Samsung 49" CHG 90 UltraWide HDR QLED Freesync 2 144hz

JediFragger · 28 Jul 2017 at 18:08

Wow!! I really *really* like that 49" for gaming man!! Not sure how practical it'd be for everything else, but it looks stellar :cool:

bakes0310 · 28 Jul 2017 at 21:06

Total war series would be amazing on that screen but it's a bit pricey for me.

BlackDragon888 · 28 Jul 2017 at 22:14

When do overclockers UK get CHG90 in Stock?

Ayahuasca · 29 Jul 2017 at 09:38

I know these have HDR10 support but realistically they won't be very good at it right? Can't see them having anywhere near the brightness required.

Telecaster · 29 Jul 2017 at 10:47

I'm totally unfamiliar with widescreen monitors, even though it's 1080p how much extra GPU grunt is required to drive the width? What sort of GPU would be a good partner for this?

sadbuttrue · 29 Jul 2017 at 11:08

Telecaster said:
I'm totally unfamiliar with widescreen monitors, even though it's 1080p how much extra GPU grunt is required to drive the width? What sort of GPU would be a good partner for this?

Just take the pixel count as a general guide. This monitor has 100% more than 1080p and 11% more than 1440p.

pmc25 · 29 Jul 2017 at 11:32

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Samsung visited today, with one of their new king of gaming monitors, the 49" as big as a desk, were gonna need a bigger desk monitors.

Though the monitor supports FREESYNC1&2, it also has some new techology where it has a sub 1ms response rate without inducing flicker and everyone was blown away by it. Infact it seem to rule out the need for FREESYNC or G-SYNC as in the fastest mode the fluidity was amazing and tear free. So much we opted to play games in fastest mode, how it works I do not know but here is a couple of videos where the Samsung guy is explaining it:

This is just the same backlight strobe (which does induce flicker) as all their other recent '1ms' VA 144hz monitors. I can't use my 24" version in faster or fastest modes as the flicker with strobe is awful (I know some people don't notice, but I do) and the brightness eyebleeding.

AFAIK, all their 1ms VA products work in exactly the same way, which is a shame.

A 'true' 1ms GTG SVA would be incredible, but it doesn't exist.

You can even see the strobing in the videos when it's switched from normal to fastest. You can see the flicker at the top of the screen.

Gibbo · 29 Jul 2017 at 15:16

pmc25 said:
This is just the same backlight strobe (which does induce flicker) as all their other recent '1ms' VA 144hz monitors. I can't use my 24" version in faster or fastest modes as the flicker with strobe is awful (I know some people don't notice, but I do) and the brightness eyebleeding.

AFAIK, all their 1ms VA products work in exactly the same way, which is a shame.

A 'true' 1ms GTG SVA would be incredible, but it doesn't exist.

You can even see the strobing in the videos when it's switched from normal to fastest. You can see the flicker at the top of the screen.

Only the camera picks up the flicker, not the human eye.

The Halk · 29 Jul 2017 at 15:42

I've been hoping for a screen this size but it seems gsync is desirable... is there likely to be something the same size or larger with gsync soon?

Telecaster · 29 Jul 2017 at 16:53

sadbuttrue said:
Just take the pixel count as a general guide. This monitor has 100% more than 1080p and 11% more than 1440p.

Sorry, that means nothing to me.

Ayahuasca · 29 Jul 2017 at 17:04

Telecaster said:
Sorry, that means nothing to me.

I'm not sure any AMD card at the moment will power it well enough for the latest titles maxed out, but then if you go for a 1080ti nVidia you lose freesync, I'm not quite sure what Gibbo said about not needing freesync/gsync because of that new flickerfree thing is true either, pretty sure the monitor will feel better using freesync unless you play competitive fps but this isn't really a screen for fast twitch shooters anyway.

pmc25 · 30 Jul 2017 at 16:33

Gibbo said:
Only the camera picks up the flicker, not the human eye.

Not in a way as immediately visible as the camera, but certainly enough to cause eye strain, focusing issues and headaches. It's certainly a much more problematic frequency range than PWM backlight brightness adjustment - which many people refuse to go near now. Also, you should be careful claiming that it does not induce flicker ... what if an epileptic takes your word for it, and the strobing induces a fit?

Bottom line, it does induce flicker, because the 'flicker' is how it achieves the result.

wordy · 30 Jul 2017 at 18:28

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Though the monitor supports FREESYNC1&2, it also has some new techology where it has a sub 1ms response rate without inducing flicker and everyone was blown away by it. Infact it seem to rule out the need for FREESYNC or G-SYNC as in the fastest mode the fluidity was amazing and tear free. So much we opted to play games in fastest mode, how it works I do not know but here is a couple of videos where the Samsung guy is explaining it.

Hi there

Have you tested it with an 10 series Nvidia card?

JediFragger · 31 Jul 2017 at 10:49

pmc25 said:
what if an epileptic takes your word for it, and the strobing induces a fit?

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Maurò Brazzi · 18 Sep 2017 at 12:14

Hi all,
Delighted to be a member of Overclocockers
Having just purchased the 27"
I only have a One S ,
Hopefully a PS4 Pro to follow,
Mixed thoughts on this panel.
Got her from Amazon, £ 590 all in ,

Really don't think I'm using full potential of the Monitor.
Would be nice if it came with remote.
The cursor thing on back is quite unresponsive.

Stu · 2 Oct 2017 at 19:04

Maurò Brazzi said:
Hi all,
Delighted to be a member of Overclocockers
Having just purchased the 27"
I only have a One S ,
Hopefully a PS4 Pro to follow,
Mixed thoughts on this panel.
Got her from Amazon, £ 590 all in ,

Really don't think I'm using full potential of the Monitor.
Would be nice if it came with remote.
The cursor thing on back is quite unresponsive.

Please share your "mixed thoughts"!

IvanDobskey · 3 Oct 2017 at 08:48

With the price they want for this, it needs to be 1440p, not 1080.

It's a good idea though, does away with the bezels for people who like multi monitor setups.

21:9 ultrawide is wide enough for me though

JediFragger · 3 Oct 2017 at 09:31

IvanDobskey said:
21:9 ultrawide is wide enough for me though

Same, and I'd have to move the Samsung further back anyhow so the benefits are reduced by doing that.

bimbleuk · 3 Oct 2017 at 09:41

£100 less on one in clearance right now. I've bought many items from there without issue.

Though tempted my sim setup only has a single RX 480 which I can get 75 fps consistent in Project Cars 2 by using FXAA rather than MXAA and turning off the enhanced rear view mirror on a 35" UW 2560 x 1080 monitor but this would put it over the edge and require a better GPU unfortunately.

IvanDobskey · 3 Oct 2017 at 10:04

Bear in mind that this is 4.1m pixels. That's 800k pixels less than a 1440p 21:9 ultrawide. So it won't be as taxing on a GPU as you might think.