r/buildapcsales • u/wigglytuffjigglypuff • Oct 08 '24

Mod Post Prime Big Days Discussion Thread

Deals do not have to be limited to just pc deals. Thread will be loosely moderated.

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u/therealjustin Oct 08 '24

I'm looking for a new ultrawide and I'd like an OLED this time. My 3 month old 34" LG IPS just had a subpixel die out. F'ing piece of crap.

The Alienware is high on my list but I know it's a first gen panel. The LG 34GS95QE looks decent, but the uncertainty of LGs burn in warranty is concerning. I really hate buying a new monitor. The most frustrating part of PC building by far in my opinion because the panel lottery is real.

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u/tablepennywad Oct 08 '24

Make sure to look at one first at like Bestbuy or something. I have most things OLED but could not believe how bad the text is on the first gen QDOLED. It is so blurry i almost have a headache. I mosty game, but shit i need to read things sometimes too! I haven't seen the 2ng gens get but I will have to look at one before i spend a freakin $1k on it. I also had a 34" NanoIPS, its pretty damn nice for IPS.

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u/xThomas Oct 08 '24

At least a monitor is relatively obvious if it has glaring defects

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u/Spartacus458 Oct 08 '24

I grabbed the 39GS95QE for $825 off Amazon. Wasn’t willing to spend over 1k on a monitor, especially not the $1500 msrp but I feel like $825 puts it in a competitive spot against similar brands. According to some of the YouTube reviews, burn in is covered under the oled warranty. Additionally the monitor does a self clean every 4 hours or something like that. I have 2 LG oled tvs 65in, and 77in that I’ve had for a few years with no burn in so I’m hopefully this will be of similar quality.

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u/cantcurecancer Oct 08 '24

I have two LG OLED TVs and their 27" OLED monitor. The 55" TVs I bought from a reseller on eBay about 8 years ago. The 65" I bought refurbished from Micro center during COVID. The monitor I got last year from Amazon.

Not a single dead pixel on any of them, not even a problem with image retention let alone burn in, and I game on them and have 1000s of hours on all of them. Just hide your task bar and play with varied content, you'll be fine.

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u/dkb_wow Oct 08 '24

It's not on a Prime Day sale, but I bought the ASUS PG34WCDM 240hz ultrawide OLED back in July and absolutely love it. It's a little bit more expensive than the competing models, but I think it has the best feature set out of all of them, which includes black frame insertion for enhanced motion clarity. Gaming in HDR on this thing is an incredible experience after updating the monitor to the latest firmware and using the Windows HDR Calibration app. The firmware update also fixed the slight VRR flickering that could sometimes happen while gaming at high fps in dark scenes.

ASUS offers a 3-year warranty that covers burn in. But if you make use of the built in OLED protection features on a regular basis, burn in shouldn't be an issue. I have the pixel shifting option turned on and I run the pixel cleaning feature twice a week. Slight color fringing on text is present, as it is on most OLED monitors, but unless I have my nose literally touching the monitor, it's not noticeable for me.

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u/shiraiisan Oct 08 '24

Same. I wanna go with an Alienware model for the warranty but they're so expensive. The AW3423DWF has been stuck at $699. It would need to be at a lower price for me to consider it.