Gigabyte AORUS FO32U2P Flat QD-OLED: 32" 4K 240Hz with DisplayPort 2.1, KVM

I have only ever purchased dell or samsung monitors, this gigabyte monitor has been the first time i have purchased a monitor that is not dell or samsung and it faulted after 5 months of use.

P.S. i have RMA'd the gigabyte but at the same time i now own a samsung oled G80SD, when i get the gigabyte back it will go on ebay...
So this arrives back fix from RMA tomorrow.

Fixed issue with OLED LCM - Replaced
Fixed issue with monitor main board - Replaced

Will most like now stick it on EBay for £550...
 
firmware F06 is out - updating as i write this.
I have purchased this monitor on 15.06.2024 for 1.3k. Use case scenario: work (from home) during the day, bit of show watching, gaming in the evenings, weekends. I do not own a TV.
Quick delivery from OcUK.
Further background info: I come from a 27" 4k 144hz IPS panel, work is spreadsheets / email / writing - no colour perfection needed. I can control the brightness in my room.
In no particular order:

[*]Usage time: 950 hours, 124 Pixel Clean count. Eco mode disabled, other OLED saving settings left as default.
So any sign of burn in from work (8h+/day?) usage?

Though keeping room brightness moderate allowing decreasing monitor's brightness possibly increases durability lot.
This article hints to pixel wear rate increase being more toward exponential than linear when ramping up the brightness:
And Monitors Unboxed's QD-OLED burn in test (9 month mark update few days ago) is quite literally torture test with continuous high brightness.

Prices are starting to come to attractive level.

I guess true pixel perfect contrast and hence more "pop" in image should mitigate some decrease of gamut in cyan/greens from current also AdobeRGB capable monitor.
Really like having good vibrancy in colours when gaming/media content.
I see enough of different shades of grey outside with not much green until over five months from now...
 
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Noticed the FO32U2 is reduced to about the same price as the other OLED models. Is it worth considering or are the MSI / Samsung 32” OLED’s better options?
 
Noticed the FO32U2 is reduced to about the same price as the other OLED models. Is it worth considering or are the MSI / Samsung 32” OLED’s better options?
Depends on what you want.
For one thing Samsung has clearly matte coating making it different from the others with semi-glossy surface.
Also connectivity is lower end with less of them like no USB-C and its HDMI ports aren't true full speed 48Gbps 2.1 port but 40Gbps.

MSI has full speed HDMI ports and USB-C, but USB-As are again medieval USB 2 ports.
FO32U2 does better in there cutting only DP 2.1.
 
Tempted to get one of these. Main hesitation is needing to work on it but text clarity seems ok in reviews and probably won’t need to run at high brightness.
 
Tempted to get one of these. Main hesitation is needing to work on it but text clarity seems ok in reviews and probably won’t need to run at high brightness.
It's hard to find information, but suspect pixel wear increases exponentially at least at higher brightnesses.

This hints toward that:
As an example, Qiu pointed to theoretically increasing the brightness by 20%. “The end consumers want it to be 20% brighter, right? So it could be, instead of it needing to be 20% brighter, it could have 1.5x longer lifetime.”
https://www.digitaltrends.com/compu...-monitors/#dt-heading-unintended-consequences

High temperature would be another killer.
So external power brick is very good thing from that aspect by removing that heat source from behind panel.

Definitely myself very close to pulling trigger to get "pixel perfect" contrast and proper viewing angles like in CRTs.
Dimmish room illumination allowing lower brightness and lowish room temperature should go long way toward getting multiple years before significant "burn out" of pixels.
At least Monitors Unboxed's worst case torture test got to 9 month mark with only little increase from 6 months.
 
So any sign of burn in from work (8h+/day?) usage?

Though keeping room brightness moderate allowing decreasing monitor's brightness possibly increases durability lot.
This article hints to pixel wear rate increase being more toward exponential than linear when ramping up the brightness:
And Monitors Unboxed's QD-OLED burn in test (9 month mark update few days ago) is quite literally torture test with continuous high brightness.

Prices are starting to come to attractive level.

