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Change this habit, or at the very least enable a screen saver / enable sleep timer for display and ensure it works. Or just , you know ..press the power button the screen (so exhausting i know ) You'll also want to get yourself an animated desktop and/or have rotating backgrounds, hide all desktop icons or add opacity to them, and enable autohide taskbar. Any games that have UI opacity options should be enabled, thsoe which dont but allows mods, get those mods. Those games that have neither, just be mindful of the amount of hours ur putting those static elements on the screen as pixel degradation is cumulative. Basically u have to be willing to change some of ur habitual usage if u want OLED, its not abnormal, back with CRT and Plasma it was a given. The problem is we have had about 2 decades of LCD tech and thus a whole generation of people who have known only LCD, so they dont have these 'habits' in place. This may all sound rather bad, but its less of an issue with the newer OLED models, it is however still best practice to reduce the risks even further.

Maybe show you friend the following. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 3.9 GHz 6-Core Processor (kr1607.00 @ Proshop) CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler (kr532.00 @ Proshop) Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard (kr1337.00 @ CDON NO) Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (kr1250.00 @ Proshop) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (kr769.00 @ CDON NO) Video Card: Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card (kr4487.00 @ Proshop) Case: Deepcool CG560 ATX Mid Tower Case (kr907.00 @ Proshop) Power Supply: Antec NeoECO Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (kr1376.00 @ Proshop) Total: kr12265.00 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-13 18:03 CEST+0200 This is basically the 15999kr option, and "likely" with better picked parts aswell. Like double the VRAM (since its way better Capacity per Kr) and a Cached SSD. Its almost 25% cheaper to self build it. And thats without changing the entire build to something that may be a more effective price:perf build.

£122 case in a budget build ?! ..what u smoking ?

The C3 is essentially the same as the C2 ..so forget it. C2 vs MEG. The C2 has no issues being used as a PC monitor for gaming, the issues arrive if the user 'abuses it'. Just be mindful that its OLED and it will be fine. For text work ..its not hte best due to its subpixel layout, but its a small issue. See review below. https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/lg/42-c2-oled The MEG ...its got a few issues ..predominantly pixel response. Without OD is not fast enough.. with OD it has massive overshoot. heres a full review Unless u specifically want dedicated ultrawide, i'd get the OLED.. bare in mind due to the C2 size u can always run a custom ultrawide resolution on it with black bars (pixels off) to get that ultrawide experience.

PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 4500 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor (£63.77 @ Amazon UK) CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler (£35.00 @ Computer Orbit) Motherboard: ASRock B450 Pro4 R2.0 ATX AM4 Motherboard (£77.20 @ NeoComputers) Memory: G.Skill Aegis 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory (£56.36 @ Amazon UK) Storage: ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 Blade 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (£52.98 @ Amazon UK) Video Card: ASRock Radeon RX6700XT CLD 12G Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB Video Card (£329.99 @ Newegg UK) Case: Antec AX20 ATX Mid Tower Case (£39.98 @ Scan.co.uk) Power Supply: Corsair RM550x (2021) 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (£83.99 @ AWD-IT) Total: £739.27 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-12 21:04 BST+0100

I also suggest the 6950XT, and while i much prefer the NVCP over AMD Adrenalin, that slight inconvenience of dealing with the AMD software is made up for with more raw performance and the principal of not giving money to the company primarily responsible for the generational price hikes since the 20 series.

Ah , sry i missed the fact u dont have access to wired Ethernet. Ok well u can forget the whole white aesthetic and just grab a wifi equipped Motherboard like the Gigabyte B760M DS3H AX, or keep with the white aesthetic and get the ASRock B760M Steel Legend WiFi for 25 euro more. Aye ideally u'd get at least the 6800XT , good performance level and its good bang for buck, however since u need a monitor as well it makes it a bit harder to fit a good GPU choice AND a suitably balanced Monitor at the same time. Not that there is anything wrong with a G27Q + 6800XT, its just that many people like upgrading to an ultrawide at some point, u have the possibility to do that now and "build into it" in the future with a GPU upgrade as games get more demanding. if ur not into ultrawide then there isnt anything wrong going with the G27Q. Ultimately, any1 serious about PC gaming, which would include someone willing to spend 1600 euro on a PC :P, should be aiming to eventually get a top tier Monitor which nowadays means, OLED. Building a beast of a PC to set game settings to max or near max only to be let down by a display that cant give you the full experience , is a waste. If ur fine with the g27Q perhaps you should consider the following. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i3-13100F 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Processor (€129.43 @ Amazon France) CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler (€34.29 @ Amazon France) Motherboard: ASRock B760M Steel Legend WiFi Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (€179.95 @ Amazon France) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (€122.88 @ Alternate) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€49.99 @ FNAC) Video Card: XFX Speedster MERC 319 Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card (€629.00 @ Amazon France) Case: BitFenix Nova Mesh M ARGB MicroATX Mini Tower Case (€64.95 @ Amazon France) Power Supply: Cougar GEX 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€110.19 @ Amazon France) Monitor: Gigabyte G27Q 27.0" 2560 x 1440 144 Hz Monitor (€259.99 @ Amazon France) Total: €1580.67 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-12 18:48 CEST+0200 A 6950XT is a beast of a GPU, more than capable.

