50%
Color 80%
 
all you have to do is set your task bar to auto hide, and set a screen saver for like 15 minutes when idle. I do not feel this is unreasonable(no the screensaver does not come up when consuming full screen content).
It is used as a monitor 100% of the time. I do not use any of the built-in smart/TV functions. It is only a monitor running at 4k/120 via HDMI with Gsync enabled. GPU it is connected to is a 3090. 
 
My TV has done a total of two(2) pixel refresh cycles in the 2 years I've had it(purchase date 10-2020)
 
Unless I am somehow extremely lucky, and I think I am a pretty damn extreme usage case, burn in does not happen as easily as you think. This is over 7000 hours of screen on time with no burn in, as I rarely let my PC go idle unless I am cooking or having a shower or something so the screen saver is up for probably less than 1 hour a week. Screen is powered off when I leave the house or go to bed.
 
On the topic of the monitor, this is actually pretty sick. My buddy was just looking at getting a nice 27"-32" high refresh QHD screen and we were disappointed IPS is basically as good as you can get still and there were no OLEDs.
 
this is gonna be a pretty big seller I bet. Expensive to be sure, but a lot of people will buy it. Once you go OLED you can't really go back. 
 
 

FWIW for those worried about OLED burn in:
 
I've been using the 48" LG OLED 4k/120 TV as my main monitor on my PC since 2020 and have 0 burn in. I just checked on a blank white screen and a blank grey screen a couple weeks ago because I was curious.
 
Facts:
This is a monitor that sees a minimum of 10 hours screen on-time every single day of the week with browsing, gaming, office work, etc. It is no exaggeration to say I live, sleep, and eat in front of it.
OLED Light 90%
Contrast 90%
Brightness 50%
Color 80%
 
all you have to do is set your task bar to auto hide, and set a screen saver for like 15 minutes when idle. I do not feel this is unreasonable(no the screensaver does not come up when consuming full screen content).
It is used as a monitor 100% of the time. I do not use any of the built-in smart/TV functions. It is only a monitor running at 4k/120 via HDMI with Gsync enabled. GPU it is connected to is a 3090. 
 
My TV has done a total of two(2) pixel refresh cycles in the 2 years I've had it(purchase date 10-2020)
 
Unless I am somehow extremely lucky, and I think I am a pretty damn extreme usage case, burn in does not happen as easily as you think. This is over 7000 hours of screen on time with no burn in, as I rarely let my PC go idle unless I am cooking or having a shower or something so the screen saver is up for probably less than 1 hour a week. Screen is powered off when I leave the house or go to bed.
 
On the topic of the monitor, this is actually pretty sick. My buddy was just looking at getting a nice 27"-32" high refresh QHD screen and we were disappointed IPS is basically as good as you can get still and there were no OLEDs.
 
this is gonna be a pretty big seller I bet. Expensive to be sure, but a lot of people will buy it. Once you go OLED you can't really go back. 
 
 

FWIW for those worried about OLED burn in:
 
I've been using the 48" LG OLED 4k/120 TV as my main monitor on my PC since 2020 and have 0 burn in. I just checked on a blank white screen and a blank grey screen a couple weeks ago because I was curious.
 
Facts:
This is a monitor that sees a minimum of 10 hours screen on-time every single day of the week with browsing, gaming, office work, etc. It is no exaggeration to say I live, sleep, and eat in front of it.
OLED Light 90%
Contrast 90%
Brightness 50%
Color 80%
 
all you have to do is set your task bar to auto hide, and set a screen saver for like 15 minutes when idle. I do not feel this is unreasonable(no the screensaver does not come up when consuming full screen content).
It is used as a monitor 100% of the time. I do not use any of the built-in smart/TV functions. It is only a monitor running at 4k/120 via HDMI with Gsync enabled. GPU it is connected to is a 3090. 
 
