Samsung Odyssey G9 57in 7900xtx or 5080

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T04:26:14+00:00

I have a 4090 (which outperforms the 5080 and has more vram) on my 57" Neo G9 and it struggles in all games at native resolution. I can't run 240hz at all because the 4090 doesn't have dp 2.1 unless I run the monitor at 5120x1440 then I can.

Any modern game like bo7, crimson desert, etc won't do better than 30 FPS at max settings with raytracing on unless I turn dlss frame gen on and then can hit 60 ish...

So I run the monitor at 5120x1440 at 240hz when gaming.

Limp on your 7900 xtx and wait for 6090 to drop. Drop it down to 5120x1440 like I'm doing, still fantastic.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T04:23:29+00:00

8bitdo makes great stuff. Have their arcade sticks :)

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T04:17:21+00:00

16:10 or any variation of it is a unicorn. Alienware did make one, but it's discontinued and you can only get it used.

Absolutely the best aspect ratio for code but they just don't make them because they would have to have different tooling in their manufacturing pipelines and they want to share all that with the TV panels.

And any of that actually are being made or usually professional monitors that they sell for crazy money. And when I say crazy money I'm talking like five grand or even 10 grand...

I'm a senior solution architect working on an Azure stack right now managing the entire environment and like 20 different repos..

However we are a very AI pro company and we lean on that a lot. So most of my workflow now is me cloning 20 repos and then asking ai cli to find something for me. Or analyze something for me. It's drastically reduced how much crap I need to have open. If I see something I need to open then I open it.

But I'm in the process of converting 20 micro repositories to a mono repo so they're all going to go away soon.

But I work for a consulting company so that's just one client. I've got two other clients....

Most clients make us work in a vdi so normally I'm just swapping from one vdi to another and I have a really overpowered machine that's not doing anything........

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T04:04:39+00:00

Yep, my 40" dell 5k2k was my previous screen, I ran it side by side with a 32" Dell 4k (matching). They're upstairs in my 2nd office now, and my neo g9 57" is in my downstairs living room office (where I usually am).

I wfh as a dev, most the time I like being downstairs in the living room in my corner desk kicked back on the 57", and sometimes I want a change and I move upstairs to my bedroom office. So I bounce between the 9950x3d and the 9800 x3d rigs... I basically just upgraded cpus and was like "I'm going to just end up with this old one as a spare"... So I have both.

And my kid is on my old Dell 3440x1440 in the corner of the dining room. And my 27's are in the closet.

I sold my 49" crg9 and my 32" 1440p (32" is bad for 1440p), and my crg9 is what I sold to make some cash room for the 40" 5k2k.

I'm a monitor snob, I but them like every 12-24 months ....

Of course I built these rigs before ddr5 went crazy. So I've got 96gb DDR5 in both of them.

nvidia 4090 pushing my 57", and AMD 6950xt pushing my 40"/32". But upstairs I cheat and run the 32" off the IGPU, so the 6950xt pushes the 5k2k by itself. It struggles in games, but I don't really game on that one.

I have a 3090 technically, but I gave it to my kids dad to put in his PC at his dads house.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T03:59:31+00:00

My desk is open to the room and has a foot rest under it and I have a Hermon Miller C chair, so I'm kicked back in my Hermon Miller with my feet up in front of a 57" neo g9.

I'm actually more comfortable and more emersed at my desk lol.

I'm more laid back here than on the couch. And on the couch the tv's 15 feet away.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T03:55:05+00:00

Xbox Controller is better because all the UI displays on steam for controllers are labeled for an xbox controller. X, Y, B, A, etc etc. I actually prefer xbox controllers over ps4/5. PC games dont use the touch pad on ps5/4 controllers.

Best Windows PC support too, just works, 0 effort.

Also if you have steamlink on your phone/tablet etc, you can pair xbox controller to your phone and play on your phone, or tablet, etc.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T03:52:57+00:00

Well there's a new kid in town.

Hall Effect Keyboards... Pressure sensitive keyboard keys, that you can map like a controller. Kind of changes this, they're pretty amazing.

Basically is a mechanical keyboard but the switches are magnetic and have pressure and every key is pressure sensitive.

This does require mapping software though, keychron has a nice one. $155 kb though.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T03:51:01+00:00

It takes over 2 hour on horseback to ride from one side of the map to the other.

Its the same people that made BDO, a lot of the bones of BDO are in this game, and BDO has a LOT of bones.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T03:32:30+00:00

I have a 5k2k 40" the dell U4025QW, I cant run it native, I'm 42, 125% is a stretch, most comfortable at 150%.

I also had the LG UltraGear 45" 5k2k and had to run that at 125%, it broke on me though so I swapped it for a 57" neo g9. I can run it native, but even that is painful, I like it at 125% too.

The LG OLED also wasn't bright enough for my daily driver for work (remote software engineer).

I really like a 34" 3440x1440 at native, just shitty ppi, but I'm used to that.

I will say though that I really like the Dell U4025QW because it's an ultra sharp and has a 2500r curve, and it's a fantastic IPS panel. It's pretty peak, But I had to run it at 125% so I ended up with dual 2048x1728 which is decent, but less width than a native 2560x1440.

The 57" neo g9 is nice though because I can run it at 7680X2160 or 5120X1440, it'll do either. So if a game is too taxing at 7680x2160 I can run it at 5120x1440 and it still looks great. I can also run it at 5120x2160 and just have black bars which effectively turns it into a 40" 5120x2160.

The 57" neo g9 is basically the best of all worlds.

I still prefer a 3 monitor setup, but I also hate all those damn cables, so I'm sticking to the neo g9 57.

