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Heat and driving hardware. The more dense you pack it, the harder it is to cool. Not impossible, but it is an issue you have to think about. Then there's the drivers, the things that actually set the brightness of the individual LEDs. They have to be made smaller and more responsive to deal with...

Ya I've had no issues with it, at home or at work. At home I have it on my laptop. I didn't bother to get the SED feature working, so it is just software encryption. At work I've got it to work with SED a few times, but as I said, it is more difficult than it should be to get that to work, and...

I do wish that drive-based encryption was easier to make work. I don't know if MS, the drive manufacturers, or both need to change things but it DOES work right now, I've set it up, but it is harder than it should be and most people will end up doing it in software. As you say, not a big deal...

You don't need to do that, a secure erase command (both SATA and nVME support it) will fully blank the disk, beyond any recovery. Ok I mean I suppose intelligence agencies could theoretically have a way to recover data, but the commercial data recovery companies can't. It works excellent...

I really wonder how much of that is just legacy in engines and could be improved, and how much is just kinda inherently how games work. It seems like being single-core bound has been an issue in all kind of game engines, and of course we've had multi-core CPUs for a long time. It isn't like...

I dunno, it may not improve for a bit, but I also wouldn't count it out. There's been a lot of improvements in the TVs in a very short time. I'm sticking with my PG32UQX, but I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing what the next gen of OLEDs look like.

Crap like that drives me crazy. I'm not sure why an accurate EOTF is so hard. Maybe it really does require extensive software development or hardware support, but I know devices can do it. The Sony A95L and the ASUS PG32UQX both have bang on EOTF tracking. I think it is part of why I like the...

I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if they do. nVidia has been beating the "AI" drum since before the marketing buzzword became "AI". They've been working on and pushing machine learning for a long time now. Well these days, it is paying off in spades so no surprise they'd continue on that path.

And to be fair, I think that's a legit way to do games. I can appreciate a game that is really big and open, but kinda shallow and a "make your own fun exploring and gathering" situation, just like I can appreciate a game that is a very tight, curated, focused, experience. We just don't have...

Doesn't have to be as powerful as nVidia to still be a nice step forward. The thing is, the better the RT AMD has, the more games that'll implement RT. Right now RT is pretty much a PC-only, nVidia-only feature. Ya you CAN use it on other stuff, but performance is often not good enough. Makes...

True, but they make it difficult, it pushes it pretty hard... kinda like Windows these days. You don't have to use a MS account, I don't, they just make it a PITA not to. I don't love it, I'm not trying to defend it as a good thing, but I don't see why it is a dealbreaker when it really isn't on...

Nah man, there were LOTS of people (well, angry Internet nerds) who were upset. I saw more than a few posts here of "I'm never switching off 7, 10 sucks, MS sucks, your face sucks!" kind of thing. Has happened with every version of Windows I've ever seen. Nerds rage that the new one sucks, they...

Not a ton. I can give you a big list if you like but most of it is pretty minor. For users here, the biggest thing is better HDR support and general graphics pipeline improvements. If you game, particularly in HDR, Windows 11 is better. However in general it is a very minor update. A lot of OSes...

Few will bother. Setting up a dual boot system isn't hard, but it is a lot harder than just updating your OS. Despite what the nerd rage here may tell you, the reason people are on 10 is because it works fine and they don't bother to upgrade, not because 11 is bad. You aren't going to see many...

It's always what happens with Windows. Most people are real apathetic about upgrades so it doesn't happen until it is forced or happens naturally through attrition. Funny thing is, same shit happens with Linux a lot too. You don't tend to see it in reporting since it usually all gets folded in...

It's literally just using optical flow data to say "objects moved from here to there in these two frames so stuff should be... here-ish for an intermediate frame." It can actually, potentially, increase latency a bit as it needs to have a "previous frame" and "next frame" before it can display...

It works pretty well, particularly at higher frame rates. It isn't perfect, but you really don't notice things looking off too much. Again the higher the source FPS the less you'll notice. However it does have two big downsides: 1) The game doesn't "feel" fast. This is more an issue at low...

Also ML may be less of a bitch with the multi-chip problems because it is less time sensitive. There are lots of things that scale not just to multiple chiplets or chips but multiple nodes real well. The problem with realtime graphics is that "realtime" bit. Want 120fps? Ok, that's 8.3ms, max...

I mean, it shouldn't be a huge surprise given the issues with multiple GPUs. Sure that is going to be slower in some respects since you are connecting over an external bus which is going to be hard to make as fast as something on the same package (or even board)... BUT it is still the same...

