Sweet Baby Jeebus Alienware 55" 4k120 OLED Displayport

[skypine27]

what exactly did you do with the tape??

 

[Stryker7314]

what exactly did you do with the tape??

Shield the displayport cable with it.

Wrapped the cable from where the DP terminal "plastic" begins from end to end, theoretically reducing EMI/RF contamination of the signal, making for a stronger/higher bandwidth signal. Although signals are digital and either it's received or not, there is still error correction and the "Link Training process determines the maximum possible speed of the connection" for a reason.

 

[skypine27]

Ordered the cable (I need the 6' foot version unfortunately, 3' wont make it) and the tape. Thx.

 

[Stryker7314]

Ordered the cable (I need the 6' foot version unfortunately, 3' wont make it) and the tape. Thx.

I have the 6ft one as well. Tell us what you find. I immediately noticed the smoothness in game and feel like I was missing frames before because 120hz is supposed to be like butter and before it was not for some reason.

Good now though!

 

[Murzilka]

I have the 6ft one as well. Tell us what you find. I immediately noticed the smoothness in game and feel like I was missing frames before because 120hz is supposed to be like butter and before it was not for some reason.

Good now though!

How much tape do you need for 3ft cable?

 

[Stryker7314]

How much tape do you need for 3ft cable?

For the 6ft cable I used the 1in. x 10ft. and applied it in parallel directly from one end to the other and overlapped it to seal it, helps if you have someone else there with you to hold the cable while you run it down the cable. I did not apply it in a spiral fashion around the length of the cable, but I did wrap it around the connector end from where it starts to around the relief to mate it up to the parallel length. I had about 3 ft left over.

Smallest they have now is 2.5 x 10 for $20 but the 1 x 10 comes in stock often and was only $10.

To answer your question the 1 x 10 will be plenty and anything more will do just fine too with some left over, or you can double it up.

 

[skypine27]

I have the 6ft one as well. Tell us what you find. I immediately noticed the smoothness in game and feel like I was missing frames before because 120hz is supposed to be like butter and before it was not for some reason.

Good now though!

Are you sure you were actually getting 120 fps, from a hardware/performance standpoint? 4K at 120fps in almost any modern game....is a Nope. I get like 60-80 fps in Assassins Creed Odyssey. Still feels smooth with g-sync tho

 

[Stryker7314]

Are you sure you were actually getting 120 fps, from a hardware/performance standpoint? 4K at 120fps in almost any modern game....is a Nope. I get like 60-80 fps in Assassins Creed Odyssey. Still feels smooth with g-sync tho

I hear yah but I play an old ass game called Planetside 2 religiously where I maintain 117 fps easily (frame limiter to 117 for VRR purposes), and I definitely noticed the difference. The GPU was pumping steady 117 fps and the display was not as smooth before with the stock long cable and even a 6ft displayport 1.2 cable. Coming from other 120hz/144hz monitors I knew something was up and the 6ft 1.4 cable made the difference. It is a ton of data being transferred and need to keep that bandwidth up.

Modern games definitely take a hit at max settings, I tend to reduce settings where the higher option is not noticeable but taxes the system, or things I flat out don't like such as motion blur, post-processing, vignetting, Depth of Field all that junk that's just non-sense to me

 

[skypine27]

aaaannnnnd shit, I fell asleep and left the monitor on the desktop. Static icons (background wall paper cycles about every 5 x minutes and task bar auto-hides) but icons are stagnant. Probably about 8 hours of those things just sitting there burning

of course when I turned off the monitor, it suggested doing that "pixel refresh" that it seems to do every now and then, and it looks fine today. Before anyone asks.... Windows 10 putting the monitor to sleep after xx minutes does NOT work for me. Probably has to do with the number of USB devices I have connected or some other unknown Windows quirk

 

[kasakka]

aaaannnnnd shit, I fell asleep and left the monitor on the desktop. Static icons (background wall paper cycles about every 5 x minutes and task bar auto-hides) but icons are stagnant. Probably about 8 hours of those things just sitting there burning

of course when I turned off the monitor, it suggested doing that "pixel refresh" that it seems to do every now and then, and it looks fine today. Before anyone asks.... Windows 10 putting the monitor to sleep after xx minutes does NOT work for me. Probably has to do with the number of USB devices I have connected or some other unknown Windows quirk

Did you notice burn in before you turned it off?

 

[skypine27]

Did you notice burn in before you turned it off?

