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    Very specific, and those were the best compromise I found . Main priority is a good/decent HDR experience, and I like creature comforts (I think the Philips forgoes everything else to hit that 4K HDR1000 at a reasonable price). Unfortunately I can't get both and decide later, as I'd have to pay the shipping if I was to return either and it's around $150 (and I'm not sure the original shippnig would be refunded, so I'd potentially be wasting around $300).
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    Thanks for your quick reply! It's not A higher res display, it's either one of those two, and I don't have first hand experience with how innocuous or distracting potentially bad local dimming can be.
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    Hello there. Just wanted to get the forum's opinions on this matter, so I can take some insight and decide between these two options (I'm really torn, not actually looking for validation on one over the other). I'm not really looking for any other suggestions, but if I'm dumb and there's an objectively better one that isn't much more expensive (I'm already stretching the budget here), please share. I am currently on a 1080Ti, but plan on upgrading to a 3080 when there's plenty of stock/ people get buyer's remorse and I can get one used. It can be your personal preference or your opinion on what I should get, with the considerations below: [Samsung Odyssey G7] - Resolution: 1440p - Refresh Rate: 240hz - Panel Size: 32in - VESA HDR Certification: HDR600 Caveats: Has a 1000R curve, is smaller. [Philips 436M6VBPAB] - Resolution: 4K - Refresh Rate: 60hz - Panel Size: 43in - VESA HDR Certification: HDR1000 Caveats: I've seen it has atrocious Local Dimming; don't know how distracting it would be in fast paced content. My usage is 70% media consumption (I am THAT guy that only buys the 4K HDR Blu-ray or downloads the 80GB movie), 30% gaming (Anno 1800, Civ5/6 and sightseeing games. Not a competitive FPS player, though I do play some). I also do occasional photo editing, but mostly as a hobby. Thanks in advance.
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    If anyone likes the feeling of closure on threads about troubleshooting, I finally figured out what's wrong (...I think). Special thanks to @SenpaiKaplan, who poinited me in the right direction. It actually does have to do with the GPU, but not because of it going bad, but that it sucked so much juice that my old PSU failed on sustained, specific loads. To ensure that it wasn't actually my graphics card, I set the Power Limit at 90% and the unexplained shutdowns stopped ever since. Today, I tried playing in 4K with almost everything maxed out and set the power limit back to normal (120% when gaming, for overclocking); some minutes in I experienced the instant shutdown. So, I decided to put the limit at 95% and it was a while before something went wrong, but this time the PC rebooted on its own and after post, my ASUS mobo had the message "A PSU power surge has been detected during the previous power on. ASUS Anti-surge was triggered...". It seems then, that my PSU fails at high sustained loads or something is specifically wrong with the 12V rail, and that when the GPU is set over 100% it is too much too fast and everything fails instantly without leaving an explanation, but under 100% it leaves time or capacity for the mobo to handle the fail-and-reboot process.
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    Process priority will do nothing if there's no resources to allocate. I'd save some money and sell that GPU for something better (used even, take advantage of people discarding their mining cards).
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    4k vs 1440p

    KuronoXD replied to Thenelwave's topic in Displays

    Both PC and laptop are 4K displays, but that's because I'm more of a single player, take the environment in and stop to smell the flowers kind of gamer.
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    As the title says, my PC has been randomly shutting down instantly while ALL the fans go into hyper speed (case fans, CPU and GPU as well). I don't think it has to do with temps, as I have pretty good circulation with 7 case fans (and I keep the AC running the whole day). And explaining the "random" part of the title, it seems to have some consistency but no logic that I've figured out; it happens when I'm just browsing, while I'm listening to music or watching a video in MPC-HC and most consistently when I'm watching videos in youtube, but it has never happened while I'm gaming. I have already stress tested most components but they didn't fail or throw an error (CPU, RAM, and GPU) and crystaldisk still shows me good SSD integrity (92%), so I have no logs to speak of as to what could be failing (I don't get a BSOD, just computer off and spinning fans). The only other components are the PSU and Mobo, but I have no reliable way to test those, any ideas?
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    He bought it over other more "techy" cars because he thought it would have better lifetime support from the manufacturer. Linus thought he was making a responsible decision instead of going with the flow and buying a Tesla or something.
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    What I do in these cases is search for them on sale used (Ebay, Amazon, wherever you can), see what the lowest and highest price is for the part and choose something about 3/4 on that scale. The lowest prices scare people off because they think the parts have been abused or have something wrong and the highest prices are mostly ridiculous due to people trying to get most of their money back.
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    Yeah... you're gonna be CPU limited playing at 1080p. It should be pretty obvious if you open Afterburner with Rivatuner statistics or something like that. You'll have to either buy a 1440p or 4K monitor or alternatively, use DSR to downsample 4K to 1080p. It won't be as pretty as actual 4K but at least you'll be fully utilising your GTX 1080, with a nice upgrade in clarity.
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    Yep, I'm one of those still rocking a Sandy Bridge. It's a 2600K and as of yet, I haven't noticed it bottleneck my GTX 1080. Honestly, the only thing I've seen it struggle with is more mundane stuff, like video playback and video decoding; HEVC literally doubles the workload a x264 file would have and it completely gives up when trying to do 4K HEVC. Oh, and it can't do HDR in Youtube above 1080p, it just keeps "buffering" the already loaded video. Games and draw calls are no problem, although it will reach 90-95% usage with some titles. Productivity is obviously very behind everything else, but it does well for an almost 8 year old CPU; and I just haven't got around to dropping a couple thousand for a new HEDT.