I guess true pixel perfect contrast and hence more "pop" in image should mitigate some decrease of gamut in cyan/greens from current also AdobeRGB capable monitor.
Really like having good vibrancy in colours when gaming/media content.
I see enough of different shades of grey outside with not much green until over five months from now...

no sign of burn in.
 
Finally got my final form setup done but having issues with thr KVM. My mechanical keyboard has 2 USB (keyboard and power for the 2 on board USB ports). However the keyboard and mouse keep disconnecting and reconnecting (windows makes a little chime each time). I thought it might be a loose cable, RE-attached - still does it. I've also left them both untouched to see if physically moving/using them triggers it - still does it when not using. Any ideas?

Edit - this only happens when in my laptop mode.

Edit - had a BIOS update and found a mention of KVM upstream cables preferring USB2.0 ports. Will give these a spin.
 
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The AOC AG326UD is £650 - damn. Same resolution / size, lower refresh rate. Prices of these OLEDs have gone down a lot quicker than expected. Excellent news, I might grab one of the these for the missus.


 
The AOC AG326UD is £650 - damn. Same resolution / size, lower refresh rate. Prices of these OLEDs have gone down a lot quicker than expected. Excellent news, I might grab one of the these for the missus.
Well, manufacturing process should have become more mature by now with yields increasing.
So with lower end circuitry lower price options should start appearing.

Though it's also possible that there's sorting of panels based on evenness of image and less than optimal panels are put into cheaper models.
In LCDs manufacturers called imperfections of panel as "Mura":
 
I've been looking at this Gigabyte along with the MSI 321URX - Is there much between the two?
Both have the same panel (along with pretty much every other 32" QD-OLED) so identical raw image specs. Neither has Dolby Vision (although a firmware update could fix that) and both have a great KVM with enough power delivery over USB-C for a laptop. They're pretty much the same, although the FO32U2P does have DisplayPort 2.1, so with next-gen GPUs you'll be able to run 4K, 240Hz, 10-bit colour, without using Display Stream Compression (DSC), it also has a DP-out for daisy-chaining another monitor. There is a small image quality difference with DSC, but it's really minor.

If you must have Dolby Vision, get the ASUS PG32UCDM, which otherwise has the same specs as the MSI 321URX (no DP2.1 or DP-out).

So overall: go for whatever's cheapest and you like the look of. I much prefer the AORUS' look, and appreciate the DP 2.1 connection so went for it over the MSI and ASUS, but the price difference was only £50 right then.
 
Both have the same panel (along with pretty much every other 32" QD-OLED) so identical raw image specs. Neither has Dolby Vision (although a firmware update could fix that) and both have a great KVM with enough power delivery over USB-C for a laptop. They're pretty much the same, although the FO32U2P does have DisplayPort 2.1, so with next-gen GPUs you'll be able to run 4K, 240Hz, 10-bit colour, without using Display Stream Compression (DSC), it also has a DP-out for daisy-chaining another monitor. There is a small image quality difference with DSC, but it's really minor.

If you must have Dolby Vision, get the ASUS PG32UCDM, which otherwise has the same specs as the MSI 321URX (no DP2.1 or DP-out).

So overall: go for whatever's cheapest and you like the look of. I much prefer the AORUS' look, and appreciate the DP 2.1 connection so went for it over the MSI and ASUS, but the price difference was only £50 right then.
Great info thank you!
 
So any sign of burn in from work (8h+/day?) usage?

Though keeping room brightness moderate allowing decreasing monitor's brightness possibly increases durability lot.
This article hints to pixel wear rate increase being more toward exponential than linear when ramping up the brightness:
And Monitors Unboxed's QD-OLED burn in test (9 month mark update few days ago) is quite literally torture test with continuous high brightness.

Prices are starting to come to attractive level.

I guess true pixel perfect contrast and hence more "pop" in image should mitigate some decrease of gamut in cyan/greens from current also AdobeRGB capable monitor.
Really like having good vibrancy in colours when gaming/media content.
I see enough of different shades of grey outside with not much green until over five months from now...

Update. Usage time: 1188 hours, Pixel Clean Completed 156.
No sign of burn-in.
 
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