Someone has been doing some upgrading round here...

I do IT for a living so I have access to work printers to print documents for taxes and such. I'm actually having the monitor shipped to my work. I just ask Reception to hold the Amazon box so the mailroom people don't have to deal with it.

Using DSC with HDMI, or using Display Port 2.0 with no compression?

Smart move imo if LG added at least one display port connection. The chicken or the egg, and if high end TVs start incorporating DP 2.0 then maybe next Gen consoles will offer it as well. nVidia should have used it with this Gen, and whoever goes first with the next Gen of cards would be leaving themself open if they don't adopt it. Didn't AMD at one time have a more advanced DP option than nVidia? Lol, Sir Pauly or Ailuros would know!

I have a non-broken printer that my older brother gave me. More of a curse than a gift, because I bought replacement ink cartridges a couple of times and they dry out super quick - I only get like 2-3 uses, because I don't print often, before they need replaced again. It takes like 5 cartridges, all must be good w/ ink, or the printer gives messages to replace them. Initially, I could get it to print in black & white (with only the black cartridge), but Epson updated the software sometime and made it so it only works w/ all ink cartridges having ink in them. Scamtastic!

I'm going to send back the ASUS IPS soon as it gets here, not even going to open the box. Just going to get a refund.

Ordered this last night

I was debating taking the IPS panel home and seeing how it looked but naw. Soon as it got here I did the Amazon return. Already dropped off at the UPS store.

Decided not to do the expedited shipping on the Alienware so the waiting game it is

Living in Alaska so many years changed my perspective on how long shipping can take.

One time the lowest tier free shipping from Acer took TWO WEEKS to go from Texas to Alaska. Brutal.

If the review is even close to being right, it should be an outstanding monitor. The YT review (posted somewhere above) did say the pre-configured settings weren't great, so you'll probably want to do the custom tweaks they recommended.

Or, when Rtings does a review, try their recommended settings. Currently, there's only a forum discussion on their site.
www.rtings.com/discussions/bqeQZD4NykzU8tJe/review-updates-dell-alienware-aw2725df

According to UPS monitor will be here Wednesday, glad I didn't pay for expedited shipping lol. It shipped an 8 hour drive from me.

My laptop only supports HDMI, so I got a USBC hub that has a DisplayPort 1.4 port, should be good to go.

I've been watching videos like this but I'm not too worried about burn in. The monitor has a 3 year warranty, so if I get burn in I will just send it in and replace it. If 4 years from now when its out of warranty hopefully I am still gainfully employed and can just buy a new monitor.



Also apparently the biggest issue with QD-OLED is 100% static white content. There are guides online to make Windows stop showing anything pure white. I am already a big fan of dark mode in computers and phones so not a lot of changes for me.

I will never understand how people can stare at bright ass pure white phone screens all day. I was in the sauna at the gym and I glanced over and the guy next to me had his phone out and it was just a bright ass white screen. I didn't even recognize he was looking at Instagram because I have only ever seen it in dark mode.

I was looking at some pre-built PCs, I couldn't figure out why this one PC was such a great deal.....................then I realized the CPU was an 11 series. According to benchmarks its only 30% faster then my 4 year old laptop CPU.....eh.........no thanks.

I have the same preference. The default for everything should be dark mode. Looking a bright white, static backgrounds is harsh on the eyes. They knew this even back in the early days of PC's and monochrome monitors, with the green or amber text and otherwise dark screen.

Regarding IT employment, I think the big scare now is mostly do with FANG (Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google) companies' recent wave of layoffs. "Techlead" (Youtuber) does videos on how programming/IT careers are dying because there's too much competition for peoples' attention, with apps like Tiktok and Twitter. While true (for FANG companies), what he's not factoring in is that many IT subsectors don't rely on peoples' attention (to generate revenue via click-throughs or ad revenue). i.e. IT jobs in government, defense sector & military, B2B, Hospital IT, Crypto, Manufacturers (some mfg of physical products, like tires, is still done in the US) etc have business models that don't rely on number of user views. Just don't move to California, thinking you'll have a bright future at a FANG (making $200k+ - since that's the cost of living in CA, your net after paying bills isn't more anyways), and you'll probably do fine.

AMD has the Zen 5 lineup coming out in the second half of the year, with a large IPC improvement.

www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-zen-5-everything-we-know-about-amds-next-gen-cpus/

One thing I didn't consider was HDR, its something I have always had turned off. Like I never think about it, ever.

People apparently use the shortcut Win+alt+B and turn it on right before they launch a game, then turn it off.

Also get this, the monitor isn't G-Sync certified at all. I haven't had G-Sync in 4.5 years since my 240 hz laptop doesn't support it. I just leave V-Sync off in the Nvidia control panel, and make sure its turned off in games.

Imagine my surprise when, via a USBC port -> DisplayPort dock -> monitor G-Sync actually works. I turned it on for now. In 2024 I am completely out of the loop on if its a good thing to have on or a bad thing. I need to do more research.

I have zero idea how to properly calibrate the monitor or if I should use features like auto-HDR or anything else.

According to YouTube HDR is an absolute clusterfuck on PC:


That is only one video describing all the problems with HDR on PC, plenty more where that came from.

Part of me wishes I never got a QD-OLED monitor. It has completely ruined all other monitors in the future for me. If there is a black bar in a game its pitch black because the pixels are literally turned off.

I'm shocked how well my 2070 Super, a LAPTOP GPU, is powering such a nice screen.

IPS looks great.

I'm still not done setting up lol. I got home and set the monitor to HDR1000 mode and Content mode. Supposedly the best settings. Its what Linus used when reviewing this monitor.

I know shit all about HDR settings but I downloaded an HDR calibration tool. It said my panel was in 8-bit mode. Shit. Its a 10-bit panel. I forgot. Set that vid Nvidia control panel.

Then I used Microsofts "official" HDR calibration utility which builds a profile and sets it universal in Windows. It isn't perfect but it looked better when I was done.

Then I loaded this video in YouTube:


.........Holy shit. Jaw dropping image quality. Words don't do it justice. Your phone screen is one thing but seeing it in your face 27" is another.

Apparently if I want the monitor calibrated 100% for HDR I need to buy a device that measures the screen brightness. I could do that then return it to Amazon but that feels kinda scummy

Speaking of HDMI ports, they suddenly stopped working on this old 32" Samsung tv (the one i mentioned earlier with backlight flicker problem). Factory reset on the tv and it fixed both problems. I guess all the software updates and tinkering with the tv settings over the years messed it up somehow, until i did a factory reset.