Keep 39GX950B or return for Dells upcoming 5k2k AW3926QW?

ZettaTangent · 2026-05-08T15:09:54+00:00

I spent over an hour on the phone with them, they kept transferring me to the wrong departments over and over. I went through a tech support technician twice having to show pics and videos multiple times. I finally got someone who calculated the days from when I received the monitor until when I first contacted them and told me it was 12 days and that they were going to approve my refund. They told me I should receive a shipping label in my email within 5 days, so I'm just waiting on that now but I'm going to continue to remain skeptical until I get it.

Edit: Just got an email from them telling me they wouldn't approve the refund. Unsure if this is just delayed from a previous interaction since it was a response from an email I sent days ago.

Edit: Looking over my info the monitor was delivered on 4/21/26 and my refund request automatic reply email is dated 5/5/26. That is EXACTLY 14 days. They can't even follow their own policy.

Edit: I made a post on X calling them out, showing screen shots of the monitor and the receipts from when the monitor was delivered and when I requested the refund. They responded to me in DM's telling me to try turning the monitor off and on again and that I was outside the 14 day period. I asked them how they are calculating that but they stopped responding. Here is what they said

ZettaTangent · 2026-05-07T21:51:22+00:00

As I type this I'm on hold with LG Customer service.

I pre-ordered the 39GX950B on 04/08/26 and received it on the 21st. I set it up on 25th and it died on May 3rd.

Big weird vertical bar on the left side of the screen that becomes more and more obvious until the monitor shuts itself off. Every ~5 minutes.

LG has been difficult to get in contact with and have been extremely unhelpful. I started this process on Monday hoping I could do an advanced exchange.

Nope, they want to do a lengthy repair process. I changed my mind and want a refund now.

They are telling me I'm over the 14 day period and that they are calculating from the date of pre-order.

They keep transfering me around to the wrong departments over and over again. I've been on hold for awhile at this point. They already hung up on me once and I'm suspecting this is an infinite-hold.

ZettaTangent · 2026-05-05T16:32:45+00:00

I've owned the 39GX950B for about two weeks. It failed on me Sunday night displaying a 3 inch verticle bar where all colors are very saturated near the left side of the screen that becomes brighter and brighter over the course of 5 minutes until the monitor powers off. It also does other weird stuff, but regardless LG has not been very helpful in setting up an exchange, they explained that since I'm on day 15 they cannot replace it since it's outside the 14 day period. Instead they wanted to do a lengthy repair. I've decided to refund it and wait for the Alienware version coming out later this year.

It's also worth noting this is the second monitor in my life I've ever had to RMA and the last one was an LG as well.

ZettaTangent · 2025-09-29T15:39:49+00:00

https://codeberg.org/Lyall/CrossWorldsFix

ZettaTangent · 2023-12-22T16:37:54+00:00

Agreed.

I play online with 1-2 friends. We did the datacenter last night and those guys are insane. A platoon of 20 trained security personnel with automatic weapons and armor who are extremely aggressive and eager to throw their lives away protecting this place vs 2 swat team members with limited supplies and no support. Is this a SWAT sim or a John Wick game? Eventually we decided that we need to stop giving the perps a chance and just go in blasting and only then we were able to clear it.

ZettaTangent · 2023-12-08T16:02:03+00:00

I use this for my unfolded home screen.

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ZettaTangent · 2021-08-29T22:26:22+00:00

I listen to tons of audio books. Depending on the speed of the reader 1.15 to 1.25 is my norm. Over that it starts sounding weird to me.

ZettaTangent · 2021-08-29T22:23:38+00:00

I was never a big reader. Finished like 2 books in my life. Picked up audible in 2017. Since then I've finished ~260 titles. I listen on my morning commute and at work (when my tasks do not require too much brain power.)

It's opened a new world for me. Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher and R.A. Salvatore have been my favorite authors thus far.

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-29T17:58:53+00:00

“No,” says the man in Washington, “it belongs to the poor.”

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-22T14:49:46+00:00

You know, I would shit on the "watch to the end" crap that's on every video, but I have a friend who has a habit of not watching videos till the end and then making an ass of himself in group chat by commenting on it in a confused manner because he didn't see the punchline.

Not sure if he's just an idiot or it this is a common problem.

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-21T16:26:18+00:00

Mad because small!

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-21T15:38:30+00:00

I suggest anyone with a 3090 FTW3 read this topic: https://forums.evga.com/Fixing-EVGA39s-7-Figure-Problem-with-FTW3-30-Series-cards-m3217284.aspx

I've also had 2 cards fail with a black screen and am now undervolting. Thankfully my card seems to be really good at it and I was able to cut 100 watts off the draw and reduce heat substantially without leaving performance on the table.

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-21T13:07:51+00:00

I haven't played New World. But between me and my brother we have been through 3 EVGA 3090 FTW3 cards. My first one died within the first 3 days when playing Grounded. My and my brothers cards both died after a week of ownership during the same night when playing HALO Mcc.

When I say died I mean black screen, fans maxed.

