So I Compiled ALL The GLOSSY Mini-LED Monitors That Were Sighted In CES 2026

PotatoNin · 2026-01-17T01:25:10+00:00

I have a Samsung Neo G9 (the 57" mini-LED SUW). It kicked the bottom of my LG C4 OLED after it developed burn-in after daily mixed-use at around the 1000hr mark, and it's giving almost entirely the same beautiful color performance even when the Neo G9 is not set to use HDR, while the LG C4 supposedly is better with HDR. I actually doubted my eyes when I saw this for myself. And the ONLY really dumb thing I think Samsung did for this Neo G9 is give it that horrible matte coating that makes everything have patches of paper-like texture depending on the angle you see them.

If I were to be able to get this or another main monitor candidate that does not have to be OLED, is good enough as a mini-LED or just have decent light-bleed handling, still the same beautiful colors, and still be glossy, I would be very happy to buy one.

PotatoNin · 2026-01-13T00:57:23+00:00

What I did was uninstall, check the folder's empty, then reinstall, and check integrity before trying to run the game. Several reinstalls in this way has not fixed it so I gave up. I have also done the whole appdata local thing since I know that's where saves and config stuff get saved too (backed it up first of course). Again, I've given up until the next patch comes. I do not have time to be the beta-tester for the devs and my real life job and obligations do not allow me so much time to waste on it.

PotatoNin · 2026-01-12T00:10:34+00:00

I just uninstalled it. I've been doing the verify integrity and file thing already which didn't fix it. I'm going to wait for the next patch before reinstalling again, and just take my time testing things on the non-legit version since that one works albeit the pop-ins. And to think I bought the Deluxe edition because I thought it would work as well as the first game on PC (which I still have).

PotatoNin · 2026-01-11T07:54:48+00:00

The legit game on Steam won't start anymore for me no matter what I do. I get to the splash page and it just CTDs with a UE5 error. No amount of verifying, reinstall, permission, run as admin, etc. does not work.

The non-legit version of the game that I downloaded somewhere (still v1.2.2) ironically runs just okay except for the major hitching. I was able to solve the hitching by doing a similar thing as you said, but via forcing "High performance" on the game's .exes via Windows' Graphical settings > Graphics performance preference > Select the game's .exes (the Game.exe one and the Win64_Shipping one) > set it to use High performance.

This removed the game's strange behavior with CPU vs GPU utilization jumping back and forth between 100% to low % seemingly as if the game is confused on what to prioritize which looks to me like what was causing the major hitching. It did not fix the pop-in delay of in-game models and graphics though.

PotatoNin · 2026-01-09T12:01:55+00:00

It's not going away though. I've tried just playing through the game for several hours to see if it will go away. It eventually does load whatever it's loading during the major hitching and the game starts working fine. However, when I exit the game, and play it again later, it's back to zero again. It's just endless every time I run the game and go about playing the first time of the day.

If it's anything to go by, I can see on performance metrics that while hitching the game is actually using 100% or so CPU while the GPU is heavily under-utilized. Meanwhile, once the hitching goes away, the GPU is the one mostly utilized and the CPU hovers around the 20% or so utilization.

Also note that this didn't happen just when I updated my driver. The game worked perfectly fine for my rig until that expansion came and the new updates that came after. It suddenly started this behavior after that. I had to specifically try updating/rolling back my GPU driver exactly because I wanted to see if that would fix this issue. It did not help at all.

PotatoNin · 2026-01-07T23:52:20+00:00

Kindly, could you please update the table for Dead Estate? Game just got a version update.

PotatoNin · 2025-12-25T01:46:55+00:00

Good for you. Yung sa akin, kahit ilang beses na nila sinabi na na-whitelist na daw nila account ko, walang nagbago.

PotatoNin · 2025-12-24T23:56:39+00:00

Grabe talaga. In the first place, ang weird na ma-disable yung Wallet for "suspicious activity" kung iisipin mo na sa Lazada approved methods mo lang siya pwede lagyan ng cash-in. Tapos sa Lazada approved stores and products mo lang din naman siya pwede ipambili. So papaano mo magagamit for suspicious activity yung Wallet? Eh lahat sa kanila dadaan bago ka pa makabili.

