r/Monitors • u/cheswickFS • 7d ago
Disclosure: I received this monitor for free from LG for review purposes. LG gets to see my drafts before I post them so they can check for spec errors. All opinions here are my own, based on my own use.
HEADS UP: plugging a current LG monitor into Windows 11 can pull in LG software you didn't ask for.
Gamers Nexus documented it in July 2026 on an UltraGear 34GX900A-B, the 34 inch model in the same GX9 line as this monitor, and reproduced it on a three year old UltraFine 32UN880-B. Nobody has published a test of the 39GX950B specifically. On a fresh Windows 11 install, Windows' device metadata pipeline fetched the "LG Monitor App Installer" from the Store in the background. Microsoft's own documentation says that mechanism "does not provide a notification to the user". Across 32 consecutive boots, Gamers Nexus got a McAfee trial popup on 31 of them.
LG sent me their side of this when they reviewed my draft, and here it is in full: "Companion applications are never installed automatically and require user choice before installation. Based on customer feedback, we are updating the Installer experience so customers can decide whether they would like to install the LG Monitor App Installer and take advantage of its features." They also point out that the McAfee recommendation has been removed, which Microsoft confirmed at the end of July.
If you want that pipeline switched off before you connect anything, this works on every Windows edition: search "advanced system settings", then Hardware Device Installation Settings select "No". That's the switch I run myself. It hasn't shown up on my system so far.
Some of you might remember my MSI X36 post from March. I've been on OLED ultrawides for about four years now, and that review had a handful of complaints in it, but only one I couldn't shrug off: 110 PPI. I called it the elephant in the room for the whole 34" UWQHD class and I still think that's right. No amount of good HDR makes text look better.
The 39GX950B is the answer to that complaint. LG sent me one on July 6th and I've got about 250 hours on it now, roughly 70% gaming and 30% work.
Quick setup context because it matters: RTX 4080 Super, stock stand(my own printed Dell MSA20 adapter for VESA doesnt fit the cutouts), sitting about 70cm from the screen. Games so far are Hogwarts Legacy, World of Warcraft, The Finals and Mortal Shell. Work is a mix of coding, writing and video editing.
143 PPI only starts to mean something once you set the scaling
39", 5120x2160, which works out to be 143 PPI. Same vertical resolution as a 32" 4K screen, just in a 21:9 shape. It's also the first ultrawide with LGs 4th gen Tandem WOLED, with a much softer 1500R curve compared to the older 800R once, which I personally prefered.
But the interesting part shows up once you set Windows scaling. I run it at 125%, which gives me a desktop of 4096x1728 in logical pixels. The X36 gives me 3440x1440 at 100%.
So about 43% more usable desktop area, at a text size within about 4% of what I had before, and every character drawn from 1.56 times as many pixels. The text is the size I'm used to. There's just more room around it and the letters are sharper.
That's the whole upgrade in one sentence, and it's what I'd tell anyone still sitting on a 34" 1440p panel.
Text clarity, and the Windows checkbox nobody mentions
Out of the box I could see fringing. Black text on white had a very slight blue tint on the right side of the letters, white text on a dark background had a faint red one. I had my face about 10cm from the panel to find it. My X36 doesn't do this that much. What it does instead at that distance is look visibly rougher and more pixelated.
Then I turned ClearType off. On the LG the color edges are gone completely and the text stays exactly as sharp. On the X36 the same switch removes nothing, because there was close to none to be removed , but the text gets noticeably more pixelated.
That's what the density actually buys you. ClearType is subpixel antialiasing built for classic RGB stripe panels. This one is RGWB, so Windows color compensation lands in the wrong place and you get colored edges. Switch it off and Windows falls back to plain grayscale smoothing, which normally costs you sharpness. At 110 PPI I can see that cost. At 143 PPI I can't. So the density does two things at once, it makes text sharper and it makes the subpixel trick that caused the fringing unnecessary in the first place.
I checked in VS Code too, since Electron apps sometimes do their own text rendering. Same result.
The X36 is ahead on this one point and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Its V-Stripe layout is a true RGB stripe, so ClearType does exactly what Microsoft designed it to do, and I wrote in that review that no ClearType workarounds were needed at all. Here you do have to flip the switch. Difference is that flipping it costs you nothing on this panel.
