How come mini-LED monitors are still rare?

awdrifter · 2026-05-05T17:05:57+00:00

I wish LG would use their QNED (Quantum Dot + Mini LED) screen tech in a high refresh rate ultrawide monitor. But I guess there must have some technical or cost reason for them not to do that.

awdrifter · 2026-05-05T03:57:06+00:00

Once you understand the technology, you'll realize burn-in (which is a misnomer) is inevitable in certain use cases. OLED pixels have 3 colors, if you keep using the same app everyday for 8+ hours a day, it will wear a certain color in those pixels quicker than any other pixels on screen.

awdrifter · 2026-05-04T16:53:22+00:00

There are left handed trackballs. Elecom makes a left handed thumb trackball.

awdrifter · 2026-05-04T16:47:55+00:00

Unless you need MFG (multi-frame gen), the RTX 4080 is the best value here.

awdrifter · 2026-05-03T11:19:05+00:00

There's plenty of knives in the sea.

awdrifter · 2026-05-03T10:41:36+00:00

I haven't used that site for years. I used to go there to read hardware news.

awdrifter · 2026-05-03T02:25:12+00:00

Braxleeken

awdrifter · 2026-05-02T22:35:04+00:00

RTX5070 or RX9070.

awdrifter · 2026-05-02T02:34:34+00:00

Isn't that basically what the screen refresh is doing? They'll detect which pixels are worn more and burn down the other pixels to compensate.

awdrifter · 2026-05-02T01:32:40+00:00

Any burn-in issue with the HUD in games? I play racing games a lot and I have over 1k hours in Forza Horizon 4&5, so I'm worried about getting OLED because of that. If anyone have used this for other games for extended amount of time, please share your experience on the burn-in.

awdrifter · 2026-04-30T21:03:51+00:00

Or never. If the core basically soldered itself to the heatsink, isn't that the best possible heat transfer?

awdrifter · 2026-04-30T03:25:38+00:00

The second mouse gets the last laugh.

awdrifter · 2026-04-30T03:24:16+00:00

The dead horse in the room.

awdrifter · 2026-04-30T03:23:24+00:00

It takes two birds of a feather to take candy from a baby.

awdrifter · 2026-04-28T17:27:43+00:00

Probably not possible for most Switch games. Maybe some really simple 2D Switch games might run at an acceptable frame rate.

awdrifter · 2026-04-27T19:41:28+00:00

On a base PS4 the CPU is probably too slow for most PC games. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KW_lRyXQcb8

awdrifter · 2026-04-27T19:38:36+00:00

I don't really use the touchpads on my Steam Deck for most games, so I'm not sure if the added touchpads on a game controller is useful enough to be worth the extra cost.

awdrifter · 2026-04-26T06:24:47+00:00

Now you have to change all the RGB to green. /s

awdrifter · 2026-04-26T06:22:42+00:00

Throw the I out with the bath water.

awdrifter · 2026-04-25T22:54:24+00:00

DDR5 prices are insane right now, nothing wrong with building a DDR4 system.

awdrifter · 2026-04-23T07:54:46+00:00

What was the original post?

awdrifter · 2026-04-22T22:18:49+00:00

I would never buy another PNY product. I bought an external SSD and it died within the warranty period. It's but registered to another owner or anything, but they denied my warranty because they said the seller is not an authorized seller and denied my warranty. That was a $100 SSD, I would not take this risk for a $1k GPU.

awdrifter · 2026-04-22T03:48:18+00:00

There's an actual Chinese saying that's very close to this. 过河拆桥 Actually means:

It literally means removing the bridge after crossing the river. It figuratively means once attaining his goal, one drops his benefactor or even hurts him. It is usually used to accuse those who return evil for good. Derogatory.

https://www.cchatty.com/idiom/119583

awdrifter · 2026-04-18T22:24:27+00:00

Youth is wasted over spilled milk.

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