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Samsung CFG70 24" 1080p 144hz 1ms 1800R Curved Monitor
Age: > 3 Years
Price: See notes!
Warranty: Nope it's expired. I have invoice from original buyer (I'm 2nd I think). It's through Evetech, but who cares at this point?
Packaging: Full
Condition: Great, except for warm-up issues. See notes.
Location: Bramley/Melrose/Sandton
Reason: Upgrading
Shipping: You organize and assume all risk.
Collection: Sure or meetup in surrounding area within reason.
Link: C24FG70FQN Monitors - LC24FG70FQNXZA | Samsung US
Notes:
TL;DR: This monitor requires a warm-up time during cold weather. Now that spring has started, the issues have disappeared and it works without issue. It's very subject to the ambient temperature of the room it's in. In the colder months, it exhibits artifacts at first startup and I have to wait for it to warm-up and sort itself out. Price is down below.
This monitor suffers from cold start-up issues. I have been through one winter with this monitor, so I've only found out recently.
Now that the weather is getting warm, the issues have disappeared, but they'll be back in colder weather.
Once it warms up, it works perfectly in games and all other applications.
This warm up time can take anywhere from seconds up to 5 minutes, during which you'll see vertical (and some horizontal) banding such as:
(not the monitor, but close enough to get an idea of what's happening)
I thought I'd open it up and see if any of the capacitors were wonky, but this problem seems to be panel related as per comments on:
There's reddit threads with some other users suffering the same or similar problems.
So because no warranty and due to the warm-up problem (which I'm being VERY up-front about), the current asking price is R2000 (neg).
The remedy to try running at 120hz didn't really work for me and I'm running on DisplayPort. It's too warm now to test other solutions anyway (like HDMI, 100hz, etc...)
FYI
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Age: > 3 Years
Price: See notes!
Warranty: Nope it's expired. I have invoice from original buyer (I'm 2nd I think). It's through Evetech, but who cares at this point?
Packaging: Full
Condition: Great, except for warm-up issues. See notes.
Location: Bramley/Melrose/Sandton
Reason: Upgrading
Shipping: You organize and assume all risk.
Collection: Sure or meetup in surrounding area within reason.
Link: C24FG70FQN Monitors - LC24FG70FQNXZA | Samsung US
Notes:
TL;DR: This monitor requires a warm-up time during cold weather. Now that spring has started, the issues have disappeared and it works without issue. It's very subject to the ambient temperature of the room it's in. In the colder months, it exhibits artifacts at first startup and I have to wait for it to warm-up and sort itself out. Price is down below.
This monitor suffers from cold start-up issues. I have been through one winter with this monitor, so I've only found out recently.
Now that the weather is getting warm, the issues have disappeared, but they'll be back in colder weather.
Once it warms up, it works perfectly in games and all other applications.
This warm up time can take anywhere from seconds up to 5 minutes, during which you'll see vertical (and some horizontal) banding such as:
(not the monitor, but close enough to get an idea of what's happening)
I thought I'd open it up and see if any of the capacitors were wonky, but this problem seems to be panel related as per comments on:
There's reddit threads with some other users suffering the same or similar problems.
So because no warranty and due to the warm-up problem (which I'm being VERY up-front about), the current asking price is R2000 (neg).
The remedy to try running at 120hz didn't really work for me and I'm running on DisplayPort. It's too warm now to test other solutions anyway (like HDMI, 100hz, etc...)
FYI
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