The new Samsung Odyssey G9 Mini Led

I don't consider myself an early adopter. It took so long for me to get certain parts for my new PC that I only just got ready to buy a new monitor. I would have bought the current G9 if it weren't for the Neo becoming available. So for me there is no risk - any improvement over the current G9 is a bonus.
 
I had quick test in the last half hour. Looks like the scanline is still there at 240hz. I wonder if there's a limitation of panels.
But changing to 120Hz got rid of the issue. I think I could live with that. Also you could do 10bit in 120Hz now which I'm happy to stick with. Previously it was only stuck at 8bit.
I did try out a few HDR videos but my room is too bright to see the effects. I'll have to wait until this evening.

Had a quick go at Forza Horizon 4. Had no issues with HDR, it looks the same as my previous G9. Bumping up the Dynamic HDR makes the colours pop and seems to have a bit more contrast.
I'm running on my Legion 5 laptop with RTX3070.
Happy to say no pops yet even at HDR mode with 100% brightness.
I did try bending the corners of the panel a bit and couldn't hear any pops unlike the previous one. Makes me wonder if Samsung did fix the flexing issue.

Happy to report I have no dead pixels. Panels looks good so far.

Still early days now and will continue to test the unit.


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redkrptonite said:
Have you set it up yet?
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Had a quick play of HDR on netflix and youtube, all good so far. Nvidia control panel reports this one as HDCP capable at 240hz which is an improvement over the old G9, that annoyingly wouldn't so you had to drop to 120hz for some apps/websites to play 4k.

Still can't set 3440x1440 from within Nvidia control panel at 240hz, grrrrr.

No dead pixels I think, going to test HDR in games though I don't have too many HDR ones, just Borderlands 3 and Gears 5 that I know of off the top of my head.

Will get on to some PBP testing a little later.

Also on fw 1005.0, is there a newer one already?
 
Here are my findings so far.

I had issue playing Division 2 in HDR at 240Hz, everything is washed out and looks muddy. However switching down to 120Hz fixed the issue with colour saturation and contrast the way it should be.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey doesn't seem to activate HDR at 240Hz but works fine at 120Hz.

I suspect it how's the games implement HDR as I had no problems running 240Hz & 120Hz HDR on WatchDogs: Legion, Forza Horizon 4, StarWars: Squadron and DeathStranding. Colours were punchy in HDR Dynamic.

I've been running the monitor hot at 100% brightness HDR and switching back to 30% brightness, back and forth. No pops or weird creaks 'yet'. Hopefully it stays that way.
 
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