Parallax Project
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Smexy!
So, this arrived.
This is the LG 29UB55-P. The best way to explain how big this monitor is, is by telling you that my desk is 200cm long and I can barely fit everything on it. Images on this panel look way better than those on my AOC monitors. There is no light bleed from the edges and the black are actually black! Well chuffed with this monitor.
Performance wise, my Valley 1.0 score at 1920 x 1080 was 2441 @ 58.3fps when overclocked, this was a 11% increase over stock clocks, 2560 x 1080 the score is 1855 @ 44.3fps. Tomb raider went from 51.8fps down to 41.5fps. I am losing more than what I gained at 1080p through overclocking. Need to try and push these overclocks a bit further or turn down the settings. Either that or spend another £370 on another GPU, water block and back plate. What do you guys think?
Even although the performance has dipped, the overall experience is far better, 21:9 is more emmersive and the colours are pin sharp. I couldn't go back to gaming on a TN panel after using this.
This is the LG 29UB55-P. The best way to explain how big this monitor is, is by telling you that my desk is 200cm long and I can barely fit everything on it. Images on this panel look way better than those on my AOC monitors. There is no light bleed from the edges and the black are actually black! Well chuffed with this monitor.
Performance wise, my Valley 1.0 score at 1920 x 1080 was 2441 @ 58.3fps when overclocked, this was a 11% increase over stock clocks, 2560 x 1080 the score is 1855 @ 44.3fps. Tomb raider went from 51.8fps down to 41.5fps. I am losing more than what I gained at 1080p through overclocking. Need to try and push these overclocks a bit further or turn down the settings. Either that or spend another £370 on another GPU, water block and back plate. What do you guys think?
Even although the performance has dipped, the overall experience is far better, 21:9 is more emmersive and the colours are pin sharp. I couldn't go back to gaming on a TN panel after using this.
Soldato
Presumably this is one of the new fast IPS panels that offer better quality at almost TN speeds - sorry cannot be bothered to look up the model number 
Interesting to see someone's reaction to testing this as it was something I was looking at for my next monitor...you know, with my infinite pot of money
All I need is the GTX980 (for G-Sync) to go with it
..oh wait, the next one that's coming out...no, the one after that!
You can always list after the next shiny tech but unless you have a bottomless pocket you're gonna have to reduce settings until you can afford it. OC will only get you so far and it looks to me like the gains (real world performance) are getting less with each new gen - I looked at OCing my 580 and I could double it's power consumption for an additional 3fps...I didn't bother.
Apologies if this is a disorganised rant (late and tired) but good to know the IPS is worth saving up for
Edit: Also meant to say "Nice build". You might want to consider leaving more air gap at the top of your res unless you've got pressure relief in there somewhere. Depending on the delta of your coolant temp it can expand and raise the pressure. If your fittings let that out round the edge of the hardliners....colourful language may follow. Let's just say my carpet thanked me for my choice of colourless coolant!
Interesting to see someone's reaction to testing this as it was something I was looking at for my next monitor...you know, with my infinite pot of money
All I need is the GTX980 (for G-Sync) to go with it..oh wait, the next one that's coming out...no, the one after that!
You can always list after the next shiny tech but unless you have a bottomless pocket you're gonna have to reduce settings until you can afford it. OC will only get you so far and it looks to me like the gains (real world performance) are getting less with each new gen - I looked at OCing my 580 and I could double it's power consumption for an additional 3fps...I didn't bother.
Apologies if this is a disorganised rant (late and tired) but good to know the IPS is worth saving up for
Edit: Also meant to say "Nice build". You might want to consider leaving more air gap at the top of your res unless you've got pressure relief in there somewhere. Depending on the delta of your coolant temp it can expand and raise the pressure. If your fittings let that out round the edge of the hardliners....colourful language may follow. Let's just say my carpet thanked me for my choice of colourless coolant!
