Samsung CFG73 1920x1080 QLED 144Hz

megatron · 2 Sep 2017 at 21:56

http://www.144hzmonitors.com/monitors/samsung-cfg73-144hz-curved-freesync-qled/

I just bought one, QLED, 144Hz unfortunately freesync not freesync 2 but its the latest for this resolution. The official monitor of the 2017 playerunknown's battleground tournament apparently. Some of the higher res versions have freesync 2 (there is a 3840x1080). Can't wait any longer for new monitor, having issues with my vega 56 which may be solved with a display port connection.

Its the never model of CFG70

southernorth · 3 Sep 2017 at 15:34

Do you have any issues with the monitor, like text clarity and occasional purple smearing in games?

hornetstinger · 3 Sep 2017 at 17:38

I had this for a couple of days. Good screen but I found it too small, vertically compared to 16:10
Scratches on the screen
Blocky graphics in BIOS.
Screen sits too far back.

Ideally I'd want to get 27" 1440p but that's more than double the price

megatron · 3 Sep 2017 at 18:18

@southernorth I'll report back on wednesday-friday awaiting delivery.

@hornetstinger. I'm set on 1920x1080, hopefully I get a new one with no dead pixels.

I hear there will be a 0.5ms screen coming from AOC.. in April:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/aoc-superfast-freesync2

I fixed my garbled text by reverting to 17.7.2 which is prior to the launch driver for rx vega. I played quake champions with 17.8.2, yet to do so on this driver. I've been doing a bit of benching.

Now that I have that text corruption out of the way, I should be stripping the cooler off to fit my OcUK techlabs AIO gpu cooler.

southernorth · 3 Sep 2017 at 18:48

hornetstinger said:
I had this for a couple of days. Good screen but I found it too small, vertically compared to 16:10
Scratches on the screen
Blocky graphics in BIOS.
Screen sits too far back.

Ideally I'd want to get 27" 1440p but that's more than double the price

I think I saw your review on the rainforest. Did they not offer to send you a 3rd one (with a discount I should hope) or did you give up?

hornetstinger · 3 Sep 2017 at 18:56

southernorth said:
I think I saw your review on the rainforest. Did they not offer to send you a 3rd one (with a discount I should hope) or did you give up?

Couldn't be bothered to get a third one. Even if it wasn't scratched, that blocky text makes it useless if I need to do a windows reinstall or go into BIOS.

chrcoluk · 3 Sep 2017 at 19:26

interesting that VA is still alive, given I think consumer IPS viewing angles are now no better than VA, but VA has much superior blacks, VA might be the way I go in future.

Sadly as is the case with all gamer focused screens I wouldnt get this screen tho as they lacking DVI and VGA ports, a monitor for me needs to be versatile as my main screen has my xbox360, ps4, PC all plugged into it.

hornetstinger · 3 Sep 2017 at 19:50

Not too fussed about VGA, as that's dead. But DVI would be desireable.

chrcoluk · 3 Sep 2017 at 19:57

I still use my xbox360 and it outputs via VGA

so not dead.

There is a lot of devices out there aside from old consoles that use VGA as well.

Not everyone just plugs monitors into high end discrete GPUs

VGA with it been analogue is hard to convert to another input type, VGA to DVI/HDMI is a massive pain. Much less than say DVI to HDMI.

hornetstinger · 3 Sep 2017 at 19:59

360 has HDMI out.

chrcoluk · 3 Sep 2017 at 20:03

didnt know, but sometimes I connect my laptop and that is vga out.

Also my xbox360 uses a complex cable where it outputs the sound signal to my soundcard, not sure if such a cable exists for the hdmi out but I will check out of curiosity.

megatron · 6 Sep 2017 at 20:50

I have the monitor, and I noticed games in combination with my rx vega 56 look a lot nicer. There are 3 quick select settings. I have default, freesync standard enabled and faster response time (no freesync). Also the drivers have enhanced sync, which IIRC is a sync without freesync. I'm a bit bewildered on which settings to try. I didn't have a problem with any except I put it on faster responce time since its is less bright. I'm not using Chill yet.

The drivers specifically for vega 17.7.2 & 17.8.2 have the text corruption in google search bar which can reboot my PC. I've done a problem report, hopefully this will get fixed as its quite bad really. On win 7 64bit. I've tried display port and previously hdmi with the old monitor and problem must be down to drivers (since older drivers which prohibit me playing games do not exhibit this problem).