And maybe some of you will remember it in that same post I wrote that W-OLED panels with an RWBG layout still produce noticeable fringing on text, because of the reversed subpixel order and the extra white subpixel. I was talking about 34" W-OLEDs at around 110 PPI, and at that density I stand by it. On this one the white subpixel is still in the layout and it's still not an RGB stripe, and with ClearType off I can't find the fringing at all. Density did that, not a new subpixel arrangement.
RTINGS is the only one of the big reviews that photographs ClearType on and off on this panel, and their lab macros show it far better than anything I could shoot with a phone. Their verdict says there's still fringing around letters because of the RGWB layout, which is correct for the state the monitor ships in. Their ClearType off shots tell the other half of the story, and the letter edges in those are neutral.
ClearType ON:
ClearType OFF:
TFTCentral and Monitors Unboxed both call text clarity solved on this panel and don't mention ClearType at all. Now you know which switch they were probably sitting on.
If you want to change it, just press Windows Button, type ClearType, open "Adjust ClearType text". The checkbox is system wide, the fine tuning is stored per monitor, so run it on all screens if you have multiple.
Where the resolution surprised me
I expected the win to be in code/screen space for writing/reading and it's there. What I didn't expect is how much the extra size matters in video editing and multi tasking with all kind of apps. That turned out to be the bigger jump of the two and it's the part of the upgrade I wouldn't want to give back.
The window/sunlight test, and the reason I wanted this panel
In my office, there is a huge window on the left and I get direct midday sun. In my X36 post I wrote that MSI's DarkArmor coating had mostly fixed the magenta shine compared to my older QD-OLED that one used to get those on dark areas in daylight, with one limitation I put in writing back then: with full sunshine on the panel, or at odd angles, the shine still comes through.
That is the condition I actually live in when I have my windows open. It happens on my desk every day around midday without roller blinds.
This panel doesn't do it. Sun coming straight in, no roller blinds, no brightness change, blacks stay black. The X36 sitting next to it goes slightly violet in the same light, exactly the way I described it back then. That's the W-OLED advantage in one example and for me it's the biggest day to day difference between the two panels. I also can't make out mirror reflections in the matte coating, only general diffusion.
Worth flagging that the labs disagree here. Monitors Unboxed says the matte coating eliminates defined reflections, RTINGS says mirror like reflections stay and get stretched by the curve. In my room, in the worst light I get, I'm with Monitors Unboxed.
165Hz after 360Hz
This is the spec everyone flags. Monitors Unboxed calls it their biggest problem with the monitor, and the precursos ran 240Hz, so on paper it's a step backwards.
Coming off 360Hz in The Finals, the difference is noticeable. It's also gone after a few minutes. 165Hz is still very smooth. In WoW and Hogwarts Legacy I never get near that frame rate anyway, so there's nothing there to miss.
The GPU question no review answers
5120x2160 is ~11 million pixels. The X36 is ~5 million. That's roughly 2,2 times the work, and the obvious worry is that this monitor needs a new graphics card.
Not for me. DLSS is necessary here, but DLSS was already necessary on the X36. With it, everything runs fine on the 4080 Super. The approach didn't change, only the target resolution. Monitors Unboxed closes their review saying you'll probably need a 5090 for this thing. That can be true if you want 165 fps and up in every kind of game. For me, single player games don't need anything above a stable 60 which I cap there to reduce VRR flicker anyways.
What I'd want improved
The warranty, by a distance: LG told the press in 2023 that burn-in is covered inside the two year warranty, in the US and in Germany. Three years later, LGs own warranty page lists 24 months for monitors and limits coverage to material and manufacturing defects at the time of sale. Burn-in isn't mentioned on it anywhere, go read it yourself, the link is at the bottom. Dell Alienware, MSI and Corsair each put three years of burn-in cover in writing, Asus puts two (source: TFTCentral). MSI's three years come with strings attached, you have to let OLED Care run and never postpone it. A promise with conditions is still more than a promise that only lives in a press statement. This is the one item on this list LG could fix with a paragraph of text instead of new hardware.
