"I Need a New PC!" 2024-2025. 240 Hz OLEDs, PCI-Gen5, Path Tracing & Ray Reconstruction.

anyone use fan control and have it crap out lately?

guess it uses a potentially vulnerable kernel driver; maybe the latest windows defender update flagged and blocked it.
no longer detects any of my system/cpu fans.
reinstalled but no dice.

reinstalled asus armoury crate to test fans and they work there properly.
 
Why is HDR so frustrating on Windows with monitors?

Unable to tell if I'm running content in HDR through Netflix, Apple TV app etc.

The SDR content brightness slider affects brightness while I'm watching HDR supported Netflix movies.

Pretty sure that slider is only supposed to affect brightness of SDR content. HDR content should be unaffected.

So then why is the brightness changing?

edit: nvm. It wasn't actually changing the brightness of HDR content. It was just changing the brightness of the UI, subtitle lettering etc which is SDR.
 
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I'm not sure if there's a better place to ask this, but I figure this thread is a good location. I've said a few times that I'm considering moving to PC gaming. Especially with the inevitable death of physical media and the direction consoles are going. Consoles just aren't as appealing as they used to. I figure before making the full jump to PC I want to try and play what I can on my current laptop and see how it goes.

Thing is, I have no idea what to expect when running games on it. I've used the tool and systemrequirementslab.com to get a sense of what my laptop can run, but my laptop also is no a gaming PC. So I'm not really sure how well I can run games despite what that website is telling me. For example, if I check FFVII Rebirth it says I can run it at the recommended requirements. My computer itself is a Dell XPS 15 9530 model that I bought in early 2024 with. Specs are:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, 8 GB GDDR6
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H
32 GB RAM
Power supply is 130Watt Type-C Adapter

Based on what Steam says that means I should be able to run FFVII: Rebirth at 1080p, 60fps. But could I run it at 1440p? Based on what's on Steam it doesn't look like I could run it at 4k because I don't have 12gb of VRAM. Something like Clair Obscure I can't run at recommended requirements, but I do meet the minimum. If I wanted to run something like Clair Obscure, what type of resolution/frame rate could I expect? Steam again says "High" settings at 1080p, 60 fps. But if I run it at medium settings would I be able to do 1080p/60 fps?

Just trying to get a sense if I can experiment some with PC gaming on my laptop before I spend the money on a powerful rig. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
 
Had a weird issue happen twice now that seems to be related to turning HDR on ony PC.

After I've turned HDR on and then maybe restart or turn it off for later when I go to login again the login screen just freezes and I have to hard restart my machine a few times before I can actually log in....

I've left HDR off now because of this - it's a really weird issue I've not seen or heard of before.

I've got a 9070xt with a 7600x connected to my Samsung QLED.
 
What parts would you recommend I upgrade so I can play most modern games on PC?

I can currently run TLOU2 Remastered at 1080p at Medium settings with minor hiccups. Only PC game I invested serious time in so far.
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What parts would you recommend I upgrade so I can play most modern games on PC?

I can currently run TLOU2 Remastered at 1080p at Medium settings with minor hiccups. Only PC game I invested serious time in so far.
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you can push for a cheap ryzen 5600 and a used rtx 2060 super or rtx 3060. if you have a decent PSU, you can push for a 4070 as well. don't get 4060 or 5060 as they will be severely limited on that pcie 3 motherboard
you can keep the 16 GB RAM as long as you're okay with minor hiccups and if you don't have much background stuff.

5600 and something like 2060 super or 3060 would give the system a huge boost in games you're currently playing

oh you will most likely need to update your BIOS as well. learn the full name of your motherboard, find out which BIOS version you're currently on and then check its support page for updates
 
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Anyone have any good monitor recommendations? I need a 32", 4k with 240hz.
gigabyte fo32u2p, or fo32u2 if you dont want uncompressed signal.

+ VRR is not a real problem on this monitor. Before buying OLED I read about VRR flicker and people said it's better to turn VRR off because it's so distracting. I tested maybe a hundred games and saw VRR flicker just once, in Alan Wake 2 and only with FGx2 enabled at low framerate (below 70fps). Anything above 70fps with FGx2 wasnt flickering. Without FG there wasnt any flickering even at 30fps.

+ With a peak brightness of 1000 nits even in SDR, this QD-OLED can fight glare even in a well-lit room and make SDR games look almost as bright as HDR without the need for HDR native. Peak 1000 SDR is an awesome choice for Sony Megatron CRT simulation. My previous monitor had only 400 nits and that wasnt enough for this very demanding sony megatron shader, so picture was too dim.

+ Gigabyte has amazing color accuracy and SDR gamma / PQ EOTF tracking. Read this review, and compare it's scores with other OLEDs. In this regard, Gigabyte is one of the best, if not the best.


+ peak 1000 mode in HDR is perfectly usable with the latest firmware update. Many OLED monitors dim the picture excessively in peak 1000 mode, making HDR400 mode look better. That's not the case here, though, as 1000 mode is equally bright as HDR 400 in the worst case scenario and often twice as bright if the scene is a little bit dimmer.

+ The SUPER RESOLUTION function is very useful. It can make a lower-resolution image appear much sharper. It can also be used in 4K HDR content because HDR disable access to the picture settings and standard sharpness settings.

And some photos.

MGS Delta with RTX HDR (becasue Native HDR implementation in this game isnt good)

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In SDR, I use the Novideo-sRGB tool to clamp colours to sRGB in normal picture mode (because the built-in sRGB mode locks the picture settings). This produces very bright and saturated colours in SDR that still look natural. This monitor has it's own standard RGB clamp, but it desaturates red too much, so it's better to use novideo-srgb clamp.

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With arm

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If you chose QD-OLED as I did I recommend using distilled water and a microfibre cloth for cleaning.
 
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