240Hz, 360Hz+ (480-540-750-1000Hz) displays. Motion clarity

I made the jump. 38” IPS 175Hz to 34” QD-OLED 240Hz. Slight downgrade in resolution from 3840x1600 to 3440x1440. Same PPI so haven’t noticed the difference in resolution or size. Text rendering is a million times better on the IPS though. The fringing is terrible on the OLED and gives me a headache, hopefully I get used to it. Tried toggling clear type on and off and it didn’t help.

Pics taken in sRGB mode ~120 nits on both monitors. Not sure why the OLED looks so saturated in sRGB. Still playing with settings. Have only tried Far Cry 5 in HDR so far with paper white set to 140 nits and it looks amazing. Lights actually look like lights at night! And of course contrast and black level in both SDR and HDR are fantastic. The IPS can’t actually show the color “black” and is a pale gray at best. Paid $1600 for the IPS 3 years ago and $700 for the OLED. Overall happy with the switch.

IPS:
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trinibwoy said:
I made the jump. 38” IPS 175Hz to 34” QD-OLED 240Hz. Slight downgrade in resolution from 3840x1600 to 3440x1440. Same PPI so haven’t noticed the difference in resolution or size. Text rendering is a million times better on the IPS though. The fringing is terrible on the OLED and gives me a headache, hopefully I get used to it. Tried toggling clear type on and off and it didn’t help.
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Is that because the subpixels are arranged in a strange way?
 
trinibwoy said:
Yeah I think so. Software expects the subpixels to be in a straight line and Samsung has them arranged in a triangle.
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That's unfortunate. Maybe the technology was designed to be used in televisions or something. It still looks like an incredible gaming monitor.
 
trinibwoy said:
I made the jump. 38” IPS 175Hz to 34” QD-OLED 240Hz. Slight downgrade in resolution from 3840x1600 to 3440x1440. Same PPI so haven’t noticed the difference in resolution or size. Text rendering is a million times better on the IPS though. The fringing is terrible on the OLED and gives me a headache, hopefully I get used to it. Tried toggling clear type on and off and it didn’t help.

Pics taken in sRGB mode ~120 nits on both monitors. Not sure why the OLED looks so saturated in sRGB. Still playing with settings. Have only tried Far Cry 5 in HDR so far with paper white set to 140 nits and it looks amazing. Lights actually look like lights at night! And of course contrast and black level in both SDR and HDR are fantastic. The IPS can’t actually show the color “black” and is a pale gray at best. Paid $1600 for the IPS 3 years ago and $700 for the OLED. Overall happy with the switch.

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wow, the the contrast is so much better in comparison! Still IPS displays usually have really great colours so it's difficult to match. Maybe checking the Rtings review to calibrate your display can help.

The pixel response of an OLED is basically perfect.
 
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typing from the AW2523HF. Gotta calibrate it.

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this is the monitor.

https://imgur.com/pvGSPgZ

Not connected yet when I took the photo.

https://imgur.com/p8bxix2

The Dell Alienware AW2523HF monitor arrived. Things I noticed. Black is kinda meh, but the text for this size, 24,5", looks MUCH better than on my 32" 1440p 165Hz monitor and on my 32" 1080p TV.

Small monitors are so easy to handle! The colours, without calibration look really good compared to my other panels except the 1080p TV. My 4K TV has great colour but not like this.

Really want to try Resident Evil 2 Remake at 360fps via FG, and many other games. The motion of the mouse is very smooth.
 
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does anyone know any software to limit the max framerate of your display? Intel Graphics Software does that but it stops at 300Hz, I want to lock the framerate to 357Hz
 
Have you tried it at 300, it may be fine
Have you tried Intel® Graphics Command Center?
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You can assign hotkeys in afterburner
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Davros said:
Have you tried it at 300, it may be fine
Have you tried Intel® Graphics Command Center?
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You can assign hotkeys in afterburner
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thanks! I use it, but it just limits the max framerate of the games, I just wanted to limit the max framerate of the display.

What I did is that I locked Resident Evil 2 Remake to 59fps + LS FGx6 = 354fps. So the game always stays within the VRR range. (48-360Hz)
 
arandomguy said:
Not sure exactly what you're asking but if you mean the refresh rate you can use a program called CRU to set custom resolutions and refresh rates.
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thanks, that program is installed in a folder I call Intel where I put drivers and other display related stuff or games likt Quake RT and other games that don't use a store and so on.

