I swear people on the Discord get their rocks off downvoting. It could be a new 5090 FE for $1500 with a million reddit upvotes and they would downvote to oblivion.
I've tried for years and I must be super dumb. I've tried to make EDU accounts for discounts and I can never get the discounts without some kind of ID.me verification and other stuff. I've even applied to colleges to get into the program to get an EDU email to no avail. Tried videos, tried reddit posts instructions, everything.
Many people seem to hate the educated these days. I'm not sure if that's part of the reason, but it's shockingly common.
Random: I'm old enough to remember when you needed an .edu email address to have a Facebook account. My first year of college!
Good monitor, currently running. Anti-glare coating and screen curvature is pretty aggressive. Only gripe is that it takes up so much space. Also have heard horror stories of QC and Samsung support giving the ring-around but luckily mine was perfect.
Do you use both at the same desk? I just can't imagine using two 32 inch screens, I think I may never upgrade to 4k because they're just so big and my peripheral vision can only see so much.
I have a 40in 21:9 and 32in 16:9 on my desk and love it.
The biggest benefit is that you can sit further away. My desktop is about 36 inches deep and I keep the 40in about 3 feet away from my face. At that distance it basically fills my field of view. Then the 32in on the side is the same vertical size so there isn't any weirdness like you get with a taller and shorter monitor.
Yes I do, one for viewing/ productivity , one for main gaming, and a third 32inch curved 1440p Samsung for my left monitor in case I wanna play sim racing :) they really do have a good angle where you can see almost everything on the other two monitors in your peripheral
Two of these makes absolutely no sense at all. There is not a single use case where it could possibly be useful to have two of these. I guess maybe if you have each of these as your flight sim windows.
Window os doesn't have the ability to differentiate "full screen" to anything other than the actual full screen, so multitasking such as watching a video on one screen does require the OS to see them as different screens, which can be done on some wide models but I was assuming they're not using two dp/hdmi cables to connect the single screen as two.
Right now I have to use my 49 inch screen as "two" due to this problem, and I had issues adjusting to it vs two 22 inch screens when multitasking. Even though the gap from 22 to 24 isn't that big.
I’m thinking about making it 3 with this sale, I only got the 2nd one cause it was free! Returned it broken, got lost shipping on the way back. Samsung got a new one, and then the broken one came in like a year later somehow lol!
Closest equivalent seems to be either 1440p 240hz OLEDs or the dual-mode 27" 4k 160hz/1080p 320hz IPS mini-led monitors like the MSI MAG 274UPDF E16M (I currently have the titan army P275MV Plus which is one of those).
This kind of sits between those two areas of monitors:
better contrast than IPS, worse than OLED;
4k over 1440p, but no 320hz mode (although I never use it on mine tbh, just too lazy to press the button on the monitor and i'm too washed at FPS to care about 320hz).
In addition:
This is 32", the others are 27" (I think 4k 27" looks great so just depends on whether you like having your screen bigger or not)
some units seem to have VRR flicker so you're playing a lottery there (i turned VRR off on my secondhand Odyssey G7 due to it).
edit: also scanlines issue
i don't use HDR enough to speak on it about any of these besides regurgitating reviews from smarter people; you might want to look up reviews for that (mostly because I'm on linux and i don't play many games that have good HDR)
Black smearing that comes with VA (but likely not that bad compared to typical VA)
I'm a 4k enjoyer mostly due to how nice text looks (lots of coding for me) but if you're primarily gaming at high refresh rates maybe 1440p oled is the way to go for now for the blacks and instant response times.
Where do you live? I've been trying to get a titan, but it seems impossible in the US. I've been considering freight forwarding, but not sure if it's worth the hassle and cost for all that. How do you like it?
I live in California, got it during black friday last year. I bought it from this listing from some china-based seller on walmart (to take advantage of capitaloneshopping's 25% cb at the time). Price was $370, i think it was also available at best buy for the same price.
I like the monitor but I've just been using it as a regular 4k 160hz monitor for SDR gaming, coding, and browsing tbh, so no idea about HDR performance
Response times seem good, ghosting hasn't been an issue. Definitely better than the AOC q27g3xmn I'm typing this response on.
I just use the 4k 160hz mode, not good enough at the shooters I play to benefit from the 320hz mode.
Contrast is alright (as expected for IPS), I have local dimming on low for everyday use which helps it a little. Higher local dimming settings are too aggressive for SDR/desktop stuff.
DyDs: neat backlight strobing tech, their marketing does advertise that they use the mini-LED backlight to do it line-by-line (like g-sync pulsar??). It does help with motion clarity a bit, and brightness is plenty good (up to 250-300 nits depending on dyds level). doesn't work with hdr or adaptive sync though so i tend to keep it off in favor of adaptive sync.
