5120x1440 is still going to require a godalmighty GPU set-up, m80.Dauntless wrote:
https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/monitor-cg95/
I'm very close to deciding to buy this but keep getting held back by the fact that it's only 1440P and not 2160P (seems like there's no 40"+ ultrawide 4K monitor yet)
I think that's mostly because there was a defect with some of the panels which cause a light leak issue, supposedly it's fixed now. If I got a faulty one i'd just return and get a replacement.SuperJail Warden wrote:
3.3 stars. Do not buy
I'm mainly gonna be using it for Windows multitasking loluziq wrote:
5120x1440 is still going to require a godalmighty GPU set-up, m80.Dauntless wrote:
https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/monitor-cg95/
I'm very close to deciding to buy this but keep getting held back by the fact that it's only 1440P and not 2160P (seems like there's no 40"+ ultrawide 4K monitor yet)
Gotta get that 240Hz for the smoothest Excel scrollin
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refresh rate has greatly diminishing returns after the 144 Hz mark, from what i've read. i wouldn't push for 240 Hz just for the sake of it.
plus you are going to handicap yourself big time in games that can't push 150fps + easily. you'll have to make sure you have some sort of driver-level advanced refresh sync.
plus you are going to handicap yourself big time in games that can't push 150fps + easily. you'll have to make sure you have some sort of driver-level advanced refresh sync.
Yeh it's G Sync/Free Sync compatible innituziq wrote:
you'll have to make sure you have some sort of driver-level advanced refresh sync.
Honestly I don't even care about 240Hz, just want to get a nice big screen
yeah the massive real estate is a total game-changer! didn't shut up about mine for about 3 months.
Speaking of Office, I'm not a huge fan of that lag they get when dragging windows. It feels intentional, but for some unknown reason. Maybe there's a place to turn it off, but honestly I can't be bothered.Dauntless wrote:
I'm mainly gonna be using it for Windows multitasking loluziq wrote:
5120x1440 is still going to require a godalmighty GPU set-up, m80.Dauntless wrote:
https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/monitor-cg95/
I'm very close to deciding to buy this but keep getting held back by the fact that it's only 1440P and not 2160P (seems like there's no 40"+ ultrawide 4K monitor yet)
Gotta get that 240Hz for the smoothest Excel scrollin
https://www.displayninja.com/144hz-vs-240hz/ talks about 144hz in terms of being "good enough for casual gamers" or whatever. I don't really know about that wording. I think 144 is good enough for "pro." A lot of really good gamers I've talked to said they were more about prediction for accuracy anyway.
I'm not going to bother with "gamer 4k" until I get a card that can run the games I play at that resolution on max. There are other specs I'm more interested in.
Well... I finally did it
FWP after three years, 32" IPS developed a phantom, quarter-sized cloudy spot visible in neutral grays or dark backgrounds (fine on Word, would make a good hand-me-down word processing screen). Goes away on its own after about five minutes, but I don't trust that it won't come back to stay even after making some adjustments.
Will look into models like this over the weekend:
GIGABYTE M27Q 27" 170Hz 1440P KVM Gaming Monitor, 2560 x 1440 SS IPS, 0.5ms (MPRT), 92% DCI P3, HDR Ready, FreeSync Premium, 1x Display Port 1.2, 2x HDMI 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB Type-C
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E1682401201 … klink=true
I don't really want "esports" stuff specifically, just a sizable, versatile IPS with a good response and good color. 144hz might be nice for racing but it's not a big deal.
Will look into models like this over the weekend:
GIGABYTE M27Q 27" 170Hz 1440P KVM Gaming Monitor, 2560 x 1440 SS IPS, 0.5ms (MPRT), 92% DCI P3, HDR Ready, FreeSync Premium, 1x Display Port 1.2, 2x HDMI 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB Type-C
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E1682401201 … klink=true
I don't really want "esports" stuff specifically, just a sizable, versatile IPS with a good response and good color. 144hz might be nice for racing but it's not a big deal.
What kind of network adapters would y'all recommend? Switched from ATT to Xfinity this summer and at that time I switched from a wired ethernet connection to a Linksys adapter, which was a brand my brother had used for a while and said worked fine. However, it's far more common than I'd like that my connection either has short disconnections or downgrades from the 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz band.
Because I had been wired before, I'm not sure if this was potentially happening all the time and I was just insulated or if there's something else afoot. I'm still trying to troubleshoot things like router positioning, but it's just often enough to be frustrating. Is my adapter brand just shit and I am blissfully unaware?
Because I had been wired before, I'm not sure if this was potentially happening all the time and I was just insulated or if there's something else afoot. I'm still trying to troubleshoot things like router positioning, but it's just often enough to be frustrating. Is my adapter brand just shit and I am blissfully unaware?
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You need to buy an adapter that is accepting of both male and female connectors.DesertFox- wrote:
What kind of network adapters would y'all recommend? Switched from ATT to Xfinity this summer and at that time I switched from a wired ethernet connection to a Linksys adapter, which was a brand my brother had used for a while and said worked fine. However, it's far more common than I'd like that my connection either has short disconnections or downgrades from the 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz band.
