I have an issue with new monitor Aorus FI27Q (black dots dropping down vertically in

Hello.

First my pc.I have Gigabyte Rtx 3090 OC ( stock ) and 10850K stock ,32gb ram.

Issue is only on 1920x1080P with 165hz. On 1440P with 165mhz is fine. On 1920x1080P with 144hz is fine. On 1920x1080P with 165mhz i can see on screen small black dots flickering vertical.

If i wanna catch screen its not visible or clip. So i post screen and i added from paint. Just very small flickering black dots on vertical position. Happens only in 1080P with 165HZ. Visible on desktop too when i am very close.

somebody had the same issue with same monitor:

It happens only in 1080P or below with 165hz. With 144hz 1080P is ok. 1440P 165hz its ok.

I am not happy with pc because of this. What should i do ? Ignore that or rma ? Somebody said that i must rma monitor even if doing that on non-native resolution.

PS:

When i am playing games on rtx 3090 on 1440P ( which is ok ) i am thinking about that i am not happy

I have the same monitor (and the AD27QD) and on neither of those I can see that behaviour.

If you have concerns, contact Gigabyte about it. Maybe it’s just a firmware bug. Either they have a solution or if not you can still RMA it.

But then again, why would you run a 3090 at 1080p on a 1440p monitor?

~ CPU bottleneck is a thing, i experience it a lot on my mini-itx system. ~

Forget me, that’s an I9 …

You know that lowering the resolution will make you go even harder into the CPU bottleneck right? :thinking:

depending on the game it don’t have to.
I have some game that just can’t decompress high resolution texture/asset fast enough on the CPU, lowering the resolution make it jump to lower quality asset

But still not the case here with a I9 5.20ghz

thank you for answering. I was testing for a moment Crysis Remaster in 1080P and just discovered that mini small black vertical dots ,visible only in blue background .
They are on all non native resolutions with 165hz. So 1080P and below. With 144hz its fine.
Using native 1440P with 165hz also its fine.

1080P 165hz- dots
1080P 144hz - fine no dots
1440P 165hz - fine no dots

So keep monitor or rma?

Do you have any other monitor, or know anyone with a monitor > 1080P ?
I would not RMA if it’s a GPU issue …
But you have to be able to test.
Maybe a 4k TV ?

When i found that link i bet its not gpu issue. Somebody had the same monitor and the same issue. Also working fine with 1440P 165hz. Only dots are on 165hz on 1080P. With 144hz 1080P is ok.

Sorry i though that was your post on reddit
Then yea, Contact the support, ask if this is a know issue.
Yes, you want a refund, no you want a replacement

Or maybe try more than 1 previous driver? I am start to thinking that it can be driver issue

Hmm. Two people with the same issue. Same issue on different drivers 6 months apart from each other?

Tested again with a blue desktop background, still fine on mine.

Noone can answer that for you, that’s your decision whether you feel comfortable with the way it is or not.

So maybe your monitor is without that issue. Because me and other person from reddit get the same issue with that dots. Hmmm strange.

Saving screenshots not showing that dots. So it must be monitor?

mihawk whats your overdrive setting?

I have it on Balance, never played around with those to be honest

mihawk strange today i checked screen , on Windows 10 desktop on blue background,no dots,clean. But then i opened Crysis paint screen and they appeared. You was checking on Windows 10 desktop blue background?

Also that happens only in 1080P. When i go lower like 720P its fine with 165hz. Maybe some scaling issue?

yes since I didn’t have a game at the ready to test with

Yes that’s what I meant it might just be a Firmware bug. 720p is a “clean” scaling to 1440p (1:2 or 1:4 depending how you look at it), but for 1080p it requires interpolation and that’s where the issue might be.

Also are you using the cable provided by Gigabyte in the box or your own? Cables can be weird sometimes.

cable provided by Gigabyte in the box

But if i perform SCALING TO GPU in Nvidia panel dots dissapearing. So its the monitor?

Since it wasn’t on the screenshots anyway there’s no reason to assume it was the GPU in the first place :wink: So yes I would think it’s the monitor, or rather its Firmware.
I would first contact Gigabyte about it, maybe the have a Firmware version in the works that fixes it.

Just for the sake of the back and forward maybe actually getting somewhere, do the menus tell you what version your monitor is?

Could compare them and get more information.

I was checking that when I first wrote about the Firmware version, but I couldn’t find it unfortunately :confused:

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