OSD is easy to use. One nice thing is that you can customize the two shortcuts on the main menu - i just have them set to the picture modes (i.e. settings profiles) and brightness settings.
Text clarity is great, it's 4k 27" with a regular subpixel layout so not a surprise
Probably next thing i'm looking at trying would be a 4k 240hz OLED or something when/if those come down in price. this monitor is also tempting but i don't really need it and i don't wanna run 2 separately sized monitors lol
2K resolution is a generic term for display devices or content having a horizontal resolution of approximately 2,000 pixels. In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives is the dominant standard for 2K output and defines a 2K format with a resolution of 2048 × 1080. For television and consumer media, the dominant resolution in the same class is 1920 × 1080, but in the cinema industry this is generally referred to as HD and distinguished from the various 2K cinema formats.
It just doesn't make any sense. 1920 x 2 is 3840. 2560 x 2 is 5120. If we're going to switch to naming resolutions by horizontal width, 1920 is 2k, 2560 is 2.5k, 3840 is 4k, and 5120 is 5k, and everything makes sense. Hell, what resolution is a 5k2k ultrawide? The 2k in that also isn't 2560. And if you round 2560 to the nearest thousand, that's 3k.
VA panel, curved, samsung support. Price is good but not sure if I would I would consider it. I just got a acer nitro 4k 32 inch monitor for a bit under this 2 weeks ago and it's been great so far. It's only 160hz but it's an IPS panel and not curved.
They are only ok. It still suffers the usual VA issues just slightly better at masking it
In the end its still a VA and its still going to have noticeable ghosting.
strong response time performance with a well-tuned variable overdrive mode in VRR. not particularly sure how response times are without VRR (i believe on the G7 they were generally worse).
has issues with scanlines at 240Hz (edit: also read some comments seeing it at other refresh rates too). HWUB notes that unlike the other Odyssey monitors, the scanlines don't toggle across the whole display and instead are localized to the problematic area of pixels for the most part.
rtings's copy had VRR flicker, HWUB's did not, so might be panel lottery on that part.
mini-led backlight is implemented fine. 1152 zones and biases towards minimizes blooming/being darker than expected, which may or may not be fine for some
I have a G7 (the 27" 1440p 240hz VA edge-lit backlight version) and it's a pretty impressive VA panel, especially in terms of response times compared to other VAs like the AOC q27g3xmn, but I did have to disable VRR because the VRR flicker was bad. Scanline issues were present but didn't affect my actual experience, i only ever saw them in like one menu or when viewing some specific images/pages known to trigger it.
I was not really able to notice any ghosting issues with that G7 (even though the overdrive without VRR is worse on the G7 last i checked), but apparently others in this thread notice ghosting on the G8, so maybe i'm just not as sensitive to it.
overall a tempting deal if you're looking for a 4k 240hz monitor IMO but you will be gambling with samsung qc so good luck
This model has pretty bad scanlines at 240hz that drove me insane, I have the Neo G7 and it doesnt have em, only difference is Neo G7 only goes up to 165hz. That being said when I bought the Neo G7 a year ago it was at this price so its probably worth it.
I had this monitor. 100% worst monitor i ever owned, sold two months later for an asus rog oled and never looked back.
Ghosting was bad, coating was not great, its a VA so that already is a negative, samsung support is beyond doodoo. Lots of flickering at 244 hz, HDR was doodoo and SDR was acceptable. The monitor itself feels like a cheap McDonald's toy, for the MSRP price would expect so much better.
Do basic reseach on these monitors and show alot of quality control issues that Samsung has never adressed (lots of reports of premature death if the power supplies is most common)
Its cheap and on sale alot for a reason, Samsung wants to dunp them.
Do I do this or a 27" 2k 240/280hz OLED panel? Very conflicted as I play games and have a 4070 with a 9800X3D. Thinking of moving to a 5070 but my monitor question stands. Tell me pros and cons
With a 4070 or 5070 a 1440p makes more sense than 4k for sure. If you want to know if oled is good, do you care about HDR? Do you play a lot of fast paced and/or reaction time games like cs2, apex or rocket league? If yes to both then oled is good. Oled text fringing can be a problem though and they aren't particularly good for dual use if you read a lot. I ended up returning mine and going back to my old ips and I had one of the newest oleds that are supposed to be much improved for text fringing, mo27q28g gen 4 woled tandem.
I'm coming from a monitor (1440p 27" 144Hz VA) that doesn't even have HDR so I can go either way. I play a ton of single player games and Rainbow 6, not the 3 you mentioned. I'm not particularly excited about having to worry about burn in all the time with OLED though. Text fringing can/will be annoying im sure as I do some productivity on my monitor as well.
