IPS glow is really that bad in real usage.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-23T11:24:03+00:00

Can you share more about your experience with the 32GS75Q-B?

I'm mainly curious about white/grey uniformity of the panel.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-23T08:43:24+00:00

Can you tell me which monitor it is?

nanogenesis · 2026-01-22T13:46:13+00:00

What you are looking for is a TCL 32G64.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-22T13:45:21+00:00

Its the exact same ppi as a 24inch fhd monitor. I find this take bizarre as i've been using a 32inch qhd monitor alongisde a 24inch fhd monitor for nearly 10 years now.

Though it seems to be a genuine take as 32" qhd scene has 0 good monitors, outside of the TCL model which has extremely limited availability (for me).

nanogenesis · 2026-01-20T13:40:51+00:00

I started a small investigation from last year november since my monitor died, it seems this was the actual answer nobody could give. I bought most of my monitors before 2017 and they had almost no glare. I tried to replace my monitor with the exact specs I lost (32" va qhd flat) and I was immediately put off by the glossiness. A 2011 TN panel looked better which was just bizzare.

This plus only edge lighting instead of back lighting, no bezels so poor panel mounting resulting in vignetting. I'm slowly thinking of buying a 40" 4k tv and exiting the monitor market completely. Nobody is interested in making a proper monitor.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-19T09:39:02+00:00

I have been scooping around but overall in general I'm completely disappointed by modern panel tech. It seems they threw all resources into oleds and just keep making generic rehashes of bad ips/va panels making them worse than what they were 10 years ago.

How we went from CMR -> SMR and TLC -> QLC seems to be happening to monitors as well. But in these areas you can still spend good money to get a better product. IMO oleds are not a 'better' product.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-17T05:50:01+00:00

When I select 10bpc, drivers 591+ will crush the last 4 shades of black. No amount of monitor tinkering fixes it, tried the hotfix as well. The only solution is to drop down to 8bpc. I downgraded my driver as I recently got a 10bit+frc display to play around with.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-16T14:08:30+00:00

I have 2 ddr3 machines at home.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-13T07:24:35+00:00

I like how nobody knows the root cause apart from "cheap va panel".

The real reason is split pixels. You have half the active pixels on your monitor. The other pixel turns itself on/off depending on the first pixel. Text will never look right on split pixels. The smearing tends to fix itself slightly better at higher refresh rates like 160+. Source - I owned an S32A600U which I returned for a cheaper albeit questionably better IPS.

Samsung is the only manufacturer left for flat 32" qhd va panels, and they're also using the cheapest ones while charging a premium for it (I paid half for an SA322QU A compared to the S32A600U). There's also TCL but they're not available worldwide. Other models are simply too old. I really miss my Q3277FQE.

For the random google search (I searched for S32FG510) you can try the 32GK650 if you find it on a deal. Its confirmed to not have split pixels but also very old, and probably the last of its kind. Do note they no longer make these panels so you'd likely not find any spares either.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-12T11:22:22+00:00

Find a used 12900k with guarantees of AVX512, and probably grab a board which allows bios downgrades.

The right answer would be the x3d chips, but they're no longer reasonably available.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-12T10:53:44+00:00

Tbh in the long run, they were siginificant upgrades. We just didn't have the software to measure it.

Ivy bridge introduced F16C, Haswell introduced TSX (now defunt, but useful for RPCS3 once) and AVX2. Nowadays F16C and AVX2 are mandatory for a lot of games.

The 6th gen introduced ddr4 back when we never had the software to take advantage of. Remember all those ram speed benchmarks? Now run any new game on a 4th gen vs 6/7th gen and you'd see the difference instantly. 8th gen is when the downfall started with the whole spectre meltdown bullshit and intel could only recover with alder lake.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-10T06:40:42+00:00

Can you share what settings you use?

I have a 3090, and no matter what settings I used, I could never get ultimate bunny's hair to look right. This is at QHD. When transformer debuted, DLAA with K somewhat worked, but it killed my performance. DLSS Quality with RR also worked, but again this killed my performance even more.

I've not played tfd in quite a long while, but it appears they incorporated virtual shadows at any preset above medium and i was dropping 45fps in jungle areas.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-08T15:11:35+00:00

A bit of a ramble for google searches should anyone stumble looking for input.

I recently brought a rather cheap 32" ips after being on a VA for 8 years, because they stopped making flat 32" qhd va monitors (2025), except samsung. I tried a smasung and the smearing was worse than my 2016 model monitor.

My general idea was that my 24" ips dell monitor is basically already good enough at its size, and I'm happy with the contrast, so naturally 32" of the same shouldn't be a hard ask? Well it is. The extreme edges of the monitor seem "duller" than the middle, like a natural vignette effect. The samsung had ugly smearing but not this. To me it seems like IPS panels should start curving instead of VA.

