PC Hardware Talk Megathread

[DoubleK]

Any monitor deals people have their eye on this black Friday?

Looking at a 34" ultra wide or possibly a 32" flat for work and play.

I have a weird requirement. A smaller box is better as it will be travelling with me between Seattle and Scottsdale.

[TorqueDog]

LG Ultragear GX8 32” OLED 4K UHD Gaming Monitor 32GX850A Dual-Mode UHD 165Hz/FHD 330Hz?

[Meelapo]

Kind of a hardware post but not really. It's related to Steam.


I was connected to the Calgary CDN and was getting download speeds of ~250Mbps. I wasn't sure why it wasn't going faster and I found a post on Reddit stating that you should pick a CDN that's in your neighbouring country and not your country. So I picked Seattle and my downloads jumped to ~820Mbps.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Meelapo

Kind of a hardware post but not really. It's related to Steam.


I was connected to the Calgary CDN and was getting download speeds of ~250Mbps. I wasn't sure why it wasn't going faster and I found a post on Reddit stating that you should pick a CDN that's in your neighbouring country and not your country. So I picked Seattle and my downloads jumped to ~820Mbps.

Could be down to a whole host of factors, depending on which ISP you use and which partner Steam uses for their CDN in Calgary. Network routing isn't always as straightforward as sheer physical proximity, Calgary's CDN could have inefficient routing for your ISP relative to Seattle. Not to mention I'd bet that the Seattle CDN is way beefier than the one they'd put here and can handle far greater capacity.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

LG Ultragear GX8 32” OLED 4K UHD Gaming Monitor 32GX850A Dual-Mode UHD 165Hz/FHD 330Hz?

If money was no object I would have gotten that. Ended up getting this 27" from Newegg.

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by DoubleK

Any monitor deals people have their eye on this black Friday?

Looking at a 34" ultra wide or possibly a 32" flat for work and play.

I have a weird requirement. A smaller box is better as it will be travelling with me between Seattle and Scottsdale.

I feel like the LG 45" Ultragear (21:9) is the perfect monitor unless one needs an IPS due to OLED concerns