Ultrawide, Curved, 34"+ Non-OLED with HDR for mixed use?

Ephraim

Ephraim

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Heya,

It's been a few years since my last upgrade - I skipped the most recent generations of CPUs and GPUs, but figure that with 50 series coming, I'll probably look to refresh my home machine. In advance of the 2025 rush, I've been thinking about upgrading my main monitor - not because it has done anything wrong, but because I fancy a change. Having done a bit of research, it seems that everyone is into OLEDs right now, but I work from home on this machine all week and some weeks that means 60+ hours of MS Office, as compared to maybe 4-10 hours of gaming. I've watched a lot of stuff about burn-in and really want whatever new monitor I buy to last until I get bored again, rather than start to annoy me with burn-in after a year or so; and am also nervous about text quality as I do a _lot_ of work with text. However, I also really want my games to look as awesome as they can. Currently I have a 34" iiyama G-Master Red Eagle GB3466WQSU and really like the aspect ratio and the curve, but am aware that the picture quality could probably be improved. I'd be very happy with a step up in size, as long as I don't lose text clarity, and have been sold on the idea of proper HDR. Most of my gaming is single player immersive stuff, or MMOs - I don't play multiplayer FPS or the like, and am not remotely competitive.

I appreciate that my use case doesn't lend itself much to OLED, and so am looking for a HDR capable panel at a size and aspect ratio that will provide me the screen size that I like, without fear of burn-in, so probably some sort of mini LED with local dimming. Budget is anywhere from £500 to £1500, with bonus points if the panel comes in cheaper around the black Friday sales, as I love a bargain! I want it to be capable of taking advantage of as much quality improvement as the 50 series GPUs might offer, but it will need to be driven by my 3080 until I get time to rebuild.

Any thoughts?
 
Giving this a bump as you are asking the same question I'd like to find out about!

I'm tempted with the Alienware AW3423DWF which is about 700 quid... but I see some people reporting burn in within 1-2 years and that's too short a lifespan for me.

A non OLED 38inch 4k (or 1440 that's good quality) panel that's good for productivity and gaming would be ideal for me but can't seem to find one.

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People are going to talk about OLED because there is nothing that compares to it for quality. OLED is faster, smoother and looks gorgeous. You just aren't going to get anything else that looks much different to what you already have unless you move to OLED.
The Alienware monitors have a three year guarantee against burn-in.
You can correct the text fringing problem with something called MacType. I am sure there are some numbers for Alienware on this forum.
What I did when I got an OLED was to keep my old monitor for business stuff and just used the OLED for gaming.
 
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jabski said:
I use the M34WQ as a work monitor. Have used it previously for gaming though and have no complaints. Not sure if your wanting a flat monitor though ?

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As far as I can see this only has the most basic HDR implementation with no local dimming, so it's not going to provide a good job experience.

I was looking for the same thing but just couldn't find something to fit the bill and ended up with the OLED in my signature, and using a 27" IPS as a secondary monitor for work.

There are some models but they're generally expensive compared to what the QD-OLED models have come down to, and don't seem to have many reviews. There's the Acer Predator X34 V3, but reports on Reddit indicate coil whine and general disappointment.

I find it odd that there isn't one killer model that fits the bill. Samsung's G7 and G8 were well received, but they're 32" 4K mini-LEDs.
 
Thanks for the answers!

I'm coming around to the idea that I might just have to bite the bullet and go with a QD-OLED with a 3 year burn in protection and take on the faffing with vanishing taskbars and the like to try and mitigate the risk. Or stay put with the Iiyama. I'm a little worried about the text fuzziness, but will try and see one of the OLEDs in person to see how bad it is. I'm gradually being seduced by the 49" Philips Evnia, given that I have a Philips OLED TV with ambilight and love it, working alongside my hue lights.
 
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