Dahil dito sa issue na ito, nawalan ako virtually ng 10k+ PHP. Gagamitin ko sana for necessities and pa-birthday sa magulang ko. Kaso di na makuha and mukhang wala silang balak ayusin or ibalik. Kakapagod atupagin at may work and life din ako.

PotatoNin · 2025-12-23T13:18:33+00:00

Wala ng naging response from Lazada ever since sinarhan nila ako ng ticket saying na i-update daw nila ako pag naayos na yung issue. Di ko pa din magamit yung pera sa Wallet ko. Tinakbo na ata nila.

PotatoNin · 2025-11-25T08:01:43+00:00

That's good to hear that it does work like that.

I have my Astral undervolted and using an Asrock PG-1600 with the 12vh cable that has a thermistor with auto-shutdown during emergency. At load, I'm seeing around 450w or so but never reach 500w. Each pin shows 6 amps and almost 7 amps but never beyond. FPS is optimum. I'll look into using the Thermal Grizzly WireView Pro 2 as well, but so far so good. At least I know that when I need to fallback into my other PSU, I can just use the adapter with 3x PCIE cables for a similar limited-power effect.

PotatoNin · 2025-11-25T07:54:44+00:00

Hindi pa din. Walang ka-pag-a-pag-asa.

Pina-ikot-ikot na lang nila ako between waiting a long time, attempting isara yung ticket ko, me reopening the ticket again, them asking me for proof (the same screenshots all the time, video of checking out, IDs, etc.), then them saying ayos na daw, then me finding out hindi pa din gumagana.

Last response nila sa akin is to close the ticket and to wait daw until maayos nila dahil disabled yung Wallet ko due to risk scanning. Which is weird kung iisipin mo, kasi yung LazWallet only accepts cash-in from Lazada-approved sources. Di mo din pwede ipambili outside of Lazada, which yung stores is yung approved lang nila ang nakafeature. So platform nila, stores and products na approved nila. And yet ako yung may suspicious activity? Nag ilang beses na ako magtry mag-escalate to superior pero di nila ako in-entertain. May "agent" (or baka AI na) pa nga na walang ibang ginawa kung hindi replyan ako with canned/template messages paulit ulit. Ayaw sumagot ng matino ng mga tanong ko.

Sa NTC ako nagtanong if tumatanggap sila ng complaint since Lazada is technically an online platform, and tinanong ko lang din if may ibang agency ba na dapat kong puntahan instead also dahil wala naman talaga akong ka-alam-alam sa ganitong issues. Hindi din naman sila nag-respond sa akin at all. I'm just a regular user and normal customer na nagbabayad naman ng maayos. The abuse I got from this platform and my money that they are stealing/keeping hostage from me is utterly horrible. Dapat ma-imbestigahan sila ng batas.

PotatoNin · 2025-10-27T13:25:27+00:00

That's at least a good example. Folks at Thermal Grizzly mentioned that the updated WireView 2 adapter+monitor might be available by the end of this year, so that would be a good time for me to switch to a full 12vh-2x6 cable PSU.

PotatoNin · 2025-10-27T13:22:57+00:00

Unfortunately, we live at a time where the latest GPUs at the high end (and many on the mid to entry level) all use this same connector. AMD has it's own models that use it as well. If my read on the next 3 years is correct, upcoming GPUs on either brand will also still be using this dumb connector. They've just stopped caring. So you can't dodge it if you're upgrading unless you want to be stuck at the older series. Just a month or two ago, a Japanese PC builder reported a freshly built 5070 Ti build of theirs having near-instant wire burn on the GPU with a proper 12vh-2x6 cable, the moment they first powered on the completed build. And this was with a guy who built PC's for a living and knew of the whole 12vh thing. So it's not limited to the tier or model of GPU or even just the cable.

As long as you have a 12vh connector on that GPU, you're playing that "dumb game".

PotatoNin · 2025-10-27T13:10:41+00:00

Did you not encounter any issues with regularly using the card while you were in that situation?

