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I don't need glasses, but I think it would be worth revisiting the eye doc for this issue specifically. Excuse my ignorance on all things glasses, but when you say 'transistional lenses' you mean lenses that change tint according to light conditions? I recently talked to my niece, who will be...

I got some mild eye fatigue after returning to programming today and spending the whole day on it. I had plenty of natural ambient light and lots of breaks. And it got me searching for information on this issue again. Searching for 'LED retina damage' turned up that a recent study from France...

If you end up trying one definitely do let us know how it goes in terms of eye comfort. I think it can't be stressed enough that we should try things for ourselves, despite what the internet says. I followed through with my hunch of trying and comparing different display types (IPS, TN, VA) to...

It's been a couple of more weeks. Still no eye fatigue from a VA monitor. And I did end up staying with the 32UD60, despite the uniformity issue. Eye comfort is way more important to me. And after years of dealing with eye fatigue from monitors, no way I would go back to IPS or TN. The lack...

It is still going well with the 4K VA monitor. No eye fatigue so far.

Is there a one-stop guide somewhere to all the curently available sync technologies? Here I was originally thinking that I absolutely needed a g-sync monitor for tear free gameplay with my nvidia gpu (barring vsync for the heavy lag), then found out that I can run without any sort of sync...

Much thanks cybereality and everyone else. Kicking up the fan and capping the gpu above the refresh rate is working well enough for my lowly gaming requirements. I'm happy enough not to have to be gaming at 30 hz on a console and without any major artifacts.

So there actually is some tearing going on with the gpu capped above the monitor refresh rate. But it has been reduced so much that it isn't bothering me. I can see it if I look up toward a tall structure in front of the sky and move my mouse quickly side to side. During gameplay I don't...

I'm curious why I'm not getting tearing without any sort of sync enbaled after capping the gpu above the monitor refresh rate. It didn't seem to matter if I set the cap to 65 or 80. No tearing either way. Maybe 61 will be ok.

I didn't notice your reply before my last post. I never use vsync. But I just noticed that when I cap my framerate above my monitor refresh rate I don't get any tearing. Since my monitor is 60 hz, I capped the gpu at 65 and all seemed well. Maybe I could go a bit lower too. I had the gpu...

Admittedly, I know jack about gpu's. I capped my frame rate to 65 (60 hz monitor) and there is no tearing. So then, why would I need any sort of adaptive sync at all? Might as well keep rocking the mini.

Of course I didn't think to adjust the fan speed. Setting the curve flat to 100% keeps the gpu hovering around 73-74. I suppose it will have some impact on fan life though. As far as the noise, game audio mostly drowns out the fan. I may still end up ordering one of those riser cables...

USB performance for audio is pretty miserable in comparison to PCI. I'm not just talking about playing audio files. Music/audio production requires low latency and stable performance. USB can work at much lower performance than PCI, but it is not a good solution for music/audio production...

I didn't think about that. And I might already have a fan around here to give it a try. Thanks too for the recommendation on the riser cable.

Google is working on their own non-Linux operating system right now called Fuchsia, based around the microkernel that Haiku uses.

I'm using the lower PCI-E slot for a firewire card. The firewire card is only used for configuring a firewire device, though. Once it is configured, the firewire cable is disconnected and the device runs in standalone mode. But I do need to be able to change settings on the firewire device...

There are still motherboards with PCI slots. I may end up looking at one of them and an ATX case, which would be more expensive than using a riser cable, but it would be a better solution. And it would not be nearly as expensive as also upgrading the cpu and ram.

Even given that, it still seems odd that something based around Linux or BSD hasn't challenged Windows for desktop use. Like I said before, I think that will change over time. It just seems odd to me that it hasn't happened yet.

That is why I am asking about riser cables. Maybe someone here has experience with what is good and bad. I'm not asking for any miraculous solution. PCI isn't dead. It just isn't mainstream. It's a niche. There are companies still making PCI devices today. And they continue to do so...

Sounds like you haven't used an RME device on Windows. Performance is absolutely solid. RME is something of a unicorn among audio devices. I can have Reaper up with plugins (Reaper fanboy here!) piping ADAT in/out to another audio device, a browser playing video, and a heavy resource use game...

I think there is likely very little difference between the 32UD59-B and 32UD60-B. And I'm pretty much where you are with it. I wouldn't really recommend it, but I'm not seeing anything better at this point. My primary concern is appearance of text for reading general articles and coding. I...