Because I had been wired before, I'm not sure if this was potentially happening all the time and I was just insulated or if there's something else afoot. I'm still trying to troubleshoot things like router positioning, but it's just often enough to be frustrating. Is my adapter brand just shit and I am blissfully unaware?
I think adapter is the wrong word, it sounds too supine, convener is better.
Fuck Israel
This isn't an adapter for the PC but last week I upgraded my home Wi-Fi with Plume and am very happy with the results. On every speed test I've done my phone is getting exactly the same speed and latency as my wired desktop, in some cases the phone has actually gotten better latency than my PC which is nuts and I can't quite work out.DesertFox- wrote:
What kind of network adapters would y'all recommend? Switched from ATT to Xfinity this summer and at that time I switched from a wired ethernet connection to a Linksys adapter, which was a brand my brother had used for a while and said worked fine. However, it's far more common than I'd like that my connection either has short disconnections or downgrades from the 5 GHz to 2.4 GHz band.
Because I had been wired before, I'm not sure if this was potentially happening all the time and I was just insulated or if there's something else afoot. I'm still trying to troubleshoot things like router positioning, but it's just often enough to be frustrating. Is my adapter brand just shit and I am blissfully unaware?
They're not the cheapest around and there is a subscription needed to get the most out of them but they were well worth the cost for me. They also have features like motion detection to tell you when/where someone is in your house which is pretty nuts and a bit creepy but also kinda cool.
https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/plume-superpods
You can get 10% off the subscription with my referral code if you're interested:
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Are those just beefed up powerline repeaters with "cloud" and "AI" nonsense?
i've had power line adapters for years and they work perfectly fine. they extend my wired connection, provide a wi-fi hub boost, and go up to gigabyte speed.
if i lived in a country with insane fibre optic internet i'd maybe consider a more premium option, but senseless when i'm on street-level cable up to 70-80mb, tbh.
also are those things £100 a fucking year? what on earth for?
if i lived in a country with insane fibre optic internet i'd maybe consider a more premium option, but senseless when i'm on street-level cable up to 70-80mb, tbh.
also are those things £100 a fucking year? what on earth for?
They're not powerline, they're either wireless repeaters (at least one needs to be wired to the router) or you can run ethernet to each of them for the best connection. The coverage and speed to every device in my house (even garden) is 10x better than what I had before. It's like I have a new internet connection.
The cloud stuff isn't all nonsense, it's nice to be able to see what's connected and which device is using bandwidth and to where etc. you can setup throttling for certain web traffic or devices. The security and ad blocking features are good too. My TV and phone don't get anymore adverts when on the YouTube app for example. It's similar to Cisco Meraki (used in business/enterprise) but geared for home use.
The cloud stuff isn't all nonsense, it's nice to be able to see what's connected and which device is using bandwidth and to where etc. you can setup throttling for certain web traffic or devices. The security and ad blocking features are good too. My TV and phone don't get anymore adverts when on the YouTube app for example. It's similar to Cisco Meraki (used in business/enterprise) but geared for home use.
it would make sense if you're doing a lot of heavy downloading and uploading from all over the house/garden, i can see that. but i do most of my network stuff at a wired desktop or on a mac that has indistinguishable net speed from the desktop tbh. the benefit of power line adapters for me over the years has just been so that i can have a wired ethernet connection for gaming no matter what room my router/gaming pc are in (often different).
you can throttle for web traffic or devices using QoS rules on any consumer-level router m8. don't have to pay £100 a year for the privilege. ditto ad blocking. i have free ad blocking plug-ins on all my devices. do you watch lots of videos on your phone? why?
it obviously works for you and ye fair enough m8 but seems a highly specific thing.
you can throttle for web traffic or devices using QoS rules on any consumer-level router m8. don't have to pay £100 a year for the privilege. ditto ad blocking. i have free ad blocking plug-ins on all my devices. do you watch lots of videos on your phone? why?
it obviously works for you and ye fair enough m8 but seems a highly specific thing.
Yeah there are a few "cloud management" options for home and enterprise. But at the end of the day it's just an online management portal/dashboard. The cloud and ai references are marketing jargon to get people to buy in. My critique is on that, not on the efficiency or value of them.Dauntless wrote:
They're not powerline, they're either wireless repeaters (at least one needs to be wired to the router) or you can run ethernet to each of them for the best connection. The coverage and speed to every device in my house (even garden) is 10x better than what I had before. It's like I have a new internet connection.
The cloud stuff isn't all nonsense, it's nice to be able to see what's connected and which device is using bandwidth and to where etc. you can setup throttling for certain web traffic or devices. The security and ad blocking features are good too. My TV and phone don't get anymore adverts when on the YouTube app for example. It's similar to Cisco Meraki (used in business/enterprise) but geared for home use.
I was trying to understand if it was a meshed network or just repeaters without having to click the link
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I love MiniPCs. I don't own one and probably never will but as a concept I really dig it.
