I’m just wondering which is the better choice a 4k monitor or a 1440p monitor?
my current specs are:
AMD Ryzen 7 5700 processor
nvidia geforce RTX 3060 GPU
atm i get around 150fps on average in solo shuffle arena at Ultra settings (highest settings available)
I’d love to get a 4k monitor, but not sure i could run it on medium or high settings with my current GPU?
4k demands a lot from your card. Your 3060 won’t be enough for more demanding games, but it’ll handle 1440p. 1440p is 77% more pixels than 1080p and 4k is 300% more. For reference, my pixels are tiny on my 27" 1440p screen. You’d need to get at least a 32" 4k screen.
1440p hands down.
Stay away from 4k. Thats 4090 territory once you factor games other than wow. 4k is a VERY BIG jump from 1440p graphic demand wise. This is why I wont even look at 4k laptops. They are a stuttering mess in games. 1440p hands down. Dont even think about it.
Coming from an OLED 4k Gamer, I can tell you with the money you will spend to play most games at 4k you might as well go OLED 
This Elf is Correct.
When you care about your wallet?
1440p = 
4k=
yesah… 4k is literally almost 4x times the amount of pixel to be driven by the card compared to 2k. either turn down graphics or play at 60fps … which is ok i think
Ultrawide 1440p is where it’s at for wow imo!
I just grabbed a 1440p 34" UW and it’s made wow like an entirely new game. I used to run dual 1440p 27" monitors and the swap has been great! Running it on a 3070 and it’s smooth as butter at max settings and is a nice compromise between standard 1440p and 4k.
As others have said your PC isn’t setup well for 4k so don’t bother unless you want low frames.
I’m on an 3440x1440p UltraWide with a 3080ti and LOVE it. 4k is much more demanding and it may require a 40 series to play most top end games in 2023.
I’m playing everything on Ultra (that allows it) without issues.
CPU is a Ryzen 5900x fwiw.
Yep unless you are old and retired like me who realizes you cant take it with you when you die so you stupidly spend money to game at 4k on OLED. 
For anyone else? Its a complete waste of $$ This is one smart Orc. Listen to him OP
I recently picked up an Alienware 38" ultrawide (AW3821DW). I had a 32" 1440p 144Hz monitor before that. I was interested in an ultrawide, but a 34" ultrawide would have had a lot less vertical height compared to my previous 32" 1440p monitor, and that would have felt like a downgrade.
The 38" AW3821DW uses a higher resolution than most smaller ultrawide monitors. It uses 3840x1600, at 144Hz. And it has almost the exact same vertical height as my old 32". It has the same horizontal resolution as 4k, while still having more vertical resolution than my old 1440p monitor. I can watch many 4K movies in native resolution since they are filmed at 2.35:1 anyway and would have black bars on a regular widescreen 16:9 monitor. On an ultrawide those movies fill the whole screen. It also has an actual GSync module, which is just better overall compared to Freesync/GSync compatible. No minimum refresh rate, no flickering, etc.
The only “downside” is that it’s an “older” “Fast-IPS” panel instead of an OLED monitor. But my last monitor was a VA panel and I actually suffered minor burn-in issues on that monitor. The first thing I noticed was that I could still see my Windows 10 menu icon even after I had upgraded to Windows 11. Later on I also noticed that part of my WoW UI had become burned into the screen also. If I can cause burn-in on a VA panel, the last thing I should be using is OLED. AW3821DW still looks great despite not being OLED and Auto-HDR in WoW looks fantastic.
I have this monitor as well and I believe it’s the best WoW monitor. The extra height makes a massive difference in game, the ultra wide makes it so you can move your ui off to the side.
I’ve owned an OLED since 2017 and they still burn. Zero chance I’d use one for a game with a static ui like wow.
I can’t speak for the panel you are on but with OLED it’s all about the panel you get a crapy panel and you’re going to have burn in every time. Also OLED has come a long way since 2017 the original OLED technology had very high chance for burn in
These newer panels do not. I have been on the LG C2 evo since it came out and I have had zero issues and zero burn in. I also use my monitor for productivity and I still had zero burn in. I’m just sitting there with my start menu bar at the bottom of the screen statically all the time. Nada. With these newer panels burn in has kind of become a thing of the past.
With quality panels the worry of burn in is kind of a thing of the past. There are many articles out on the internet talking about this. RTTINGS did a study on this they even have a video out on it and after hundreds of hours of use the LG panels had zero sign of burn in.
