l88bastard
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Lol just open that one up, perfect conditionI see three goughes on the box on the right...better send that one back asap
Just a heads up for anyone testing LD settings, you have to completely exit the menu OSD to see a change in it's behavior/performance. Keeping the menu open and cycling between is no good because it sets the FALD to a semi on permanent state regardless of setting until you exit.So another guy in Australia got his and did some testing on his unit. Here is what he said:
"I was only able to get around 650 nits peak in a 10% size test patch of 100% brightness with auto local dimming. With LD low and high the brightness is over 1000 nits. LD auto seems to aggressively suppress blooming and even dark areas with some small light sources will still be backlit, resulting in grey blacks but zero blooming due to no dimming. Large black area will achieve true blacks with leds off. Local dimming low and high provider deeper black level but at the cost of some bloom.
I tried MSFS2020 after failing to run cyberpunk. The runway at night looked dank with LD low or high. Quite impressive and the bloom of runway lights seems greatly reduced compared to some youtube PG32UQX videos. When actually going in for the landing I could not recall seeing the lights jump between different adjacent backlight sections.
LD low or high does seem to weirdly impact colour accuracy and brightness mapping beyond what you would expect as others have mentioned."
NOW WAY I WOULD ACCEPT ANY DISPLAY FROM A BOX IN THAT CONDITION!Lol just open that one up, perfect condition
That's absolutely nothing. If it's packed like my CRG9 it's literally encased in styrofoam so none of that would have any effect. Just open it up and give it a try.My G9 came in today, but the box has a few nicks in it so I am sending back tomorrow....Im not taking any chances with 1440pee!
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That's absolutely nothing. If it's packed like my CRG9 it's literally encased in styrofoam so none of that would have any effect. Just open it up and give it a try.
Oh yea, well take a good look at vegas split damaged unit above.
I bet you a million dollars vegas box damage looked exactly like mine!
If only there were some way of opening the box and seeing if the contents are damaged.
I can't tell if you're serious with some of these comments. Telling somebody to return their unit because the box is ever so slightly scuffed.
There's a reason why these things are surrounded in thick layers of foam. They know that they will get tossed around during shipping.
My box had some dings in it, my monitor is physically perfect.Both vegas are damaged....I rest my fucking case.
My box had some dings in it, my monitor is physically perfect.
Dont give up, order two more!!!TWO CRACKED NEO G9's. UNBELIEVABLE.
Both came from the same warehouse in Dallas Texas area. One shipped via Fedex (BestBuy order) and one shipped by UPS (Samsung order). Second box had less visible disruption.
The cracks were IDENTICAL, branching out from the top into four "legs". Definitely a manufacturing problem. Either they are cracking when they are putting them in the boxes after checking them off the assembly line, or the way they were stacked on pallets at the warehouse putting to much pressure on them is my guess. Interestingly, this is the first monitor I've ever seen made in Vietnam.
I'm done with the Neo G9, it's way too fragile. I highly doubt it was going to replace my PG32UQX, but I still wanted to try it out. Having received and tested over 100+ monitors in the last two decades, without a single crack, having two back to back is beyond just "random" chance.
It looks like the mfring process causes internal stress in the casing such that its going to break some day anyway.My friends was damaged like that but we both think it's from him being a doofus and taking it out of the box without first mounting the stand.
He placed it on a table with a blanket on top and secured the stand. Heard a pop and when in he went to turn it on the center was damaged. Makes sense since all the weight was basically on the 2 ends and the stand is pretty heavy along with him torquing the screws downward.
Just a heads up for noobs, don't do this.
Ya I cringed when all those Youtube reviewers were sitting their G9's face down on a hard surface putting all that pressure on the ends of the screen before attaching the stands. Crazy. I attached my stands, lifted the screen off the curved Styrofoam via the stand, no noises made, immediately looked at both screen surfaces, both were cracked, set it back down on the Styrofoam and sealed boxes back up. Whatever happened to my monitors, must have been some pretty big fault along the way.
And if the guy lowering the monitor into the box at the factory, or the package falling off a pallet or something did my two monitors in, that is a huge design flaw to be that fragile.
Looks like the box isn't up to the worst Fedex can throw at it (split began EXACTLY in the middle top):
Yeah thankfully mine was shipped from LA area via UPS and only had like an hour of transit time and arrived 10AM the next morning after getting tracking the evening before. It's probably bad news for those of you getting it shipped coast to coast.
I think it has more to do with carrier abuse than it does the packaging (but I mean if the packaging can't stand abuse it's the packaging's fault too) since the prior G9's had identical packaging. One big drop is probably all it takes for the center to flex along with the weight of the styrofoam above it holding the stand/etc.
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woah this is wide....
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woah this is wide....
Thats super weird, both of mine were a bit beaten up but everything was definitely intact and the screens were perfect. Maybe they were on the same pallet and were improperly mishandled.I don't know man, my second box on the outside had minimal disturbance. Two monitors shipped by two different carries, there is a flaw in either the screen design to be super fragile or a flaw in the packaging. I would never own one of these outside of return window after experiencing this. Imagine having to move homes or heck even move it to another room and it cracks. You're out $2.5K.
The edges of the outside of both displays need to be pushed back so the curve radius is the same between the two. Right now it has a bit of a "V" shape.
I gotta say that I'm really enjoying this monitor but the DSE is killing me. Mines got dark splotches all over the place. Right now the deciding factor on whether I keep it or not will be if I can grow to stop fixating on it when it's super obvious (panning shots, skyboxes, grey/blue, etc).
Got a pic? You can use this test pattern: https://www.rtings.com/images/test-materials/2015/204_Gray_Uniformity.pngI gotta say that I'm really enjoying this monitor but the DSE is killing me. Mines got dark splotches all over the place. Right now the deciding factor on whether I keep it or not will be if I can grow to stop fixating on it when it's super obvious (panning shots, skyboxes, grey/blue, etc).
I gotta say that I'm really enjoying this monitor but the DSE is killing me. Mines got dark splotches all over the place. Right now the deciding factor on whether I keep it or not will be if I can grow to stop fixating on it when it's super obvious (panning shots, skyboxes, grey/blue, etc).
Yeah I'm debating opting for a replacement but it seems many others are experiencing the same thing and this isn't really a panel lottery thing.DSE and overall bad (gray) uniformity is something that I could never get used to. You should not accept that for this amount of money. Sadly, Samsung is known for bad uniformity, at least on the TV sector.
I gotta say that I'm really enjoying this monitor but the DSE is killing me. Mines got dark splotches all over the place. Right now the deciding factor on whether I keep it or not will be if I can grow to stop fixating on it when it's super obvious (panning shots, skyboxes, grey/blue, etc).