It's a Dell 9010 minitower. Pretty old at this point, but it still performs well enough not to want to upgrade. The slot layout can be seen on pdf page 35 here: https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_desktop/esuprt_optiplex_desktop/optiplex-9010_owner's manual2_en-us.pdf The...

Maybe someone has some experience with the other monitors here? https://pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#P=4&sort=size&r=384002160&W=1500,3200&A=1,2

ChadD, I use Linux (and Windows) and have been for some years. And I mostly get along with Linux pretty well. The variety of available desktop software on Linux pales in comparison to what is available for Windows though. And yes, lots of Windows software can run on Linux via Wine, but lots...

The max PPI that I see for available VA monitors is 140. And I have noticed that there are no devices other than monitors which use VA. Why is that? If VA could be had at higher PPI, I would like to have a laptop and a phone with VA. The softness on the eyes of VA is something that I haven't...

I'm ok with every aspect of the 32UD60-B except for the panel uniformity. It's kind of streaky and cloudy looking. I would like to find another 4K VA with g-sync or freesync and definitely not bigger than 32". I wish there were smaller VA's with a higher PPI, but there just isn't.

I guess I could see some people liking it for gaming, but I don't see it being a practical all around monitor. Using it would be like driving a limo as a daily driver.

No agenda. Just an observation, and a very obvious one that doesn't get too much attention. Linux can be a great alternative to Windows, but being that Windows has a virtual monopoly on the desktop most things are going to work there without as much fuss and workarounds that might be required...

I'm looking for a not too expensive solution to get my gpu outside of a minitower for better cooling. I installed a sound card which sits just just below the gpu fans, and it is cutting off too much airflow during gaming. I suppose a riser cable will do. But which ones don't suck? I think...

Already, my eyes feel better. That quick! It was a similar situation when getting sore eyes from the TN monitor (S2716DGR) and switching to VA. So let's see how my eyes feel in another hour or so. And by the way, I'm reading around on forums and such (black on white), with a little video...

And I'm back to eye fatigue with the U2515H. :banghead: So then, I guess I'll swap back in a VA to see if the eye fatigue lets up.

I would only consider a TN if you need the absolute lowest response time for competitive gaming. If not, the tradeoffs aren't worth it.

I continued on after work using the U2515H (IPS) late into the morning, reading all straight up black on white. With this viewing distance (42" when sitting back in my chair; 34" when sitting forward) and scaling, this monitor is as comfortable on the eyes as any display I have ever used and...

Since the 32UD60 (VA) felt ok to my eyes and the S2716DGR (TN) did not, I had to check back with the U2515H (IPS). With the same viewing distance and scaling for comfortable size text as with the 32UD60, I'm finding it to be pretty ok. And after reading this...

https://pcpartpicker.com/products/os/ I know there are Linux distros, macOS, BSD flavors, and a few others. And that I know of, the only hardware independent and commercially supported of those is a few flavors of Linux, which are geared toward enterprise and servers. None of them are aimed...

So I already mentioned that when I swapped in the 32UD60 (VA 4K) monitor for the S2716DGR, my eyes felt much better over an hour's time. I have been using it about 3 hours after work, without even a hint of eye fatigue. And I realized just 15 minutes ago that I had left the brightness set to...

I'm telling you that it looks blurry to me. When I switch it on the edges of fonts get very soft. And I have already been through this over the years. Turning it on makes my eyes fatigue much faster than with it off. I can't help you to accept what I see vs. what you see. Turning it on...

Thanks. Waiting on OLED seems like a unicorn situation. I wonder if we will ever see the burn-in issue worked out. It looks great, though. And it would be so much better without PWM. Every OLED phone I have had also had PWM, which killed my eyes. But the PPI of OLED phone displays is...

27" 4K can be scaled to whatever you like. I assume that in Windows 10 you can set a custom DPI (which should be called PPI) as you can in Windows 7. I have mine set right now to 180 on a 32" 4K monitor, and eveything is of a good size. I just don't like the honking size of a 32" monitor...

My viewing distance with the 25" 1440 monitor is around 2.5 feet, because that is where text is comfortable to read. It isn't only about size of text. It is also about thickness of fonts and clearly seeing the edges of fonts to feel comfortable reading text. So the thing is to me, if I were...