Maybe consider this. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i3-13100F 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Processor (€129.43 @ Amazon France) CPU Cooler: Deepcool AK400 66.47 CFM CPU Cooler (€34.29 @ Amazon France) Motherboard: ASRock B760M Pro RS Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard (€155.94 @ TopAchat) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory (€122.88 @ Alternate) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€49.99 @ FNAC) Video Card: Asus DUAL OC Radeon RX 6750 XT 12 GB Video Card (€405.94 @ TopAchat) Case: Cougar Archon 2 Mesh RGB ATX Mid Tower Case (€72.14 @ Amazon France) Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower GF1 PE 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€102.90 @ Amazon France) Monitor: Dell S3422DWG 34.0" 3440 x 1440 144 Hz Curved Monitor (€489.00 @ Amazon France) Total: €1562.51 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-12 16:57 CEST+0200 Managed to even fit a 'white' theme into it ..with the exception of the GPU . I'm not one to suggest skimping on the Monitor, it will almost certainly outlive the PC build itself so shouldnt be something u skimp on. I usually advise at least matching the cost of the GPU for the monitor budget, ideally more. In this case u can get a 1440p ultrawide if u drop down from a 6800XT to a 6750XT..or 6700XT if u want to save another 50 euro. otherwise a M27Q monitor and a 6800XT is a possibility.

http://phrogz.net/tmp/ScreenDensityCalculator.html#find:density,pxW:2560,pxH:1440,size:27,sizeUnit:in,axis:diag,distance:33,distUnit:in have fun with this tool. Work out what u want to aim for.

I would normal go for an air cooler but many people prefer an AIO, if for nothing else but aesthetics. This particular AIO is one of the best 240mm ones that is only matched by the best Large Air coolers, all of which cost more from what i can see. As for the PCI-E 3 vs 4 with that tier of SSD....it makes no difference currently and as far as i can see all similarly priced 4.0 SSDs are without a DRAM cache. ofc please do provide suggestions to the contrary if u know of any, for both the OPs benefit and my own

Find a local electronics repair store , it should be a simple fix for them.

PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor (€303.99 @ Mindfactory) CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer II 240 56.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (€77.61 @ notebooksbilliger.de) Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard (€199.00 @ Galaxus) Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (€95.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) Storage: Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€42.99 @ Amazon Deutschland) Video Card: ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 6950 XT 16 GB Video Card (€663.99 @ Mindfactory) Case: Zalman S2 ATX Mid Tower Case (€46.90 @ Alza) Total: €1430.47 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-08-06 19:22 CEST+0200 Adjust case to your liking ofc.

I'd be inclined to say that the cheapest budget one should look at for a all new self built system is about 600 Euro. Probably a Ryzen 4500 and maybe a RTX 3050 , something around that level. Anything lower and your really getting into some bad price:performance. Ofc a used system is another thing entirely.

A LED backlight has failed. You'd need to disassemble the unit and replace the LED to fix this.

Yes DP 1.4 supports DSC and with DSC can do 4k 144hz with HDR. Infact, 1.4 with DSC can do 4k 240hz HDR with the full 3x compression ratio, or ~ 180hz with the lower 2x compression.

Worst case assuming 3 hours a day every day, it would likely take about 3 years of cumulative WoW static UI for that to start to show signs of permanent image retention. but regardless, taking measure to avoid that as you have done is still best practice, and ofc playing other games and watching content will help mitigate it further.

Be careful. WoW has an extremely high contrast, rich color, static UI. It WILL eventually burn in, as it is cumulative wear. I'd suggest you do what u can do change the UI, im not sure of the state of WoW mods, but if u can, add some transparency to the UI and frequently move it around.

Well without a proper review, one with statistical factual tests, your guess is as good as mine. I've seen a few writing only 'reviews' of the benq ex240 indicating that pixel response is fine but no reviews with any numbers. Ok scratch that ....as writing i found a youtube reviewer with figures. Out of the 2 i would get the BenQ EX240. Easily worth the extra 60 imo for the known performance. Pixel response is good for its pricepoint, it also has BFI (Blur Reduction) which is configurable with all levels of overdrive (i'd pick 2 or 3). AND here is the important part, it works WITH Variable refresh. You will likely get some amount of strobe crosstalk but u can mess around with the settings to your preference. Hope this helps.

General rule of thumb, if its a super cheap monitor .. get IPS if possible. Cheap VA panels are almost always the older, very slow, VA panels, at the very least a older slow IPS is still a lot faster than those old VA's, and you wont have issues with viewing angles. They just wont have very good contrast.

