1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Newer GPU's are freaking bigger than MOBO's now

 

Costco has this on sale for $299
https://www.costco.com/lg-35-class-ultrawide-curved-wqhd-hdr10-monitor.product.100695387.html

 

Needs more pixels and faster response

 

That's cheap for an Ultrawide in general though; good find!

 

That's like being offered a Miata for free and turning it down for Lambo you can't buy. You can't out drive the Miata yet, the hell you need better for

 

Yeah, I'd pick something else for gaming (faster refresh rate please).

Wife wanted to switch over to the MacOS for her cricut design work so I swapped out her HP for a Mac Mini. I swapped out her display for this 35" LG. She likes it for the added screen real estate and the fact its curved. I personally can't stand it because I have to really strain to see text at it's native resolution. For the sales price, its decent.

 

Yessss but no

Current PC has the horsepower to run several titles at 4k over 100fps; that ultrawide will limit you at 100.

If I still had my old one, you'd be 100% spot on.

 

You can turn up the GUI scale without turning down the resolution to avoid this kind of eye strain. Windows does it by default on high dpi monitors

 

Heck, even for gaming it'd be great.

But overall for that price, that's too cheap for someone not to try if they had an old monitor that needed replacing.

 

M A C

Which I'm sure there is a way to do it, I'm just a PC dude so it's going to take some time. We scaled down the resolution a notch and bumped the refresh rate higher and increased the text size a tad but she'll figure out what works for her soon enough. Big ass display though.

 

I think people get really hung up on this statement without evaluating it. You have to be good enough to be limited by it, it's already moving faster than your brain can process, are you really praternaturally gifted in video games?

 

I got that, you can do it on a Mac too, they're awful compared to windows, but they're not that far behind haha. They have massive dpi monitors in tiny laptops, the GUI scale can be adjusted.

 

Gifted, competitive, etc to hurt my gaming experience? I am absolutely not so that difference won't change after say "60" for the sake of most games.

But visually speaking? That headroom allows for some of those drops and huge fluctuations from something on/off screen, with the combination of reflections and physics generators running. I want a seamless, visual experience cause how else would I enjoy my drinking tonight

 

I haven't kept up with gaming over the last 5 years or so but even back when I was into it 120+hz refresh rate was good enough. Hell, my last display was a 24" LG that topped out at 144Hz. Great little monitor at the time. More than enough for what I played. https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-24GM77-B-gaming-monitor

Now I just have this 32" sitting on the desk, https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-32mn60t-b-led-monitor. No gaming so its good enough.

 

I tried to figure out if I could update Fallout 4 after @Sperrunner posted that trailer the other day. It's been so long I need to pull a refresher on how to do it via steam. Simply updating the game isn't cutting it. I think I have to figure out my old login for (EA, right?) and download it as a DLC update. New Vegas... hahaha

 

Aaah 18 more months of schoool

 

"University of Denver University College" sounds like an AliExpress school.

Does that mean you'll be moving to this side of the mountains?