Monitor upgrade advice (32 inch or larger)

[NexxCat]

Hey everyone

Spent quite some time doing research on monitors and have nailed down a few options, but would appriciate input and thoughts on those that I've chosen.
Firstly, my ideal budget would be ~£500 or less, but I have an uper limit of £1000 if there is something absolutely worth spending the money on.

My use cases are about 50/50 work / game. My work means I have large sections to static UI showing for 8+ hours of the day. As for games, I mostly play FF14 and Satisafactory. I'm too old for esports games
If it matters, I'm currently running a 3700x and an RTX 3080 FE, but am also considering an upgrade to a 5800X3D in the near future.

My current monitor is a BenQ EX3203R 32" running at 2560x1440 @ 120Hz. I bought it second hand and it's been great for the three years I've owned it, but has a couple of major downsides which have always bugged me:
- It has a relatively slow VA panel which leads to severe ghosting
- It's got a 1800R curve, which was fine at the time, but is giving me issues in my day job where I work on CAD

My PC is used in a well lit room, I don't use it with the lights off.

Here are the monitors I've shortlisted:

1) LG 32GP850-B - 32" 1440P IPS
+ IPS so no ghosting
+ Well reviewed
+ Within budget
+ 1440P so lower load on my GPU than 4K
~ Low pixel density (92PPI), but matches the pair of 27" 1080P screens I use to the left of the main screen
- Typical IPS poor contrast ratio

2) LG 32GP950-B - 32" 4K IPS
+ IPS so no ghosting
+ Well reviewed
+ Higher pixel density (138PPI)
- Well over budget
- 4k so more load on my GPU than 1440P
- Typical IPS poor contrast ratio

3) LG C2 42" OLED
+ OLED speed, contrast + other benefits
+ Very well reviewed
+ Good pixel density between 1 & 2
~ "Control" of TV through PC is fiddly, but workable
- Well over budget
- 4k so more load on my GPU than 1440P
- Text clarity questions due to WRGB
- OLED burn-in / non-uniform wearing

4) Alienware AW3423DW
+ OLED speed, contrast + other benefits
+ Very well reviewed
+ Ultrawide
+ Good pixel density between 1 & 2
+ 3 year Dell warranty covers "burn in"
~ OLED burn-in / non-uniform wearing
- Curved, but being an ultrawide, I wonder if it will be as bad
- WELL over budget
- Text clarity questions due to weird triangular subpixel layout

I'm more than happy to hear opinions on any monitors people feel are worth suggesting, as well as any critiques about my current choices
Thanks!

 

[EsaT]

That lots of work with static content part is very bad for OLED.
Especially in well lit room when you can't push monitor's brightness down and have to keep it at high power for OLED.
So would consider standard OLED as big no for those conditions.

And while Samsung's QD-OLED's efficiency should be higher allowing lower stress per brightness, it doesn't completely remove burn in:

World first QD-OLED monitor from Dell and Samsung (34 inch Ultrawide 175hz)

I'd set it to 'Hide Taskbar' m8 just to be safe. Good shout. Personally I'm not too worried, got 3 year warranty. Chances are there will be something better out by then and the tech will have further improved too.

forums.overclockers.co.uk

Also QD-OLED panel's structure makes it loose its black in stronger ambient light, which chauses kind of glow/"haze" to rise from black.
While at the same time that good room illumination quite effectively masks limited contrast of LCDs.
Add apparently lack of reflex shooter/competitive gaming, and OLED's response times loose their significance.
So don't see much point in OLED.

And if you're more toward slower paced/story/eye candy type gaming, those don't need the fastest response times.

So for 4K very wide gamut AU Optronics M320QAN02.3 panel based monitors would be also options.
Asus PG32UQ is one of those.

Asus ROG Swift PG32UQ review - TFTCentral

32" gaming display with 4K resolution and 144Hz refresh rate. Also with HDR 600, ELMB-sync and HDMI 2.1 connections for consoles

tftcentral.co.uk

BenQ EX3210U would tweak that panel to its fastest in response times.

BenQ EX3210U Review | PC Monitors

A review of the BenQ EX3210U. A 32" IPS model with 3840 x 2160 ('4K' UHD) resolution, 144Hz refresh rate, VESA DisplayHDR 600 and HDMI 2.1.

pcmonitors.info

For lower priced 4K monitor Gigabyte M32U would good choise with some amount better response times.
Though colour gamut isn't much above sRGB except in reds and you won't get much vibrancy in green/cyan for vegetation and sky/water.

- It's got a 1800R curve, which was fine at the time, but is giving me issues in my day job where I work on CAD

Let's hope that monitors with adjustable curve become common some day.

 

[NexxCat]

Just wanted to provide an update.

After looking at all the options, I ended up getting something which I hadn't expected to buy.

Dell had a discount on the AW3821DW, plus cashback / etc brought it down to around the £950 mark.

It arrived on Thursday and it's amazing. Productivity is great with such a wide aspect ratio and my 3080 seems to be keeping up just fine in games at the 3840x1600 native resolution.

Very pleased with it. No more black smearing!

Not I just need to re-organise my desk to make everything fit a little better