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Kinda depends on how much you want to spend, and what size you want. If you just want a nice 24" monitor with no frills, the Dell U series is still a good way to go. The U2424H is one we often get at work. $300ish dollars and looks and works well. If you like the 16:10 1920x1200 the older U...

Why are there Vatniks in a tech thread? :p

True, though that said there are some very accurate HT speakers (the SVS MTS speakers were pretty amazing) and it is easier to get one designed for a large room for not too much money. Most powered monitors are designed for nearfield which is great at the desktop since that's what you are doing...

Lots do actually, never ceases to amaze me how much people will spend on video and then just ignore audio. Not just computers either. I've seen people with new shiny $5k 85" OLEDs just using the integrated speakers. Also, I will say that while I don't like computer speakers, I've come around to...

Good luck to them with that. :P They were at least a decade behind the rest of the world, probably more, when it they finally broke up.

Pretty much. They'll start caring if AMD or Intel produce a card that people start buying instead. If GeForce cards start sitting on shelves not selling and people are snapping up cards from the competition, they'll care and lower prices. Otherwise, they won't.

I'm also guessing it is using the newer "12V-2x6" variant which has tightened up tolerances and made a few changes to make it less likely it can be not fully engaged and still deliver power.

They want to move more things to the local system. Probably not everything, some of the LLMs are real heavy on that first "L" (large), but some stuff. There's sort of two sides to the reasons they would do this: 1) From a consumer standpoint, local processing is faster and works even if there...

Ya thats... Ummm... Like why even do that? I mean I get not everything needs to be latest node, we make a LOT of useful chips for lots of products every day on older, cheaper, nodes. Your microwave has a PIC in it, they are not paying to have that fabbed on 3nm. But 350nm? That's so old as to...

I used to do receiver audio, I used an Emotiva XMC-1 hooked to amps hooked to a bunch of SVS M-series speakers. It worked quite well, though I did have to do the second "phantom monitor" thing. That went away when I moved in with my girlfriend, I no longer have room for a whole room-dominating...

ASUS does have an 8k monitor upcoming though they haven't announced a release date yet. It has been shown at trade shows, so it is real and in "getting ready to go" state. The downside is, of course, cost. It is expected to be about 8k dollars :P. But if you want 8k at monitor sizes with what...

I imagine they don't care about that. This probably isn't a "You can't do this, it's against the rules and we'll be mad!" kind of thing. More it is a "This is shit we do not want to deal with, so the official answer is no." The probate system is a pain in the ass, I'm sure they don't want to...

If you find a controller you like for one handed play, I can't recommend Spiritfarer enough for a 2-player game. It has a very deep and touching story, the game play mechanics are simple but fun, and it has no failure state so in a case like yours where you are not playing at peak performance it...

In addition to all the good control suggestions people have made (the MS adaptive in particular) I can suggest some games to think about: Xcom and Xcom 2 are both really fun turn-based games. I know you want non-turn based as well, but of course turn based makes things easier since it will wait...

Could be, I didn't know about that part of it, just the viewing angles, having observed that. It is amazing how wide the viewing angles are. Like WOLED is good, better than IPS, but it does drop off at the sides. QDOLED you can look at practically perpendicular and it still looks great. It is...