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JohnG7 said:
I am out, returned my G7 32" today and will not touch another till it is a G8 and ideally with a G-Sync Hardware Module inside it, no clue how this got G-Sync Comp Cert'd (Samsung must have sent a few cherry picked samples).
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What is your issue with the Gsync on the G7? I am using a G9 instead of PG279Qs on my simulator at the moment and it’s smooth as butter for me now.
 
Wiidesire said:
Can you check whether your serial number has N6 or N7 in it? See my signature for explanation.
And are you actually sure it's FB01 and not FA01?

Sorry, that was a typo! Here is my monitors serial number :

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My G9 got delivered on Friday with firmware 1004. I updated to 1005, just for giggles. So far I love the screen, it's fantastic to work on. It came covered in fingerprints which I think has been mentioned on here. But no light leak, no dead pixels, but I have one gripe, when scrolling black text on a white background the text will become thicker, have a greenish hue and the halo effect until the page is static again. Not a biggie, but just something I'm aware of.
 
cdstealer said:
I have one gripe, when scrolling black text on a white background the text will become thicker, have a greenish hue and the halo effect until the page is static again. Not a biggie, but just something I'm aware of.
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I've noticed that on mine too, it doesn't happen when it's at 60Hz in PBP mode, so I think it is just when the pixels are attempting to switch faster that it happens. On this forum when scrolling up and down I notice a black shadow trailing after the white text.
 
G7 32" here, I have mild flickering in game loading screens (not on all of them but a few) nothing whilst gaming or browsing. Apart from that the screen is fabulous.
 
Nvidia here so hopefully these mild flicker issues can be settled down shortly. I will say though for those who are concerned about the curve, don't be I came from using a flat monitor and it's not offputting at all.
 
If the only issue with my monitor was light bleed then I'd consider keeping it, but I've noticed a lot more issues since receiving it on Friday:

1) Although in general I don't get the back light doing a slow "flickering", I do get it in some darker scenes
2) I've noticed very prominent overdrive artifacts when at 240/120Hz with adaptive sync enabled which detracts away from the gameplay experience - in addition, on complex scenes it makes it look like oversharpening and looks nasty (I'm hoping this is an issue with my monitor and not the G9 in general)
3) I dual boot Linux/Windows. Interestingly, PBP works perfectly well under Linux, but not Windows (I use it for connecting to work). When booting into Windows, the monitor will not display any picture until I unplug Display Port 2 and then reconnect it. After that, in Windows, the result is very inconsistent, ranging from any of the following:
ii) one side of the screen appearing as a letter box while the other is normal.
ii) both sides of the screen are almost like a duplicate, in that both have task bars, but only one side has the icons and the Windows 10 search widget, yet at the same time it is corectly acting as an extended desktop (not duplicate screens).
iii) one side has 200% zoom the other doesn't
iv) both sides of the screen end up as quarter of the desktop each, meaning a lot of the desktop is out of view.​
Basically, running PBP under windows is a joke (more of a Windows/driver issue than the monitor to be fair - Linux works fine).
4) Sometimes on clean boot, the monitor will not detect any signal and it takes multiple restarts of the computer before the monitor sees the computer - I think this is a monitor fault because my old monitor detects the computer fine every time.
5) My G9 has a fading away of the display along the full width at the bottom (~5mm, plus a very slight discolouration for about 20mm before that - the slight discolouration is only visible on white screens and certain colours and you have to be looking for it to see it, but the fading away is more obvious)

That's my list so far anyway. I think it's going to have to go back, I'm wondering whether to go for a refund and wait until the QC is better before trying again.... either that or I might try a 38" LG... don't want to though since I like the DQHD format from a productivity point of view.

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Great summary above. I had similar experiences, and found point 4) the most annoying by far for me! So you are not the only one with that issue.

Add to this though that i also had a dead pixel in the middle left of the screen. So frustrating as in my mind, there is no excuse for this as it can be seen with the naked eye and should even be automatically spotted at the factory by a high resolution camera during QC before the screen panel is even fitted inside the monitor frame. What they would rather do is save a few bucks and ship it out anyway and hope you just accept the flaws.

I would even pay a premium for a screen which guaranteed coming with no dead pixels. Same as they bin CPUs why cant they bin screens.
 
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So i only have the light bleed but ive decided to return mine - probably for a refund if no new stock is due any time soon. It does appear however that QC has improved - the light bleed being one issue that's not reported from newer builds. Ill be getting another for sure.
 
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