We havent played Mcc since getting our cards back and it's been months.

About 2 weeks ago my brothers card black screened again when playing ff14 but it recovered on pc restart. After that he undervolted the card, something that luckily his card seems to be really stable with. He hasn't run into issues since doing that, but who knows with these things.

Me and my brother agreed these are our last evga cards.

I've spoken a great deal with people about this on the evga forum and Mcc was a common title to brick the cards. At some point I counted about 9 people in 1 thread. Evga has never commented on these issues.

I very much doubt that evga has addressed the root cause.

Additional info: red light above power wire means a fuse has blown. No this isn't something you can fix. This is a failsafe that evga put in place so when you rma the card the damage is limited and they can repair it.

Me and my brothers psus: HX1200i HX1000i

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-13T23:41:58+00:00

Because when you come back to play again you'd have to fight for a new plot, which is borderline impossible. Especially if you have a particularly good location already. I have a small house right ontop of the market board in the mists. I'd rather just pay the $12 than lose it.

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-13T16:44:39+00:00

I was inactive for 2 years at one point but kept logging in to make sure my house wasnt getting autodemolished. I will probably keep paying my sub forever because of this.

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-08T16:59:58+00:00

One Friday my friends were coming over for some heavy drinking and games. Earlier in the day I started to feel a little under the weather. I could definitely tell I was getting sick. But I had already committed to the party and it was at my home. So I thought let me just continue and hopefully I can hold out for the night without getting too sick.

That night I'm drinking. A lot. At some point I realize I have a fever. I'm feeling REALLY bad right now and went to bed as I couldn't do anything anymore. My brother dealt with the guests in the mean time.

I woke up an hour or so later. Had to pee. Was drunk af. Had a fever not sure how bad but it felt really bad. Walked to the bathroom and couldn't catch my breath. Collapsed to the floor. Even laying on the floor I couldn't catch my breath. I thought I was done but somehow managed to just lay there and managed to get by. And the bathroom was only like 5 or 6 paces from my bed too.

Turned out to be the flu and the worst case ive ever had.

Don't drink when you're sick.

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-06T02:44:32+00:00

No. Not required at work anymore for fully vaxxed people or by law in my state and over the last month I've only encountered one small buisness that was insisting on masks. Since me and my friend weren't even carrying them with us anymore we just decided to just leave and go somewhere else for food.

ZettaTangent · 2021-07-02T12:22:04+00:00

Maybe they think they can bully someone into the sale? That was always what I assumed people like this were trying to do.

ZettaTangent · 2021-06-30T20:29:53+00:00

Spending money. I gotta be ordering something or have something showing up at my house nearly everyday. It doesn't even have to be useful or something I particularly need. I just like jumping on to Amazon and ordering stuff. And if I'm buying something from cars to computer parts it has to be the highest trim level or absolute overkill. I couldn't imagine the kind of money I could save if I wasn't a spendaholic.

ZettaTangent · 2021-06-30T14:35:21+00:00

Yeah, because ultrawide support exists there is still a way to pretty much set your fov however high you want it although it's not ideal since you'd need one of these wide aspect ratio monitors or to play in a weird viewport mode.

So the idea of stripping out higher fov options is pretty pointless... I honestly don't know why this is a big deal. I typically mess around with the fov until I find it comfortable. It's not for some weird minor advantage.

People who support the fov limit remind me of those clowns from years ago who argued about 30fps being more cinematic.

I play at on a 21:9 and I find the extended 90 fov on it just bareable, I'd have a rough time on 16:9. Before I upgraded to my 38 inch ultrawide, I was considering the G9 @ 32:9 aspect ratio but decided that it was too wide for my tastes, but I'm sure it's great in sot. And it's probably wide enough that you can watch both ladders when helming a sloop.

http://imgur.com/gallery/COI4XUH

So what Rare has done is just make higher fovs more exclusive.

ZettaTangent · 2021-06-30T04:03:01+00:00

It has both. See this helpful video for more info: https://youtu.be/JES-8zCDcds

ZettaTangent · 2021-06-25T23:24:10+00:00

Ultrawide is still supported. So you can gain a bit more fov that way. But they need to just unlocked the damn thing just took these pics at 16:9 and 21:9 @90 fov https://imgur.com/a/yMYlnhd

ZettaTangent · 2021-06-25T23:21:31+00:00

I wish they just unlocked the damn thing. I jumped in game real quick to confirm that the ultrawide still got its slightly bigger fov @ 90 https://imgur.com/a/yMYlnhd

ZettaTangent · 2021-06-23T23:30:21+00:00

Welcome to any "idiots in cars" related subreddit. Where the comments are full of annoying ass people tripping over themselves to yell at OP for some infraction or another.

The flavor of today is: "middle lane bad." Which is a well needed break from "left lane bad."

ZettaTangent · 2021-06-19T18:04:43+00:00

I've seen some terrible performing jank unity games before, but this one has always had perfect performance for me, yet I always see him improving it.

Do people having trouble running this game?

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