Deliberately Burning In My QD-OLED Monitor - 3 Month Update

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00:00 - Intro, Specs, Design
00:58 - MSI's 321URX Firmware Update
06:16 - Burn In Results After 3 Months
10:54 - Final Thoughts

Deliberately Burning In My QD-OLED Monitor - 3 Month Update

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[itsjustinmartini]

"It's pretty unlikely you'd be using the monitor for 16 hours straight" I feel attacked

[neopac]

youtube compression went nuts on this one.

[sudetenrider-pili]

This video nicely shows how you cannot trust almost anybody on YouTube at this point. Many big channels are like: "With a new generation of OLED burn-in is a thing of the past. Almost non-issue." And then this guy shows up and gives concrete proof that burn-in starts to appear after 3 months. And yes I understand his setting and test methodology but still. Thank you for your honesty Monitors Unboxed.

[StiggyAzalea]

Would've been interesting to run another monitor next to it but using all of the standard protection features and best practices to see how effective they are

[bobbiesterling]

any measureable burn in after 3 months is insane. i have LCDs monitors i have used for over 5 years with no issues and with the kind of money you spend on OLEDs id hope for no less than that if i were to switch

[berndkemmereit]

Love the series, finally someone making burn in time scales visible and in a real world application. I know now that I can get Oled as I do maybe 80% gaming and 20% watching YT

[demonwares]

Im using the alienware AW3423DWF and mostly play two games. I have, however, done the dark mode the background cycling and taskbar hiding plus installed a program that hides icons in my desktop when 5 minutes of inactivity. I've noticed no burn in after 2 years of using it. I am very pleased. I didn't expect it for a 1rst gen QD Oled panel.

[ecventr]

Damn, only three months and it’s already burning in? I was pessimistic but wasn’t expecting it to degrade so soon.

[GeekyGamer]

While OLED is fantastic, having a display feel like a consumable item is just painful because of what LCDs have conditioned us to expect from displays.
Until OLEDs can be used without the user actively countering burn-in for 4-5 years without serious degradation they aren't going to be fit for the typical consumer desktop monitor space...

[saruharu]

I'm glad I never got any of the OLED monitors now after watching this. I'm on my pc easily for 14-16 hours a day since I work from home and the fact you're seeing burn in after only 3 months at around half my usage is crazy. I would've been cooked if I got any of the oled monitors.

[senti]

Love these updates. I need assurance 🙏

[devonjohnson]

Thanks for biting the bullet and running this long-sequence test!

[zaclovespenguins]

The whole burn in situation is so interesting. I remember getting 2-3 year old Galaxy S4’s in my repair shop that had so much burn in you could barely see the time. I’ve been using an LG C2 42” OLED tv as a monitor for my main monitor for work and gaming with a total of ~5100 hours of screen on time and I don’t see any burn in at all so far.

I do use dark mode as much as possible and tend to move my windows around a lot because I’m fidgety, but my job and hobby’s both including coding so there tends to be a lot of static text on my screen for hours a day. Plus both macOS and pop_os have those un-hidable taskbars at the top so I’d think that they’d have some effect but so far nothing.

[kapitblia]

Would be nice to see a retest of performance (like brightness, color accuracy etc.) at some point.👍

[Moonbogg]

I've been using the same IPS ultrawide for about 9 years now. It's still perfect. OLED feels like a throwaway panel tech for a heavy PC user. I wouldn't spend any decent money on an OLED panel because I'd be wanting to replace it every year with my OCD.

[Meddixi]

I'm following you with Asus pg32ucdm. 8 hours/day productivity work on mac, then 6-8 more in one game with persistent UI. Let's see who gets burn in first :)

[DarkSansTV]

nice! keep these coming, they're super useful and informative and since I'm one who is looking into OLED gaming I need to know what the results will look like maybe up to a few years of use, hopefully soon though, someone would be able to invent real-time pixel refresh where the pixels get their voltage refreshed on the fly without needing to do any cycles and also getting correct cooling to keep the pixels from getting so hot that burn-in happens anyways

[mistermtwentyforseven]

An excellent idea with series on oled burning, thank you!

[robertphillips]

Thanks for your video and for sharing your personal experience.

Having to baby an OLED is too much effort for me to deal with. I just turn my computer on and do I need to do. I pretty much leave it on all day and evening, do some spreadsheet stuff, type documents, email, browse the web, play some games, stuff like that. I want the bold colors of the OLED but I don’t want to have to stand on one foot, hold my right hand up at a specific angle, and say magic words or else the monitor will get a permanent image burned into it. I leave my taskbar showing, have multiple windows open, and stuff on the desktop. While I do have a screen saver turned on, I’ve noticed that it doesn’t always start when it is programmed to for some reason. The cost of OLED is not life altering for many, but it is still a hefty price to pay and I don’t need the anxiety worrying if I set everything up right to minimize the risk of burn-in. Since I tend to keep my equipment for 5 - 10 years, I would rather not have to shell out another $1, 000 - ? for a new monitor in 3 years because the static image on the screen is too distracting.

If I had the space and money to have two rigs, a working rig and a gaming rig, I would do that but with today’s technology it sounds like I need to stick with a mini-LED.

[Nelthalin]

Thanks for doing this very important testing!
It's a stress test without dark mode but already some starting issues after 3 months is concerning.

With dark mode and 120-140 nits it would probably not be a very big issue but it's clear that for productivity LCD is still the way to go.

I use a iiyama. 3466 as my office screen and a 3423dwf for my gaming setup. But on both I use dark mode. I find it nicer to look at even during the day.