My XR34 is on the way out...

[Howling]

So yeah... a "fault" I'd been putting up with for the last 4 years (screen intermittently goes black for a second or 2) has been rapidly increasing in frequency this last 2 weeks, from 2-3 times a day to 2-3 times an hour (I suspect a sign that it's on the way out)! It's definitely with the monitor itself, I've been through a few different GPUs and multiple cables (miniDP and DP) - so unless someone knows of the fault and knows a fix, I'm in the market for a new monitor.

The kicker is, I *reeeeeeeally* don't want to pay the prices for the 38GL950 or X35 or equivalents for what is essentially a very minor upgrade (if the GL950 had good HDR then I'd reluctantly pay).. so I'm open to suggestions. I'd like to stick to ultrawide...

Another option I'm considering is I'd planned on picking up a Samsung Q90R in the near future regardless of my monitor status - I could speed up that purchase and have that as a temporary stop-gap while a more viable monitor choice appears - Is there anything on the horizon that's a worth waiting on?

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

See if the B/open box stuff is still running
I got a ad27qd at really good price
It's immaculate other than few bumps and scrapes on the box
The actual monitor looks brand new
Still had sticky plastic on it

 

[Howling]

Update: Instead of the Q90R, I went with the C9 -- so that ought to be here next week.

Still, this UW is going to need replacing at some point.

 

[Howling]

Ok so the C9 came, and the same signal-loss thing happened... which was reeeeeeeeeeeally confusing.. So I dug a little deeper, the Vega64 was hitting 70'C+! Because I'm on a single loop I just use the CPU temps as a guide for how hot everything is - when I first put the loop in the GPU and CPU were always within a few degrees of each other, usually whatever was under most load would be at most 5'C hotter.. I guess over time they've diverged somewhat, the CPU was sitting pretty at 45-50 while the GPU was going past 70. So anyway, I've cut the Vega's power way down so it's back in the low-mid 50s and the black signal-loss has disappeared... Now what's mega confusing is I had a similar thing happening on my XR34 when I had the Fury X before the Vega....

TL;DR - I think the screen's fine -.-

 

[Phixsator]

So yeah... a "fault" I'd been putting up with for the last 4 years (screen intermittently goes black for a second or 2) has been rapidly increasing in frequency this last 2 weeks, from 2-3 times a day to 2-3 times an hour (I suspect a sign that it's on the way out)! It's definitely with the monitor itself, I've been through a few different GPUs and multiple cables (miniDP and DP) - so unless someone knows of the fault and knows a fix, I'm in the market for a new monitor.

The kicker is, I *reeeeeeeally* don't want to pay the prices for the 38GL950 or X35 or equivalents for what is essentially a very minor upgrade (if the GL950 had good HDR then I'd reluctantly pay).. so I'm open to suggestions. I'd like to stick to ultrawide...

Another option I'm considering is I'd planned on picking up a Samsung Q90R in the near future regardless of my monitor status - I could speed up that purchase and have that as a temporary stop-gap while a more viable monitor choice appears - Is there anything on the horizon that's a worth waiting on?

You sure you ain't suffering from the black screen driver bug?

 

[Howling]

I doubt it, it's been happening since long before Adrenaline drivers were even a thing - and it happens on desktop use too, not just in games. High temps seems to exacerbate the issue, but not mitigate completely - had a few signal-losses even sitting at 50C. And I'm calling them signal-loss because the monitor sometimes cycles through inputs searching for a signal when it happens, so it's not just the GPU outputting a blank picture, it's total loss.