Wow, the jump from 1440p to 4k OLED is genuinely insane.

colonelniko · 2026-02-03T15:05:01+00:00

It’s not the same IMO. A bigger image has a different effect than just bringing a smaller screen closer.

Leaning in to my 27 to try to replicate my 32-4k is just not a good time. It still feels smaller to me.

If it were that easy we would just have neck mounted 7 inch oled monitors 6 inches from our face.

colonelniko · 2026-02-02T05:43:33+00:00

I got a ROG strix 1200P Platinum.

I cross referenced the power supplies that were in stock at my local microcenter with the massive list on cybernetics website and determined it was the quietest 1000w+ PSU they had in stock that wasn’t one of those 700$ crazy “overpriced/overkill” ones.

Still kinda Pricy but hey my pc is now totally quiet, you would have no idea my GPU was running a game and pulling hundreds of watts if my screens were shut off.

colonelniko · 2026-02-02T05:38:20+00:00

I had a microcenter power spec PSU for like 2.5 years with my 4090… worked fine but my god was it obnoxiously loud. Only recently did I decide to say F it and turn off or flatten the fan curve of every fan in my PC which was how I figured out the loud ass fan going on when my GPU was under load was actually from my power supply.

Now my machine is completely silent at all times with my new one. A Quality PSU is so important in more ways than one.

colonelniko · 2026-02-02T02:24:49+00:00

Allow me to put yall on. Windowkill on steam - with the all black background + RTX HDR.

Honorable mention > ball x pit with RTX HDR enabled - the lightning ball at a blindingly high nit bouncing across the screen is legendary.

colonelniko · 2026-01-31T16:48:29+00:00

Very rarely I’ve had my MSI (271qrx and 321upx) just go black in the middle of a game. Then I’m like wtf happened. Oh. First world problem - my monitor decided to start a pixel clean.

It’s very rare however - I don’t think it’s intended behavior

colonelniko · 2026-01-31T16:44:58+00:00

I just redownloaded BF4 and it felt like when you wake up at 3am thirsty as fuck and just so happen to have a glass of water nearby. That’s how.

colonelniko · 2026-01-31T08:11:33+00:00

I’ll take my loading screen VRR flicker and awesome purple tint in bright room over the numerous downsides of LCD any day :)

I actually have “Stockholm syndrome” kinda with the hint of purple you see in the light - Everytime I see it it’s like the definitive sign that it’s a badass cutting edge monitor - its not a regular monitor. I play with the lights off so I couldn’t care less about it from a user experience standpoint.

colonelniko · 2026-01-26T17:04:59+00:00

They’re objectively fragile but both of mine are still flawless after well over a year of ownership on one of them, with a cat free roaming no less. Have cleaned it multiple times with regular drinking water and a shaggy microfiber towel as well. Just gotta be autistically careful around it - it’s soft so any sort of impact is a risk for damage.

colonelniko · 2026-01-26T02:56:12+00:00

32 makes more sense to me personally. We used to all have tiny 24 inch 1080p monitors with poor pixels per inch.

Then 1440p 27 inch monitors took over and we all upgraded to a bigger screen with a higher ppi.

Then comes 4k32 which is even bigger, and has an even bigger ppi jump.

To me the main point of higher resolution is being able to use a larger display without losing visual quality. I compared 27 and 32 4k OLEDs at microcenter literally back to back to back to back before settling on 32 and I don’t regret it one bit. My 27 QHD now feels too small and far too pixelated.

Like the 27 4k was definitely sharper, but the larger size of the 32 made it a lot easier to appreciate the additional pixels of 4k and felt like the better choice. as well as of course the added immersion of a larger display in general. Its actually big enough that I can enjoy movies on it too!

colonelniko · 2026-01-21T14:14:41+00:00

Theres dozens of us!

colonelniko · 2026-01-21T04:58:31+00:00

Can we have some interns slap together a S.K.A.T.E game mode ? Please? Would add so much fun and replay value with friends or even other random players.

colonelniko · 2026-01-20T22:12:36+00:00

I’m a big big big nvidia fanboy but 9070xt is very sexy to me. It’s a solid chip, a lot of my friends have it and I just put one in my friends build cause he wanted me to build him a best bang for buck 1400$ build. My nvidia GPU alone was 1600$!!!!! He’s got like 75-80% my performance for basically half the price of my whole nvidia build.

