What's your latest tech purchase?

[Deleted member 24505]

It's a monitor, it shows a picture.

 

[X71200]

It's one of the most important parts, if not arguably the most important part of your PC, though. The QD-OLED has been seeing a lot of praise, you're having waterfall quality visuals there. But yeah, it's a monitor at the end of the day.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I'll wait till they are not stupidly priced myself. Still happy with my nice Dell screen. Monitors are not like underpants that need changing once a week.

My case is pretty important tbh, my parts would be in a pile without it.

 

[X71200]

Well, it costs $1200 so it's not all "that" expensive for top end panel. The earlier OLED monitors cost way more. But yeah, more models are coming and it'll get cheaper sooner or later.

 

[axelangel007]

ps5

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

It's a monitor, it shows a picture.

Looks like my joke fell flat

I imagine OLED is superior, but so is playing on high/ultra settings...

 

[X71200]

OLED is superior than playing on heavier settings, however. I have an older Samsung OLED tablet and the visuals strike there when I'm using it. Still a monitor and you get used to it, though...

 

[sam_86314]

I'd absolutely love to get one of those QD-OLED monitors, but I'm paranoid about burn-in.

I use dark themes on my phone and keep my brightness down to ease my paranoia, and it only gets used for a few minutes at a time.

My PC monitor runs for hours at a time with things like the taskbar almost always being onscreen. I'd worry about it if I had an OLED monitor.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I'd absolutely love to get one of those QD-OLED monitors, but I'm paranoid about burn-in.

I use dark themes on my phone and keep my brightness down to ease my paranoia, and it only gets used for a few minutes at a time.

My PC monitor runs for hours at a time with things like the taskbar almost always being onscreen. I'd worry about it if I had an OLED monitor.

All OLEDs burn it, to a greater or lesser degree. The fact that they have sytems on the devices to prevent it proves they do, or they would not need to try and prevent it.

This is the other problem with OLED
The less time the screen stays on, the longer its lifespan. The more intense the brightness, the shorter the display's lifespan. Choose medium/low brightness to extend the lifespan of the OLED display. Exposure to UV light without powering on will also cause the OLED display to degrade.

Newer OLEDS are better, to what degree though i don't know

 

[Mussels]

So one day I was browsing Reddit when I saw someone mention a full Windows 10 tablet on Aliexpress for under $60.

That piqued my curiosity, of course, so I had to check it out.

That's too cheap for me to pass up. I don't even care if it's crap; I need to have it.

It finally arrived today.

Seems to have survived shipping. It came with a charger, a cable, and even a little capacitive stylus/pen combo thing.

It actually works! Even has about 54% battery out of the box.

It has an Intel Atom Z3735G, 1GB of DDR3-1333, 16GB of eMMC, and a Chinese copy of Windows 10 1607 Home Edition.

Guess I now need to get a USB-OTG adapter so I can try putting LTSC or some Linux distro on it.

EDIT: Here's what the inside looks like.

I have one of these (Different model, very similar specs) with a smashed screen - i use it's micro HDMI output and used it as my teamspeak server for many years

Biggest issue was it lacked the power for even 1080p youtube, and mine had exclusive windows drivers - without one specific windows package most of the hardware didnt even show up in device manager, so no drivers could be forcibly installed

I'd absolutely love to get one of those QD-OLED monitors, but I'm paranoid about burn-in.

I use dark themes on my phone and keep my brightness down to ease my paranoia, and it only gets used for a few minutes at a time.

My PC monitor runs for hours at a time with things like the taskbar almost always being onscreen. I'd worry about it if I had an OLED monitor.

This got me yesterday - kid called me at 8PM wanting a pickup from his mums house, drove out, got him, came home, got him bathed ready for bed etc... then realised rimworld had been paused on-screen for 2 hours. Never been happier i got VA panels.

 

[Deleted member 202104]

I have a z490 board that doesn't have any digital out on the I/O panel, but needed to be able to connect to my DAC that I was already using the USB input.

$15 and problem solved.

 

[R-T-B]

All OLEDs burn it, to a greater or lesser degree. The fact that they have sytems on the devices to prevent it proves they do, or they would not need to try and prevent it.

This is the other problem with OLED
The less time the screen stays on, the longer its lifespan. The more intense the brightness, the shorter the display's lifespan. Choose medium/low brightness to extend the lifespan of the OLED display. Exposure to UV light without powering on will also cause the OLED display to degrade.

Newer OLEDS are better, to what degree though i don't know

Burn in is real yes but I'll be frank, I've been outright abusive with my usage patterns on my B9 for 2 years now and no burn in yet. I turned off the mitigations too other than screensaver.

Fingers crossed? Famous last words? lol.

I do think it was a far bigger deal before the panel revisions that occured right around when the 9 series launched. I see a lot of *7 etc models running around with slight burn in.

 

[Chomiq]

I'll wait till they are not stupidly priced myself. Still happy with my nice Dell screen. Monitors are not like underpants that need changing once a week.

My case is pretty important tbh, my parts would be in a pile without it.

I'll wait till they are not stupidly priced and don't include always on fan due to the damn gsync module.