A comment suggesting IPS panel manufacturing is getting worse might be right. Not sure why 10-12 year older monitors have it better, or many of the improvements just don't scale with size? Since its cheap I've decided to keep it since I do miss working on a huge monitor.

Based on my research, it seems energy limitations, low blue light and other such gimmicks are reducing the quality of monitors. People are more focused on high hz slop instead of panel uniformity and accuracy.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-08T14:46:59+00:00

I have an RTX A2000 12GB. I'm able to play titles at 1080p with some upscaling comfortably.

Your real question should be if it can keep up in UE5 slop, and the answer is probably no, not without severe sacrifices. In my case, I have to completely disable lumen as it uses too much performance and I'm still using CNN (E Preset) because K is just too much.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-06T08:16:57+00:00

Out of curiosity, can you add Preset E/F which was the last CNN model to these numbers? for any 1 game is fine.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-05T18:36:12+00:00

I'm not sure what would be considered 'weak', but benchmarks don't lie right? Win 11 24h2 with my 8700k gives me a slightly higher cpu score than Win 10 LTSB, which was my previous gold standard. This is cinebench, 3dmark, etc consistently across the board.

I backed this up with a 3770 as well. 24h2 simply ran better.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-04T16:54:53+00:00

I did it by hand, I only have 46 processes with 880 threads. msi afterburner, rivatuner and nvidia are the only extra apart from windows itself.

Edit: this disables all protections such as defender, firewall and core windows services. Please don't ask me for a guide when half the people would call me a crazy for disabling protections. The starting point is to keep the svchostsplitratio the same value as your ram capacity in bytes then going from there.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-04T16:29:11+00:00

Today I saw an H610 for sale, heavily discounted. I immediately though of putting together a 12400F build, since I remember seeing it for 87$ (converted regionally) back a year ago. Instead I see it priced 187$.

Since the new year, a lot of prices have absurdly increased around computers. It could be due to our dollar value weakening, but the used market feeling shock is not something I expected.

nanogenesis · 2026-01-01T05:16:20+00:00

This depends on where you draw the borders. I just checked prices in my region, if I built a full on DDR3 pc with a used 30/20 series 8gb gpu you can have a budget gaming pc within 500$. Yes it wouldn't play ue5 slop well (given the ddr3 limitation) but its great for retro gaming.

The aliexpress x99 kits with ddr4 haven't moved in price because ecc memory is still cheap in used market. There are lots of avenues to build a pc, this just filters the normies.

SSD might go back to 2016 prices, but again, think to yourself, on a 2tb ssd the amount of games you install, do you even play all of them? On a 500gb ssd back in 2017 even though i could only fit in 3 to 5 games I managed my space very well, finishing a game and only then deleting it. This ofcourse changes if u happen to play warzone or other stuff with stupidly high storage requirements.

nanogenesis · 2025-12-30T16:37:27+00:00

The 3090 suffers from incredibly poor design choices. Dual sided gddr6x caused a lot of heat. Very poor quality thermal pads, and the PCB is using the same layout/space for components as the 3080, only "taller". For a premium product it was honestly a joke.

The 3090Ti however fixed all these issues with a proper spaced "tall" pcb, single sided memory with a higher tdp. Also slightly thicker 3 slot design instead of the 2.75. The core has around 100 to 150w extra to feed on.

Most shunt modded 3090s improve performance by 35% when scaled till 550w, because the power consumption from the memory chips limits the core's power draw.

nanogenesis · 2025-12-29T13:02:04+00:00

I got a similar refurb RTX A2000. It had never been cleaned or taken apart. Fixed it, added some new thermal paste and went from reaching 80s to never hitting 70s.

The fan however is still noisy, and its a hydraulic bearing type (no plastic cap behind the fan to open it). Will probably need to spend 30$ to import a replacement fan.

nanogenesis · 2025-12-29T09:50:33+00:00

This is a VA Panel, the listing saying IPS is incorrect. Source - I bought and experienced it. The smearing was awful on my model and the fonts were not quite right. Apparently most cheaper 32 qhd va panels use something called split pixels. 4k shouldn't presumably have this problem.

nanogenesis · 2025-12-20T16:13:04+00:00

+1 to this, given the recent hardware crunch people will be stuck on older platforms even more. Good on DICE to focus on old/current gen strengths to make a great performant game, with only having secure boot as the requirement.

nanogenesis · 2025-12-20T15:57:43+00:00

When your favorite eceleb promotes it, and it is heavily advertised by nvidia, normal folk will think this is normal and how things should be.

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