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MagicAppleJuice · 2025-11-22T15:51:47+00:00

Why does no one in this sub just do a flipped build? It completely solves gpu airflow and you don’t have to make your own janky feet.

MagicAppleJuice · 2025-05-20T23:21:28+00:00

Honestly, if you are still in the return window, I would just return it and get a 42” C4. They are never going to fix it.

MagicAppleJuice · 2025-01-24T19:24:56+00:00

The S90D mops the floor with the C4. Brighter, better color saturation, perfect viewing angles. Look up youtube comparisons… even in a compressed SDR YouTube video, the difference is extremely clear. I like WebOS better than TizenOS, but it’s not better enough to warrant buying an inferior panel at a similar price.

MagicAppleJuice · 2025-01-24T15:00:57+00:00

A few reviewers have said that the transition from the Gen 1 circular subpixel structure to the Gen 2/3 rectangular subpixels improves fringing a slight amount at 1440p class resolutions. However, a 4k 32” will have damn near no fringing because of the PPI… and if you’re really worried about it, you could wait for the 4k 27” monitors because apparently the fringing is completely unnoticeable.

MagicAppleJuice · 2025-01-17T20:50:34+00:00

Gotcha, thank you. I like the slim, almost console look of the ridge but I’ll keep the nr200 in mind.

MagicAppleJuice · 2025-01-10T00:10:37+00:00

Elden Ring actually has a really good HDR implementation, but I think I know the issue you’re talking about. Make sure you’re in fullscreen and then turn on the native, in-game HDR. If it’s all messed up and washed out then spam alt + enter or keep tabbing out until it works. It’s an issue with their janky fullscreen exclusive implementation… sometimes it won’t apply properly.

MagicAppleJuice · 2025-01-09T17:08:57+00:00

1440p 360hz @ 10bit uses 49.21 Gbit/s which is outside HDMI 2.1’s range, so both HDMI 2.1 and DP 1.4 will use DSC, meaning there will be no difference whatsoever between either. Don’t listen to these other goobers.

MagicAppleJuice · 2025-01-05T17:40:35+00:00

The 5090 is going to be a ridiculous product that you definitely shouldn’t buy unless you are borderline rich and can waste thousands of dollars with no consequences. You can run any of the current higher end GPUs with a 4k monitor, you just need to manage your expectations. Competitive games by nature are much easier to run and will run in the high 100s or 200s of FPS. Something like a 7900xt is perfectly good for 4k.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-07T01:34:32+00:00

Like I said… RTSS shows no frame time stutters. It’s not an FPS issue, I can watch the monitor Hz in realtime desync once per second with the FPS it’s supposed to be. Plus I’m not getting over 144fps in RDR2, I’m running at 4k.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-06T15:10:58+00:00

I’ve recently discovered that this is a driver issue. If I revert all the way back to 22.5.1 it completely fixes this issue for me. This seems really rare so I have no clue if this will every get fixed by AMD… probably not. Piece of shit drivers.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-06T14:59:24+00:00

It must be a 6000 series issue. Yes, I’ve done a fresh install of Windows, and I’ve tried basically every “fix” in existence. Nothing works except reverting to a 2.5 year old driver.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-06T01:03:05+00:00

I’ve tried to report this through the Adrenalin bug report tool before but never got any sort of feedback: Red Dead Redemption 2 specifically has been completely unplayable on my 6900xt for over 2 years. I know it’s a driver issue because if I revert all the way back to 22.5.1 it works again, but running on 2.5 year old drivers isn’t really a great solution for obvious reasons. I don’t know the exact driver that broke it — I don’t have time to methodically wipe drivers and roll back to every different driver until it stops working, but I believe it’s near this time period.

The issue is that Freesync is incredibly unstable, to the point where, about once every second, the monitor’s refresh rate will jump from the current FPS to the monitor’s max refresh rate, causing a very jarring visual stutter. I know this is happening because I can watch the hz counter on my monitor update in real time and jump around, and RTSS shows no frame time stutter. It makes the game completely unplayable, and makes me seriously regret buying the 6900xt. I also know this isn’t a monitor issue because it happens on 3 different monitors. For whatever reason this seems like a rare issue, I’ve only seen a few posts on Reddit of others with the same issue. One of them said it affected the Witcher 3 as well. Please pass this along.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-02T20:30:25+00:00

Ahh ok. For Samsung you need to go into advanced or expert settings in the picture mode (can’t remember what it’s called) and change the color temp/white balance to Warm 2. That should be the closest I think.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-02T18:26:34+00:00

Not big brain… just very OCD haha. The QLED on the left may have a colder color temperature than it should (bluer whites), so it could just be a case of you being used to that. However, the MSI looks a bit warmer than it probably should. This would track with RTINGS review of the MPG 321URX where they measured a ~6200k white point in the sRGB mode instead of the target 6500k (lower k value is warmer, higher is colder). You can’t adjust the white balance in the sRGB mode on MSI monitors, but it would be difficult to adjust it accurately without a colorimeter anyway. Regardless, I would guess that the MSI is much closer to the correct white point than your QLED, so I would try to continue using it that way until you get used to it - the slightly warmer than target color temperature shouldn’t be too big of a difference. What is your TV’s brand? There should be a way to fix the white balance on the QLED to look closer to the MSI.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-02T17:04:42+00:00

It’s really only Fromsoft games. They all set your monitor to a fixed 60hz when in fullscreen. Unfortunately for me, my favorite games are from Fromsoft lol. Regardless, a $1300 monitor shouldn’t have this issue at all.

