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After 3,000 hours and two years another OLED gaming monitor burn-in assessment finds only minor panel damage

8 months ago by cm0002 to c/pcgaming

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Burn-in does happen, just not very much.

Burn-in is the one big worry with OLED monitors. But evidence that it shouldn't be a dealer breaker for gamers is approaching critical mass thanks to another long-term assessment released today.

YouTube channel Optimum has been using a 32-inch 4K LG WOLED monitor for around 3,000 hours over two years and has found only minor burn-in. This is a particularly handy metric given that one of the best known existing trackers of OLED burn-in by Monitors Unboxed has been based on a monitor with a Samsung QD-OLED panel. Now we have something similar for LG WOLED.

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unmarkedbot 33 points 8 months ago

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tyler 6 points 8 months ago

I left my PC on 24/7 for almost 7 years because windows sleep just didn’t function correctly, so it would try to sleep, it would wake up the monitor, beep, then try to sleep over and over again. My LCD panel has no degradation, that’s over 60k hours. Yeah, I expect OLEDs have gotten better, but have they gotten that much better?

I switched to Linux and don’t have this problem anymore so now my monitor gets to sleep.

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reversedposterior 3 points 8 months ago

100%. I've thought the same thing before too, both my monitor and my TV spend most of their time sitting on a Mac desktop with menu bar and dock in exactly the same place. I have had the TV for almost a decade and the monitor for about 5 years without issue. Even my older computer monitors I've either sold or given to a friend because they worked like the day I bought them. There would be guaranteed burn in if either one of those panels was OLED. I'm pretty happy not to have to replace screens every couple of years thanks. If I was only using a screen for watching shows or movies then sure, an OLED with its contrast makes sense, but I don't see how they can ever be recommended as monitors for anything other than casual use.

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Link 2 points 8 months ago

Why was this comment removed? I can’t see anything wrong with it?

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Sagan_Wept 2 points 8 months ago

What did it say?

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ProdigalFrog 1 point 8 months ago

It was a day old account posting a lot, the account was banned for being suspected of being AI, according to the modlogs.

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