Monitor advice needed

[the_boy]

I reckon I've spent at least the last month going over this and I still can't decide so am looking for some advice / opinions.

I've currently got a large (2 metres +) Ikea Karby desk with an aw3218w monitor on it and a smaller Dell 25" off to the side and am looking to get at least another monitor.

I need a new GPU but have yet to pick of get hold of one, hopefully in the next month. But I'm not set on other Nvidia or AMD at this point (I know the 3418 is Gsync but it will be the 2nd monitor).

My options are:-
LG OLED48CX
AW3821W
3 X LG 27GL850-B

My desk is only 62cm wide so I have a feeling I would need to put the TV on the window sill behind the desk which may make it too high and slightly too far (say 25cm higher than the desk and 80cm away) and then how would I fit in my 34" Dell at the side of it. Price is approx £1500 unless I go 55" for £1300.

The 38" would make my total screen length 72" which is probably just about right but it's only HDR600. It costs £1300 (possibly less if I could get a code from somewhere) and is not far off the LG. But the LG has a better screen. Dell has a great warranty scheme imho.

Or I go triple monitor for 81" for approx £1300 (again similar price) however I don't know how I'd feel going from 34" back down to 27" as my primary monitor. That leaves my 34" gathering dust which seems like a waste. I hate trying to sell stuff on ebay.

Hopefully someone has had similar thoughts?
Please help..

 

[ProStreet]

I reckon I've spent at least the last month going over this and I still can't decide so am looking for some advice / opinions.

I've currently got a large (2 metres +) Ikea Karby desk with an aw3218w monitor on it and a smaller Dell 25" off to the side and am looking to get at least another monitor.

I need a new GPU but have yet to pick of get hold of one, hopefully in the next month. But I'm not set on other Nvidia or AMD at this point (I know the 3418 is Gsync but it will be the 2nd monitor).

My options are:-
LG OLED48CX
AW3821W
3 X LG 27GL850-B

My desk is only 62cm wide so I have a feeling I would need to put the TV on the window sill behind the desk which may make it too high and slightly too far (say 25cm higher than the desk and 80cm away) and then how would I fit in my 34" Dell at the side of it. Price is approx £1500 unless I go 55" for £1300.

The 38" would make my total screen length 72" which is probably just about right but it's only HDR600. It costs £1300 (possibly less if I could get a code from somewhere) and is not far off the LG. But the LG has a better screen. Dell has a great warranty scheme imho.

Or I go triple monitor for 81" for approx £1300 (again similar price) however I don't know how I'd feel going from 34" back down to 27" as my primary monitor. That leaves my 34" gathering dust which seems like a waste. I hate trying to sell stuff on ebay.

Hopefully someone has had similar thoughts?
Please help..

I'm in a similar situation. I sold my acer x27 and now not sure what to buy. Thought about the alienware 38 but thought it was too expensive for a non FALD panel and only hdr 600. If you still want it you can get it for £1039 with codes. I want to go for the 48cx but it is a bit too high a price currently at £1479, when the new models will release in about 4 months, which should solve the hdmi 2.1 issues as well and be cheaper since lg have managed to start efficiently producing them.. also I would get a new desk, 62cm depth is not enough for the 48cx. I have a 86cm and think that will look silly still.

I was also thinking of the odyssey g9 as that has hdr 1000, tempted to get that if the price reduces to £900 or so.

It's a tricky one. I think the best decision, which I will do, would be to wait for the January announcements, namely CES. There will be a lot of monitor reveals very shortly, including hdmi 2.1 monitors.

 

[the_boy]

Cheers for the reply dude.

I've got time on my side, can't seem to get hold of a graphics card atm.
Well not one I want...

If I get a deeper desk I won't be able to open the window lol

 

[Nitefly]

I think monitors are the most frustrating thing you can buy right now. So many compromises and all of them feel silly.

The TV would surely be horrible for doing anything productivity based at that distance. Your eyes would be moving all over the place.

 

[TheReflex]

I reckon I've spent at least the last month going over this and I still can't decide so am looking for some advice / opinions.

I've currently got a large (2 metres +) Ikea Karby desk with an aw3218w monitor on it and a smaller Dell 25" off to the side and am looking to get at least another monitor.

Apologies for hijacking your thread but, been looking for a 2m+ replacement for my current working desk (which is an old dinner table) and I like that Ikea Karlby! How did you set it up? With IKEA legs?

 

[pp111]

A lot of it, I think, comes down to "what do you want the monitor to do?". All monitors are compromises and are best used for what they are designed for. I mean the AW3821DW is largely a gaming monitor and you are paying for speed. Why would you want to buy that if it is your second monitor... if you aren't going to be playing games on it?

Incidentally I have a room full of monitors now, lol, so I kinda feel the same. They are all sat in there doing nothing, but truth is that I have nothing to use them with.

 

[Howling]

My AW3821DW arrived this morning - replacing the Acer XR341CK (the freesync version of the X34).. frankly, it's pretty good - an iterative improvement on the XR34, slightly better iq, more frames, the hdr is serviceable but not great.. image quality is no where near my 65" C9. Though I much prefer gaming on the AW38 - it's hard to quantify why, it just feels better/more usable or something... I like using the OLED for slower games where I can kick back and relax (think JRPG), but the AW38 for faster games or games where I need to concentrate. Also, movies look much better on the OLED.

 

[the_boy]

Apologies for hijacking your thread but, been looking for a 2m+ replacement for my current working desk (which is an old dinner table) and I like that Ikea Karlby! How did you set it up? With IKEA legs?

No worries.
Think I use one of the more popular set-ups, 2 Alex drawer units (one at either side) and then a single leg to stop it sagging in the middle, it's very good. Just not quite deep enough.

A lot of it, I think, comes down to "what do you want the monitor to do?". All monitors are compromises and are best used for what they are designed for. I mean the AW3821DW is largely a gaming monitor and you are paying for speed. Why would you want to buy that if it is your second monitor... if you aren't going to be playing games on it?

Incidentally I have a room full of monitors now, lol, so I kinda feel the same. They are all sat in there doing nothing, but truth is that I have nothing to use them with.

AW3821DW would be my new daily driver relegating my AW3418W to the secondary monitor.
However with my discounts I can only get it down to £1170 which IMO is too much, so I created a mock-up of the OLED48CX with card and stuck it on my desk and it's possibly not as bad as I feared it might be so I'm going to do that instead.
It is only going to be £300 more, has HDMI 2.1 and probably an overall better option.

 

[pp111]

[QUOTE="the_boy, post: 34413442, member: 148591"..so I created a mock-up of the OLED48CX with card and stuck it on my desk ....[/QUOTE]

I thought I was the only one mad enough to make cardboard monitors