WYP
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LG is going all-in on the gaming monitor market!
Read more about LG's 27GL850G 1440p Nano IPS G-Sync monitor.
Read more about LG's 27GL850G 1440p Nano IPS G-Sync monitor.
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LG reveals their 27GL850G 1440p Nano IPS monitor, which features a 160Hz Overclock
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I heard it's RGB and the LED rotates around like K.I.T.T from Knightrider.
AlienALX
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haha it looks like it has mesh in it.
I don't get this new trend in monitors. All of the nice stuff they waste money on is all on the back, what you don't see. That Alienware monitor I bought looked beautiful in the pics but sat in front of it you would never know lol. It just looks like a normal, bland, small monitor.
I don't get this new trend in monitors. All of the nice stuff they waste money on is all on the back, what you don't see. That Alienware monitor I bought looked beautiful in the pics but sat in front of it you would never know lol. It just looks like a normal, bland, small monitor.
Maybe its because of this silly craze now, to light up the back of you monitor so your wall has the same colours...
That's only really if the overclock goes beyond what the panel is physically capable of, what some people don't realise when they overclock their monitor is that even though the panel is technically attempting to refresh at that given rate the limit often becomes the G2G or W2B response times, and if they're longer than the frame time then you end up with missed frames, half-frames, scanlines, muddled colours and various other artefacts. In fact, sometimes you actually end up with fewer frames being displayed per second than you started with(And when many consumers do it they almost always end up with fewer complete frames per second).
If you have a high enough frame rate camera you can find your monitors actual stable maximum overclock though, and given it's only a 0.5ms(~10%) difference between 144Hz and 160Hz that shouldn't be much of an issue in this case, compared to say overclocking a 60Hz monitor to 120Hz, where's it's a ~8ms(100%) difference.
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AlienALX
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£5 for a 3m RGB LED strip lol.
Not quite the same thing, though you can get ~£50-£300 products that mimic content-aware-backlighting on any device(Or just use a Pi and a HDMI capture device with an I2C 5050 strip & LED driver and make your own, though I'm not sure you'd save much on that £50).
I have the IPS swift PG348 monitor OC'd to 100Hz when its a native 60hz monitor. Back when I played wow. the quest windows showed atrocious scanlines. It also showed on almost all the RPG games I played when I opened the character stats windows to show a static image. My own stupid fault because when they advertised 100Hz I never thought to check if that was the native refresh rate.
AlienALX
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Yeah, I wouldn't like to rely on that. Like, pushing something out of spec in order to make it do what it should do within spec.
I would never buy anything overclocked tbh. Not even a PC, because it can lead to issues and the first thing the builder will do is just put it back to stock meaning you paid for air.
I would never buy anything overclocked tbh. Not even a PC, because it can lead to issues and the first thing the builder will do is just put it back to stock meaning you paid for air.
Thats exactly my point. Lesson learned, but I will never buy something that is not at a desired refresh rate in its native state. The Swift has been a massive disappointment. Luckily no dead pixels, so I'll keep it going till its death or something better comes along. I miss my TN panel.
AlienALX
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They are yeah. I had one a while ago (got it cheap second hand) and it wouldn't run at the spec so I had to create a custom resolution and drop it back to 60.
The problem with overclocks is that guaranteeing them is a bad idea. Simply put? you never know how it will act in 3 months, a year, etc. That is usually why Intel etc all make sure that the speeds they sold the chip with are rock solid.
The only thing I let overclock itself now is my Titan XP. And that is only because it is under water, with very low temps. Plus you can't add any extra voltage, so the chances of damage are slim.
NeverBackDown
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Sounds like a very nice monitor. Probably super expensive as well
https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-SWIFT-PG348Q/
This one was 100hz out of the box, but of course, its overclocked by default. You can see now that they advertise it more clearly. However I bought it when it was first released and they duped me with the clever marketing.
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looz
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1440p120Hz+ is imo the perfect setup nowadays, sexy monitor.
When overclocking is supported by the manufacturer the monitors generally work without issues at the higher rate, but it isn't a multiple of 30 or 60, let alone 24 so I'm thinking they're leaving it on a suitable re refresh rate for fluid video play out of the box and calling the highest supported refresh rate an overclock.
But you can just watch full screen video and let free/g-sync deal with the mismatch.
When overclocking is supported by the manufacturer the monitors generally work without issues at the higher rate, but it isn't a multiple of 30 or 60, let alone 24 so I'm thinking they're leaving it on a suitable re refresh rate for fluid video play out of the box and calling the highest supported refresh rate an overclock.
But you can just watch full screen video and let free/g-sync deal with the mismatch.
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WYP
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TBH "overclocking" is more of a merketing term than anything else here. It typically comes with visual downsides.
In the case of the 4K G-Sync HDR displays, it resulted in chroma sub-sampling, which was needed to hit higher framerates at that resolution. I'm not sure if it is the same case here, but it is likely assuming that this is using DisplayPort 1.2.
Reminds me of the days of multi-sync CRTs, editing "drivers"/INI files to get that 800p@200Hz or 1800p@70Hz over an overclocked 750Mhz RAMDAC by manually trimming off whatever you could from the videostream to cram all those pixels through the 5-BNC connector.
Don't know where I'd put one nowadays and I don't need any more heaters but I really miss those high end trinitrons.
Don't know where I'd put one nowadays and I don't need any more heaters but I really miss those high end trinitrons.
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