This was a post I made a week ago. OC came and got the monitor, then I got an email 4 days later saying their three technicians could not find a thing wrong with the monitor, they each spent a few hours playing Doom Eternal as a test. They didn't specify that they could update the firmware, they couldn't find the flickering - when I even showed it to my partner and it was not just one game (when you hovered over a menu item in game, the whole screen would flicker, not bad, but enough to notice!). They didn't hear the "tick tick tick..." down by the power socket when in standby, again my partner heard it. Not that serious, but could it get worse? And most grating, they couldn't hear the cracking noise. Now, the noise was worst when booting, or immediately after playing - assuming when the screen was cooling - playing a game. When turning the monitor off the other day, I got a crack (monitor is in the front room) 1.5 hours after I turned it off. Additionally, they couldn't hear the buzz coming out of the back of the monitor (monitor 1 didn't have this noise). My front room is quite when I work and I could hear it.
Now, for £1250 I would receive the same monitor back, after 3 techs would have played on it for a while (say if they scratched it?), with none of my concerns raised or accepted. Na, I'm out.
I had 4 CRG49s when they first came out - each had their issues - I'm not going through this again. It's a lovely monitor, great picture ( did find a lot of my games suffered from fish eye) but Samsung QC is a lottery!
Soo, I plan on getting the LG CX48 or the ROG Swift PG48QU. I have been running the ROG PG348Q for 4 years with no issues whatsoever, quality builds and QC.
Good luck to everyone, a high percentage of you will need it