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Curious to hear everyone's preferences or current setup configurations as far as monitors go. Since this is Cyber Monday, it seems the ideal time. Lots of people are shopping this week/weekend for an upgrade.
I have two PCs at my main desk, including a gaming rig with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D / RTX 4090. My secondary PC is a Ryzen 8 5800X / RTX 3080 Ti machine. Each PC is hooked up to a single panel. My main PC is dedicated to gaming, browsing, photo and video editing, and productivity whenever I work from home (which is rare). My secondary PC is now for secondary batch imagery/video processing, SSD/HDD storage, backup in case anything is wonky with my main gaming rig. But usually, it's playing YouTube videos or media files while I'm gaming (e.g. a MMO) or working on my main PC.
To my main gaming rig, I have the excellent Alienware 34" AW3423DW Ultrawide 1440p OLED panel hooked up, which I picked up in 2022, not too long after its release. Fantastic at the time, lots of other very good OELD panels have emerged since then. My secondary rig is using an excellent 27" ASUS ROG PG279Q IPS monitor. I have two of those, but they are 10 years old now. (My main PC is also connected to this panel via the HDMI connection to use as a second monitor for productivity.)
I have found myself increasingly torn in the ways that a lot of people are torn these days. OLED panels produce fantastic blacks, but burn-in is a real issue to watch for, and that makes them incredible for pigeonholed media playback and gaming applications, but not for regular desktop use. IPS are fantastic for desktop applications, photo editing as far as color accuracy, and TN have excellent response times for pro graming, but reproduction of blacks and HDR performance can be wanting there. VA are very good for all around performance, yet motion blur can be something to watch out for there from some brands. It's not really a field where there's a perfect panel for every application scenario and no perfect technology for an all-arounder needs case.
I decided to pick up a 32" Samsung Neo G8 at half price this weekend. It uses Mini LEDs, is full 4K, has good ratings for color accuracy, very good brightness levels, and very good blacks for a non-OLED panel. Won't have any burn-in issues. It's supposed to be an excellent all-arounder with strong gaming scores, and that's what I need for my gaming rig.
I'm going to use my Alienware on the secondary PC. It has suffered from mild burn-in issues and it's not really bright enough for desktop applications. That PC is almost always playing back media these days, though, so it is well suited for that use case.
I have two PCs at my main desk, including a gaming rig with a Ryzen 9 7950X3D / RTX 4090. My secondary PC is a Ryzen 8 5800X / RTX 3080 Ti machine. Each PC is hooked up to a single panel. My main PC is dedicated to gaming, browsing, photo and video editing, and productivity whenever I work from home (which is rare). My secondary PC is now for secondary batch imagery/video processing, SSD/HDD storage, backup in case anything is wonky with my main gaming rig. But usually, it's playing YouTube videos or media files while I'm gaming (e.g. a MMO) or working on my main PC.
To my main gaming rig, I have the excellent Alienware 34" AW3423DW Ultrawide 1440p OLED panel hooked up, which I picked up in 2022, not too long after its release. Fantastic at the time, lots of other very good OELD panels have emerged since then. My secondary rig is using an excellent 27" ASUS ROG PG279Q IPS monitor. I have two of those, but they are 10 years old now. (My main PC is also connected to this panel via the HDMI connection to use as a second monitor for productivity.)
I have found myself increasingly torn in the ways that a lot of people are torn these days. OLED panels produce fantastic blacks, but burn-in is a real issue to watch for, and that makes them incredible for pigeonholed media playback and gaming applications, but not for regular desktop use. IPS are fantastic for desktop applications, photo editing as far as color accuracy, and TN have excellent response times for pro graming, but reproduction of blacks and HDR performance can be wanting there. VA are very good for all around performance, yet motion blur can be something to watch out for there from some brands. It's not really a field where there's a perfect panel for every application scenario and no perfect technology for an all-arounder needs case.
I decided to pick up a 32" Samsung Neo G8 at half price this weekend. It uses Mini LEDs, is full 4K, has good ratings for color accuracy, very good brightness levels, and very good blacks for a non-OLED panel. Won't have any burn-in issues. It's supposed to be an excellent all-arounder with strong gaming scores, and that's what I need for my gaming rig.
I'm going to use my Alienware on the secondary PC. It has suffered from mild burn-in issues and it's not really bright enough for desktop applications. That PC is almost always playing back media these days, though, so it is well suited for that use case.
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