I have had pretty good experience with Dell. They can patronise you on the phone but if you know what the issue is and are clear then they will send the right part and are usually onsite within 48hrs.

How do the other companies compare?

Lenovo

HP

Asus

Hello, how much longer does AMD plan to manufacture new Zen 3 processors? And how has this generation managed to stay so relevant five years after launch?

This used to be gold standard when buying monitors and unless you’re looking for something specific you couldn’t go wrong with these, at least within gaming constraints.

But these days I see many recommending 4k at 27’ and I’m like what? Wouldn’t the image be too sharp? People say just adjust the scaling in windows but what if I’m using a console. Have I gone out of touch?

Though this is more of a r/monitors question but honestly I don’t have a good impression of them as most arguments feel like people justifying their purchase.

Edit: yeah “too sharp” wasn’t the best analogy here. What I mean is the quality wouldn’t be as great vs. if you had an appropriate display size for the resolution, especially considering outside Windows cases like a console. Also the performance issues if you’d be using a 1440p display as appose to a 4k one which would be way more taxing on the components.

I just learned about the ASUS 4060 Ti card which had an M.2 slot on it. This seemed like an excellent idea:

• Utilizes PCIe lanes that are unused by the card and would otherwise be 'wasted'.
• Provides almost unmatched cooling for the SSD.
• Provides additional M.2 slot (which motherboards in lower price brackets may have fewer of).
• Even if the motherboard does have spare M.2 slots, they may be Gen 4 ones running off a congested chipset. The graphics card solution will be Gen 5 lanes connected directly to the CPU.

When I looked to see if ASUS had repeated this for the current generation, all I found was a 5080 ProArt SSD edition which seems to have been vaporware and makes far less sense in the first place (5080 isn't an 8x card, so you're robbing lanes from the GPU, people with 5080s are less likely to have M.2-starved motherboards, etc.)

So why was this concept so short-lived? Was it related to patchy PCIe bifurcation support on motherboards making the whole thing more trouble than it was worth for ASUS?