When do the next generation GPUs drop?

[rei]

I read lots of QA problems about the build quality on Samsung G7 monitors.

[Tortilla]

@stusser

That’s a good thing, the ability to fix bugs is a positive.

Strong disagreement. The whole “we can patch it later” mentality is why products ship with nasty bugs. Manufacturers who know what their products have to work well out of the box will invest more time in development and testing prior to shipping.

[stusser]

That’s what they used to say about console games. They were still buggy.

[Menzo]

Firmware updates for monitors isn’t something that was invented last week. It’s been years and years.

[Papageno]

That should show up on the manufacturers support website, correct?

I’m not seeing an updated driver nor any new firmware there. It’s a PG27NQ ROG Swift 165Hz G-SYNC monitor BTW.

The only thing I can still think of is to change the desktop refresh rate down to 60 Hz. It’s supposed to support others but maybe that’s it.

EDIT:

As it turns out when I checked on the ASUS forums, there has been a firmware update for my monitor, but for a totally different (and horrible sounding) issue, that I’m not experiencing thank goodness: Firmware Update for ROG SWIFT PG279Q

I guess I could just reset it to factory specs and see if that resolves it.

[Tortilla]

@Menzo

Firmware updates for monitors isn’t something that was invented last week. It’s been years and years.

I know. I still don’t like it.

[Menzo]

@Tortilla

I know. I still don’t like it.

OK, but as far as I know, it hasn’t resulted in manufacturers shipping monitors that were broken until they got a firmware update. You imply that’s what would/will happen.

[Tortilla]

@Menzo

OK, but as far as I know, it hasn’t resulted in manufacturers shipping monitors that were broken until they got a firmware update. You imply that’s what would/will happen.

New firmware appears to fix Samsung G7 Odyssey monitor flickering issue

I didn’t know about that one prior to this post, but about 30 seconds of googling turned up an example.

[Balasarius]

This is a good one.

[Papageno]

Per one guy writing on Tom’s Hardware in 2018,

What I ended up doing was to use the Windows Troubleshooter option: Fix Problems with Windows Update. I ran it several times and it kept finding and "fixing "corrupt update files. I had updates paused. So I turned the update pause off, and tried it again.
This time when it “fixed” corrupted updates files, it seemed to work. And when I ran the troubleshooter again, it found no errors. It also updated about four updates.

Of course, I didn’t experience the issue till April 2020, so I doubt it’s that.

@Balasarius I remember experiencing artifacting like that with the venerable 8800 GT back in the day. The card was an EVGA under their former lifetime warranty so I went ahead and RMA’d it. They sent back one that didn’t do the artifacting but at the same time ran hotter than the original one did. :-(

I wonder if they actually checked out the returned cards back then or would just ship out a refurbished one as a matter of course. I always had a lingering doubt as to whether the card was responsible, because I had futzed with some other stuff while waiting for the replacement.

[Quaro]

My windows air conditioner has firmware updates now. Honestly I kind of love it.

[rei]

3060 going for $609.99 CAD locally might be a sign of normalcy returning soon, I hope.

[KallDrexx]

I have an EVGA 3060 XC that I bought end of May directly from EVGA for $430 ($399 + tax + shipping). I’ve since gotten a 3070 TI and be willing to sell the 3060 for $430 + shipping to a QT3 member whose been around a while that will use it (i.e. not scalp it).

[DaveLong]

I finally gave up on this whole mess and bought a PC.

Dell has an Alienware with a 3080 for $2199 if you use their financing which I typically do for any PC purchase. It’s been four years since my last PC, so instead of waiting around trying to buy a 3080 to put in my current PC, I replaced the whole thing. It’s the only sure way to avoid playing Newegg Shuffles and Stock Apps to get yourself what you want at a somewhat reasonable price.

[Menzo]

Got a link to that PC perchance?

Edit: lol, maybe nevermind. I just looked up their Alienware desktop lineup and every one had this:

Why in the world would they not be able to ship to California?

[DaveLong]

I honestly don’t know. I saw that recently. I just did a quick search and it looks like it has something to do with a California regulation on mandated sleep settings on upgradeable PCs.

[rei]

Would you ship to Canuckistan?

[Aleck]

If you don’t want to ship to Canuckistan, I’ll happily take it off your hands in the domestic USA.

[KallDrexx]

@rei

Would you ship to Canuckistan?

Unfortunately, I don’t think so. My friends have had issues with packages sitting in customs for crazy amount of time and I’m not finding good info on all the fees involved. I don’t really want to risk you sending me a bunch of money and it sitting at the border while we wait to see where it ends up :-/.

[rei]

@KallDrexx

Unfortunately, I don’t think so. My friends have had issues with packages sitting in customs for crazy amount of time and I’m not finding good info on all the fees involved. I don’t really want to risk you sending me a bunch of money and it sitting at the border while we wait to see where it ends up :-/.

No worries! Thanks for looking into it. I was able to get a GPU and send cash from @wumpus but that was before COVID-19 and the shipping delays worldwide.