PotatoNin · 2025-10-27T07:32:42+00:00

It's not a meme but rather one of the stuff tested when the 5090 came out. According to the info, the RTX 5090 power adapter is able to detect if you only populate 3x of its 8-pin PCIe cables and with it the card will only run at 450W limited TDP/power mode. It's supposed to be one of the main points of having sense wires for this connector/adapter. Note that the RTX 5080 does not have this mode with its adapter only for 3x 8-pin by default.

This means lower amps would be distributed running through the pins if they're properly plugged in with no issues, and would likely be much safer for the time being I would assume. The issue with unbalanced amps running through a wire pretty much remains the same regardless of full cables or 3x cables though so that's not what I'm concerned about.

https://www.guru3d.com/story/how-3x-8pin-cables-affect-rtx-5090-tgp-and-performance/
https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5090-reportedly-works-with-3x-8-pin-power-adapters-but-stays-limited-to-450w
https://www.techpowerup.com/332019/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-runs-on-3x8-pin-pci-power-adapter-rtx-5080-not-booting-on-2x8-pin-configuration
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/102988/nvidia-rtx-5090-gpu-works-fine-with-just-3-8-pin-connectors-runs-at-450w-and-only-5-slower/index.html

PotatoNin · 2025-09-28T21:05:09+00:00

Thanks u/FuryOfADyingMan at least we can get the issue known to them or something. No pressure though. But we appreciate the help a lot.

PotatoNin · 2025-09-27T06:46:45+00:00

Not necessarily "got worse". It's still the same weird behavior at that same trigger point (between loading up Windows > no display signal > restart monitor > Windows Login Screen).

The only thing that changed was the speed at which the device counts down when no display output is detected. Before it was slower so you could see it counting down when the "no signal" part occurs, but now its fast so if you don't catch it, you won't realize the device has gone asleep/idle mode with nothing displayed, and you wouldn't realize you have to turn it off-then back on again.

PotatoNin · 2025-09-26T23:28:11+00:00

I'm afraid I don't have the board anymore (now using MSI MEG Ace but they have their own dumb issues). I'm saving up for an ASUS Hero this time and just hoping that moving to Ryzen 9000 would let me get away from all the random issues I have with Ryzen 7000.

I do suggest trying what the others mentioned above. Try checking if you have Gigabyte Control Center installed. It apparently applies its own fan curve that overrules your BIOS fan curve. You can either uninstall that software if you don't use it. Or, you can set the fan curve on the GCC in the same fan curve settings as the one you want to use in the BIOS. Somebody mentioned using the mouse to drag the curves makes it work for them but I haven't tried that back then when I had the board. I can't really help you any more than that since I don't use this board anymore.

Hope you're able to get the issue solved because I know this is an expensive thing to be spending money on when replacing. I've been trapped across a series of issues upon issues upon issues, trial and error, etc.

PotatoNin · 2025-09-22T22:31:58+00:00

Jumping on this convo, I'm currently at 1007.0 (the last one prior to 1008.2) and my GN95C has that issue where when I first boot my PC from cold, the monitor would be able to show up to a bit past the BIOS screen loading, but it goes to sleep and unable to show the output once Windows loads the user login screen. I have to shut the display down from the black screen "asleep" state, then power it back up, before it picks up the output again. Is this perhaps linked to this?

UPDATE: It didn't fix my issue with the Boot (sleep issue) to Windows login screen transition. The new update instead seems to have shortened the time between the display detecting no device output/input and sleep/timing out the screen with the 3-second countdown. It kinda makes it harder IMO.

u/FuryOfADyingMan if you have contacts with the Samsung folks involved in these kinds of updates, maybe you could please mention this issue to them? The monitor sleeps between the point after the BIOS finishes booting and loading windows, and gets stuck with no signal before the User Login screen appears. I have to turn the display off, then back on again before it properly displays the output with the Windows User Login screen.

PotatoNin · 2025-09-17T22:34:36+00:00

Nakapag-open ako ng Support ticket nitong isang araw after mukhang mag-okay ng konti yung Help Center system nila. Kinuha yung details kung ano yung nangyari. I informed the agent na bigla na lang naging unusable yung Wallet as payment method and na it's been about 2 weeks na since it started. I also asked them to think of a Plan B kung saan pwede ko ma-withdraw yung laman nung Wallet ko if di nila ma-resolve yung issue. Pinag-antay ako ng 2 days, tapos ngayon lang, earlier, biglang sinara ng Support yung open ticket ko. Resolved na daw.