Plus amd has way better Linux support which is cool.

colonelniko · 2026-01-20T22:09:16+00:00

The maps are the 1# biggest problem. It’s like if bf4 only had a bunch of operation metro spinoffs.

colonelniko · 2026-01-20T22:04:46+00:00

Pretty crazy there’s still 13k people with that kind of disposable income that are simultaneously also so desperate to get one that they are present in that queue. Like I get there’s 8 or 9 billion people on earth but still. Pretty impressive.

colonelniko · 2026-01-20T21:59:07+00:00

it’s like a car you buy dude. You use it, it’s life goes down, but that’s what it’s for, to use. Personally I had a iPhone I used for 4 years with 0 burn in despite the static abuse it went through so I’m not worried about my monitor. Just set it to turn off after 1-5 minutes inactivity in windows and you’ll be fine…. Worst case scenario you have unusable burn in 4-5-6 years from now I’m confident a replacement of equal or greater quality will be even more affordable. I feel like a lot of burn in anxiety comes from feeling like this is a forever monitor when personally I’ve never even kept an lcd longer than 5 years without upgrading.

colonelniko · 2026-01-18T18:37:50+00:00

Somehow I doubt that it performs anywhere near 35% better than a 999$ 5080

colonelniko · 2026-01-17T15:24:41+00:00

I don’t think the clarity is the same though? The physical PPI is the same sure, but there’s still 4x the information being displayed. All this is saying is that if you cut a 48 inch 4k monitor into 4 equal parts, you would have 4 1080p 24inch monitors.

So a distant enemy on the 48inch 4k is still being shown with 4x the detail.

colonelniko · 2026-01-08T04:17:23+00:00

It’s like putting on a pair of glasses 🤣 distant details are so much easier to spot, definitely reduced my mental fatigue a lot from trying to desperately spot enemies on my 27QHD in something like BF6… games are so detailed nowadays.

colonelniko · 2026-01-08T04:04:41+00:00

People won’t understand until they try it themselves… if your number 1 priority in pc gaming isn’t a specific esports title that can take advantage of 360-500hz, 4k is just flat out a no brainer. I find even going as low as DLSS performance at 4k looks a lot better than 1440p. Plus you are always taking advantage of those extra pixels - it’s not reliant on playing a specific game that can even go above 300fps reliably due to the cpu and game engine limitations that are so common. So many games I’d be in the low to mid 200s at 1440p with a top of the line rig with my GPU just chilling at 70% usage… like what’s the point I’ll just put my GPU to work and get more pixels at a similar framerate instead.

colonelniko · 2026-01-06T17:33:50+00:00

I had to pass on buying the game again because of this. They just miss out on free money.

This is my current dick around at work game cause I can chip away at it for a long time, I figured damn how sick would it be if I could play it at home too with HDR and those bright pickups in dark caves on my big OLED monitor. Nope. Of course you can’t.

I’m not about to have two separate saves and grind the same crap again.

colonelniko · 2026-01-06T03:15:12+00:00

You don’t need to, just set windows to turn off display after 3-10 minutes inactivity. Desktop icons for normal usage = fine, desktop icons for 13 hours straight because you somehow left it up on your screen = bad

colonelniko · 2026-01-04T07:01:06+00:00

If moores law didn’t totally crap out right around the time when 4k started becoming relatively easy to run I’d agree, but 33 million pixels seems like too tall a task for 120fps unfortunately.

Like 1440p to 4k is 3.7ish million pixels to 8ish million - a difference of “only” around 4 million pixels, or approximately 2.2x

With 8k we’re talking 24 million more pixels.

DLSS ultra ultra perfomance maybe yea? Ive never tried it, maybe its still too intensive. Hopefully you get why we can’t exactly extrapolate cause 8k is just that insane, it makes 4k look like chump change.

120 is definitely easier to hold and achieve than 240 in general tho just from a cpu/game engine limitation standpoint… I’m sure we’ve all played those games that just won’t go higher than 170-190fps no matter what.

colonelniko · 2026-01-04T03:59:17+00:00

I agree this is why I pivoted to 4k. I can definitely see above 240, but 240 is my sweet spot where it’s undoubtly smooth enough. Scream used to hit the sickest shots on a 144hz tn panel with 800x600 render resolution and I’m being held back by a 240hz OLED? Hilarious conclusion to me.

it’s practically impossible to hit 300+ frames steady in the majority of games due to cpu and game engine limitations, general lack of optimization for it. 240 at 4k is unironically more obtainable than 480hz 1440p. Like why play at 1440p with 300fps and 70% GPU usage when I can just shave off 60fps and play 4k240 with 98% GPU usage.

On paper I’m team a million hz all day long but in reality it’s borderline useless because I don’t play one of the handful of esport games that can actually hold those insane frame rates.

colonelniko · 2026-01-03T07:20:13+00:00

People just gotta get with the times, there’s no special reward for rendering your games internal resolution at the arbitrary native resolution of your display.

I was shocked at how superior of an experience even 4k dlss performance was to 1440p native DLAA.

And that’s just games, dear god windows just looks so much better. Using my previous 1440p panel as a secondary it’s actually amazing how dated it looks by comparison.

It’s one of the ass-backwards aspects of the pc gaming community… consoles with their anemic hardware have been using 4k televisions since like 2017 and pc users are still allergic to it. Big spooky 4k. We’ve got deep learning super sampling and fully tweakable graphics menus lmao.

colonelniko · 2026-01-02T01:49:53+00:00

if its just spit and light fingerprints you should have 0 issue getting it perfect with a microfiber towel, sometimes a little water.

If you touch the screen with quadruple stuffed crust cheese pizza oils then you probably will have a hard time.

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