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    Honestly it's not worth it if what you're looking for is some exclusivity for the videos (just the random floatplane exclusive), or because watching them a week in advance is something special. What I get my money's worth from floatplane is the community and the comment section. It's not uncommon to get answers in less than 5 minutes from Nick if something's wrong and most people are nice and helpful when answering about what you wrote. I just like it here better to avoid the cancer of the youtube comment section.
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    Thanks, I'll consider it, but these are the speakers I've had for years and I've noticed many of their shortcomings, so I was hoping to try something new.
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    Nope, I'm starting from scratch.
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    Between $300 to $400 tops. I live in the Mayan Riviera, but Amazon and Ebay are ok (as long as the shipping isn't stupid expensive). I mainly shop in Mercadolibre, because the return policies are easier than shopping internationally and I normally get one day shipping with my orders, so that'd be the best option.
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    As said in the title, I had the Logitech Z906 for about 6 years but they just died, and from what a bunch of repair guys told me, Logitech doesn't provide spare parts for these. So, after accepting I have no sound from my PC for the time being, I'm in a rush to replace them. I've been looking at some options, but I've got my eye on the Onkyo ht-s3800 for now. If anyone has an opinion on them or has a better alternative, please do tell, as I am not very knowledgeable in home theatre setups. To be clear, I'm looking for a system in a box (don't have the funds to be looking into really enthusiast stuff) and mostly not specialty or niche brands, I don't think I can get them where I live.
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    Accusing me of trolling because I won't agree with you is your argument now? Sad. I already told you that whatever you understood or whatever vague terms I used, the fact that 10% refers to "people who use browsers" and thus "people who use the internet" won't change. Whether I made a mistake or you made a mistake, that meaning won't change; you have fervently latched on to the wrong notion that 10% refers to the 7 billion people on Earth either because that's your only argument to say I'm wrong or just because you're dense. Let's leave it here clearly: 10% = People who use browsers/Internet 10% != 7 billion people Can you get it now? That there is no need for normalisation? That I said that if you wrongly applied this normalisation to Firefox's numbers you should wrongly apply it as well to Steam's, because they both had already been normalised? You can't fix anything, because there is nothing to fix, other than your misunderstanding. Oh, and I said that you didn't pay attention not that you were ignorant, sorry if I hurt your ego or pride, but I never said anyone else was as well. Don't make it a blanket statement to paint me like a bad guy who insulted everyone. But it doesn't matter how many times I explain all of this, you already said that you were willing to drop it only if I apologised and said I was wrong; you're not arguing over who has reason, you just want to be right, so maybe let's just agree to disagree.
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    Believe it or not, they still sell them new on Amazon! (it's the lowest they'll go, though)
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    Hey, I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. If you know it's a miscommunication over semantics, then just accept that you understood wrong and move on, especially if it's been explained to you over and over. Again, your misunderstanding about the 10% doesn't change the fact that the percentage has taken into account the same variables as Steam (which is what I was referring to where you quoted me, not that Steam is wrong, as you mistakenly inferred); 10% of internet users and 1% of internet users. You keep arguing that because you understood wrong the 10%, it somehow stops being about internet users. I've been using (and sometimes even pointing out that I'm doing so) statistics terms in other posts in this thread. If you don't pay attention to anything other than the selective posts you misunderstand, it's a matter of course that you end up arguing with incomplete information.
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    Bring what up? I've only been responding to what you say, which is what has nothing to do with the point of the article. Yes, saying "population" instead of "users" was confusing; I mistakenly assumed that as we were talking about statistics anyone would have the knowledge that the term population is used to describe the set of things you are studying or measuring, I was wrong. I didn't say that anything of the sort about Steam's numbers (you are welcome to quote me if otherwise), just that if you applied flawed reasoning to one data set, you should apply it to the other one as well, as they both measure the same thing with the same limitations.
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    Firefox's telemetry works per computer, or else every PC that shared multiple users would input redundant data, which would make the results unusable (I'm sure someone smart thought of that, MAC address is a thing). Furthermore, this isn't about how many users go into the internet, it's about how many machines have which brand of GPU, and this number doesn't go up or down if more than one person uses them.
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    Well, Apple did say that another person would have a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of unlocking your phone, and that is if it was a "random person" (also, I'm guessing they conducted these tests in optimal conditions). If this person is your direct relative which looks like you and your face was registered in poor lighting conditions, I guess that 1 million would be a lot lower. Still, it was statistically bound to happen to approximately 7,000 people, according to Apple.
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    Read the article first, the obvious difference in demographics is addressed there, but then that's what makes the results interesting. The same argument you make for lack of access to internet is applied to the Steam survey as well, so by this logic divide Steam's 1% by the same amount to get 0.3%, so that makes the results at least comparable (and this was like the first reply the thread had).
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    Well, I always have both installed in all of my PCs and laptops (that's why my curiosity) and I mostly use Firefox for productivity or serious stuff (or just browsing), while using Chrome for entertainment (Youtube, twitch, etc). I mostly stopped using Chrome after they phased out using the backspace key to go back one page. From what I've seen, Firefox randomly starts spiking in CPU utilisation for a while and Chrome murders RAM, but I still prefer Firefox.
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