Here is a sizzle video showing off the RGB: 14900k-sizzle
This is the highest-end PC I’ve ever built. I will use it alongside the M2 Mac Studio for software development, but also 8K video editing, audio & music production, live streaming, animation design, AI/ML, VM’s and some gaming.
The bulk of the cost comes from storage, there is over 100 TB of Gen-4 NVME storage in this thing, including two 800GB Intel Optane P800X drives (one for system cache and one for media cache). It also will be used with dual Samsung 57" monitors (each of which is basically two 28" 4K displays glued together without a seam).
That is a beautiful machine! So with those curved monitors…do you have to raise and lower them to sit at the desk or is there just enough of a gap to squeeze in between them.
Will update this thread once they’re set up. It will be a while, I’m waiting for my new studio furniture to arrive and also a custom mount that can hold all the weight of those things.
I will tell you right now though, if you’re primarily on Mac, don’t go with that monitor. It doesn’t play well with MacOS. There are a lot of hoops to jump through to get both halves working seamlessly, and even then you have to make some compromises as MacOS is not programmed to scale to the monitor’s native resolution well.
I tried the Samsung Odyssey Neo G95NA a couple of years ago with my Mac Mini and Windows PC, and was so unhappy with it that I did eventually return it. I gave it three months of daily use, color calibrated it, massaged the scaling and resolution many times. In the end it just wasn’t a good display for me.
Had the same issues with the LG 49WL95C-WY, but it also liked to drop one of the panels randomly, so I returned that as well.
I hope your displays are better for you than those were for me.
I ordered both through Amazon. Returns were simple, and gave me 90 days to try the items. The LG didn’t last a week, the Samsung I kept for most of the return period because I kept trying different setups as I usually love Samsung displays.
Noted.
I’ve been caught like this twice now. Once buying an MBP through a well-respected local Apple retailer
Because it was a non-stocked item, they refused to change the order even though delivery time was quoted as 6/8 weeks. If I had bought direct from Apple they would have swapped it or taken a return after delivery, (and the price was the same - I was trying to support a local business).
Haha, all you have to do is open signalrgb://effect/apply/Good%20Night%21? via browser, with the “start” command line, or via a shortcut key on the Stream Deck and the whole thing blacks out and turns to this mode:
That would work in Xojo, yes. The SignalRGB app installs itself as a protocol handler.
Although rather than have it pop open and then immediately close a browser window with LoadURL, I would rather open it in a DesktopHTMLViewer with Visible=False.
Nice RIG. Hope you don’t run into any overheating issues with the 14900K. According to this: intel i9 14900K Overheating - Intel Community the NZXT Kraken will not be sufficient to cool the 14900K.
