I had a very tolerable setup lately : Lenovo y530 laptop i5 8th gen with a boe specific screen (4 other screens were bad before I tried this one) on windows 20H2.
Both nvidia 1050 and intel uhd 630 drivers being NOT installed.
While doing a manip, I accidentally screwed my laptop mobo as well as the edp screen cable that connects the 15.6 inch screen to the mobo.
I ordered the exact same mobo and the "same" edp 30 pin cable but from a different brand.
Now, all things being equal in other stuffs, the setup is not as good at all anymore (feeling jittery, not at ease).
So, either the slightly different edp cable (different brand) is ruining things. Either a perfectly same motherboard could still have "different" intel graphics even if it's the same intel uhd 630. Btw, even if both the nvidia and intel drivers are not installed in my windows 20h2, the output is still made via intel graphics I believe.
I am now trying to find the exact same edp cable I had (same brand) to see if things are back to normal.
I am willing to try old windows 10 versions but like alyosha i can't seem to install them in my laptop. I will try what degen said about irst to achi in bios, hopefully I can find something like this.
By the way, the best display I ever had was my old msi ge 62 apache pro that was running on intel hd 530. God, this display was a marvel to look at, true paper almost better than reality. To be honest, I want to find a laptop with intel hd 530 again, if any have suggestions. I don't think any new model comes with it unfortunately. But i can confirm intel hd 530 was insanely good (given other aspects like windows version and screen are also good).
What I have learned from my experience is EVERYTHING has an impact and changing anything will lead to a perceived difference.
- windows versions feel different
- screens feel different (apparently i also prefer certain type of polarisations over other)
- gpu drivers
- apparently different edp cables also
- same gpu with same driver could trigger different symptoms which would mean there is no perfect standardisation for gpus
- Bios versions
- different browsers feel different. Try to open a white page under chrome, i explorer, edge and firefox and see the difference by yourself.
- Different versions of the same browser. Older is generally better.
- Inside the same browser, sites will feel different. It's very obvious youtube has oversaturated colors, I use this site well less than before cause of that.
The display market is going crazy with all these image processing bs that only make things worse, less real looking, and I am certain nowadays screens are playing a role in adhd symptoms and can even trigger depressive thougts. Our eyes are meant to look at reality or something that looks close to it. Well, we are getting further and further from it which is mindblowing to me, cause it should be the contrary, we should be getting closer to it.