Nope, but I didn't look. Walked into my office, saw the monitor had been left on over night, and was like "FU*K!!!", hit the power button on the remote, agreed to pixel refresh and left the room for a while

 

[Stryker7314]

Nope, but I didn't look. Walked into my office, saw the monitor had been left on over night, and was like "FU*K!!!", hit the power button on the remote, agreed to pixel refresh and left the room for a while

Return of the screen-saver my dude. I have mine to come up at 10 min as a contingency for things just like this. Great monitors always need screen-savers, CRT and now OLED, everything in between was a placeholder

 

[Vega]

People are running OLED's with PC and no screen-saver turned on? Yeesh.

 

[skypine27]

Yup! Well, NOW im running a screen saver LOL

 

[Lateralus]

People are running OLED's with PC and no screen-saver turned on? Yeesh.

 

[skypine27]

Return of the screen-saver my dude. I have mine to come up at 10 min as a contingency for things just like this. Great monitors always need screen-savers, CRT and now OLED, everything in between was a placeholder

Hey bud, about the DP 1.4 cable....

I ordered the same one from your link. I cant get any signal to the monitor using it vs factory cable. Im running a 2080 Ti. Is this the issue?

Ive tested it a fair bit, like I'll run the factory cable out of one of the 2080 Tis outputs and plug it into the monitor, and boom, working signal. Then I'll plug the 1.4 cable into the monitor, and no matter what, i get the "no signal entering power save mode" thing. Ive tried all the DP outputs on my video card (it has 3 x) and none give a signal

The only thing I havent tried yet is rebooting with the new cable plugged in (Im copying some large files right now and need those to finish before I test that)

But any reason you think this cable wouldn't work with a 2080 Ti? I know the 2080 Ti doesnt even support DP 1.4 but I thought thats the kind of card you were running as well. Shame to have wasted all that shielding tape on the new cable if its just gonna end up in the junk box!

Edit: I see you are running at Titan V. I wonder if my 2080 Ti wont even output via that 1.4 cable? Seems really unlikely but who knows??

 

[kasakka]

Hey bud, about the DP 1.4 cable....

I ordered the same one from your link. I cant get any signal to the monitor using it vs factory cable. Im running a 2080 Ti. Is this the issue?

Ive tested it a fair bit, like I'll run the factory cable out of one of the 2080 Tis outputs and plug it into the monitor, and boom, working signal. Then I'll plug the 1.4 cable into the monitor, and no matter what, i get the "no signal entering power save mode" thing. Ive tried all the DP outputs on my video card (it has 3 x) and none give a signal

The only thing I havent tried yet is rebooting with the new cable plugged in (Im copying some large files right now and need those to finish before I test that)

But any reason you think this cable wouldn't work with a 2080 Ti? I know the 2080 Ti doesnt even support DP 1.4 but I thought thats the kind of card you were running as well. Shame to have wasted all that shielding tape on the new cable if its just gonna end up in the junk box!

Edit: I see you are running at Titan V. I wonder if my 2080 Ti wont even output via that 1.4 cable? Seems really unlikely but who knows??

2080 Ti supports DP 1.4 just fine. I really doubt shielding tape will do anything wrapped around a cable. The cable already has a full shield braid in it. Either the cable is defective or you could try a different port on the GPU.

 

[skypine27]

Update, ya a simple reboot fixed the no signal problem.

Now running the new 1.4 cable + shielding (although I never really noticed the problems Stryker was having, I figured "it couldn't hurt" and wasn't expensive)

But speaking of you screensaver Nazis, half the time they dont work. Doesn't work for me. No matter what I set in the windows 10 settings, a screen saver will not come on, nor will the monitor go to sleep. You can google "windows screen saver wont come on" and "Windows wont put my monitor to sleep" and the forum posts are endless. Seems like it usually comes down to a particular USB device plugged. I have so many plugged in between headset, joystick, hell I have an RGB mouse pad lol.....

A screen saver and/or turning the monitor off simply isnt likely to happen over here !

 

[IdiotInCharge]

Biggest issue with screensavers is some application keeping them away. Same with sleep or hibernate.

Would be nice to have a way of listing out culprits, but it's not bad behavior on the part of Windows, it's functioning as designed.

 

[Stryker7314]

Biggest issue with screensavers is some application keeping them away. Same with sleep or hibernate.

Would be nice to have a way of listing out culprits, but it's not bad behavior on the part of Windows, it's functioning as designed.

Noticed that, sometimes on desktop it won't launch and it does in game when I walk away for 10 min, sometimes crashing the game. Agree that screensaver is broken and not guaranteed unfortunately.