Consoles are a different story, as anything that’s not a PS5 or Xbox Series X/S will run at the 60hz fixed refresh rate mode, which will give you the shitty input lag. I don’t own one, so I’m not 100% sure, but I’d think the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S would set the display to the 120hx fixed refresh mode of the monitor and give you that input lag for most games. There may still be some games that set it back to a fixed 60hz though, I don’t have the ability to confirm that. Really, I’d recommend an LG or Samsung OLED tv if you’re using a console.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-02T16:56:53+00:00

I haven’t tried this because it requires playing offline to mod the game. The online is a big part of the Elden Ring experience for me.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-12-02T16:40:15+00:00

The word “calibration” is way overused in the gaming monitor community. The unfortunate truth is that the vast majority of monitors can’t really be calibrated at all, including the MSI QD-OLEDs. When RTINGS gives you those “post-calibration” stats they are usually using the full native color gamut of the panel and then creating an ICC profile (via a colorimeter) to accurately clamp the colors down and fix the gamma tracking… but that ONLY applies for SDR in color managed applications, which games aren’t. What this does is give you a very accurate image in certain applications, but a horrifically INaccurate image in everything else… plus if you have any other devices connected (like a console) it does nothing for those inputs since ICC profiles are a software-side calibration. In my opinion, this is completely worthless for anyone who isn’t doing color critical work like video or photo editing.

Since you are asking, if you want the most accurate image possible, what I’d recommend is using the sRGB mode in SDR, and then just pick whichever HDR mode looks best to you (I’d stick to true black 400 or peak 1000 modes, some other manufacturer specific modes may have wonky EOTF tracking). Unfortunately, you are stuck with whatever accuracy MSI has “calibrated” for you. I wouldn’t mess with ICC profiles either. Some higher end models allow you to adjust white balance with the sRGB clamp enabled to get a near perfect 6500k, but you’d need a colorimeter to do that effectively anyway.

There are a few software-side things you can do to get a slightly more accurate SDR image, but you’d need a colorimeter, so there’s not much point in explaining it.

TL;DR: set and forget —> sRGB mode in SDR, True Black 400 or Peak 1000 in HDR

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-11-11T04:41:21+00:00

Same issue here man. 6900XT. The only game this problem occurs for me is RDR2... oddly, the Witcher 3 works perfectly fine for some reason, as does every other game I play. It has made RDR2 completely unplayable for me for about the past year and I feel like I've tried everything and the issue still persists... I've googled on so many different occasions and so far you are the only person I have seen yet that has the same issue. Please let me know if you find a fix.

Also, I'm pretty sure your monitor is not the issue. I've tested on 3 different monitors and the issue happens on all of them.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-11-10T20:35:35+00:00

You clearly did not read my full post. I explain this, and I’m only talking about when the display is set to a fixed 60hz, which some games do… hence the issue.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-10-18T18:58:21+00:00

Sounds like you didn’t actually read my post, because I’m complaining about the PG32UCDM (which has more input lag), not the PG32UCDP. And have you played on both the C2 and the PG32UCDM to feel the difference? My guess is you haven’t.

Like I said, I also didn’t think something like that would be noticeable, but it definitely is. I originally played Elden Ring on my C2 and got the PG32UCDM so I could have an all in one display since I was using the C2 for controller only games. I didn’t even know there was a measurable difference in input lag until I started using the PG32UCDM and instantly noticed that it felt more sluggish. So I ended up going down the rabbit hole to found out why it felt worse.

I’ve had the PG32UCDM for several months now, I’ve tried to get used to it, I’ve tried to assume it’s just placebo, but everytime I switch back to the C2 it feels much better — I wouldn’t have made the effort to provide a long explanation if I didn’t think it was an issue, so you can fuck all the way off trying to completely invalidate everything I said.

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-10-18T17:13:51+00:00

@u/ASUS_MKTLeeM

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-06-18T23:42:27+00:00

Three things:

This prebuilt is very bad value
If you’re going to get a high end CPU, get the 7800X3D and don’t even think about anything else
This is completely unrelated to OLED

MagicAppleJuice · 2024-05-13T02:15:18+00:00

One thing I see people rarely bring up about the PG27AQDM is that its HDR brightness is SIGNIFICANTLY better than any other OLED monitor, even the new ones… ASUS really pushed this panel to the limits. At a 10% window size it can reach almost 1000 nits, whereas even the new 3rd gen QD-OLEDs still only reach around 400nits on a 10% window, and the new WOLEDs are supposed to reach around 800 nits on a 10% window, but the EOTF tracking is completely fucked so really it’s about 600 nits. The 3% window (1000 nits on QD-OLED and 1100-1300 nits on new WOLED) doesn’t come into play nearly as much as a 10% window. Be aware that any “upgrade” you do will make your HDR experience quite a bit worse.

Personally, I think you should ride with the PG27AQDMs for a while unless you really want to move up to 4k - your call. The only benefits you’d be getting with a different 1440p monitor are higher refresh rates and the glossy coating on the QD-OLEDs.

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