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prjwebb said:
I'd take that scratch over the flickering tbh. If you change it you might end of with one of many duds.
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Agreed I could end up with a dud, if so, that’ll go back too. The thing is, the flickering etc may be resolved with firmware and driver updates, the scratch however won’t be.

I also need to think of the resale value if/when the time comes.

I am really disappointed. Now I’m £550 down and no monitor.
 
Very interesting...

The Swedish Samsung web page for the Odyssey G9 states that "a graphics card that will soon be released is required in order to activate Adaptive Sync at 5120x1440 @ 240 Hz, until then the recommended setting for Adaptive Sync is 5120x1440 @ 120 Hz".
 
dudewheresmybrain said:
Very interesting...

The Swedish Samsung web page for the Odyssey G9 states that "a graphics card that will soon be released is required in order to activate Adaptive Sync at 5120x1440 @ 240 Hz, until then the recommended setting for Adaptive Sync is 5120x1440 @ 120 Hz".
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I read a joke tweet the other day that the G9 was delayed in order to launch alongside the Nvidia 3xxx cards.....
 
So I after leaving a review of the return/exchange process on trustpilot they contact me. They have agreed an advance return and as soon as the courier collects they can send a replacement for delivery tomorrow. Problem is, collection is due between 5pm and 7pm, and they close at 6pm, so thanks to Yodel (sigh) it may or may not be here tomorrow. I have to say their customer service has been really good, just a shame you have leave a bad review to get the response needed, it shouldn't be this way for such an expensive item (or any item for that matter) - although if I had spare cash I'd just order another and ask for a refund on this one.
 
dudewheresmybrain said:
Very interesting...

The Swedish Samsung web page for the Odyssey G9 states that "a graphics card that will soon be released is required in order to activate Adaptive Sync at 5120x1440 @ 240 Hz, until then the recommended setting for Adaptive Sync is 5120x1440 @ 120 Hz".
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From what I've read and it may have already been mentioned on this thread, in order to get the full 240Hz, you must have a GFX card that has both DP1.4 and DSC. Without this you will only be able to run at 120Hz. I've not had a GFX card for years, so I plopped a GTX 1660 Ti in my system which doesn't support DSC. Thankfully, I'm not going to be gaming on my main system, but will connect a console at some point.

Found this on techradar.
We reported on a possible September launch for both AMD and Nvidia’s new series. Not only are there rumors that seem to support that, but Nvidia’s flagship could launch with an ungodly amount of vRAM. Most likely the GPUs will go into production very soon with an unveiling in September 2020.
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That is not true, you only need DSR to get 10bit at above 144hz.

The NV 1000 series which has no DSR series can run this monitor at 240hz@8bit or 144hz@10bit.

FYI, I tried a custom Res/HZ @ 165hz and it dropped to 8bit.

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I never said DSR. I said DSC which is image compression so that more data can go to the screen which then get faster refresh rates. It has nothing to do with colour depth. :)

A more important feature of DisplayPort 1.4 is the introduction of Display Stream Compression 1.2 support (DSC). As a visually lossless encoding technique, DSC is a fantastic way to get more for your cabling and with DisplayPort 1.4 and DSC, you can support 4K at up to 120Hz with 30-bit/px color and HDR-enabled, or 8K at up to 60Hz.
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I meant DSC and know exactly what is is and does (I am getting confused by all short-terms and it should have been obvious by my comment and screenies I was not talking about DSR).

I am talking about the same subject as you are so what I just told/showed you above stands, a NV 1000 series GPU doing 2560x1440p @ 240hz be it 8bit added to fact this monitor is not a true 10bit it is 8+2.

FYI a higher colour depth requires more bandwidth so does a higher refresh rate so both together even more so, I assume the new GPU's may/should have DP 2.0.

I am not going by what I read somewhere, I have actually tried it and run normally at 144hz as if I do run 240hz my GPU does not idle @ 139mhz.
 
But I think he’s talking about the G9 which is 5120 x 1440 and so will need DSC to support 240Hz refresh rate without chroma sub sampling
 
No clue or if he even has the monitor yet (G7/G9). :)

I did read something about that so that would point to newer DP 2.0 /DP 2.0+DSC which is about time.
 
I believe the G9 can run at 5120 x 1440 and 240Hz using a single DP 1.4 connection and DSC without chroma sub sampling. Not sure if that’s at 8 bit or 10 bit though
 
Noticed on Reddit a guy from Norway had his G9 delivered today with the bezel peeling still present after all this time pretty shoddy tbh tempted to cancel mine as cannot be bothered to go through all the hassle of a return.
 
The G7 27 inch, is currently on deal of the day in case anyone is interested, with a whopping 3% discount!!!, I have seen more generous discounts for a mouse mat LOL....

Considering the current custer**** of a launch, and Samsung's terrible QC, I intend on waiting till end year/next year before making any kind of buying decisions with regards to gaming screens, as I will be buying 2 different ones, so need to get it right....

Still OC, £20 saving on an already OVERPRICED monitor for £550 is not impressive...
 
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JohnG7 said:
That is not true, you only need DSR to get 10bit at above 144hz.

The NV 1000 series which has no DSR series can run this monitor at 240hz@8bit or 144hz@10bit.

FYI, I tried a custom Res/HZ @ 165hz and it dropped to 8bit.
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Dropped pictures to avoid space hogging, but I just bought G7 27'' and have bee experimenting with those settings from your pictures.
I have set my both monitors to have 10bpc, but also instead of RGB have set both of them (Dell U2718Q and Odyssey G7) to YcbCr444. Any reason to keep it on RGB as you have??

In G7 have turned off Adaptive Sync and set response time to Fast and 240hx refresh and have very weird behaviour where one of my monitors would completely lose picture without any known to me way of restoring it, to point where I had to resort to removing power cable.
It seems like Netflix app on Win10 is unable to be moved between screens without making that behaviour.
 
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