90K+ OLED vs IPS 4K monitor

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abhijeet.xin

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Good Evening,

Displays are something that are not my forte, so I am looking experts here. Please assist only based on personal experience and not google/youtube experience.
- I am leaning towards OLED because I am getting an OLED monitor that costs around 2L new but since the stand is little damaged company is giving it out for basically 60% of the price. The problem with OLED is the burn in issue and my PC stays up almost 18 hours a day and I don't have time to auto hide taskbar and all that BS. What I am asking here is, how soon have you encountered the burn in or have you not encountered it at all?
- IPS 4K is another option but I will have to buy it new and throw that OLED deal in trash.

Running i9-14900K with RTX 4090
 
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abhijeet.xin said:
- I am leaning towards OLED because I am getting an OLED monitor that costs around 2L new but since the stand is little damaged company is giving it out for basically 60% of the price. The problem with OLED is the burn in issue and my PC stays up almost 18 hours a day and I don't have time to auto hide taskbar and all that BS. What I am asking here is, how soon have you encountered the burn in or have you not encountered it at all?
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Without precautions. you will get burn in pretty soon although it may or may not be easily visible.
We need to try to not have lines and the like in the same place continuously as that causes different levels of wear.

Probably best not to waste money with OLED if its going to be on 18 hrs a day without precautions.

I am using Oled for both work and play and take a lot of precautions - low brightness (3%), low gain for blue and green pixels, hidden task bar, dark mode everywhere ( black rather than grey ), pitch black wallpaper - for lock screen too, applications opening in random locations, timeout in 1m et . I have gotten used to this, and it doesn't affect my work ( mostly coding ). I actually like the pitch black backgrounds because it makes low brightness usable in darkish room.
You can try to do this on current monitor and see if you can adapt.

For games, its just perfect. I dont think i will touch plain IPS/VA ever now for gaming. Maybe miniled might be a decent compromise, dunno.
Also, OLED monitors are cheaper now. I bought Dell Aw32 for 1.05L when it had gotten cheaper by 20k-25k i think.
In recent sale, it even went to 90L. Might get good deal in diwali.

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You can look at a series of videos from monitor unboxed that uses OLED monitor for desktop usage without precautions.
Latest is here -
 
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@Tracer_Bullet approach seems best, if you do follow it, you might get couple of years out of your oled without noticeable burn in.

My brother has a LG OLED tv from 2018 that has slight youtube logo burned in from the youtube app. Barely visible on it's own. But TV is not used as much as PC.
 
jakehifi said:
If you plan to work long hours- IPS to minimize eye strain & headache
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It might actually be easier on eyes for me as i use low brightness + black background (=> No light from black pixels ) and there is no constant backlight.
It does have high contrast, so white stuff on black background can be too much even at low brightness. So i also reduced gain for blue and green pixels.

Only burn in is a problem for my work.
 
abhijeet.xin said:
Good Evening,

Displays are something that are not my forte, so I am looking experts here. Please assist only based on personal experience and not google/youtube experience.
- I am leaning towards OLED because I am getting an OLED monitor that costs around 2L new but since the stand is little damaged company is giving it out for basically 60% of the price. The problem with OLED is the burn in issue and my PC stays up almost 18 hours a day and I don't have time to auto hide taskbar and all that BS. What I am asking here is, how soon have you encountered the burn in or have you not encountered it at all?
- IPS 4K is another option but I will have to buy it new and throw that OLED deal in trash.

Running i9-14900K with RTX 4090
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What model is the OLED monitor?
 
fakemishra said:
I hope you account for the impact sharp displays have on your mental and eye health. I can't stand amoled/OLED laptops myself ..
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Unfortunately that's going to be the standard from now on. I've read somewhere OLED displays comparatively cost less to manufacture over IPS
Tracer_Bullet said:
It might actually be easier on eyes for me as i use low brightness + black background (=> No light from black pixels ) and there is no constant backlight.
It does have high contrast, so white stuff on black background can be too much even at low brightness. So i also reduced gain for blue and green pixels.

Only burn in is a problem for my work.
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Brightness isn't your eye's enemy, flickering is.
 
fakemishra said:
I hope you account for the impact sharp displays have on your mental and eye health. I can't stand amoled/OLED laptops myself ..
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jakehifi said:
Unfortunately that's going to be the standard from now on. I've read somewhere OLED displays comparatively cost less to manufacture over IPS

Brightness isn't your eye's enemy, flickering is.
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Dunno, might depend on individual. I did notice some slight flickering initially depending on content i think while testing something, maybe freesync. But now i don't see anything at all.
OLED + hardware gsync modules supposedly don't have any issues.

I absolutely love it. Proper HDR is a serious upgrade over SDR. Doom eternal looks extremely good.

I have used 3 oled displays so far. Samsung smoled ( M30s), then had to replace it with 3rd party oled screen ( just 2k) when it broke down, And now also qdoled on desktop.
Have 0 issues, and like them all. Only thing that is uncomfortable is black background/dark mode + white text/image in low room light. Contrast is extreme, but fix is simple for me ( I use Green 30% and Blue 1% gain + 3% display brightness ).

Normal non dark mode looks ok ( but will use up much more power and degrade faster).

I still use LCD on laptop which is fine for work but otherwise will never use plain LCD ever again hopefully. My eyes are fine and i dont have any addition strain vs lcd.
Mental health ? Seriously ? Perhaps can bring some joy to those who like nice graphics.
 
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abhijeet.xin said:
Good Evening,

Displays are something that are not my forte, so I am looking experts here. Please assist only based on personal experience and not google/youtube experience.
- I am leaning towards OLED because I am getting an OLED monitor that costs around 2L new but since the stand is little damaged company is giving it out for basically 60% of the price. The problem with OLED is the burn in issue and my PC stays up almost 18 hours a day and I don't have time to auto hide taskbar and all that BS. What I am asking here is, how soon have you encountered the burn in or have you not encountered it at all?
- IPS 4K is another option but I will have to buy it new and throw that OLED deal in trash.

Running i9-14900K with RTX 4090
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Which model and brand to assist you better ?
 
Tracer_Bullet said:
Neither of these are 2L monitors. They are 1L or lower. Compare market prices ( India/US) with your offer price.
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I don't know why I didn't mentioned the whole thing, I was looking for 2 monitors and initially when I posted there was another monitor I had eyes on that was 2L and later I dropped that stupid idea.
 
Update: Settled on Gigabyte AORUS FO32U2P. These QD-OLEDs are on another level. I mean I use a LG OLED in my living room but this just eats it. Just need to get a monitor stand/arm now cause these 2 basically covered my whole desk.
 
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