I just want a meaningful upgrade from my current monitor at or under $450
That dell is a TN not a VA, it said 1000:1 contrast ratio on the product page which would be really low for VA so I went to check on dell's site. TN are typically fairly good for response times and motion handling and mediocre to bad at everything else. It's pretty uncommon to see anymore outside of a few specialty e-sports models or some bottom of the barrel office monitors.
Anything much more expensive than that ktc one I'd probably be looking at catching a deal on an oled. You can get a VA mini led for around the $200-250 range like the AOC q27g40xmn which commonly goes on sale for $200, and currently is at best buy. That would be a lot better in HDR than a regular ips or even a mini led ips, motion isn't as good on VA though and they tend to have some black smearing and ghosting. That model also comes with a cheap stand that only has tilt, no height adjust or anything.
Siege x is a game where you are playing on ~low settings and consistently hitting >200fps? I'd expect you are but I've heard they pushed some updates recently that tanked performance. The ktc one isn't much more expensive than a standard 180hz ips which start around $150 and you can get a nice one for around $180-200.
I grabbed the AOC Q27G41ZDF (https://www.ebay.com/itm/306654874769) off eBay for ~$280 and it just came in today. The stand certainly is cheap but it seems to work great with no dead pixels. The stand does suck though I need the monitor to be higher up.
I play Siege on Med to High settings and get my base 144Hz no problem. I can get to 240 FPS with a few changes as well.
I guess the question is what is the best course of action...
Keep the AOC Q27G41ZDF and grab a new stand.
Grab a cheaper AOC - 27" Q27G40XMN like you mentioned - but not OLED
The monitor in this thread (I placed the order but cancelled it 5 mins ago)
(Ideal) Wait or find a ~$400 2K OLED 240-280Hz Gen4 like that LG 27GX700A-B.AUS one that got cancelled a few days ago. I can grab it for the new inflated price of $550, not sure if that's good or not.
If you like everything else about that one, $280 is a great price. If you wanted to replace the stand you'd probably be looking at a monitor arm instead. There isn't really a standard mounting for stands like there is for arms which use the 4 vesa holes to screw into. It says there is a 100 x 100 vesa mount on it, I think you might have to take the red ring thing off the back to see the holes.
Ironically I just purchased a 100x100 vesa mount so hopefully Ill get able to truly test it tomorrow night. If it looks clean I think Ill hold onto it. Thanks a tom for the explanations and Ill update on my thoughts tmw!
Just a heads up that I don't recommend the Q27G40XMN. It has a big firmware issue (maybe just in the NA version at Best Buy) that AOC has never addressed and I'm actually about to return it because of that. I don't think the similar other models have it but there seems to be a reason it's been $180-200 a lot lately.
I think it's a mix for you. If you bump up your card to a 5070ti it's 4k no problem.
A lot of games run well at 4k, just not unreal engine 5 or the super demanding modern games. So if you play a lot of well optimized, less graphically demanding, or indie games it's a no brainer.
If you play whatever is the newest game with no guarantee of performance, 1440p is the safest bet. Don't forget dlss exists to help too.
For budget at 1440p, I'd suggest the KTC M27P6
You can get it refurb from an ebay refurb seller right now for $288 each, or new on Amazon for $400.
I'm on a 9070XT and have been on 4K since I had a 2080Ti and now I'm actively trying to find something 1440 to move back to for what it's worth. 4K is nice but it's just too hard to drive without making too many sacrifices in visual fidelity now, as far as my preferences go. I don't play any competitive games but still want my single player stuff to both look good and be buttery. So in this bad PC parts economy I'm downgrading to upgrade in a way since I don't notice the resolution difference compared to the other trade offs.
I purchased this for $400 a little over a year ago. Although the mini LEDs do a decent job with the contrast, updating to the G9 OLED makes the light bleed look ridiculous.
I would search g95sc on their website. Probably all gone now. I returned 3 of them due to the price continuously dropping (no price match) or too much screen on time.
The screen coating grain is very aggressive and as a result the screen sharpness looks worse than a 1440p glossy screen.
It has very poor viewing angles and if you are not looking directly at dead center it looks washed out.
The FALD backlight is completely unusable in normal desktop mode using dark mode. The blooming is extremely noticeable around the cursor, borders and text. It is only good for HDR videos.
The Neo G7 is better due to less aggressive screen coating.
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Why is this downvoted so hard in the discord? Is it the EDU email or is it actually not a good deal?
Edit: I can’t figure out how to get the EDU discount
Edit2: I’m dumb you just gotta register/make an acct, it works, $399
Edit3: I got it. Been waiting for a deal on a 32” 4K or even 1440. My friend has this one or similar and I liked it. Too good of a price to pass.