Ah good gravy. So I went and bought the Philips HUE bridge and play bar set. So I love it, the kids also love it, super fun right? Well, when the PC goes to sleep or is idle I cant make the play bars stop shining. So my choice is to manually turn them off every time, leave them on all the time shining bright ass lights and wasting money (and lifetime of the bulbs), or, use the HUE app itself. Which is besides the point because the reason I bought this crap is so that it syncs with the synapse razer app.
Ah. Serenity now. Guess another option would be to put it into a smart plug and set the hours of the smart plug...
If you're using Amazon's alexa stuff, hue works great with that. Then you can just say "Alexa, turn off hue lights", and you're set. That's how I have all of mine set up. I actually had no idea they were even compatible with Synapse, and I have a bunch of Razer products.
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So in the HUE app, I can set it to go off when the link is gone (computer asleep).
The only minor drawback is that the lights, when back on, start off. But I have a seperate profile for lights that wake them up for all my games and spotify. So not ideal but .. like 90% of the way there.
If you have HUE and Razer, you can make them talk using the HUE app and synapse. you just add the bridge to the synapse app, and then make an entertainment scene in the synapse program.
Pick something on the left side that you don't use much.
Awesome.
I just fired up the steelseries app pre-loaded on my laptop, and was able to remap a key really easily.
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Not sure if this is the right thread but thought I'd ask.
Picked up a new laptop; ASUS FX505.
Speakers sound like absolute crap. Thought I blew them. Connected to bluetooth, sounds the same. Like it's an AM radio sitting in the bottom of a well.
Connect the same speaker to the aux out and it's fine. Thoughts?
Just as an aside I have to say that I find the 24" monitor I have to be quite sufficient for gaming and desktop use. I tend to think bigger is better but I remember trying to game with a 27" monitor, and, unless I was willing to splurge on a really nice one with higher res and good quality, the pixel spacing really degraded the experience. should probably add that the games I play, civ 6, cities skylines etc, dont really require 4k graphics to enjoy
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Yeah, but... it's better in 4k with a bigger screen. Literally everything is better the higher the resolution you can put on it given how close you sit to the screen. I generally go with 1440p because that's what a 1660ti can feasibly handle in most games at 60+fps, but if it's something non-demanding, like Ori and the Blind Forest...
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Yeah, but... it's better in 4k with a bigger screen. Literally everything is better the higher the resolution you can put on it given how close you sit to the screen. I generally go with 1440p because that's what a 1660ti can feasibly handle in most games at 60+fps, but if it's something non-demanding, like Ori and the Blind Forest...
I'm dipping my toes back in to the pc gaming market. I may yet take the plunge.
Absolutely. In a perfect world, you want both but 1440p @ 100+ stable FPS is way better than 4k at 30FPS
But is it better than 4k at 65fps?
30 is borderline unplayable at desktop seating distance.
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My 1440p G-Sync monitor is the single best upgrade I made to my PC. Period. It's hard to explain but playing a game at 144 fps feels so much smoother and I can honestly notice when a game is running at 60 now.
That's really only for FPS though. Anything over 80 or so is barely noticeable in games like Witcher and even less so in sim games. For games where ambiance and atmosphere are the thing, you're inevitably going to think they look better in higher res and on a bigger display. Which is basically what that video showed - they only stopped noticing the difference and preferring the higher frame rate when they were playing Doom, and those are likely people who play more FPS and are just used to the higher refresh rate for competitive purposes.
White Out said he played Civ 6 and Cities Skylines. Those are basically the perfect example of games where your framerate stops mattering at a low count, and resolution makes a massive difference. If he said he plays a bunch of COD and Overwatch, I'd be right there with you saying "yeah, get a 27" 144hz screen".
And again, I almost always game in 1080p or 1440p 120hz depending on which screen I'm using so it's not like I'm hugely biased here.
Edit: I will say that if I could only use one monitor for everything, and I had to keep it at least somewhat reasonable (because otherwise the answer is just "buy a CRG9"), I'd be looking at a 34" 1440p monitor with a refresh rate of 100hz+
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