Recent content by Sycraft

I wish they could get the 10% window amount up around where TVs are, because that seem to correspond pretty well with the kind of demand you get in most content. Sure there are some high APL thing that'll try for a lot more, but most stuff there's only a few really bright areas and thus you find...

How do they compare to the Hololens? As you said, that's the real competition for it.

Which would have been fine... if Apple had sold it as such. If this was a "hey here's a dev kit/industrial product for people to start working with," it would be hard to give them crap. The price is in line with that and ya, this stuff has to start somewhere. But that wasn't how it was sold, it...

For sure, I don't mind that boards CAN disable the limits. That's long been a thing with enthusiast boards is you can push limits, often beyond what is reasonable. However it shouldn't be that way by DEFAULT. The default should always be manufacturer's recommendations, then let the user disable...

Well it depended on how good of a sample you had. While they had good yields and plenty of stuff ran faster, they only tested 300a units at 300. So if you had particularly bad silicon, it could still pass in that bin, even if it would have failed in a higher speed. My roommate had one that ran...

One of the first things I did when I built my 13900 system was to set back the Intel defaults in place. It shipped with much higher limits and it was always getting limited by heat. I was a little concerned about it running so hot under load, and it also seemed pretty pointless as there was...

And I think some people forget, you don't usually start good, it takes some experience and work. So Intel's drivers weren't banger out of the gate, that doesn't mean they have to be written off forever. A lot of things that are now good and used all the time kinda sucked in the first iteration...

Fair. At this point my HDR use case is almost entirely games, so I just switch it on when I'm playing (actually most games know how to switch it on themselves). I also go for the more aggressive Level 3 dimming in HDR mode, which makes it more noticeable. I find that in actual content I prefer...

I still tend to leave mine off. You are right it usually isn't that big a deal, but I can see it particularly on sites like Hardforum that use middle gray colors. Also I don't find high contrast to be a real benefit on the desktop so generally I leave it off on the desktop, and only on in games.

It's a hell of a monitor. Has its faults to be sure but on a whole man does it look good.

When you have HDR on Windows has a look at the monitor's gamut (which the inf file should tell it accurately) and if an application isn't HDR does mapping. It isn't always as accurate as a monitor's built in mapping so sometimes it is better to use the built-in sRGB, but if it looks good there's...

Second on the Trivex thing. It is the best optical quality material you can easily get your hand on in glasses and has the lowest chromatic aberration. It is better than some kinds of glass and if you can even find glass these days, most vendors won't tell you anything about it so you have no...

Where I found that ABSL gets annoying is in games that have scenes with lots of text you are trying to read. In particular Octopath Traveler 2 has real issues. I played it on the couch because it seems like a good couch game and the couch is an S95B. Well during "cutscenes" where there's a lot...

Hey, it's a good number. Intel likes that number. It brings them luck. :D Real talk though, it is so obnoxious that companies turned node names in to marketing terms. I dunno who did it first, but nobody's node is actually the size they say it is. TSMC 3nm is not in any way shape or form 3nm...

Also their base price is higher, which makes the lack of RAM less forgivable. Like I get if there's some cheap craptastic computer that is trying to hit a low price that has a small amount of RAM. I still don't like it, as it won't give the user a good experience, but at least I understand: You...