Jack
Thanks. I’m still testing things but have now sent the 5500 XT back. I couldn’t disable dithering or get a signal output from it that felt useable so unfortunately this rules out AMD cards for me right now. I have a RTX 3060 on the way so will see what happens with that.
I have considered Windows 10 but in the first instance I am persevering with Win11 as I want to get to a place computing-wise where I can at least hope for a settled ecosystem in the mid-term. Tangentially my reason for wanting to move away from Apple is that even though right now there are workarounds and mitigations to their flickering screens - I have an iPhone 11 that I’m comfortable enough with and as per another thread dithering can now be disabled in macOS - they are moving to OLEDs across their entire product portfolio in the next few years and have scaled back their Mini-LED development as well (for now). So no point in sticking with Apple as I wouldn’t be able to use any of their upcoming devices outside of desktop Mac’s and even then I couldn’t hinge my hopes on the software workaround to disable dithering to work indefinitely. Which brings me back to Windows 10 as that will be EOL next year, which is too soon to build things around. I would like a solution now while I’m changing things wholesale as otherwise I’ll only have to go through all of this again next year if I go with Win10. Also I’m planning for this desktop build to be only something of a short term solution itself for my primary computing needs and want a laptop at some point. MacBooks are ruled out and new laptops are exclusively Win11. Not only that but with these AMD issues I’m wary of getting an AMD laptop so my options are narrowing. And I only have so much time, money and energy for this stuff. Windows 11 and Android at least give me options and the ability to choose specific screens and more granular control over display characteristics than Apple. But it’s undoubtedly a minefield.
It’s unfortunate that Linux isn’t an option as I like the idea of it but there is software I use which is exclusive to Windows/macOS.
Anyway I will post back once the RTX 3060 is installed.