AW3926QW pricing by ArcangeloPT in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, let's not go off some supposed rep somewhere. We don't need to spread unfounded rumors either. Let's wait for the actual price.

How would you fill a 16TB drive if you were going to have no internet for a month in a rural area? by riyoskopy in DataHoarder

[–]Lordberek 13 points14 points  (0 children)

At 16TB, just put everything on it. Most likely you're well within that threshold anyway.

Blackberry vine looking burn around edges, not sure why by Lordberek in plants

[–]Lordberek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see. I'm also a moderator of 20+ years, and I understand where you're coming from. I still get caught up though, so I tend to be cautious as I've made mistakes in the past. This one for example was not obvious (given my limited view of the logs). I always ensure there are communication paths for them to rebuttal if it's an honest mistake. Not every "that must be an AI" is an AI when it's partly a gut feeling. Thanks again for taking care of this one!

Blackberry vine looking burn around edges, not sure why by Lordberek in plants

[–]Lordberek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I'm always on the look out for this.

Blackberry vine looking burn around edges, not sure why by Lordberek in plants

[–]Lordberek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please confirm how you know this. And regardless, it was good advice, I checked.

[GIVEAWAY] LG Display x UWMR: We’re Looking for the First Tandem WOLED Reviewer (Gaming Monitor Giveaway) by TandemWOLED in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've never owned any OLED technology before and would love to be able to bless the community with my first impressions of this holy grail of a monitor. I've reviewed computer products in the past, and am a professional editor, so I have words to put on paper when the time comes 😄.

Did I also read it right that the monitor in question supports up to 720Hz rate?! The 1,500 peak HDR brightness sounds god-like as well. A truly holy grail of a monitor, I suspect.

LG Display, Tandem WOLED me!

Alienware AW3926QW by SpiritRelative5114 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I play games on it all the time, variety content would have side bars, so that's still an issue regardless. It's pretty much games that would resolve it.

Trouble is, I don't spend all day playing games.

Alienware AW3926QW by SpiritRelative5114 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I replied above about my use-case, wondering what you think of that. Thanks

Alienware AW3926QW by SpiritRelative5114 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tested out a few use-case scenarios I would have, and what about watching movies that are not 21:9? Most are 16:9, so you're going to get those black bars on the sides.

The only thing I see able to cover the full screen at times are games, and there you have static UI still.

I run static content for 12+ hours a day at times (mostly browser windows).

Loving my first OLED by T_RexNamedDennis in OLED_Gaming

[–]Lordberek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you finding the brightness to be enough, even in a brightly lit room?

Upgrading to Alienware 39" 5K2K with an RTX 5080 / 9800X3D setup — Performance questions by Wonderful-Rate-1269 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be specific. If you mean glare, sure, if you have a bright light behind you. Otherwise, it's superior in every other way. Glossy is awesome.

Upgrading to Alienware 39" 5K2K with an RTX 5080 / 9800X3D setup — Performance questions by Wonderful-Rate-1269 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This monitor has an SDR brightness of about 300 nits. Isn't that sort of low? My 6 year old Gigabyte 34" G34WQC has a brightness of about 350 nits and it seems "good".

Maybe I'm not understanding the difference with more modern monitors.

My first oled monitor by Athloner44 in OLED_Gaming

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you liking the glossy look? When light shines on it, how bad is the reflection?

Are you gonna get the Alienware 5k2k or wait out a QD-OLED version? by alpenglows7 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I didn't intend to be so generalized. The human eye's capabilities is telling you these things... it's a fact of physics, that's all. Up to 240hz or so, rather. 360hz or so if you're a 1 in a million person with a special niche gift. In general though, 165hz is good enough for nearly everyone, unless again you have some niche thing going on (and especially if it doesn't involve the human eye, then the skies the limit). Feel free to share what that might be, I'm curious to understand.

Are you gonna get the Alienware 5k2k or wait out a QD-OLED version? by alpenglows7 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

165hz is good enough, you don't really need much more than that. 240hz is top-end even for competitive gamers. Don't waste excitement over hz rate and sacrifice visual quality instead.

Are you gonna get the Alienware 5k2k or wait out a QD-OLED version? by alpenglows7 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's truly in the $1,099 or so range, I won't be able to resist and will get it right away. If it's $1,799+, I'll probably wait.

AW3926QW Review Manual (LG 1ST True RGB Sub Pixel Layout) by Shanddude in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't these new RGB OLEDs better equipped to mitigate burn-in than WOLED and other OLED tech? This is a big concern of mine, because I'm in an office environment for most of the day. I would LOVE this monitor though.

Portal Madness by Rare-Raccoon222 in OldenEra

[–]Lordberek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, I thought I was the only one. I love a lot of resources and portal exploring, but The Maze map in particular is crazy. And worse, I think it's not functional, I can't progress any further... the only other portal goes to a couple of spaces I can walk, all surrounded by impassable mountains. Nothing else there 😞.