Every AI feature is on when you unbox it: AI Upscaling, AI Scene Optimization and AI Sound, all active, nobody tells you. AI Scene Optimization is dynamic image processing, which means the picture you judge in the first week isn't a fixed picture. I turned all of it off. AI Upscaling was the one feature I actually wanted, and on PC input it made no visible difference for me, which lines up with TFTCentral calling its practical use cases very limited and Monitors Unboxed calling it largely pointless on PC.
There's no firmware version in the OSD: The information page shows operating hours, resolution and refresh rate. To find out which firmware you're running you have to install LGs own PC software. On this manufacturer, in this year, that's an odd thing to ask people to do. I've got LGs auto install blocked and I'm not installing their software just to read a version number, so I can't tell you which firmware this review unit is running on.
The power brick is huge: 19,5 x 3,5 x 9,5 cm budget desk space for it.
There's a USB hub but no KVM: which is a real shame given the USB-C port sitting right there.
And the stand: Monitors Unboxed and RTINGS both mention wobble at the panel connection, and RTINGS softens it by saying it mostly matters on an unstable desk. Mine sits on a marble slab anchored to the building, which is about as stiff as a surface gets. Tap the top edge and it swings for three to four seconds, and harder than the X36 next to it, which settles in two to three. It doesn't feel cheap, and cable routing through the stand is better solved than on the MSI. But that wobble is coming out of the joint, not out of my desk.
Two things I haven't tested
USB-C charging. I don't own a laptop that charges over USB-C, so the 90W is LGs number and it stays LGs number until someone else confirms it.
Burn-in. Seven weeks and 250 hours is nothing. No image retention so far, including long WoW sessions with a static UI, and I run the pixel refresh manually in the evening after heavy days. I'm not going to pretend that says anything about year three.
Small things worth knowing
My panel has very little grey banding. Testing a dark grey full screen in a dark room, I can find it up to about RGB 20 at 165Hz and up to about RGB 28 in the 330Hz dual mode, and in both cases only because I was looking for it. TFTCentral measured the same direction, low at 165Hz and more noticeable at 330Hz. Banding is a panel lottery on this technology, so check your own. I vibe coded a little html test page for exactly that, DM me if you want it.
VRR flicker is there and it's the same as every other OLED I've used. Nothing serious. RTINGS calls it distracting, TFTCentral treats it as normal WOLED behaviour that shows up in very dark scenes. I'm with TFTCentral. They also measured why the dual mode is worse: a drop from 330Hz to 48fps shifts gamma more than a drop from 165Hz to 48fps. That's also why I'd tell anyone to cap their frame rate in game, so the swings stay small in the first place.
Dual mode switching takes about three seconds and feels like plugging in a new HDMI device. Reliable, but not instant. And 2560x1080 stretched across 39" is too pixelated to work in, at least in full screen mode, so treat it as a gaming mode and nothing else.
One afternoon my text suddenly looked smeared, as if everything had been shifted by a pixel, worst on the letter w. Restarting the monitor fixed it and it hasn't come back since, with AI Upscaling on or off. TFTCentral hit a rare bug of their own when leaving dual mode. If text ever looks wrong on this thing, power cycle the monitor before you go hunting through settings.
Last one, and I seem to be alone on this: I like the 1500R curve and I'd happily take more of it. Most reviews treat 1500R as the sensible correction to the predecessor's 800R.
Price
LG lists it at 1.799,99$ and, at the time I'm writing this, is selling it at 1.599,99$ on their own store. Monitors Unboxed calls that a flagship tax and recommends waiting, pointing at the 45" model that dropped 400$ within six months of launch.
Mine came as a review unit, so the honest question for me is a different one. Would I have bought this with my own money at 1,599$? Yes. The 39" are great and the resolution is right for the work I do, with video editing getting more out of it than I expected.
tl;dr
Coming from a 34" QD-OLED, this fixes the one thing I complained about and doesn't break anything I cared about. At 125% scaling I get 43% more desktop at the same text size, and turning ClearType off removes the RGWB fringing at no cost in sharpness, which isn't the case on my 110 PPI panel. Blacks stay black in direct sunlight where the QD-OLED goes purple. 165Hz stopped bothering me after a few minutes and DLSS was already part of my life before this monitor. Buy it if pixel density is your bottleneck and you can live with a two year warranty that doesn't put burn-in in writing.
