Need to get creative... work from home but a huge gamer as well. How to handle an O-LED and burn-in risk (help!)

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So, I work from home roughly 3 days a week and 2 at the office. When home, I currently have an IPS monitor so no risk of burn-in. However, I want to get an OLED for gaming but of course working in spreadsheets, docs, etc will increase risk of burn-in over time (static elements).

I of course can use a laptop for work or a 2nd monitor to the right or left of me, but that then has me either turning my body/chair to the right or left or staring right or left, uncomfortably... I was wondering if there was a stand that could rotate clock-wise where depending on what I'm doing, I could simply rotate which monitor I'm using at it would be directly in front of me.

Does such a stand type exist? Any other ideas?
 
The risk of OLED burn-in is very low these days. I know a few people who have used an LG C-series OLED as their monitor and don't seem to have burn-in issues. I've had my LG C1 since it released and use it everyday, and I have zero burn-in or brightness/image degradation.
 
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There are other things I'd be worried about an OLED especially if you don't have a high-end GPU. Burn-in is not that big of a deal anymore unless you plan on using the monitor for more than 6+ years.

 
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My wife and I both use large LG G2s as PC monitors and we have another LG G2 in the living room for TV and gaming.

Burn-in hasn't been an issue.

The only precautions I've taken are setting Windows to auto-hide the taskbar, using a plain black wallpaper, and setting the screensaver (also plain black) to turn on after 2 minutes of inactivity.
 
For my PC setup with OLED I mainly use wallpaper engine with moving wallpapers and scrensavers, hide the task bar, press F11 on a browser to make hide the static top parts and usually use theatre or full screen mode, I don't have any shortcuts on desktop, have my monitor turnoff if not in use for 50 minutes.

My OLED also has pixel shift, which is their way to help combat burn in. Ive only had my monitor for about a year so I shouldn't (and don't) have any issues and I have been blown away by it.
 
That's why I don't have an OLED. 95% of my time is spent working and I use macOS which makes it a bit harder than windows hiding some UI elements without compromising too much on the QOL side.
 
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Poppinfresh said:
My wife and I both use large LG G2s as PC monitors and we have another LG G2 in the living room for TV and gaming.

Burn-in hasn't been an issue.

The only precautions I've taken are setting Windows to auto-hide the taskbar, using a plain black wallpaper, and setting the screensaver (also plain black) to turn on after 2 minutes of inactivity.
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Any chance you can post a pic of these G2's being used as monitors? Are these wall mounted? Both in the same room?
 
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People saying burn-in is not a thing anymore dont play games with static UI's in longer sessions, i had my WoW HUD burned into 3 different OLED monitors in the last 8 years, now im only using IPS/VA panels on pc because of it.
 
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Poppinfresh said:
My wife and I both use large LG G2s as PC monitors and we have another LG G2 in the living room for TV and gaming.

Burn-in hasn't been an issue.

The only precautions I've taken are setting Windows to auto-hide the taskbar, using a plain black wallpaper, and setting the screensaver (also plain black) to turn on after 2 minutes of inactivity.
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Same thing, LG-G1 65" used as monitor in the living room, powered up mostly all day for the last 3 years, no signs of burn-in. Just setting a "blank" screensaver after a couple minutes is enough.
 
Celcius said:
Any chance you can post a pic of these G2's being used as monitors? Are these wall mounted? Both in the same room?
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Separate rooms. We have a large house.

My "work" PC with the 52-inch G2 is in our office. My wife has a desk there, with a wall-mounted 4k IPS monitor (48 inch, I think) and a dock for her work laptop. Her "gaming" PC with the G2 is at a desk in our bedroom.

The large-screen G2 in our living room is wall-mounted.

Neither G2 on our desks is Wall-mounted. We ended up buying the stand for them, which was an additional $150 each (I think). It was my mistake. When I was shopping online for the TVs, I noticed that the G2 had slightly better specs than the C2 so I ordered two of them. I didn't realize that they didn't come with a stand until after they arrived. We never had any intention of wall-mounting those TVs so we had to order the addtional stands.

Glad I did, as I think the G2 is worth it over the C2.

The living room TV was mounted by an installer. I didn't want to mess with it, but my neighbor and I did eventually have to move it and remount it when my wife ordered new furniture for under the TV, which was just slightly too tall for the existing mount. Let me tell you, moving that TV was a pain in the ass...
 
Poppinfresh said:
Separate rooms. We have a large house.

My "work" PC with the 52-inch G2 is in our office. My wife has a desk there, with a wall-mounted 4k IPS monitor (48 inch, I think) and a dock for her work laptop. Her "gaming" PC with the G2 is at a desk in our bedroom.

The large-screen G2 in our living room is wall-mounted.

Neither G2 on our desks is Wall-mounted. We ended up buying the stand for them, which was an additional $150 each (I think). It was my mistake. When I was shopping online for the TVs, I noticed that the G2 had slightly better specs than the C2 so I ordered two of them. I didn't realize that they didn't come with a stand until after they arrived. We never had any intention of wall-mounting those TVs so we had to order the addtional stands.

Glad I did, as I think the G2 is worth it over the C2.

The living room TV was mounted by an installer. I didn't want to mess with it, but my neighbor and I did eventually have to move it and remount it when my wife ordered new furniture for under the TV, which was just slightly too tall for the existing mount. Let me tell you, moving that TV was a pain in the ass...
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Were the $150 stands official or 3rd party? I bet that's a cool setup
 
Monitors Unboxed long term test:
  • Intentionally using a QD-OLED monitor in a worst-case scenario to test burn-in durability.
  • The monitor was used for static content like web browsing, editing, and productivity tasks for 8–10 hours daily over 15 months.
  • 3 800 hours of usage
  • No burn-in mitigation like dark mode or auto-hiding UI was used.
  • Panel compensation cycles were allowed to run naturally (413 cycles total).
  • Brightness was kept at 200 nits, and the monitor was not put to sleep during inactivity.
Their Takeaway:

For typical users, especially gamers or mixed-use scenarios, burn-in is unlikely to be a major issue.

 
I have ~9200 hours on my Alienware QD-OLED and 95% of that has been for work. The monitor has built in diagnostic slides to check for burn-in and I still don't see any hints of it.

I just use a screensaver and autohide the taskbar and other basic stuff like that. Nothing too different from a CRT back in the day.
 
Given MSI showed their OLED monitor being on for what was it 3 straight years or something, I think a decent amount of newer panels are good if you make sure the screen care features are on.

Used an LG C3 42 inch as a monitor with my consoles hooked up also. No issues at all so far, and it has static stuff on it all the time.
 
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