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Recently got the Style 37 wheels on my 540i 6 speed, and I think they look mint! What do you guys think?

It used to be on OEM Style 42s, but since those had welds and the barrels were in rough shape, I decided to just get new ones, albeit non-oem (the roads here are unforgiving for OEM wheels).

Was running the BBS RS 744/745 Style 42 18" wheels so far, but decided I want to get something different. So I went with the Style 37 Mpars and I think they look great! Which ones would you choose?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a deep-dive troubleshooting nightmare I’ve been dealing with regarding my monitor, and hopefully get some insight if any other owners have experienced this or if you've seen similar firmware/hardware behavior on other recent OLED releases. This is my first OLED, 1440p, high refresh rate monitor - Asrock PGO27QFS.

The Setup:

-GPU: RTX 5070 MSI Gaming Trio (around a month old)

-Games tested: Black Myth: Wukong, The Witcher 3 (Next-Gen Path Traced), Forza Horizon 6, Lords of the Fallen

-Cables used: Certified DP 2.1 and Ultra High Speed HDMI 2.1 cables (tested thoroughly)

The Issue: Whenever I play heavy, ray traced workloads or games with erratic frame pacing (specifically The Witcher 3 or Black Myth: Wukong), the monitor completely panics and creates a permanent, ugly vertical seam right down the center of the panel, effectively desynchronizing the left and right halves of the screen.

Interestingly, highly optimized games like Forza Horizon 6 run fine, even Cyberpunk 2077 runs great with path tracing, maxed out, and Ultra+ mod, but certain ray-tracing pipelines trip it up instantly.

The Investigation & The Math: I spent the last couple of months isolating every variable. At first, I thought a premium DisplayPort 2.1 cable would fix it (I was using the provided DP cable that came with the monitor). But because the monitor's native DP port is strictly limited to DP 1.4, the physical bandwidth ceiling is 25.92 Gbps. To push uncompressed 1440p at 240Hz with 10-bit color, you need roughly 26.5 Gbps.

Because the math doesn't fit the pipe, the system is forced to engage Display Stream Compression (DSC). Clearly, this monitor's internal DSC timing engine is completely bugged and splits the image under heavy load, in certain games.

The Smoking Gun: I dug up a hidden, detailed PDF specification sheet for the monitor and found the ultimate corporate corner-cut: 2 x HDMI™ 2.1 (24G).

They advertised HDMI 2.1, but hardware-capped the ports to 24 Gbps (half-speed bandwidth) and this was only mentioned in that PDF I managed to dig up. Because 24 Gbps is even slower than DP 1.4, you are permanently forced into the arms of their broken DSC compression engine if you want 240Hz 10-bit color.

The Firmware Tantrum (Bypassing DSC): When I manually flip DSC to "OFF" via HDMI, the monitor's firmware absolutely chokes because it realizes it doesn't have the bandwidth. Instead of negotiating a reasonable uncompressed compromise, it aggressively demotes the connection to a legacy safe-mode profile:

• Refuses to run 10-bit color (drops to heavy-banding 8-bit color).
• Locks the refresh rate to 144Hz.
• If I force 244Hz, it reduces the resolution to 1080p, again with 8-bit color.
• Completely disables G-Sync/VRR at the hardware level, graying it out in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

On top of that, the color processing on greyer backgrounds is awful—visible, distracting color banding in foggy or dark scenes (like Wukong's caves), likely due to poor factory calibration near-black or the forced 8-bit demotion.

Conclusion: It seems like a classic "Catch-22" hardware trap. Keep DSC enabled, and the compression chip desynchronizes your screen. Disable DSC, and the capped 24G ports strip away your 10-bit color and G-Sync entirely.

I'm returning this unit on Monday and plan to spend the extra cash to step up to something with native 48 Gbps HDMI 2.1 ports and a manual DSC toggle (like the MSI MPG 271QRX) so I can actually run 1440p/240Hz/10-bit uncompressed.

Has anyone else encountered this specific 24G HDMI limitation causing DSC desync on these panels? If only Asrock listed the actual bandwidth which it ran with on HDMI 2.1, I would have completely avoided this monitor.

Hey guys,

I currently have an RTX 5070 MSI Gaming Trio OC in white.

It's been good so far, but I do want some extra performance, especially when it comes to path tracing/ray tracing in 1440p.

I'm thinking of upgrading to an RTX 5070 Ti (the 5080 is out of reach financially unfortunately), but I'm not sure if I should go for the MSI Gaming Trio again, as I am also eyeing the Gigabyte Aero OC (3 slot version).

I do like beefy cards, and the Gigabyte looks great, just a big slab of a GPU, whereas the MSI Gaming Trio looks exactly the same as the non-TI version.

What would you guys do?

Also for reference, the RTX 5070Ti MSI Gaming Trio costs 1190 Euro, and the Gigabyte Aero costs like 10 Euro less.

My tires are on their way out, so no better way than sending them off properly lol. Absolutely love this thing!

Hey guys,

I got this monitor about 2 months ago (Asrock PGO27QFS), and recently I've been noticing this banding. It's not as noticeable in most games, or when watching movies, but definitely visible in grey backgrounds, and now more recently, in a lot of spots in Black Myth Wukong specifically. Even now as I am typing this in Reddit (I have dark mode enabled), I see the banding.

Anyone else with this monitor have this same experience, or is it more or less a faulty unit? I understand that WOLEDs tend to have more banding than QD-OLEDs, especially in grey backgrounds, but recently I've started it noticing it a lot more and it's annoying me.

I usually play in a more lit room, so I decided to go with a matte WOLED, as to not have as much glare, but if getting a QD-OLED would eliminate this banding issue, I guess I will RMA this monitor.