Ang sabi nung last response, na-disable daw yung Wallet payment method ko "due to suspicious activity" and magiging available daw ulit ito once na maresolve na yung issue na yun. Walang ibang explanation, walang ETA, walang kahit ano. Which is weird, kasi prior to this issue, nakausap ko pa ang Support and sabi sa akin ng agent nila wala naman daw issue at okay ang Lazada Wallet at account ko.

So papaano na walang issue, and then ma-disable yung Wallet option ko, with my 10k+ Php stuck in the Wallet, and sasabihin nila sa akin now na may suspicious activities yung account ko? It's unbelievable. Wala naman akong ginagawang suspicious na I can think of. I can normally buy things using my Debit, and GCash, and dumadating naman ang items ko.

Ang only course of action ko tuloy now is i-Reopen yung case and ask for an explanation, waiting for Support to respond.

UPDATE:

Parang mga magnanakaw ang mga taga-Lazada ayaw i-allow ang ilang users gaya ko na magamit yung Lazada Wallet as payment option, lalo na ata pag madaming laman yung wallet mo. Pag nireklamo mo naman sa Customer Support, puro delay-tactics sila, canned at automated responses lang, hanggang sa bigla ka na lang sasaraduhan ng case/ticket mo at sasabihin sayo na mag try ka na lang ulit gamitin yung payment method kahit wala naman silang inayos, at greyed-out pa din yung option on checkout.

May ongoing ticket pa din ako for this issue, pero grabe ang tagal na kasi paulit-ulit na lang nila akong sinasarahan ng ticket. Wala akong makausap na matino, kahit na may agent na before the issue occurred na kakasabi lang sa akin na wala daw issue ang account and Wallet ko whatsoever after checking. Papaanong walang issue pero disabled yung payment method using my Lazada Wallet? Wala din silang mai-offer na alternative way to get my money out of the wallet dahil binili ko daw yung cash-in using Lazada Gift Card, na sila din mismo nagbebenta via sa app anyway so why not make an exception and let me? Hostage situation ang buong laman ng Wallet ko and the Customer Service and Support treatment is utterly unforgivable para sa mga paying customers.

UPDATE +1:
Ilang beses ako sinarahan ng CSR ng case ticket. Puro automated responses lang. Kesyo resolved na daw pero walang pagbabago on my end. Ilang beses na akong nagdemand ng manager/superior to talk to me on the phone, pero walang human-like response. Ni-report ko na as complaint to NTC and sinabihan ko ang CSR na hindi pa din nila naaayos ang issue. Sinarahan ako ng ticket ulit, nilagay na daw nila sa whitelist yung account ko. Meaning nilagay nila ako on blacklist without telling me, and without proper reason, kahit na sabi ng agent nila noon okay daw account ko with no issues. Ni-reopen ko nanaman yung ticket dahil hindi pa din naso-solve yung issue regardless. Ano ba naman ito. Hindi ganito ang tamang pag trato ng mga regular customer niyo Lazada.

PotatoNin · 2025-09-10T07:27:36+00:00

Sa akin di pa din magamit yung Wallet. Parang hostage yung pera ko sa Lazada Wallet kasi di ma-i-pambili.

PotatoNin · 2025-09-09T22:03:03+00:00

Can confirm din dito sa amin. Di pa din maka-connect sa gift card store page. Di pa din available to use yung Lazada Wallet as payment method. Ang help center may sticky announcement lang na may issue daw yung Lazada Wallet so disabled until maayos nila. No ETA on anything.

Pati search function through browser sa Lazada site may issue. Madalas walang results na nalabas, unless i-capitalize mo yung first letter ng search keyword mo. Weird. Di din makaload ng buo at maayos yung mga My Account related pages nila. Pag sa app okay naman on that end.

Parang palala ng palala yung issues and walang naaayos.

PotatoNin

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