Need replacement. QD/OLED or standard Monitor?

[Meddling-Monk]

Things have not gone well; First the motherboard (and thus whole rig) went and died and now the monitor has shown capacitor issues and now takes progressively longer each time before the screen comes on. I'm sure soon it'll reach a point where it'll no longer turn on at all without attempting to replace the capacitors, which I'm not fond on attempting at this time. (Lacking appropriate tools at this time as I've had to donate away previous tools to make room for my mother to be able to move around more comfortably and safely). So a new display is needed.

So, the current monitor is an Asus PB278Q, Vertical Alignment (VA) panel I believe. 99% sRGB. I typically use it for:

Photo editing (like, that wasn't obviously already... )
Video editing (less so these days but sometimes still called on to do so)
Gaming (most of the time these days. Not many high fps games, more like Baldur's Gate 3 where I can take time to plan, or Civilization. Highest fps needed is probably for something like Street Fighter 4, 5 and the upcoming 6, so around 60fps will be fine.)

So colour accuracy is probably most important for me (hence wondering if the QD-OLED or OLED displays might be suitable; are they reliable/mature enough yet to go for?)
Screen real estate coming in shortly after (higher resolution and size better for editing when called for), probably a minimum of 24" with preference on 27" or higher. 1440P or higher.
Price is negotiable depending on features on the display, but as I'm not returning to pro level of work, and more aiming for gaming these days, probably don't want to go above £1k (assuming the display has everything I'd like/want).

One final note, is that the monitor is usually on (as with the main rig) for at least 12 hours a day and often more than that. So if the QD-OLED and OLED are not really viable options (longevity and QC concerns - dead pixels, etc), standard display tech (VA, IPS, QIPS, with diming zones, etc) wouldn't be out of the question for an option.

Thanks for any suggestions and recommendations.

 

[Meddling-Monk]

I tend to find that colours on a monitor are very hit and miss. Some that are hailed by reviewers turn out to be horrible. Most monitors can't for the life of themselves display red decently and so struggle with yellow too. If you really want good colours then I would point you towards one that is going to appear in a few weeks - the Alienware AW3423DWF. It is an £850 gaming monitor, but it also happens to be a qd-oled. I know someone who has been creating content on one of those panels for a year, ten hours a day, and the monitor is still absolutely fine. They come with a three year guarantee against burn-in so should at least be good for that, especially if you never use it for HDR. Anyway... just a thought.

Yeah, always had issues with many display panels with certain colours, even OLEDs (my LG CX in the living room I've had to both temporarily use for a display before, and used it to watch calibration videos, and it's clear that some colours are off). A quick look at the details of the Alienware AW3423DWF suggests that it uses a cooling fan? That might unfortunately be a deal breaker for me (minimal sound produced is a thing here for me unfortunately), but will keep it in consideration in case I find that everything else about it is suitable for the price point.

The warranty against burn in might be interesting though, especially if my pattern of use remains unchanged; Whilst HDR might not be used all the time, I wonder how it'll handle for certain game use (Baldur's Gate 3 supposedly has HDR and Raytracing support) for 12 hours a day over a lengthy period of time? Would I see burn in before the 3 years and be able to make use of the warranty? Would HDR use for that type of time produced burn in qualify for the warranty? Hmmm.... Must look into that further I guess.

 

[Meddling-Monk]

Thanks for the suggestions @EsaT will look further into those. Although that unreleased one is a bit far out at the moment, and I'm worried this monitor isn't going to last long enough to wait for it. But will see. Thanks again.

 

[Meddling-Monk]

Leaving monitor to stand by instead of cutting power completely could prevent capacitors from "going to rigor mortis".
And using lowest usable brightness would slow down the wear.
While LCD may not have OLED's fragility and short life span, power supply's capacitors still wear faster at high brightness. (+high ambient temperature)

Guess it's time to throw some coins and see if they land heads or tails if I go the QD-OLED (if I really want to try OLED for gaming and colours for editing) route then.

As for leaving the monitor on stand-by, I'll have to start doing that with the new monitor. This current one has reached a point where if I leave it on stand-by or power off, it'll require many minutes of blinking screen (power) before it can come back alive. The only way to keep it alive so that it can be used right away, would be to feed it a video signal so that it's constantly displaying something (thinking about this, I may pull the Pi and just plug it in temporarily until new monitor is chosen and arrived).

Brightness, it's not at max, had it configured at a more accurate 70 brightness (for this monitor anyway, had to also calibrate it to a printer so the chain of production was consistent). But will see if knocking it down will help. Temps, other than the recent Summer heatwave, it's lived a mostly sheltered life, although I guess a moment of intense stress could easily lead to issues like this.

Thanks for the tips on, will keep them in mind for application with the new display (whichever one I finally settle on).