It can be pretty impressive for special effects. In Jedi Survivor when you get flash-banged it'll do as bright a full screen white as it can and it is really impactful. That said, it isn't that big a deal. No it really wouldn't because you have to remember test patches are that bright with...

Ya. While 120fps is something I can get in quite a few games, it is usually pretty closed to maxed on the GPU so, even CPU limits aside, there would just be no going to 240fps. Plenty won't even hold that these days with all the shinies turned up. Like Hogwarts Legacy it dipped down around 60fps...

I like high framerate, but I just can't see cranking down the detail enough to get 240Hz, even if I had a monitor that could handle it. I like shinies too much.

Ya that's where I am as well. I just do not get the nerd rage over this. Particularly with Aloy. I don't see anything egregiously wrong with her character model, she does not, in fact, "look like a chick with a dick" or any of that. It just seems like a very, very stupid thing to be getting...

Well RTings has a huge issue in their test, for real world usage, which is that they run both at their max brightness, and the QD-OLEDs have a higher max brightness. Now while I understand their idea of "we run it at whatever the max is" that's not realistic to how it'd be used. If a WOLED...

That's why I'm so interested in Hardwar Unboxed's test. Basically what they are doing is using the monitor for productivity, leaving on any screen protecting features that are non-obtrusive (like pixel shift and compensation cycles) and turning off any that are a pain (like taskbar dimming). So...

So... I have to ask... Why are people here so worked up about little details of how the character looks? This seems like some extremely silly whining. Unless the character has some real jank design, why does it matter the details of how they look? Is it a good game that's fun to play? That's...

I wish they could get the 10% window amount up around where TVs are, because that seem to correspond pretty well with the kind of demand you get in most content. Sure there are some high APL thing that'll try for a lot more, but most stuff there's only a few really bright areas and thus you find...

How do they compare to the Hololens? As you said, that's the real competition for it.

Which would have been fine... if Apple had sold it as such. If this was a "hey here's a dev kit/industrial product for people to start working with," it would be hard to give them crap. The price is in line with that and ya, this stuff has to start somewhere. But that wasn't how it was sold, it...

For sure, I don't mind that boards CAN disable the limits. That's long been a thing with enthusiast boards is you can push limits, often beyond what is reasonable. However it shouldn't be that way by DEFAULT. The default should always be manufacturer's recommendations, then let the user disable...

Well it depended on how good of a sample you had. While they had good yields and plenty of stuff ran faster, they only tested 300a units at 300. So if you had particularly bad silicon, it could still pass in that bin, even if it would have failed in a higher speed. My roommate had one that ran...

One of the first things I did when I built my 13900 system was to set back the Intel defaults in place. It shipped with much higher limits and it was always getting limited by heat. I was a little concerned about it running so hot under load, and it also seemed pretty pointless as there was...

And I think some people forget, you don't usually start good, it takes some experience and work. So Intel's drivers weren't banger out of the gate, that doesn't mean they have to be written off forever. A lot of things that are now good and used all the time kinda sucked in the first iteration...

Fair. At this point my HDR use case is almost entirely games, so I just switch it on when I'm playing (actually most games know how to switch it on themselves). I also go for the more aggressive Level 3 dimming in HDR mode, which makes it more noticeable. I find that in actual content I prefer...

I still tend to leave mine off. You are right it usually isn't that big a deal, but I can see it particularly on sites like Hardforum that use middle gray colors. Also I don't find high contrast to be a real benefit on the desktop so generally I leave it off on the desktop, and only on in games.

It's a hell of a monitor. Has its faults to be sure but on a whole man does it look good.

When you have HDR on Windows has a look at the monitor's gamut (which the inf file should tell it accurately) and if an application isn't HDR does mapping. It isn't always as accurate as a monitor's built in mapping so sometimes it is better to use the built-in sRGB, but if it looks good there's...

Second on the Trivex thing. It is the best optical quality material you can easily get your hand on in glasses and has the lowest chromatic aberration. It is better than some kinds of glass and if you can even find glass these days, most vendors won't tell you anything about it so you have no...

Where I found that ABSL gets annoying is in games that have scenes with lots of text you are trying to read. In particular Octopath Traveler 2 has real issues. I played it on the couch because it seems like a good couch game and the couch is an S95B. Well during "cutscenes" where there's a lot...

Hey, it's a good number. Intel likes that number. It brings them luck. :D Real talk though, it is so obnoxious that companies turned node names in to marketing terms. I dunno who did it first, but nobody's node is actually the size they say it is. TSMC 3nm is not in any way shape or form 3nm...