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there's only one user with a 7680x4320 monitor, who's the fortunate? I'm a bit jealous. :P

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

Pity there's no option to put in the refresh rate manually. My new Gigabyte M27Q is 170hz but 165 is close enough.

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

Ha ha, that's hilarious. Do they use something like the Matrox cards to drive them all at once? I mean if I counted all of my monitors in total... I have a lot! Granted, some of them are CRTs...

Pity there's no option to put in the refresh rate manually. My new Gigabyte M27Q is 170hz but 165 is close enough.

My issue with the higher refresh rate monitors is that most of the games that'll actually take advantage of such a thing, still struggle to get to 40fps on high end hardware... (mind you, that's with all the extras turned on!)

I wish the statistics would include cpu core count


Last edited by doomwarriorx on 26 April 2021 at 7:12 am UTC

I wish the statistics would include cpu core count

How could we miss this?!?

It's kinda redundant to ask for CPU model AND core count. The latter can be extrapolated from the former. Core counts are a pretty useless metric anyway, especially when it comes to a gaming context.

It's kinda redundant to ask for CPU model AND core count. The latter can be extrapolated from the former. Core counts are a pretty useless metric anyway, especially when it comes to a gaming context.

I consider a huge list of CPU model names useless.
(And it seems Liam found that, too, as it's not even shown in the statistics?)

The problem with CPU Model is we take user input on that, we aren't listing them in a database like we do with GPU models so it makes it difficult. Eventually I plan to upgrade that to rely on a database too, as then we can accurately store core counts and such. Remind me on it in a month or two :)

I'm curious about people DE who use standalone WM. What is your WM ?

Personnaly, I use standalone OpenBox.

Would you mind adding opensuse tumbleweed, it really is different from opensuse (leap)

The problem with CPU Model is we take user input on that, we aren't listing them in a database like we do with GPU models so it makes it difficult. Eventually I plan to upgrade that to rely on a database too, as then we can accurately store core counts and such. Remind me on it in a month or two :)

Ha, then deal with Core count vs Hyperthreaded Cores, and whether people shut them off due to vulnerabilities?

Curious on how many people do that...

My issue with the higher refresh rate monitors is that most of the games that'll actually take advantage of such a thing, still struggle to get to 40fps on high end hardware... (mind you, that's with all the extras turned on!)

Even if you aren't playing games, I find the high refresh such a quality of life improvement on just any day to day desktop usage. I cant go back to 60hz now, mouse movement just feels like molasses .


Last edited by lemoncitron on 26 April 2021 at 5:53 pm UTC

I'm curious about people DE who use standalone WM. What is your WM ?

Personnaly, I use standalone OpenBox.

I'd like to see that as a dropdown option, I'm curious what others use also. Though I realize it would be hard to list all or even most of them. (Awesome WM user of 4 years here, though I also love OpenBox and use it at work)


Last edited by seanbutnotheard on 26 April 2021 at 9:04 pm UTC

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

Ha ha, that's hilarious. Do they use something like the Matrox cards to drive them all at once? I mean if I counted all of my monitors in total... I have a lot! Granted, some of them are CRTs...

Pity there's no option to put in the refresh rate manually. My new Gigabyte M27Q is 170hz but 165 is close enough.

My issue with the higher refresh rate monitors is that most of the games that'll actually take advantage of such a thing, still struggle to get to 40fps on high end hardware... (mind you, that's with all the extras turned on!)

I'm getting 50-80 FPS with Ultra settings at 1440p for most of my titles (whether native, wine, or proton) but Doom runs at 130. The only things that hit 170 at that resolution don't really need it, but I'm well positioned for when I can finally get a 30 Series Nvidia card to replace my 2060.

AMD usage continues to grow. Though with crazy CPU / GPU shortages, upgrades are probably pretty rare now.


Last edited by Shmerl on 27 April 2021 at 2:09 am UTC

Even if you aren't playing games, I find the high refresh such a quality of life improvement on just any day to day desktop usage. I cant go back to 60hz now, mouse movement just feels like molasses .

Yeah. With adaptive sync, it's fine if games don't match maximum refresh rate. But desktop user experience is way better with 144 Hz than with 60 Hz.


Last edited by Shmerl on 27 April 2021 at 2:12 am UTC

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

Ha ha, that's hilarious. Do they use something like the Matrox cards to drive them all at once? I mean if I counted all of my monitors in total... I have a lot! Granted, some of them are CRTs...

Pity there's no option to put in the refresh rate manually. My new Gigabyte M27Q is 170hz but 165 is close enough.

My issue with the higher refresh rate monitors is that most of the games that'll actually take advantage of such a thing, still struggle to get to 40fps on high end hardware... (mind you, that's with all the extras turned on!)

I'm getting 50-80 FPS with Ultra settings at 1440p for most of my titles (whether native, wine, or proton) but Doom runs at 130. The only things that hit 170 at that resolution don't really need it, but I'm well positioned for when I can finally get a 30 Series Nvidia card to replace my 2060.

Ha, was trying 7 days to die, and it was choppy on my 2080 at 3840x1200@144. That game is still buggy as hell.

there's only one user with a 7680x4320 monitor, who's the fortunate? I'm a bit jealous. :P

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

Yeah the hardware stats around here get a bit wild, I mean look at how common 4K is with the users of this site compared to other data sources related to gaming.

there's only one user with a 7680x4320 monitor, who's the fortunate? I'm a bit jealous. :P

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

I just got my third and fourth monitors recently.

I'm genuinely surprised by the number of people that continue to only have one monitor. Jump from 2 to 4 felt really nice, but the going from 1 to 2 is absolutely game changing.

there's only one user with a 7680x4320 monitor, who's the fortunate? I'm a bit jealous. :P

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

I just got my third and fourth monitors recently.

I'm genuinely surprised by the number of people that continue to only have one monitor. Jump from 2 to 4 felt really nice, but the going from 1 to 2 is absolutely game changing.

Ha, my monitor history (going all the way back to CRTs) was 1... until the Parhelia was released, then 3... then 1 for many years, then 2. Then I had 3 again at one point (one of which is 3d) but one was noticeably pinker than the others, so ditched them for an ultrawide screen, which nothing supported right.

Then I switched to 2 1080p ones... then to 2x 1440p, then 2x4k... and now a single stupid ultra wide monitor at 3840x1200. My favorite monitors are my Valve Index though! If only I could use that as my desktop.