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?
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?