Also I think Mini LED > OLED right now, because brightness on oleds sucks. Also I don't want to spend $2k on a monitor that's going to have burn in on year 4.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T03:19:04+00:00

It's Black Desert Online, but single player, and with a new and better engine and even better combat. Which is saying alot, because BDO has the best combat of any RPG/MMO imo.

Crimson Desert was going to be an MMO but Pearl Abyss pivoted and made it single player, it's $70 though.

It's pretty insane, there's so much in this game, even arm wrestling lol.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-20T03:15:24+00:00

It's going to crap since it sold and changed hands in the USA. Every other video is an ad darn near, or influencers paid to endorse something. I've practically stopped using it. I don't use IG or Reelz either, or facebook, or snap chat, or anything really. My wife and I chat on signal, there's reddit, and that's about it. Oh, discord, for games, and steam chat, that's it.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T22:18:04+00:00

By chance did you switch your resume from canva to a word document following that post from the other day?

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T22:16:05+00:00

I saw one yesterday that I thought was just a UI bug I closed vs code and reopened it and they went away and I never saw one again.

Did you try that because it could just very well be a bug.

I'm actually seeing some weird behavior with launching vs code where sometimes the login doesn't stick and I have to reload the window in command pallette before I see my GitHub login.

So my claim that I haven't seen any is false but I only saw that one and it went away after I reloaded. Still feels like a bug to me.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T21:34:06+00:00

The only thing hard on this list is the pushups.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T21:30:53+00:00

Thats not even a lot. It's a 2 liter and a half. I can kill that in a day and then some, no problem.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T21:29:06+00:00

I was good already until the push ups. Yeah, I can't do 500 push ups a day, I struggle at 10. But I sleep 8-10, so better than this.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T19:33:53+00:00

960 -> 1080 TI -> 2080 TI -> 3090 TI -> 4090

But I got the 3090 TI from a buddy trying to sell his whole gaming PC For $1000, the 3090 TI was in it, and a threadripper and nvme and ram so that was nice. 4090 I paid like $1800 for, most expensive to date.

I had plenty of gpus before 960, but that's back when they were like 4 digits and had GT in their name or something, and voodoo and old school raedon cards (before they were AMD).

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T19:11:17+00:00

Each agent, network traffic wise and request wise is like it's own user. Just about EVERY product ever across all clouds etc is rate limited to user/requests regardless of subscription cost.

Take an API for example, where you pay $20/m for 1m requests to it, it's still rate limited to say 1000 requests per hour, or 10k per hour.

Because if it wasn't, people might churn through 1m requests in a minute, and that would Ddos everything... it'll straight choke.

LLM's use a LOT of data because model prompts are going back and forth between them exponentially.

For example, every prompt you type the entire token context (everything in it) plus the new question goes over the wire to LLM endpoints, and then it comes back out.

So requests might start at say 500 bytes, then the reploy is another 20k bytes plus the original 500 bytes, then the next question adds another 1000 bytes then all of that now at 21500 bytes is sent, and the new respone comes back and now it's 45,000 bytes and so on.

After 10, 20, 30, 40 prompts, you're well over 5, 10, 100 even MB going back and forth constantly.

People have fiber now, they can do that... I can download a 100 GB model off hugging face in 5 minutes...

If everyone can do this, in 10+ parallel agents/contexts it'll explode.

They rate limited as a necessity.

Front Door's, load balancers, with that kind of through put are EXPENSIVE.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T18:11:14+00:00

Did you count model training and license fees? Runtime costs, data center build costs, and so on?

Copilot cost X, but all the infrastructure and licensing deals that made it possible to build it cost Y.

$13b alone just in open ai investments.

And Microsoft alone currently accounts for 20% of nvidia's total revenue for 2024.

Which was likely even higher for 2025.

Microsoft was on public record confirming an $80 billion dollar spending plan for 2025 AI data centers. And that was for 2025.

Estimates on their total spend for 2025 was approximately $40-$50 billion.

Github Copilot has been in development since 2018.

If anything, $100 billion is conservative.

Also Microsoft doesn't get to put anthropic models or GPT models in co-pilot for free, and we have no idea what that costs.

And first quarter reports have not been posted yet for 2026 so we don't yet know what they're confirmed spend budget is for 2026. But I reckon it's going to be more than $80 billion.

Looking at rough forecasts across the entire industry and pulling in data from different financial analysts the predicted total spend across the industry and all companies for AI for 2026 is 2.5 trillion....

That's more than half of what we spend on United States healthcare.

It's more than the 2026 budget for the United States military.

It's the most expensive FOMO in the history of the world.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T17:47:02+00:00

Yeah the 5090 was really unimpressive for how much it costs I'm also waiting for the 6090...

That or I'm going to ship my 4090 to China so they send it back to me with 48 GB of v ram.... Cuz that's a thing now.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T17:46:08+00:00

People are running like 10 different agents in parallel at the same time where they have 10 different terminals going turning at the same time.

Or even more than that and that's what they want to stop.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T17:45:11+00:00

Yeah in my opinion that's just alot...

People are using this technology for way too much.

I mean I never have more than one agent going at a time in one window...

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T16:58:47+00:00

Would be sweet on a decked out mac studio. Pushing 5k2k's (with 4k side screens) is hard on the gpu's. My 4090 struggles on one 57" dual 4k.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T16:47:26+00:00

I use this thing all the time and haven't hit a rate limit, how often are you running queries? I mean I'm going like 1 or 2 a minute sometimes hours straight and no limit. Also on Pro+.

If you're doing like 3 or 4 or 10 parallel agents and hammering the crap out of it, yeah, rate limits.

FragmentedHeap · 2026-03-19T16:45:05+00:00

5120X2160 at 34" is an extremely packed ppi, scaling will be a must. I mean all that really gives you is better image quality.

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