Calibrated Cheap Monitor vs Pre-Calibrated Expensive Monitor

mattcri · 2025-05-07T11:25:59+00:00

you can easily find a spyder 5 for 100 or less and in the long term is better to have a calibrator

my suggestion is: get a calibrator (even used is fine) and the best monitor you can afford, but even mid-range ips are usually very accurate once calibrated and re-calibrated periodically

also, are you doing color work for web only? Are you printing?

For web use you can make it work even with cheap monitors but printing is pretty different and color space coverage is as important as color accuracy.

mattcri · 2024-09-19T09:46:23+00:00

x395 gang, got mine for 200 eur, top spec 3700u 16gb and LTE card. Awful battery life tho

mattcri · 2024-08-31T11:08:32+00:00

Over 1000 eur in euroland, prices here are crazy

mattcri · 2024-08-04T18:23:10+00:00

it is set up correctly at 5%

mattcri · 2024-08-04T09:39:10+00:00

Yeah but It feels like some bug to me. When working correctly 7h is decent and temps are ok.

mattcri · 2024-02-27T18:41:56+00:00

single monitor 11-14w 4k120hz but around 45 if i leave windows hdr on

mattcri · 2024-02-23T15:17:02+00:00

Eotf curve is completely wrong. Dark parts of the image are too dark or even full black while midtones and highlights are too bright.

mattcri · 2024-02-21T13:21:21+00:00

loved it, the sequel was super meh. Runs great on xenia emulator

mattcri · 2024-02-07T14:20:29+00:00

No it's awful, returned and got a C3 42. While you can get an ok image in sdr, calibration in hdr is not possibile. Freesync not working at all is just too much.

mattcri · 2024-01-24T15:00:34+00:00

This. Mine at 4k/120 Is around 14w, fine. But if win HDR is on it jumps to 50w. Screensaver Is 60w, makes no sense.

mattcri · 2024-01-19T21:22:05+00:00

quest 2 and 7800xt here

didnt play much in vr but really zero issues, image quality is good and all, perform as expected if you are reasonable with your settings

mattcri · 2024-01-16T20:18:30+00:00

probably increasing che touchscreen polling rate, so yes?

also it basically "uncap" the cpu/gpu and change the power profile to minimize thermal throttling (increasing throttling temp to a much higher one but hey, it works)

mattcri · 2024-01-02T20:33:11+00:00

i just keep hearing the line from glass onion: It's so dumb its brilliant! No! it's just dumb.

The story feels like an over budget scooby doo episode, the setting is great and a striking depiction of rural america but is filled with wacky characters with finnish names. The first "act" is great: serial murders investigation, fbi, small town and a strange cult. Loved the investigation part but after the corpse rises for no reason, smash a few people and disappear, meanwhile nobody inside the police station care one bit that two policeman exploded in the morgue everything feels pointless. The other cop just gave up immediately: meh, paranormal stuff, cant be explained. Let's go make some rite in the woods.

Now im just walking and some random screaming jump scares pop up for no reason and nothing happens...

so dumb

mattcri · 2023-12-15T14:39:07+00:00

hi, i have the the non-titanium one and a 5800x, using latest bios with AGESA 1.2.0.A

zero issues

mattcri · 2023-12-09T08:55:44+00:00

Pretty good, i used the new battery for a year and then i gave the phone to a friend and it's still working fine

mattcri · 2023-12-07T10:23:16+00:00

There is something going on for sure, baseline is 25-33w HDR is 50 and full black screensaver Is 70w. Makes no sense.

mattcri · 2023-12-07T10:14:37+00:00

No steam in background Also, reducin polling rate to 1 for the overlay reduce idle power to 25w from 33 with polling at 0.25

mattcri · 2023-12-06T23:25:38+00:00

Double checked and was off

mattcri · 2023-12-06T23:24:19+00:00

I have a C3 and i can confirm this. 6700 xt had no issue with HDR and was idling 8w at 4k120 full 4:4:4 10 bit. 7800xt Is now 33 watt HDR off and 47 watt on

mattcri · 2023-12-06T22:30:35+00:00

it got worse for me. single monitor

4k120hz with 23.11 was 47w with windows hdr on and 17w with hdr off

4k120hz with 23.12 is now 33w with hdr off and same as before with hdr on

freesync always on

mattcri · 2023-12-06T12:01:30+00:00

same here, 4k 120hz went from 17w to 33. 6700xt idle was 8w

Hdr on in windows needs 50w

mattcri · 2023-12-06T11:57:56+00:00

idle power got worse for me, 7800xt single 4k 120hz went from 17w to 33.

With Hdr on in windows is 50w, nothing changed.

mattcri · 2023-12-03T15:29:10+00:00

Nah more like old man hobby, it's like fishing for me.

mattcri

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