The new Samsung Odyssey G9 Mini Led

My panel is fine, no dead pixels however there're some usual VA light bleed. Not too concerned since local dimming at High completely gets rid of it.
HDR gaming is fine for me too except for Division 2 which won't work at 240Hz but fine at 120Hz. Make sure you set the Windows10 HDR/SDR slider all the way to the max when gaming. It helps improve the contrast and brightness.
I did mention some popping, but it's definitely less loud and less frequent than the previous G9.
My old G9 just pops whenever I change brightness in SDR, using HDR, starting up, shutting down (probably heating up and cooling down). Current G9 Neo doesn't do that but I just hear random pops/creaks some times but 90% of the time it's fairly quiet.

Scanlines are still there at 240Hz when viewing a certain image.

It's still a fantastic monitor for gaming and productivity. I was just trying out the HDR between the two monitors last night. Local Dimming works so much better now

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I wish PBP was a bit smarter. For example, when one of the sources shuts down, you're left with a blank screen on one half of the monitor. It would be helpful if the other source would then fill the entire screen. Instead, you have to turn off PBP via the menu, then the monitor turns itself off if you don't quickly change the input source! The auto source doesn't seem to work if the source is already active.
 
grumpybeard said:
@MajorDatuk thanks for sharing your experience to date.

still think it’s crazy for such a premium monitor to be making noticeable noise 10% of the time your use.

really does beg question how much testing and redesign effort Samsung actually did
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lol probably not much but I have to say it's much much more quieter than before. The previous G9 just drives me insane that I'm sending it back. Otherwise I would have kept it.
They did redesign the back cable cover with less clips now. Perhaps based on the feedback that people were complaining it was difficult to remove the back.

I'd love to see a tear down of both monitors to see if any changes were made to the chassis. They may have re-enforced the sides I think as I did the bend test and I couldn't get it to pop.
 
Was anyone else seeing scanlines on their desktop at 240hz? I seem to, they go when at 120. Will have a play this evening as you don't see them while in games. Have another 1440 144hz monitor running above so perhaps it's all too much for the 3080?
Anyway, games are wow. Looking forward to trying some more later.

HDR videos looked amazing and honestly not far off my oled, although hdr mode in windows is a bit poop so stays off when not needed.

Trying to get the thing to behave with the work laptop now but think the hdmi port on the lappy won't allow the full res. Have a usb c - hdmi cable on the way so fingers crossed that will work.
See win11 will have the ability to customise how you can snap organise your windows. Will be really needed on this beast as only having the basics ones won't make best use of all the real estate.

edit: is the samsung support page up for firmware downloads yet? Just wondering as heard there's been some new ones but struggling to find them
 
Well I finally got mine - I still had to recover it from the driver who was trying to deliver it to a neighbour! No time to even open the box - I'll have to check it out tomorrow. I was feeling confident about pixels until the post by @1Deep.
 
Washout said:
Was anyone else seeing scanlines on their desktop at 240hz? I seem to, they go when at 120. Will have a play this evening as you don't see them while in games. Have another 1440 144hz monitor running above so perhaps it's all too much for the 3080?
Anyway, games are wow. Looking forward to trying some more later.

HDR videos looked amazing and honestly not far off my oled, although hdr mode in windows is a bit poop so stays off when not needed.

Trying to get the thing to behave with the work laptop now but think the hdmi port on the lappy won't allow the full res. Have a usb c - hdmi cable on the way so fingers crossed that will work.
See win11 will have the ability to customise how you can snap organise your windows. Will be really needed on this beast as only having the basics ones won't make best use of all the real estate.

edit: is the samsung support page up for firmware downloads yet? Just wondering as heard there's been some new ones but struggling to find them
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Yup I still see scanlines at 240Hz unfortunately. But thankfully 120hz support 10 bit now so I don't mind staying on that. I run the monitor off USB c through my laptop too, no issues at high res :) I'm surprise how well the Legion laptop performs on such a large monitor. Sometimes I forget I'm on a laptop.
 
therealdippy said:
Well I finally got mine - I still had to recover it from the driver who was trying to deliver it to a neighbour! No time to even open the box - I'll have to check it out tomorrow. I was feeling confident about pixels until the post by @1Deep.
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It's really annoying me, one single stuck blue pixel. Doesn't appear on all colour backgrounds and not on white which is why I didn't spot it at first but does on black which is so obvious.

Doesn't look like it's going to be fixable, grrrr.
 
therealdippy said:
Where is it and what have you been doing to try to fix it?
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It's about a quarter of the way in from the right, around 2cm above the bottom bezel. Bright blue and draws attention whenever there's a pitch black picture.

I've tried jscreenfix, UDpixel and even applying some pressure to the area to see if that can shock it into action but alas nothing. Not sure what Samsung's take is on dead/stuck pixels, need to check that out.
 
Oblivion said:
How did you fix it!?
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I spent hours running UDpixel but that didn't do anything I thought. Switched the screen off for a few hours and just switched it on now and voila, it's no longer there. Weird but I'll take it!

Crossing my fingers that stuck pixels aren't something that come back later......
 
grumpybeard said:
@MajorDatuk thanks for sharing your experience to date.

still think it’s crazy for such a premium monitor to be making noticeable noise 10% of the time your use.

really does beg question how much testing and redesign effort Samsung actually did
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grumpybeard said:
So quiet from the G9 Neo owners club! Huge buyers remorse or too much fun being had! ;)

How’s the new display going. Anyone experiencing popping yet? Confirmed HDR issues? Anyone using it for productivity, more specifically coding?

def want one, on the fence about jumping now or hoping for price reduction in next few months.
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Considering the horrible issues early adopter G9 owners had to deal with, I imagine many buyers are rightfully sitting back and waiting to hear about any issues
 
There do seem a fair few issues, HDR still hit and miss across different applications in 2021. The main one I am still surprised there is the scan lines issue, suggesting DP 1.4a and DSC can't cope with the resolution and 240Hz, so a significant limitation. Sitting back and waiting for Display Port 2.0 is probably the best thing to do right now! It's been around since 2016 so maybe our friends at nVidia, Samsung etc can accelerate their 'drip feeding' strategies and release it already on their next GPU, Monitors etc.
 
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Looks a lot different to my old 2019 g9. Colours seem off in hdr. What settings are you using? On both monitor and nvidia control panel. I normally use Gsync on, vsync on and Ull on ultra. The blacks are awesome on this. Not seen any scan lines at 240hz either. How can I test for this?
 
Colours are off in HDR Dynamic so stick with HDR Standard mode, even then it's off a little but no where as bad as Dynamic.

Think we'll need to wait for a FW update to resolve.
 
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