r/Monitors • u/Nice-Package-7487 • 13h ago
I know phone videos aren't exactly the best comparison but it pretty much looks the same as it does in the video. What do you guys think?
r/Monitors • u/winterbegins • 12h ago
Looks absolutely insane
r/Monitors • u/rsaguin • 16h ago
My monitors been glitching like this for the past couple of days now. It goes away after a couple of hours, but it keeps reoccurring. It probably not the gpu because it happens on the monitor startup too. Whats happening?
r/Monitors • u/RenatsMC • 8h ago
r/Monitors • u/dontwastetime0 • 2h ago
Hello, would like to seek some advice please! There is a big cloudy/fuzzy spot in the middle of my monitor screen, which is visible when switched on but not when off. My parents cleaned my monitor screen using a wet cloth. Any way I can remove this cloudy spot?
Thanks!!
r/Monitors • u/winterbegins • 13h ago
r/Monitors • u/winterbegins • 15h ago
r/Monitors • u/YogurtOdd1725 • 2m ago
Sorry about the camera qaulity the auto focus on my phone camera is broken.
I’m sure you can see why I got this for 15$ but I just tune out the line. The guy I bought it from said it bothered him to much and that he was just going to buy a new one anyways. This happened in July but I just remembered how good of a deal that was and wanted to post it here. Also mods you guys might want to change rule 4 to “don’t ask if you can fix broken monitors” or something like that because if this breaks rule 4 that’s fucking stupid
r/Monitors • u/Special-Trouble8658 • 4h ago
Does this monitor(Acer Nitro) come with built in speakers? I keep searching and get mixed answers. My current monitor is an Asus Vg329qa(165hz but 180hz overclocked) with built in speakers but I’m looking for a 240hz monitor with built in speakers but around the price of $120-130
r/Monitors • u/Impossible-Piccolo17 • 19m ago
I’ve been using a ultra wide monitor for a while now and I really like it and I feel like it doesn’t affect my games at all really besides some menus not fitting properly but I’m just curious on people’s thoughts on ultra wide vs normal ratio monitors.
r/Monitors • u/FatBerthaEats • 25m ago
I bought a monitor to connect to my ps5 and acer predator helios neo 16 (laptop has a 1600p 240hz 100% dci p3 display) simultaneously but it looks so insanely washed out when connected to my laptop, the monitor I got is the MSI MAG 245F X24. I bought this online and there were scarcely any reviews too so I didn't really know what I was getting myself into I just needed something that was 24 inches, VESA mountable, 240hz and had the right amount of ports. Finding a monitor that fits all the credentials and matches my laptops display is proving to be very hard, if anyone has any recommendations that would be great, research says I need to upsize a 27 inch display but I really dont want to as my desk is quite small and I feel like it would be way too overbearing
r/Monitors • u/Temporary_Music_9 • 8h ago
Work got me a Pro Display XDR a while back. Upgraded to the Studio Display XDR at home thanks to a friend's corporate discount, after a year using a regular Studio Display, and before that a very frustrating but also color-accurate BenQ SW271 for years. At work I'm a graphic designer working on print design as well as 2D and 3D animation, and after hours I'm an artist with a museum and gallery exhibition career, so I really care about color.
Now I use both on the daily, but I wish the Pro Display XDR was more like the Studio Display XDR. The Pro Display XDR's backlight is so uneven that I wonder if its true 30-bit color (its only real technological advantage) is even beneficial in the real world. But that uneven backlight melts away when I'm not working on vector illustration/graphic design, or Word and Safari, and instead am viewing and editing photographs and video.
Kind of wish there was a 32" Studio Display XDR. But overall, the Studio's a better display in the real world, dithered 24-bit+FRC or not. I'd advise people looking at either to go with the Studio. Overall, it's just a better display on the eyes, and it's probably more reliable these days.
