My monitor is on the blink.
Literally.
Recently my Samsung monitor started experiencing problems when it comes out of sleep. The back light cycles on and off regularly when it first powers up, and when the back light goes out, the power light goes out with it.
The first time it did this, it only happened a few times, then it flickered badly for a number of seconds before returning to its normal behaviour. It started doing this on Friday, and each time it wakes from sleep it takes longer and longer to break out of the cycle. It blinked for about a minute and a half this morning before it finally resolved itself to flickering for another 20 seconds.
I suspect that it's probably just a capacitor going bad, but it hardly seems worth the cost to repair it when new monitors with similar specifications are selling for remarkably cheap these days.
I'll probably just go with 1920x1080 again since I've been happy with that resolution to date, and those are far and away the cheapest ones out there at the moment.
The problem is that once I peeled back the lid on monitors, it became apparent that I haven't been paying attention to the market since I built this system ten years ago
(In other news, my desktop computer is almost ten years old! Well, pushing nine anyway.)
Once I started researching monitors, I fell down a rabbit hole that I didn't know existed. Do I want to go with an IPS, TN or VA panel? Each have their pros and cons.
Am I a hardcore enough gamer to want G-Synch, or is FreeSync good enough for my needs? My video card has DVI out - does it even support these different synch modes? I'll need an adapter since virtually all monitors now use DisplayPort.
So many questions.
Meanwhile, my monitor is literally on the blink.
atara bought some very cool puzzles from a Kickstarter and they arrived just after Christmas. Here is an in-progress picture of it. I won't post the final picture because the real fun starts after the puzzle is done, and I don't want to spoil the surprise for anyone else who buys one of these.
In addition to being a fun puzzle with a very cool twist, there was a lot of thoughtful design that went into this as well. The pieces were stored in good-quality resealable bags. Aside from the box cover, there were also two more reference pictures inside so that as many as three people could work on it without fighting over the box for reference. This thing was built from the bottom up to be easily re-gifted after completion.
Recently my Samsung monitor started experiencing problems when it comes out of sleep. The back light cycles on and off regularly when it first powers up, and when the back light goes out, the power light goes out with it.
The first time it did this, it only happened a few times, then it flickered badly for a number of seconds before returning to its normal behaviour. It started doing this on Friday, and each time it wakes from sleep it takes longer and longer to break out of the cycle. It blinked for about a minute and a half this morning before it finally resolved itself to flickering for another 20 seconds.
I suspect that it's probably just a capacitor going bad, but it hardly seems worth the cost to repair it when new monitors with similar specifications are selling for remarkably cheap these days.
I'll probably just go with 1920x1080 again since I've been happy with that resolution to date, and those are far and away the cheapest ones out there at the moment.
The problem is that once I peeled back the lid on monitors, it became apparent that I haven't been paying attention to the market since I built this system ten years ago
(In other news, my desktop computer is almost ten years old! Well, pushing nine anyway.)
Once I started researching monitors, I fell down a rabbit hole that I didn't know existed. Do I want to go with an IPS, TN or VA panel? Each have their pros and cons.
Am I a hardcore enough gamer to want G-Synch, or is FreeSync good enough for my needs? My video card has DVI out - does it even support these different synch modes? I'll need an adapter since virtually all monitors now use DisplayPort.
So many questions.
Meanwhile, my monitor is literally on the blink.
atara bought some very cool puzzles from a Kickstarter and they arrived just after Christmas. Here is an in-progress picture of it. I won't post the final picture because the real fun starts after the puzzle is done, and I don't want to spoil the surprise for anyone else who buys one of these.
In addition to being a fun puzzle with a very cool twist, there was a lot of thoughtful design that went into this as well. The pieces were stored in good-quality resealable bags. Aside from the box cover, there were also two more reference pictures inside so that as many as three people could work on it without fighting over the box for reference. This thing was built from the bottom up to be easily re-gifted after completion.