I expect the 57" to perform similarly to the G7 and G8 in regards to review tests, like those from rtings. Pixel response 'could' be good like with the G7, but it could also end up less well tuned like the G8. For its size and resolution it has a perfect curve at 1000r, but that does mean ull need to sit 1000mm, (100cm / 1m / 39.4") from the display for that ideal viewing angle. At such a viewing position ull have 70 degrees of FoV and 110 PPD. Should you want more FoV for sim racing/flight, u can get as close as 25" (635mm) before PPD drops below 80, and achieve a FoV of 95 Degrees, but being that the curve isnt tight enough for that u may start seeing color and/or gamma shift due to the VA panel If its anything like the G7/G8 ull start seeing shift somewhere around 15-20 degrees off angle, 95 degree FoV is 15 degrees over the ideal 70 the curve is set for, so you may or may not get away with it since the shift is minor until u get to about 30 degrees off angle. The panel uniformity could be good, but more likely it will be poor like most LCDs, however being that it is FALD equipped, with the same density(double total amount) as the G8, u shouldnt see it in the vast majority of scenes. The poor uniformity of LCDs is usually most noticeable when displaying pure black due to the backlights, however with local dimming, and more so with FALD, the backlights turn off so uniformity issues are hidden. It likely wont have BFi + VRR capability(it will likely only allow 1 or the other on independently) , like other Samsung displays , which is disappointing for the price, and the FALD array will likely be similarly tuned as the G8 so it will likely be a tad on the slow side vs the panels overall speed resulting in some 'minor' added blur in motion with the local dimming enabled. The G9 49" OLED wont have the issues caused by the innate weaknesses of LCD like those above, however does have the 'potential' for burn in if abused. It also has a lower PPD at the ideal viewing distance, which as its also 1000r means the same distance as above, but with a lower resolution and smaller size the FoV and PPD results differ. At 1000mm PPD is 83, and FoV is 62 Since thats already close to the 80 PPD threshold u cant get much closer before u may start noticing the 'screen door effect' from the pixel pitch. Also worth mentioning that ull be rendering at a lower resolution thus aliasing will inherently be higher, this can often be mistaken for 'seeing individual pixels', however i dont think ull find many people bemoaning a resolution of 5120 x 1440. Finally max brightness will be lower as its OLED, vs the 57" Mini LED...should max brightness be an issue for your environment. So its a toss up rly, if it were me and i had a traditional desktop setup (i dont, mine is akin to a HT setup) then the smaller OLED would be the option i'd go with, but i dont do sims, so i wouldnt rly know how much the FoV matters or how much u'd like. If u need more than 62 degrees...u could 'maybe' ..MAYBE push to 84 degrees with the OLED but at that point u down to 60 PPD at a mere 26" view distance, that will probably be to close...so ...in that scenario i'd wait on the 57".

Standardization is necessary for any meaningful mass production.

Im running W10 ..or rather a 'version' of W10 called Ghost Spectre. Im still rocking a 3930k which is a sandybridge CPU, and it runs perfectly fine. Most of the 'issues' with 'unsupport platforms' with W10 and W11 are in regards to installation as it fails to detect a valid TPM chip, this is easily avoidable with a modded installation file with original install files or a fully custom installation like Ghost Spectre. The other 'issues' revolve around security vulnerabilities like Specter and Meltdown, the patches for which tend to be included in 'official' versions of W10 and 11 and which have a detrimental effects on older CPU performance. Unless running on a business PC these 'patches' for the vulnerabilities are not required as they fix a flaw that requires physical access to the PC for any party to take advantage of the vulnerability. For the average home PC user the only people who will have physical access are the owners/users themselves thus making the security flaw rather irrelevant.

Ideal viewing distance for a 42" 4k 16:9 display, for PC / gaming use is between 41" and 50" (measured from screen surface to eyes) This results in a PPD* of 80 to 95 respectively. PPD break points are: <60 = 20/20 vision means ull likely be able to see individual pixels, or 'grain' from the pixel pitch (space between pixels) ~80 = 20/15 vision, the average person, especially those in their 20's, will fall in this range, beyond this number even they will have a hard time seeing pixels or 'grain'. 120> = 20/10 vision, realistic upper limit of visual acuity Normal desktop view distance is usually between 30" and 35" .... around an arms length Consider installing a slide out desktop for you keyboard and mouse to allow u to sit further back. See below for an examples. *Pixels Per Degree For reference. a 1440p 16:9 27" Monitor at traditional 30" view distance has a PPD of 60, or 69 (nice) at 35" distance.

Indeed, i shall go over it now and make some changes.

Overkill on the CPU and motherboard. Try the following. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor (€316.85 @ Megekko) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler (€99.90 @ Megekko) Motherboard: MSI B550 GAMING GEN3 ATX AM4 Motherboard (€93.00 @ Amazon Netherlands) Memory: Kingston FURY Renegade 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory (€93.85 @ Megekko) Storage: Samsung 980 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive (€79.00 @ Amazon Netherlands) Video Card: ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24 GB Video Card (€989.00 @ Azerty) Case: Fractal Design North ATX Mid Tower Case (€139.90 @ Amazon Netherlands) Power Supply: Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply (€159.90 @ Amazon Netherlands) Total: €1971.40 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-07-17 20:36 CEST+0200 Since ur aiming for 4k gaming ... super high FPS, where the CPU counts most, isnt all that important ..pure GPU grunt is however. So u want to concentrate on getting the best GPU. And besides, the 5800X3D is one beast of a gaming CPU.