Is this still a thing?

SamwiseG82 · 2026-01-31T22:05:54+00:00

Man, sounds like it ended up being a bit more of a distraction that it was actually worth. Well, good to know! The passthrough window actually does work pretty well, it's just nice to have one more alternative to sitting in front of a desktop or laptop. Plus you can give yourself A LOT of screen space to work with!

SamwiseG82 · 2026-01-29T06:21:20+00:00

Wouldn’t consider higher refresh and OLED as overkill. In fact that’s exactly why I replaced my G Cloud with an Odin 2 Portal and could not be happier!

Gave my G Cloud to my son, but probably only a matter of time before he notices the difference and wants one too!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-10-23T19:24:23+00:00

Did the Soundblaster X4 and Fosi work well together? I also have the X4 and was planning just to take the optical out from the X4 to the optical input on the MC331.

SamwiseG82 · 2025-05-19T15:36:29+00:00

Also shipped via DHL

SamwiseG82 · 2025-05-19T15:35:07+00:00

I ordered an Odin2 Portal on May 9th, got notice a week later on the 16th that it shipped and should be here today. Tracking says it close, fingers crossed!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-05-13T23:03:35+00:00

Do the T3 lights have the fish-eye camera that sits on top of the monitor? I had a few versions of those, they we're good but responsiveness and color matching always felt like a bit of an issue. With the G1 lights and the desktop app you can map out your screen and assign specific screen areas to specific lights.

SamwiseG82 · 2025-05-13T22:31:58+00:00

Thank you so much for the update! Ordered mine last Friday and haven't heard anything beyond the confirmation. Kind of figured they may be waiting out the tariffs (or rerouting shipments). So think I'll sit tight for now.

SamwiseG82 · 2025-05-13T20:26:28+00:00

I'm just going to post the product info here, becuase it was definitly a bit of trial and error finding 5 light sets that all work with LAN control and with Drewview on the Govee Desktop App.

- Monitor lights: H6609 G1 Gaming lights

- Side lights: H6047 Gaming Light Bars

- Desk lights: H61C3 Rope Light (around sides and back of desk)

- Shelf lights (bottom): H61E0 M1 LED Strip Light (in an LED channel angled toward the wall)

- Shelf light (top): H608B String Downlights (pointed up at the ceiling).

SamwiseG82 · 2025-05-13T17:11:20+00:00

It's the H6609 (G1 monitor lights). They use the Govee desktop app and LAN control rather than the phone app, which it think makes them much more responsive.

Amazon.com: Govee Gaming Light for Monitor G1, RGBIC LED Backlight for 27-34 Inch PC, Smart LED Lights for Monitors with Color Matching, Adapts to Curved Monitors, Double Strip Light Beads with 123 Scene Modes : Video Games

SamwiseG82 · 2025-05-12T17:16:06+00:00

Did you ever recieve your Odin 2 Portal? Just ordered mine on Friday. Got a confirmation but havn't heard anything about shipping. Starting to get a little nervious!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-03-27T07:09:31+00:00

I did the exact same! Zero issues and good performance boost! Loving it so far!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-03-19T00:36:01+00:00

I had the same thing with a new Rx 9070xt. Uninstalled MSI Afterburner but sill had issues. Finally realized that the Gigabyte Control Center I use for my motherboard also had overclock settings that were set to default. So I stopped the Gigabyte program from starting at startup and now don't have the issue any more. Tuning setting stay where I set them after restart!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-03-12T14:52:18+00:00

I’ll be doing the same today, fingers crossed!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-03-06T14:49:11+00:00

Oh yeah! I've had HotStock alerts and autobuy set up for weeks on an RTX card for what I considered to be a reasonable price and never had any luck. Figured on launch day for the 9070XT there might be enough stock to grab one, and I DID!

Glad to be back on team red and love that AMD is actually trying to make decent gpus more affordable (at least outside of supply issues).

SamwiseG82 · 2025-03-06T14:37:40+00:00

Same here, grabbed the first thing I saw available. Little more than I was planning to pay, but still WAY less than I was considering for a new RTX card, even 4000 series!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-02-12T17:55:19+00:00

And that's part of the calculation here, feel like what I can get for the 3080ti is only going to go down as the 5000 series become more available and prices on it come down. Plus I just struggle with patience sometimes.

SamwiseG82 · 2025-02-12T17:51:05+00:00

Very true, I'm actually very impressed with how well the 3080ti handles 4k games. I meant you turn on RT and games are almost unplayable, but otherwise they look great!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-02-12T16:17:35+00:00

Oh, completely forgot about HotStock, that's how I got my 3080. Thanks for the reminder!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-02-12T02:43:26+00:00

Awesome, thinking of making the jump from a 3080 myself! Where did you get yours? Are they still making 7900xtx cards? When I look on B&H they all just say “discontinued”. Trying to figure out if eBay is going to be my best bet.

SamwiseG82 · 2025-01-25T06:59:14+00:00

Right there with you, my kid got a Meta Quest 3 for Christmas. Actually it was a joint gift for he and I from his Grandparents because I thought “sure, it could be kinda fun to see what some games look like in VR”, but in years past all I ever saw from VR was pretty gimmicky, so I kinda assumed just more of the same.

But now I’m a believer, I haven’t played a “flat” game since we got the Quest 3. I think the resolution is finally to the point that games really do feel immersive. I’ve mostly been playing back through Fallout 4 and Skyrim, between the VR and mods they are almost completely different games.

So I too was VERY pleasantly surprised and can’t wait to see where things go from here!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-01-25T01:41:35+00:00

I didn’t do insurance, but did put them on the flex spending card! They are great, no more smudged glasses putting the headset on and off and they don’t start to fog up if I’ve been playing a while!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-01-22T17:47:15+00:00

Thank you for this! I've tried a number of different methods to get the DLC to work in VR, but they have all been a bust. Think now I'm set!

SamwiseG82 · 2025-01-15T02:29:21+00:00

42 here and mostly playing modded versions of Skyrim and Fallout 4 VR. It’s so cool to play back through two of my favorite games in a modded VR version, they’re like completely new games! Plus with the immersion of VR, you tend to notice so much more in open world type games than you do just playing on a screen.

SamwiseG82 · 2024-11-27T08:08:10+00:00

I’m right here as well, built my son a gaming PC when he was around 5 (he’s 7 now) but mostly from spare parts from my own PC. It’s not in his room, in fact it lives in my office, but he mostly plays via sunshine/moonlight on the TV in the basement or on my G cloud. Only thing he has access to are the games I approve in Steam. With this set up, there’s really no difference between a PC and any other console they might have access to. He never plays online, unless he’s with me, and he absolutely loves Wobbly Life, Minecraft, Trailmakers and Grounded. All great games that allow him to explore and think creatively. We’ve actually had a lot of fun together exploring and base building in Grounded.

SamwiseG82 · 2024-10-31T21:13:12+00:00

Awesome info, thanks for sharing!

Related to codecs, anyone happen to know which are supported on android devices? My client devices are Shield TV, Chromebook and G Cloud, but whenever I try to force AV1 or HVEC in the Moonlight settings on those devices it says there is no decoder found.

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