My TV has done a total of two(2) pixel refresh cycles in the 2 years I've had it(purchase date 10-2020)
 
Unless I am somehow extremely lucky, and I think I am a pretty damn extreme usage case, burn in does not happen as easily as you think. This is over 7000 hours of screen on time with no burn in, as I rarely let my PC go idle unless I am cooking or having a shower or something so the screen saver is up for probably less than 1 hour a week. Screen is powered off when I leave the house or go to bed.
 
On the topic of the monitor, this is actually pretty sick. My buddy was just looking at getting a nice 27"-32" high refresh QHD screen and we were disappointed IPS is basically as good as you can get still and there were no OLEDs.
 
this is gonna be a pretty big seller I bet. Expensive to be sure, but a lot of people will buy it. Once you go OLED you can't really go back. 
 
 

How long until someone has a cracked version of the HVAC software/infotainment(wherever the software button is hidden) and it just enables all features.
 
Pretty fast I'd wager. Just like Tesla.
 
Edit: This is why, frankly, you should not trust any manufacturer who starts burying HVAC features in the infotainment. It just lends itself to software locking out something that is physically present and ready to use in the device to milk money out of you. From VW to BMW to Subaru.
 
If it doesn't have physical HVAC controls or other features that have been physical for decades and instead it buries them in a screen, I don't trust it.(glossy black "touch" controls are shitty too but at least they can't be software locked out for $$$)

This whole thread is giving me a serious "What year is it?" Vibe. I was pretty big into IRC at the turn of the millenium but around 2004 or so I left and never want back. I even worked at a few servers for awhile. I remember everyone and their grandma using that Invision script I think it was to customize their mIRC client. Nerds brandishing their e-peen with the PC spec reporting script to see who had the most ram. XDCC bots were the place for people to pirate movies and music. I remember getting a full 5kbps one time on my dialup connection.
 
What year is it?

Same. I've had ATi and then AMD many many times and I always end up with some stupid driver issues and whenever I have nvidia it is always smooth sailing, except for that one time when a driver update almost killed my GTX 260 because it made everyone's fan profiles flat, no spin up at high temps. To their credit, they fixed it real quick at least.
 
I do really hope AMD can compete at the high end this time, and by compete I don't mean similar performance +/-10% but 300x the heat and noise. Looking at you, 290X!
 
That being said, I was expecting to say something along the lines of "To at least get nvidia to lower their obscene prices" this time once again but the 3080 for 699 is downright reasonable for 2020. The 3090 though................

This is pretty awesome. I wish I could have done this with Wolcen but it was on steam. I might rebuy it later but right now and for the foreseeable future it is a huge buggy mess where half the stuff doesn't work. Reminds me of Anthem, which I also bought into cause I'm bad at this.
 
I have to wonder if it is going to make developers/publishers reconsider having their games on GOG though. Too risky and open for abuse?

Honestly thought these were gonna be for pooping in. 

Data striping. You can have a raid 0 setup within the same hard drive. The top actuator reads/writes half the data while the bottom one reads/writes the other half. That's where the doubling comes in. You are literally utilizing the data twice as fast. This is exactly how raid 0 functions. You could do raid 10 with only two hard drives. 
 
The firmware has to support such a thing though but from what I gather that seems to be the Idea from the start. 

Welp.... 

Welp.... 

This..... Is pretty cool. No pun intended. 
 
They say it's only to give doctors a couple hours to operate but this could very well be the platform that future developments in suspended animation in general springs off of and before you know it you've got pizza delivery guys waking up after sitting in a fridge for a thousand years. 
 
Super interesting personally. 

Welp.... 

Welp.... 

This..... Is pretty cool. No pun intended. 
 
They say it's only to give doctors a couple hours to operate but this could very well be the platform that future developments in suspended animation in general springs off of and before you know it you've got pizza delivery guys waking up after sitting in a fridge for a thousand years. 
 
Super interesting personally. 