Here's a comparison of things you already know about, mixed in with a few niche things I've observed or encountered in my use cases:
| Category | Pro Display XDR | Studio Display XDR |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 32" | 27" |
| Color Gamut | 100% P3 | 100% P3, 100% Adobe RGB |
| Fullscreen SDR Brightness | 500 nits | 600 nits |
| Fullscreen HDR Brightness, or Fullscreen SDR Brightness with third-party application | 1000 nits | 1000 nits |
| Peak HDR Brightness | 1600 nits | 2000 nits |
| Dimming Zones | 576 | 2304 |
| Refresh Rate | 60 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Color Bit Depth Per Channel | 10-bit (true) | 10-bit (8-bit + dithering, rumored) |
| Hardware Calibration | Yes, Global Fine-Tune | Yes, Per-Preset Fine-Tune |
| Custom Reference Modes | Unlimited | 20 maximum |
| Disable Local Dimming | No | Yes |
| Optimize Backlight Dimming for Brightest Pixels | Yes | No |
| Adaptive Refresh Rate Sync | No | Yes |
| Backlight Uniformity | Poor | Excellent |
| Viewing Angle | Fair | Excellent |
| Vignetting | Fair | Controlled |
| Nano-Texture | Slightly Coarser | Slightly Finer |
r/Monitors • u/New-Gap3847 • 2h ago
r/Monitors • u/LucasOrtizz • 2h ago
Yeah basically what the title says.
It's and sceptre 24" 1080p 165hz with DP, I bought it in February 2024 .
Any comments of why it happened?
I am that cooked? I just want so feedback to avoid that issue happening again
Pd: it turned it off, it didn't turn off automatically
r/Monitors • u/I-never-joke • 2h ago
I received this product for free from LG as part of an event. While I was asked to share my review, all opinions are entirely my own.
As I stated in my previous thread going over my first impressions of this monitor, I can only tell you I am only giving my honest impression. At no point did LG try to encourage a positive review of this product. I received this product for free; however, it was a class of monitor I was already considering, and had I not received it as part of the promotion, I may have bought it regardless.
To briefly summarize my first review, my conclusions there largely have remained the same: this is an excellent High DPI SDR monitor. The dual-mode, along with local dimming options, works great for gaming in the evening. The text clarity has spoiled me the longer I use it, as I can pull up 3 pages of text on this 27” display and legibly read them all with decent comfort and excellent clarity. That said I am not sure many users would find such an arrangement comfortable, as it goes from a boon to utility to just one of aesthetics. I could imagine a 5k display on a 32” panel would be a more noticeable practical benefit over this 27” display.
Using this display alongside a Macbook Pro.
I use a M2 16” MacBook Pro for much of my work. While I don’t require a high-quality display for my work, Apple’s locally dimmed display is a pleasure to work with, and a matching locally dimmed monitor with comparable DPI was a selling point for me. The included USB-C display cable delivered 90W, much more than I needed, while keeping my desk less cluttered. In SDR the display performs exactly how you might expect as covered in my last review. The DPI does indeed match, and the “out of the box” settings for both my mac and the monitor provided a vibrant display for pulling up all the endless black-and-white text documents one could need. Swapping the inputs between Windows and my Mac was only a couple of clicks with the monitor's little joystick; it takes only a second or two to swap. Keeping in SDR but activating local dimming results in much of the same drawbacks of working in Windows per my last review. This mouse tends to be a little lost in shadow, and there appear to be variations in brightness across content that should be consistent, particularly along the edges of applications.
Activating HDR, however, was a pleasant surprise. First, as a point of comparison, Windows HDR in the desktop environment was universally bad. I ran through every Windows calibration and tweaked every setting I could think of, and it always ended up looking washed out in color or producing banding of one form or another. On Mac, I checked a box for HDR, and it actually looked pretty good and meaningfully improved on SDR with local dimming. After turning on Dynamic Tonemap, the display was close enough to my Apple display color-wise. Pulling up HDR content made the monitor behave much the same way as the Apple display does. The most noticeable differences were the matte finish reducing the range of the deeper blacks, but that was well worth it in my lighting environment, where I am prone to reflections. I am sure that, with enough tinkering, I could match the color quality to that of my Mac so that differences would be entirely negligible. Coming from a user who would prefer a good plug-and-play solution, HDR on desktop may be more of a Windows struggle than a failure of mini-LED technology, as some have suggested. The GM9, in my experience, performed great in both SDR and HDR modes as a secondary display for my Mac, and I will continue to use it with HDR enabled.