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Presumably this is one of the new fast IPS panels that offer better quality at almost TN speeds - sorry cannot be bothered to look up the model number
Interesting to see someone's reaction to testing this as it was something I was looking at for my next monitor...you know, with my infinite pot of money
..oh wait, the next one that's coming out...no, the one after that!
You can always list after the next shiny tech but unless you have a bottomless pocket you're gonna have to reduce settings until you can afford it. OC will only get you so far and it looks to me like the gains (real world performance) are getting less with each new gen - I looked at OCing my 580 and I could double it's power consumption for an additional 3fps...I didn't bother.
Apologies if this is a disorganised rant (late and tired) but good to know the IPS is worth saving up for
Edit: Also meant to say "Nice build". You might want to consider leaving more air gap at the top of your res unless you've got pressure relief in there somewhere. Depending on the delta of your coolant temp it can expand and raise the pressure. If your fittings let that out round the edge of the hardliners....colourful language may follow. Let's just say my carpet thanked me for my choice of colourless coolant!
We are all allowed a rant every now and again haha. I hear what you are saying. The technology is moving so fast these days and people get sucked in by all of the marketing. People are scared to buy things like monitors incase a month later a newer better one will come out wether it be a G-sync or Freesync one. How important are these monitors?
My rationale behind choosing this panel was simple. It is IPS which for general image quality quality can only be beaten by amoLED. An amoLED PC monitor would be a game changer. G-sync and the like aren't game changers. What they are offerering for you hard earned cash is zero screen tearing, something I haven't witnessed much with any panel I have used. I have only seen it in a few games. It's just marketing. Playing games in ultra wide is awesome. The extra field of view is great and can only be beaten by a tripple monitor setup, where all 3 monitors would need to be identical, and you would want good monitors of course. I've played a few films on it too and watching a film at 21:9 without the black bars at the top and bottom is also very good. On it's fastest setting the response time is 5ms, 3ms down on my old monitor (not that I can tell the difference). Our brains don't process what we see as quickly as that. And lastly, it 60HZ which is the minimum I would accept. I think 60 fps is buttery smooth.
In all honesty, I think everyone should go ultrawide if they can. At the moment 4k is only for the rich and irresponsible. A good 4k panel and 2x 980's/ 290x's will skin you £2k.
I would reccomend the LG panel but there are other better ones out there, but for £240 it is bloody good.
When it comes to OCing GPU's, it is largly a waste of time as the biggest chunk of performance has been gained by the factory overclock. The Inno3d sits a 1290MHz at stock and I can squeeze another 225 MHz out of it with no further adjustments. This again is marketing. These fancy coolers and multi phase power designs get people nowhere really. The Inno3d is the cheapest 970 out there and doesn't Perform any worse really than the Strix card.
I have bought what I needed and that is all. No need to go x99 and Titan X here.
Thanks man, much appreciated
. I did consider leaving a bigger gap but I will check the level in a weeks time, there are still small bubbles surfacing every now and again. I left a minute gap in my previous build and I had no issues but it is better to be safe than sorry.
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I never got bored of the red and black theme. Well done looks great
Soldato
The first water cooled build I did was passively cooled so the temperature delta of the coolant was pretty high and I got burned when the externally mounted flow cheap plastic flow indicator cracked from the pressure...so I'm perhaps more paranoid than most on that front. It also explains why I favour colourless coolant after a friend's advise proved pertinent: "Go with the colourless, it won't look so bad when it pours ** If you must swear pleases fully star out the word ** out all over your carpet!".
Is it just me or is coolant like silicon sealant? No matter how careful you are it ends up somewhere (or everywhere) you didn't want it!
We are all paranoid over something if we have had a bad experience. Yeah coolant tends to go places you don't want. you can be the most careful person on the planet and still manage to spill some.
One thing to remember is that while the coolant wants to escape the loop under pressure, air also wants to get in due to general barometric pressure. When the coolant creates a wet seal at the seal points, air can't get in thus coolant cant get out. Simple physics