My beef isn't that my $1000 card is getting old. My beef is that, in literally every other title(well, every other title that review sites benchmark with) it is performing roughly on par with the 2080 or 5700 XT. There are a few percents here and there swinging in either direction for all three, but they are mostly +/- 10%. You can use that and generalize over most of the AAA games out right now and be pretty safe and expect a certain performance.
 
But in this particular game, the 2080 and 5700XT are performing as expected but suddenly all of the pascal cards, as a GPU family, don't follow this trend? Why? The most obvious conclusion to draw is the drivers were not optimized for the pascal architecture. nVidia is a business after all, and they are just as aware as we are how strong of an architecture pascal was. It makes sense they would want to purposefully make them underperform in a new, very popular first-time-on-PC title like this to get people to buy into their new stuff. Maybe purposefully underperform are the wrong words. More like....not necessarily do their best to optimize the driver for them? Like they had their A team working on Turing optimizations and the C team who only works Tuesdays and Thursdays doing pascal? lol.
 
I actually don't think this thought is that tinfoilhat-y.

Just have an ED209 on every corner patrolling. That AI works about as well as Uber's anyways. 
 
 

Just have an ED209 on every corner patrolling. That AI works about as well as Uber's anyways. 
 
 

The 9900k is not even close to their best seller. They make all their bank on the low tier Pentium and i3 crap they stuff in OEMs and laptops. The 9900k is only a good seller in the enthusiast market which is like...maybe 10% of their sales at most? 
 
I couldn't find any CPUs in stock anywhere here in the nations capital, Canada computers had a nice little sale on the 9900k making it cheaper than the 3900x and faster in games which is all I do so I just bought one of those instead. 
 
Was really looking forward to going AMD for the first time since the athlon 64/x2 days but ryzen 3 just ain't quite there yet for me for high refresh rate gaming.  Maybe the AM5 platform will get me. 

The 9900k is not even close to their best seller. They make all their bank on the low tier Pentium and i3 crap they stuff in OEMs and laptops. The 9900k is only a good seller in the enthusiast market which is like...maybe 10% of their sales at most? 
 
I couldn't find any CPUs in stock anywhere here in the nations capital, Canada computers had a nice little sale on the 9900k making it cheaper than the 3900x and faster in games which is all I do so I just bought one of those instead. 
 
Was really looking forward to going AMD for the first time since the athlon 64/x2 days but ryzen 3 just ain't quite there yet for me for high refresh rate gaming.  Maybe the AM5 platform will get me. 

I don't care about the game cause I was never into shenmue. 
 
My problem with this though is people backed them under false pretenses. This game won't be coming to steam as promised. 
 
Also, and this is the bigger issue I feel, you become an exclusive on the epic game store to maximize profits and recoup development costs. Except development costs didn't come out of pocket for them, it came from the Kickstarter backers. They are essentially face fucking their loyal fans by saying hey thanks for paying for the game now we're gonna not sell it on steam like you wanted to maximize profits on something someone else paid for.
 
A dick slap in the face tbh. Legal issues aside, this just leaves a bad taste in my mouth all around. 
 
Unimpressed. 

I don't care about the game cause I was never into shenmue. 
 
My problem with this though is people backed them under false pretenses. This game won't be coming to steam as promised. 
 
Also, and this is the bigger issue I feel, you become an exclusive on the epic game store to maximize profits and recoup development costs. Except development costs didn't come out of pocket for them, it came from the Kickstarter backers. They are essentially face fucking their loyal fans by saying hey thanks for paying for the game now we're gonna not sell it on steam like you wanted to maximize profits on something someone else paid for.
 
A dick slap in the face tbh. Legal issues aside, this just leaves a bad taste in my mouth all around. 
 
Unimpressed. 

I dunno man.....these folding screen things seem so impractical in terms of long-term usage with a niche market of usability beyond just being a novelty for someone when they first get it.
 
Feels like this is 3DTVs all over again.
 
Edit: In their current form, at least. Once we're at the stage where we have screens that are basically fabric and just as durable, that's different.

Yeah I know we have the technology cause I've seen it, but they aren't in our laptops are they ?