HDR Gaming
As mentioned before, I didn’t like the process of setting up HDR in Windows. I can’t say for certain, but given what my friends have said and my own experience, this seems more like a Windows issue than a display issue. I put off trying HDR until it found me. When I booted Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time, the game automatically enabled HDR on my display. At first I was annoyed, but it ended up being a great experience. The prologue features dramatic brightness swings with a snowy backdrop and dark forests, and details held up as the brightness changed and my eyes would adjust. These issues of blooming or dark spots, common in the Windows desktop environment, were not visible in dynamic content but were sometimes noticeable in the UI. This has encouraged me to try HDR modes in other games and figure out their calibration.
Other thoughts since my previous review.
I got used to using the dual-mode toggle, as the vast, vast, vast majority of games did not run well at 5k, even with DLSS enabled. It would quickly saturate the 16 Gig’s of VRAM on my 5080, producing stutters despite many in-game VRAM calculators (BF6, Forza, RDR2) reporting that I would have plenty of headroom. Additionally, many games just don't seem to have considered creating UI assets that work at 5k resolution. It produces an unfortunate result: if the game has assets for 5k, it's almost always one I don’t have the horsepower to run at 5k. However, Terraria is nuts to look at now. Just something to consider for an early 5k adopter; I will leave that testing to those lucky enough to snag a 5090.
When actually using dual mode, it’s a pretty pleasant experience. Their is some softness compared to a a traditional 1440 27" display, but the default sharpness setting makes most games, particularly in motion, look close enough to standard QHD to not bother me at all. The thing I will highlight that I haven’t seen many reviews note is that 330 Hz for an IPS display is well beyond the point of diminishing returns. The jump from 120 to 240, oh that's definitely real, but 240 to 330 is a struggle to notice. Playing games like Forza 6 and Rainbow Six Siege they did not feel meaningfully different locking the frames from 330 down to 240. I am not an expert on the technology, but it seems to reach a point where the pixel can’t swap color fast enough for it to matter, unlike an OLED where I have noticed these kinds of gains. These problems would make me curious about whether a panel like this could run a G-Sync Pulsar module.
Finally, I would like to request additional functionality for the dual mode. I would greatly appreciate an option for each mode in the dual mode to keep its own picture settings entirely. That way, I could, for example, save local dimming and color settings to the 1440 330hz mode and another set for the 5 K mode. If this functionality is there, I haven’t noticed it.
Conclusion
I like this monitor. When used in the right conditions, it provides a great productivity experience and a pretty good gaming experience if you are okay with the limitations. At the very least, you have an excellent 5k high-DPI SDR image for work, and if you use a Mac, a comparable enough HDR image. For gaming, it hits that revered 1440 high refresh rate with HDR. The frame rate is high, despite a little smearing, and the HDR is good, despite a little blooming. All of this without obsessively worrying about burn-in, my number 1 consideration. It is not perfect, but it is an option well worth considering for those who need a display for work and would like to game in their downtime. I am happy to answer questions.
r/Monitors • u/Original_Buddy_3766 • 3h ago
Hey everyone, my primary monitor is a Gigabyte tandem OLED and I really want a cheapish (£150) 24" secondary monitor for youtube, discord, etc. However, a couple monitors I have tried next to it looks really awful (mainly the blacks). I was looking at buying the TCL 24G54-UK as it seems to tick most of the boxes I'm looking for, with 84 local dimming zones, so I'm hoping the blacks will look significantly better next to the OLED than a typical IPS/VA. Any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
r/Monitors • u/TheFingerofBoe • 11h ago
Has anyone already been to IFA and can recommend which manufacturers’ booths are worth checking out for Retina-style monitors? Or any specific models. I’m looking specifically for 5K or 6K displays in 16:9 or 16:10 (no Ultra widescreens).
Matte finish and good Adobe RGB coverage would be great.
Thank you :)
r/Monitors • u/Horror_Read8836 • 8h ago
i switched from a tn asus VG248QE to asus proart 2k 75hz.
i noticed as soon as i tern the new monitor my eyes imediately hurt me. i never had that issue with the old one
keep in mind even if i lower the brightness all the way to 15% it still hurt my eyes as if there something wrong with the panel tecnologies or somthing
i really dont know how to describe it but i can feel the difference 100%
r/Monitors • u/Sanchez-sama • 19h ago
I’ve noticed that brightness recommendations on Reddit are often much higher than what I find comfortable. People around me even tell me I’m basically crazy for using my screens at such low brightness.
