Will an OLED work for me?

[adrichardson81]

I'm looking to upgrade to a 32" QD OLED. I work from home 3 days a week (about 7 hours of Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PDFs a day), game for maybe an hour or so a night, plus a few hours of photo editing a week.

Is this too much for an OLED, assuming I want to keep it for 3+ years?

 

[Deleted User 298457]

Only had my Dell for 7 months or so; just have task bar on auto hide. Dell's come with a 3year warranty IIRC too so that lifespan is easy mode.

 

[adrichardson81]

Cool that's reassuring. Presumably it's a no quibble warranty?

 

[Deleted User 298457]

You may be better off posting in the Alienware thread - pretty sure it is, but I've never had to use it for OLED.

EdiT: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/t...s-january-2024.18979258/page-25#post-37535268

 

[Hyp3rlight]

I've been using an LG B9 OLED with my computer hooked up to it for about 5-6 hours a day, it's 5 years old now and still no burn in, I would think the newer monitors are even more resilient.

 

[adrichardson81]

I've been using an LG B9 OLED with my computer hooked up to it for about 5-6 hours a day, it's 5 years old now and still no burn in, I would think the newer monitors are even more resilient.

Thanks!

 

[peahead]

My Alienware 32"QD OLED is showing no signs of any burn in or image retention and it's on most of the day with two Microsoft edge tabs on the screen pretty much all the time apart from when it's time to game of course.

I am using auto hide the taskbar and a black background and set the screen to sleep after 15 min of inactivity.

 

[Capitano]

Auto hide taskbar and turn off your monitor whenever you’re not going to use it. Had my alienware QD oled for 7-8 months now and no issues whatsoever as of yet

 

[adrichardson81]

Thanks everyone - I'm less nervous about it now! Also realised I'll have it calibrated to 120 nits anyway, which should help.

 

[Disco_P]

Tim from Monitors/Hardware unboxed is doing an experiment where he is abusing an OLED as hard as possible and it's holding up really well. I think even with minimal allowances, I doubt you'll have any issues.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

No issue for me so far.

Throw in night mode, transparent task bar, auto hide task bar, no wall paper (or a rotating wallpaper) and no desktop shortcuts just to be sure.

I wish I had stopped worrying a lot sooner and jumped in, it’s a huge upgrade. Heck, if it did burn in I’d just buy another, it’d be worth it.

 

[***F1ZZY***]

No issues for me either on 34" Alienware

3 or 4 days per week office stuff all day and some games etc in the evening. Autohide taskbar and use windows "ribbon" screensaver.

I'm a bit lazy to do the pixel/panel refresh maintenance too and all is fine so far ~1 year.

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

Cool that's reassuring. Presumably it's a no quibble warranty?

I just got my AW3225QF replaced due to it not powering on (unless i unplugged it for 48hrs, following which it would work again for a week or ago). Got the replacement delivered today, and have packaged up my fautly monitor for collection. Seems pretty straightforward so far. From what i've read and heard, Dell have the best warranty, hence me choosing them.