Monitors

Background: My monitor has a local dim option that produces flicker when combined with VRR. So for games where I care about HDR I have been turning off VRR.

My question is, to avoid judder and have evenly paced frames, what is the recommendation?

I have a max refresh of 160 so if I can’t hit that consistently should a cap at something that divides evenly into 160? For instance, 80 or 40. Should I avoid other common frame caps, like 60 or 120?

I have a desktop computer with displayport. I heard it was possible to connect 2 or even 3 monitors to it.

I heard not all displayport monitors can be chained like that. Which specifications do I need to look for?

I own a Samsung monitor, and when it's in standby mode the LED blinks all night. My hearing is so sensitive, and my room so quiet, that I can actually hear the LED powering on and off.

So, every night I power it off manually. Sometimes I forget as I turn my PC off, and as I'm laying comfortably in bed, falling asleep, I hear it cycling, so I have to get out of bed, walk over, and turn it off, which delays my sleep.

At this point I'm tempted to take off the bottom panel and break the LED with a screwdriver, but I'm worried that this might change how the current flows through the monitor's circuit board.

I would appreciate any advice, suggestions or insights, thanks in advance!

I have the aorus fv43u and it has a built in KVM switch. From my understanding, I can connect my laptop and main PC to the monitor and have 1 set of peripherals to control both of them. Right now I have my peripherals connected to my main PC, which is connected to the monitor via display port and a usb-b cable. My laptop is connected via hdmi and usb-c to usb-c. (I had to look up someone else config cuz i couldnt figure it out to save my life). Now when I use the KVM switch, my laptop screen shows up on the monitor, but my mouse and keyboard don't work. Are my M&K supposed to be connected to the monitor? Isn't the usb-b cable from main PC to monitor supposed to deal with the M&K data?

I also want to add that I was watching a video and the person was using a different monitor but it also had a KVM switch. However, he only had one cable connected from his laptop to the monitor. He didn't say what cable but maybe I need a special cable for this all to work?

I currently use a Dell Ultrasharp with a built-in SD card reader. It may sound silly, but I love this feature and use it many times each week.

My monitor is getting a little old, and I want to be prepared if it ever conks out.

Are there any new monitors that still have this feature?

One monitor is vertical for reading documents, the other horizontal. Dell monitors one is a p2422h, the other u2722d. It would be nice to have windows that span both monitors occasionally, but they get so misaligned as to make this untenable. Is there any easy way to get resolution settings and alignment in this configuration to allow distortionless spanning windows or am I just entering a world of hurt trying to do this?

I was looking at monitors and found that AOC AG325QZN specs list a 4000:1 static contrast ratio and a 80M:1 'dynamic' contrast ratio. It has a va panel, no local dimming and low max brightness. Does anyone know what they might be doing to produce this bizarre number?

Preface: Bought this monitor ~1 week ago.

PC Spec:

• CPU: 7800x3D
• GPU: RTX 4090 FE

Main usage: Gaming + Productivity (Programming)

Before purchasing: I was cross shopping between this, the LG OLED 240hz, and the Asus with the same panel.

The LG one was said to be too low on brightness, but what turned me off was the warranty. 1 year only, and doesn't cover burn in.

The Asus one was promising with it's brightness, but it's been reported to have way too many issues with burn in and retention issues starting at the 2 week mark of ownership.

I landed on this monitor because of the warranty, and it was being sold at Best Buy so I can test it and return it if it had too many issues.

Calibration: Preset: Standard Brightness: 100 Contrast: 50 Sharpness: 7 Color Temperature: Custom 100 RGB Gamma: 2.2 Saturation: 3 (Thanks to ishpaddles on Corsair Discord)

Review: I'm going to review this based on the main concerns most people have with OLED:

• Warranty: 3 year, and it covers burn in as explicitly stated here.
• Brightness: I leave this monitor in SDR, standard custom setting, and don't turn on uniform brightness. It's PLENTY bright, as bright as my older 240hz 1080p IPS monitor which was 400 nits. It's more than enough for me while playing CS:GO or CyberPunk.
• HDR: This is REALLY bad. It's washed out and doesn't work too well with games honestly. I enjoy the standard custom calibration much better.

Overall, I'm really happy I purchased this monitor. The blacks are really deep, the brightness is plenty for me, when coding with a black theme on say Intellij, the text looks really good. I haven't encountered much text fringing to be honest. I do notice the brightness change issue where one area is bright then goes a bit darker because of a change of scenary. It only happened twice in CSGO though, and it didn't bug me much.

I think this is the best there is for the mean time for someone who has a 4090, especially if you need high FPS.

The responsiveness of this monitor is really quick too as already indicated by reviews. I'm enjoying that when playing CSGO, and I say that coming in from another 240hz monitor.

I'm actually enjoying playing CyberPunk all over again because of it, the graphics are something else.

The menu is easy to use, and I actually really like the sensor on the bottom to notice your hand and the menu shows up. The back panel is nice to have, with all the USB options.

Highly recommend it over the other two. Hope this helps!