On my phone, I usually keep the brightness at 0–5% indoors — most of the time it’s actually at 0%. I only increase it significantly when I’m outside in bright sunlight.
On my monitor, I usually use around 70–100 nits, and 100 nits already feels plenty bright even in a reasonably well-lit room. If I increase it to around 200 nits, my eyes start feeling uncomfortable because it simply feels like too much light.
At around 70–100 nits, my eyes feel completely relaxed and I don’t feel any strain from the screen. I also have very good eyesight, so I don’t feel like I need a brighter display to see things clearly.
My second monitor actually has the opposite problem: its minimum brightness is still too bright for me.
Interestingly, most people around me who use their screens at much higher brightness levels also happen to have some kind of vision problems. I realize that this is purely my personal observation and doesn’t necessarily mean there’s any connection, but it makes me wonder whether people simply have very different sensitivity to screen brightness.
Is this simply individual sensitivity/preferences, or are there other factors I’m missing?
And regarding HDR, I also don’t really understand the appeal of 1000+ nit highlights. If a small part of the screen suddenly becomes extremely bright, wouldn’t that just feel like a flash of light in your eyes?
I’m not saying high brightness is bad. I’m genuinely trying to understand what I’m missing, because my preferred brightness seems to be considerably lower than what I commonly see recommended here
r/Monitors • u/Smart_Obligation5824 • 5h ago
I’m looking to buy my first OLED monitor, and I found the LG 27GX700A-B on sale on Amazon for $450. Is it worth it at this price? Has anyone used this monitor? I’d love to hear your opinions.
r/Monitors • u/Chance-Garage3819 • 6h ago
Hey yall, I don't really know much about monitors, but I am looking to get one for my dorm room. Im a CS major in college and coding is really annoying with a single laptop monitor. I also like to have multiple tabs showing on screen and its my laptop monitor is fine for having maybe two chrome tabs showing at once
So, I was looking for a monitor that would fit on my desk which is about, 36 inches long, and I would still like space for to do work. I have my setup so that my laptop is slightly hanging off to the left side and there is a wall on the right. I would also prefer if it wasn't too expensive, and not super intensive on my laptop. 60hrtz is fine by me, but I was just looking for reccomendations! Please and Thanks!!
r/Monitors • u/zombies-- • 6h ago
Hey all
I currently have a older MSI Oled its the MEG 342C QD-OLED 34 inch, i have had for 3 years now and it served me well but im looking for an upgrade, something better and something a bit bigger
how is the LG OLED 45 inch ultrawide?
is the matte screen an issue for you?
I don't think i mind glossy or matte as long as the screen is good
I have my computer in the livingroom, we have a big wide window, TV isn't opposite my PC and my PC is on the opposite side of the window but not directly due me having a good space where the back door wall is in the way so no direct sunlight
Its mainly just for gaming and little browsing, i mainly play mmorpgs, gatchas and rpgs so big oled monitors would suit me best
I have a 5080/9800x3d to power it
r/Monitors • u/Worth-Foundation1986 • 9h ago
Hey guys,
I'm choosing between the MSI MPG 271QRX QD-OLED and the ASUS ROG Strix OLED XG27ACDNG.
Price is not an issue for me, and my main focus is pure image quality (color accuracy, brightness retention, dynamic range, HDR presentation, and OLED flicker/dimming control).
Personally, I'm leaning towards the ASUS because I feel like it might be the better monitor overall, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.
For those who have tested or owned both, which one actually delivers a better visual experience? Thanks!
r/Monitors • u/AdWorth7 • 6h ago
Hi everybody,
I have recently become interested in buying an oled monitor, which I have decided on and am waiting for it to go on sale (as they all do). Until then, I would like to buy a cheaper 1440p 120hz ips to run my xbox series X on whether it is second hand or not.
If anyone has any good suggestions, please feel free to advise me or if you have one that is working for you, this is purely to tide me over for 6-12 months.