I locked the game to 59fps base. Worked like a charm.

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Btw, I am used to VA screen and also have a QLED TV with good local dimming, plus an old 1080TV, and the blacks of this IPS display look a bit washed out, it has mediocre contrast.

The rest is fine.
 
Cyan said:
wow, the the contrast is so much better in comparison! Still IPS displays usually have really great colours so it's difficult to match. Maybe checking the Rtings review to calibrate your display can help.

The pixel response of an OLED is basically perfect.
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Yeah I got the settings from TFTCentral. It’s an MSI 341CQPX. Also checked RTings. The sRGB preset is supposedly pretty accurate out the box but I don’t know how consistent that is across manufacturing runs.
 
Cyan said:
thanks, that program is installed in a folder I call Intel where I put drivers and other display related stuff or games likt Quake RT and other games that don't use a store and so on.

I locked the game to 59fps base. Worked like a charm.

vRPjQwV.jpeg


Btw, I am used to VA screen and also have a QLED TV with good local dimming, plus an old 1080TV, and the blacks of this IPS display look a bit washed out, it has mediocre contrast.

The rest is fine.
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I'm leaning toward motion clarity as being the most important factor for a monitor that's used for gaming. Color accuracy and black levels are great but my eyes can get used to color and contrast limitations. Min-maxing in favor of Hz and response time is probably the right move, though I would like to stick to 1440p going forward. DLSS makes it easy enough to push 1440p.
 
homerdog said:
I'm leaning toward motion clarity as being the most important factor for a monitor that's used for gaming. Color accuracy and black levels are great but my eyes can get used to color and contrast limitations. Min-maxing in favor of Hz and response time is probably the right move, though I would like to stick to 1440p going forward. DLSS makes it easy enough to push 1440p.
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guess you kinda get used to it. It doesn't look like perfect black of course, but nobody is going to say it looks horrible. The colours look much more alive than in any other display I have.

Now that we can, yeah, lots of Hz can make a difference. My next monitor -will wait quite a few years- is going to probably be ultrawide or, depending, a typical 16:9, but with a 540+ refresh rate,. Even moving the mouse feels smooth.
 
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Cyan said:
guess you kinda get used to it. It doesn't look like perfect black of course, but nobody is going to say it looks horrible. The colours look much more alive than in any other display I have.

Now that we can, yeah, lots of Hz can make a difference. My next monitor -will wait quite a few years- is going to probably be ultrawide or, depending, a typical 16:9, but with a 540+ refresh rate,. Even moving the mouse feels smooth.
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If OLED prices continue to drop, my next monitor will almost certainly not be an LCD.
 
homerdog said:
If OLED prices continue to drop, my next monitor will almost certainly not be an LCD.
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OLED is the best technology. I guess LCD won't keep up at more than 480Hz because of CAD? I kinda prefer IPS (this comes from a huge VA fan) when it comes to LCD and what I fear about OLED is the burn-in. It's a lot of money. All my LCDs lasted for years and years. My Dell SD3220DGF still works like a charm these days, almost 6 years later after purchasing it..., and I have a 18 years old LCD still working on my mother's house, which she uses almost daily.

What I know for sure is that my future monitor is going to be from Dell. Customer support has always been really good to me.
 
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OLED is the best technology. I guess LCD won't keep up at more than 480Hz because of CAD? I kinda prefer IPS (this comes from a huge VA fan) when it comes to LCD and what I fear about OLED is the burn-in. It's a lot of money. All my LCDs lasted for years and years. My Dell SD3220DGF still works like a charm these days, almost 6 years later after purchasing it..., and I have a 18 years old LCD still working on my mother's house, which she uses almost daily.

What I know for sure is that my future monitor is going to be from Dell. Customer support has always been really good to me.
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I'm gonna have to wait until OLED is cheap enough that I won't be super pissed if it burns in. So I'll be waiting a while, which is fine since I just got my current monitor and frankly it's great.

Until then if I ever need really good motion clarity, I have a 17in CRT sitting a few feet away in a closet that still works :)
 
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