Recent content by DrRamtop

The guy on Reddit possibly got a bad unit, it's far from unknown with Samsung. I briefly owned a pair of 27HG70s and absolutely hated them. The uniformity problems were terrible, with weird graffiti-like patterns clearly visible over much of the screen. Viewing angles and contrast were fairly...

I hope it works for you. Last time I ran up against this problem I sourced an active HDMI/DVI converter that apparently supported 2560x1600, but would never give an output on the monitor.

Some of the DVI-only 30" monitors are quite strange with regards to supported resolutions. You get the full 2560x1600 or 1280x800. That's it, only those two resolutions are supported as the Altera scaler chip used in those models can't do fractional scaling. Only basic 2x2. If your Dell is one...

Samsung have a 34" 100Hz VA model with Freesync coming out soon. That's about as good as it's going to get for large VA monitors for some time, I suspect.

Oh oh, that looks familiar! This is one of my BenQ BL3200s, same panel as the Omen. Looks like AUO are having quality control issues again. (I sent this picture to BenQ and they replied that the panel uniformity is within specification and refused an RMA...)

There's no way to get more than 1280x800 out of a 305t via HDMI. It only supports two resolutions, 1280x800 via SL-DVI or converted HDMI, and 2560x1600 via DL-DVI. The 'scaler' chip really only has one scaling mode, 2x2 upscaling.

Reballing, either done professionally or the oven bake hack, may fix it temporarily. But the scaler will overheat and die again unless fitted with a cooling fan. I don't think there's any way to run a 305t from VGA; HDMI will work with a suitable cable or converter, but only as single-link so...

I have a pair of PowerColor Nanos and at stock they are nicely quiet. The fan only becomes clearly audible with the power limit pushed up, and even then they're still quieter then the Gigabyte Windforce 290s they replaced.

I think you may have a faulty unit. My BL3200PT has little visible blur, just some faint trailing in very dark scenes, nothing out of the ordinary compared to other VA monitors I've owned.

There shouldn't be any difference between DP and MiniDP, but you may want to try a new cable as the MG279Q is hugely sensitive to cable quality - I found I couldn't get 144Hz to work reliably with any DP cable I tried, including the bundled MiniDP one. The fuzzy text is, as far as I could...

When Freesync is on and functioning the frequency on the OSD will roughly track with the game's frame rate. If it is just sitting at one value then FS isn't working.

FreeSync on the MG279Q only works if you set the refresh rate of the screen to 90Hz or less. 120/144Hz can't be used with FS, selecting either of them disables FS completely and the OSD shows a warning.

Don't worry about that, lots of monitors can't display that test correctly. It's just a side effect of the way some LCD panels work. 3 of the 8 monitors I own have problems showing that page.

It's purely subjective, but personally I find it a little the small side for my less than perfect eyes. I use a 32" 1440p screen day-to-day and that's probably as much pixel density as I want until Windows gets UI scaling that actually works.

Couldn't agree more. Because IPS' image quality hasn't really improved at all in recent years, VA's contrast and black depth advantage is now so huge that I wouldn't use an IPS screen for anything but colour sensitive design work. VA is just plain better for general desktop, video and to a...