 

[Muaadib]

http://imgur.com/a/nIowIZX

Got a Liquid Freezer II 240, r5 5600 for a bit of a sidegrade (over Fuma 2, 3600).

Had to invert my NR200P in order to get the AIO on top. It was a hassle due to not having a drill. But one wire cutter, screwdriver, and a lot of patience later I managed to do it but not before cutting myself and paying the required blood sacrifice, I'm pretty satisfied with the results. PC is whisper quiet and temps are great as well (CPU mid 60s in Cinebench, GPU hotspot is mid 80s while gaming)

Next step is changing the Accelero 3 to 4 but that will have to wait a bit

 

[GreiverBlade]

tomorrow! (probably...) the remote for the Z7+ will be in my mailbox! (maybe...)

DEFINITELY!

works fine, way bigger than the Mi box S/tv one and slightly bigger than the Minix Neo A3 airmouse more front keys but no back keyboard but that one would need to plug in the dongle, meanwhile everything works fine with only IR not needing the dongle for the Formuler remote

yeah that Z7+ is definitely more like the Minix Neo U9-H than the Mi TV Stick/box S

mhhh i could hook the Z7+ on my Toshiba 32" (still not oled ...) TV since that remote can also act like an universal one

oh well lot's of hardware to play with for an HTPC either the Z7+ or the Diva with the AM1 setup

 

[THE_EGG]

Burn in is real yes but I'll be frank, I've been outright abusive with my usage patterns on my B9 for 2 years now and no burn in yet. I turned off the mitigations too other than screensaver.

Fingers crossed? Famous last words? lol.

I do think it was a far bigger deal before the panel revisions that occured right around when the 9 series launched. I see a lot of *7 etc models running around with slight burn in.

You're doing well with your B9. Honestly burn-in will probably happen to my QD-OLED monitor as well down the road but the 3-year burn-in warranty gives me peace-of-mind. Frankly I would not have purchased it if it didn't have that warranty. Fingers crossed it doesn't happen though! By then, no doubt, there will be something even better anyway.


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Pricing wasn't too bad imo, I had a 20% coupon from being an alumni at my university so that helped haha. I was already about to snag a 4K 32" VA or IPS high-refresh-rate monitor but then the reviews hit for the AW3423DW and yeh easy buy for me when it was "only" about 15-20% more expensive than a good VA or IPS 32" 4K 144hz monitor.

Edit: also the fact this monitor has a glossy coating on it, made it to top of my to-buy list as well.

 

[Shrek]

Is the burn-in reversible as for normal LCD monitors?

 

[ThaiTaffy]

Is the burn-in reversible as for normal LCD monitors?

I know certain displays like my E-paper ones you can make a custom code to cycle pixels not sure if something like that is possible on oled.

 

[THE_EGG]

Is the burn-in reversible as for normal LCD monitors?

I believe short term yes, but long term no. But to be fair, QD-OLED is so new that "long-term" is relative and nobody really knows I guess.


I've done my best to mitigate and reduce the chance of burn-in by enabling hidden taskbar and reducing my screen-off time to 2 minutes (instead of my usual 15min).

The monitor does this pixel refresh thing every day too. And it's got some panel refresh thing that I haven't seen come up yet as a prompt but I believe it's meant to happen after 1000hrs of use.

 

[Valantar]

Is the burn-in reversible as for normal LCD monitors?

There are mitigations such as "pixel refresher" cycles for OLEDs (LG's TVs have this, among others), but all that really does is try to wear down all the pixels equally, meaning this will degrade the entire panel over time, causing it to lose brightness. "Burn-in" in OLEDs istems from the pixels degrading and losing output power due to use, so there's no way of truly reversing it.

 

[Yaroslav Fadeev]

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Just got a Garrett Euro Ace metal detector for a play.

 

[Sasqui]

Just got a Garrett Euro Ace metal detector for a play.
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I recently got a new Garrett ACE Apex! The other is an ACE 350. I also rigged a low latency bluetooth transmitter and headset, can be used with either of them. The Apex is crazy, viper search coil really make a difference in the shrubs

 

[Deleted member 24505]

I recently got a new Garrett ACE Apex! The other is an ACE 350. I also rigged a low latency bluetooth transmitter and headset, can be used with either of them. The Apex is crazy, viper search coil really make a difference in the shrubs

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Mine is the euro version of the 350, but essentially the same.

You found anything good yet? I'm hoping to, with England being so old, i might get lucky, some people have.

 

[Sasqui]

Mine is the euro version of the 350, but essentially the same.

You found anything good yet? I'm hoping to, with England being so old, i might get lucky, some people have.

You have a lot more history to find there, like a few thousand years more than here! Yea, the 350 looks lmost identical, great detector with some practice and some methods. I've found a lot of pennies and quarters with the 350. I went over some of my property with the Apex, found two 1944 wheat pennies and some other change, a brass hose nozzle at 5" (it still works!). I went to some older colonial era foreste fields a few weekends ago and found two ox shoes. Those probably go back to the 1700's. The Apex has some kick ass iron discrimination and a mode called "Iron Audio"