There is a very good reason why most of the top and gaming panels are OLED. Your top of the line LG, Samsung, Alienware, Asus ect ect. They are all OLED. There is also a reason many of their new warranties Now cover burn it
The tech hasn’t changed much at all. I owned a b7 OLED and it burned in fast and had image retention nearly out of the box. I warrantied it for a c9 OLED which doesn’t have any burn in yet but I also rarely game on it. Still I have a warranty on it because I know there’s a high chance it will burn in.
It’s all denial. People refuse to acknowledge the flaws because of how incredible they look . They’re by far the best gaming experience and people will find ways to justify their purchases. There’s already been a good amount of people on reddit who have burned in their alienware OLEDS after less than a year of use.
Anyone who buys an OLED and puts a static image like a WoW UI on it is going to have problems with it. If you’re just going to watch some movies or play some single player games you’ll probably be fine, but a game like WoW you’re going to be warrantying it sooner or later.
Most of those warranties are also only 3 years. You also get sent a refurb most of the time which is a giant coin flip on an OLED.
My warranty is for 5 years on mine. So maybe I’m not your typical user but I’m not going to have it past that anyway. I’m going to have a newer more updated one after that time period with a faster refresh rate.
I will be honest with the 5-year warranty and an in-home replacement on the warranty I’m really not concerned with screen burn in. Image retention can literally happen on any screen including LCD. I’ve had it happen on IPS in the past. The chances of image retention are just much higher on OLED.
You also need to understand the actual screen burn in is a reference back to plasma panels and does not truly happen anymore even on OLED. What does happen is more of a ghosting called image retention and it is fixable. You just have to understand what exactly you were dealing with and how to go about fixing it
As with anything in life certain things come with risk and it’s just things you need to be aware of. I can tell you both me and my husband have been using ours as gaming monitors for about 2 years and none of us have had any kind of image retention. I also use mine for productivity AKA video editing
I can’t speak for other makers but LG themselves have said it’s not a problem on their newer panels. Like I said if it does happen with me I’m not really worried because I’m going to get a replacement under the warranty
OLED shoppers are your Rtx 4080 and 4090 buyers. Bottom line if someone has the funds to look into OLED and I have stated many times in this thread that it is not cheap and it’s not for everyone. Then they also have the funds to probably upgrade when their warranty expires. Your typical users do not look into OLED because IPS is much MUCH more cost affordable. You can also get an amazing image by looking into Nano IPS
I’m fine with people buying it as long as they understand what they’re buying. My problem is people online saying there’s no way people are going to have issues when there’s a good chance they will.
OLED’s awesome and if you have a warranty (I have one as well), then it’s as good as it gets for right now.
What are the downsides of OLED?? I was thinking about getting one… Would like to know what’s wrong with them before i buy one, ty guys
Let me just put this disclaimer here to OLED. The newest form of OLED is quite expensive and there really is no budget option. With that said if your mind set is hey I’ve got the money to spend and I don’t mind spending more to have the best picture possible. Then you are in the small percentage of the population who should consider OLED. I would still recommend Nano IPS to the majority of gamers because it’s an amazing picture without any of the downsides of OLED. Including the Hefty price tag
Most OLED is 4K and you can’t get just any OLED or you will run into problems like the gentleman above is talking about. You have to get a high quality panel and most of them are 4K. I would argue that LG probably makes the best OLED panel on the market
With that said you were going to need a bare minimum of an RTX 4080 to get the most out of a 4k monitor. This adds to the expensive price tag I was talking about. Because you are going to want to be around that 4k 120fps+ area. If you are playing Triple A titles you will most likely need a 4090. Another part of the expensive price tag is you’re going to need a high-end CPU so you don’t have any bottlenecks. 7800X3D or 13900k would be best. Even a 4090 is GPU bottlenecked at 4K currently
I believe both Alienware and LG makes some 1440p OLED screens and that may be something to consider. But with OLED every monitor is going to have something called pixel cleaning and it’s going to work slightly different on each brand but you need to run that about once every two weeks. This will help reduce the risk of image retention
Here are some resources for you
I’m assuming LED is safe?
I was going to buy an ASUS LED WQHD monitor if not the OLED
Anything that’s not OLED is safe.
thanks for the input!!``
I would highly recommend getting one of the LG Ultra gears Nano IPS.
This is what I was on before I made the move to OLED and it is absolutely a stunning display it’s one of the best you’re going to get on IPS but it carries a price tag to match. It was probably one of the best IPS monitors I’ve ever owned
Here is the 32-in version and a much better price
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093MFKDLP/
If you still want to go OLED you could alternatively get the 42" LG C2 Evo from Best Buy and get their warranty with it because it does cover screen burn in. If it ever happens they will literally come to your house and fix it