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Update on this one. Dell wouldn't give me a refund but they offered to send me another replacement monitor. Three months later, I finally received the second replacement, which thankfully has the more recent firmware which allows disabling the annoying popups. The issue now is that disabling the popups seems to also disable the automatic pixel/panel refresh that happens when the monitor is off. Has Dell's monitor engineering team ever actually used a monitor? What possible reason would there be to tie automatic pixel/panel refresh that happens when the monitor is turned off to popups that only happen when the monitor is in use? The whole point of automating the refreshes when the monitor is off is to NOT bother the user during use.

So good news, Dell actually shipped my replacement monitor much faster than they had told me and I just received it. Bad news, it still has the faulty firmware (this one was manufactured April 2022 instead of March 2022) and it just stopped working altogether after about 5 minutes. It's just dead now, won't even power on. Guess I'm gonna have to ask for a refund now...

Here are a couple more reports from a number of users: https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/AW3423DW-Pixel-Auto-Warning-Message-missing/td-p/8198985 https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/AW3423DW-Pixel-Auto-Warning-Message-missing-2/td-p/8202428 Dell even admits in the first thread that the firmware used by both users (and I) is an older firmware than the one they used to write the user guide. Second reporting user mentions his monitor has a manufacture date of January 2022, mine is March 2022. I don't know if it's just one of the station that loads up the firmware on the boards that has the wrong firmware (quite possible) or if it's a QA thing where the firmware is supposed to get updated before shipping along the way and some units skip that step for some reason but it is a real problem which Dell support doesn't seem to know about, even though some of their people have contributed to those threads. Anyway, the point of this thread was to point out that it's not just Jasco that won't let users update firmware, Dell won't even engineer the capability for users to do so into their highest-end products. A simple firmware update could have solved this issue but instead they have to deal with RMAs.

Actually you can't disable the pop-up, if you select "Proceed and don't ask me again" instead of "Cancel" in the pop-up it'll run the pixel refresh right away (turning the monitor off for a few minutes in the middle of whatever you were doing) and then replace it with a different pop-up that only has an option to proceed next time, no option to cancel and let it run when the monitor is turned off/put to sleep. I don't know how that didn't come up in the review cycle. Maybe they received a pre-production firmware that didn't have that bug. Maybe they never used the monitor for more than 4 continuous hours. Either way I can assure you it's not possible to disable the pop-ups. Dell would probably have figured it out in the almost two weeks they ping-ponged me through their support, wouldn't they? As for buying it from me, I'm still waiting for the replacement, which should be coming in at the end of August. I'll let you know if the new one still has the buggy firmware.

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A few months back I ordered the new Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED monitor based on LTT's initial review-that's-not-a-review and a few other reviews that were all very positive. Now due to the supply issues with those panels at Samsung Display I didn't receive my new monitor until the end of May and within the first day of use I was faced with an incredibly annoying pop-up from the monitor's OSD telling me it would be running an automatic pixel refresh routine the next time it would go in sleep or turned off modes. Every four hours. Every four hours that pop-up comes up right in the middle of the screen and has to be manually dismissed using the OSD. Yep, in the middle of a boss fight; pop-up. In the middle of a work teleconference; pop-up. In the middle of a breathtaking HDR movie; pop-up. I guess that's what Dell calls "incredibly realistic visuals for unforgettably immersive gaming experiences". A quick Google search later I find out the monitor's manual says there is an option in the OSD to disable these pop-ups and just let the monitor run its pixel refresh automatically whenever it goes to sleep or it's turned off. The same search tells me that this option isn't actually there in the version of the firmware installed on my monitor. The third thing I learn is that Dell has not designed a way for a user to update the firmware of this $1600 monitor. It's possible to update the firmware on 7 year-old, $500 business monitors but not on a $1600 gaming monitor with which it's pretty much impossible to game unless all you play is single-player games you can pause while you fumble around the OSD at seemingly random moments. So I opened up a support call with Dell and, after over a week of back and forth where Dell first tried to convince me that this behaviour was a feature rather than a bug, then escalated the ticket to their "engineering team", they finally recognized that this was a problem and offered me a solution: they'll replace the monitor. I won't receive the new monitor for at least two months and they can't tell if my new monitor will have a different firmware that fixes this. Hey at least they haven't (yet) tried to tell me I didn't purchase a warranty with this $1600 monitor like others have been told.

The same graphic card still has to pump out all those pixels. My experience is that my FPS numbers are typically closer to 4k than they are to 1440p. 3440x1440p is larger than regular 1440p too. It's 35% more pixels, plus the secondary monitor.

If you avoid Facebook products, why did you watch an ad for it? Are you expecting LMG to make the call on what you should watch or not, on what you should be interested in or not? You gotta take responsibility for your own decisions. You chose to watch that content, which tells LMG that you want more such content, which in turn drives them to do it again later. If you don't want to see that kind of content, DON'T WATCH IT. The truth is, there are people who are interested in that product, people who don't care about the Facebook account thing, therefore it's normal for LMG to take money to cover that product's release. If you're not interested, don't watch it. Those who are interested will watch it. I have no interest whatsoever in studio-type video cameras. LMG produces a fair amount of videos featuring them. Am I gonna tell them to stop producing those videos because they're of no interest to me? No, that'd be moronic. I just skip those videos.

Personally, even though I game at 3440x1440p, I look at the 4k numbers because I have a secondary display as well, which adds up to about the same number of pixels as a single 4k display.

Sorry to resurrect this old thread but since this is the first result that pops up from Google when looking for how to get a 10 series GPU running on Windows Server 2016 I figured it would be the best place to post my updated info. I've been able to get a GTX 1080 Ti running in Windows Server 2016 by using version 391.35 of the 64-bit Windows 10 nVidia drivers. This is the most recent drivers I was able to get to work. I also asked for the driver patch which allows more than two encoding streams from the project coordinator and he delivered! You can find the patch and a link to the driver in the Windows 10 section at https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/tree/master/win I can confirm that works on Windows Server 2016. Hope this helps!

I think the price of the memory is why the release date or cost of the 20GB 3080 haven't been announced yet, and also why the 3090 is so much more expensive than the 3080, despite the rest of the specs really not warranting that large a gap. We probably won't see a release of that model until the manufacturing of GDDR6X ramps up to full production and economies of scale start reducing cost, at which point jasonc_01's prediction might come true. Hopefully that doesn't take too long but I would expect around 6 months.

Looking at EVGA's lineup they're not going with the reference PCB design but rather the traditional design and their water-cooled versions look just like the 20-series. https://www.evga.com/articles/01434/evga-geforce-rtx-30-series/ I doubt there will be much of a market for aftermarket water blocks for the reference PCB design considering no AIB seem to be using it. The weird shape of the PCB would cost considerably more to manufacture a block for too.

That may be an old render. nVidia has a history of making these kind of last-minute changes before major announcement. Easier to change a comparison chart than renders.

If that was the case I would expect them to state so. I'm thinking they're keeping the 12-pin connectors either for the next gen or the cards released in the second half of this gen lifecycle in order to give PSU suppliers time to adjust product lines.

They have a note on the advanced card comparison at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-series/ that says: 1 - Up to 4k 12-bit HDR at 240Hz with DP1.4a+DSC. Up to 8k 12-bit HDR at 60Hz with DP 1.4a+DSC or HDMI2.1+DSC. With dual DP1.4a+DSC, up to 8K HDR at 120Hz