Grandma doesn't need a full tower and something like this with good software support is fine for reading emails, facebook, and netflix. Stick Ubuntu on it and she will probably never get into trouble opening an email she shouldn't have. I don't think it would cost so much to give every low income American youth one of these. We probably spent more fighting ISIS than that program would cost. We might even be able to get corporations to pay for it by pitching it as a way to expand the number of people to sell products and services through.
Grandma doesn't need a full tower and something like this with good software support is fine for reading emails, facebook, and netflix. Stick Ubuntu on it and she will probably never get into trouble opening an email she shouldn't have. I don't think it would cost so much to give every low income American youth one of these. We probably spent more fighting ISIS than that program would cost. We might even be able to get corporations to pay for it by pitching it as a way to expand the number of people to sell products and services through.
i’m really glad i built my pc in a mini-ATX form factor (yes, including that smaller motherboard with less bling). the portability and simplicity of the thing has repaid itself already, just in carrying it around the house or from my apartment to home for a period. plus at that size it’s been very easy to still cool and overclock.
mini-PCs are great and functional, yes, but too many of them look like those dodgy dells you’d see by the 100 in offices. i think the role fulfilled by these ‘multi-media stations’ or whatever they’re marketed as is being overtaken by ipads/tablets and those remote virtual desktop docks. i know we use them at our office now rather than separate machines.
when shopping around for my original build i saw some really really insane micro-PCs in really beautiful like machined metal cases. really no bigger than a cable tv box or console, and not a great deal bigger than the GPU part itself, really. amazing uses of space but necessarily quite loud to exhaust all the heat and the cases alone were often like $400-500.
plus i don’t know that i’d have the cojones to actually build one. i’m pretty practical but some of those things had like devised ingenious rail-systems by which to get it all together like a swiss watch. i’m not much one for winding watches.
mini-PCs are great and functional, yes, but too many of them look like those dodgy dells you’d see by the 100 in offices. i think the role fulfilled by these ‘multi-media stations’ or whatever they’re marketed as is being overtaken by ipads/tablets and those remote virtual desktop docks. i know we use them at our office now rather than separate machines.
when shopping around for my original build i saw some really really insane micro-PCs in really beautiful like machined metal cases. really no bigger than a cable tv box or console, and not a great deal bigger than the GPU part itself, really. amazing uses of space but necessarily quite loud to exhaust all the heat and the cases alone were often like $400-500.
plus i don’t know that i’d have the cojones to actually build one. i’m pretty practical but some of those things had like devised ingenious rail-systems by which to get it all together like a swiss watch. i’m not much one for winding watches.
Last edited by uziq (2020-10-31 13:27:23)
Fractal Design and Lian Li have some attractive mini-ITX cases for under $120.
This one by Thermaltake isn't terrible either:
https://www.newegg.com/white-thermaltak … 6811133282
I prefer having a larger space though. Bigger fans, less noise. They can still look minimalistic. This Phanteks looks rather clean:
https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-e … 6811854004
Still using an ancient HAF-932 and will probably continue to do so with my next build. It goes into a desk cabinet anyway so I don't have to look at the excessive angulature.
This one by Thermaltake isn't terrible either:
https://www.newegg.com/white-thermaltak … 6811133282
I prefer having a larger space though. Bigger fans, less noise. They can still look minimalistic. This Phanteks looks rather clean:
https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-e … 6811854004
Still using an ancient HAF-932 and will probably continue to do so with my next build. It goes into a desk cabinet anyway so I don't have to look at the excessive angulature.
i was thinking of boutique level cases that are much smaller than micro-ATX and lian li-level consumer cases.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/33 … t-sff-case
https://streacom.com/products/da2-chassis/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/33 … t-sff-case
https://streacom.com/products/da2-chassis/
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I don't trust those small cases to deal with heat very well.
Yeah I know what QoS is but apart from the fact that 99% of people won't know how to do that properly, basic QoS doesn't really scratch the surface with what this can do.uziq wrote:
it would make sense if you're doing a lot of heavy downloading and uploading from all over the house/garden, i can see that. but i do most of my network stuff at a wired desktop or on a mac that has indistinguishable net speed from the desktop tbh. the benefit of power line adapters for me over the years has just been so that i can have a wired ethernet connection for gaming no matter what room my router/gaming pc are in (often different).
you can throttle for web traffic or devices using QoS rules on any consumer-level router m8. don't have to pay £100 a year for the privilege. ditto ad blocking. i have free ad blocking plug-ins on all my devices. do you watch lots of videos on your phone? why?
it obviously works for you and ye fair enough m8 but seems a highly specific thing.
I was just tired of having slow/patchy Wi-Fi in my home and wanted the best possible experience. Like I said it's not the cheapest but it was worth it for me. Also you don't need to continue paying the subscription if you don't want to but you lose the 'smart' features.
I've spent £1000's on devices which are all connected to Wi-Fi. Even my washer and dryer are on Wi-Fi... I just didn't see the point in cheaping out over something that I'm using daily (even more so right now for obvious reasons).
Also to clarify, it's not the features that sold me. It's the Wi-Fi performance.
https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/0 … -its-fast/