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LG 45″ OLED Ultrawide 5120 x 2160@165Hz 45GX990A and 45GX950A

NukeDukem said:
How’s the brightness on this? I’m tempted to try one out but I’m 90% certain it’s going to look dull and lifeless next to the TV. I think MistaSparkul has the right idea going with that 55” S95F. Price difference on the two isn’t big either.
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Depends what you're after. Some people want the ultrawide form factor and higher resolution over HDR performance. I wanted the better HDR experience and monitors just don't deliver on that front. Super happy with my S95F though, reminds me of the first time I ever got an OLED at all. The image quality destroys everything else I've laid my eyes on, makes my CX look like an SDR display lol.
 

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MistaSparkul said:
Depends what you're after. Some people want the ultrawide form factor and higher resolution over HDR performance. I wanted the better HDR experience and monitors just don't deliver on that front. Super happy with my S95F though, reminds me of the first time I ever got an OLED at all. The image quality destroys everything else I've laid my eyes on, makes my CX look like an SDR display lol.
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Yeah. I didn't mean to hijack the thread. I'm super intrigued by the huge curved ultrawide form factor and the 5k high refresh res. It's just that I was very disappointed by the 32" QD-OLED monitor I tried out and this LG is WOLED. It's hard to convey in words just how amazing contrast, color, full screen brightness, 10% and specular highlights are on Samsung's QD-OLED televisions. That campfire in your first pic? I bet it glows off that screen and looks like an actual fire. The QD monitor I tested out was not even close to this.

Ultimately the only way to know is to personally test them. I wonder how many times I can get away with returning displays to Best Buy 🤔
 
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NukeDukem said:
Ultimately the only way to know is to personally test them. I wonder how many times I can get away with returning displays to Best Buy 🤔
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Not long. They have an algorithm that will flag you once your returns reach a certain threshold of your expenditures.
 
NukeDukem said:
Yeah. I didn't mean to hijack the thread. I'm super intrigued by the huge curved ultrawide form factor and the 5k high refresh res. It's just that I was very disappointed by the 32" QD-OLED monitor I tried out and this LG is WOLED. It's hard to convey in words just how amazing contrast, color, full screen brightness, 10% and specular highlights are on Samsung's QD-OLED televisions. That campfire in your first pic? I bet it glows off that screen and looks like an actual fire. The QD monitor I tested out was not even close to this.

Ultimately the only way to know is to personally test them. I wonder how many times I can get away with returning displays to Best Buy 🤔
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I mean if there's another monitor you want to test out besides this one you can also use Microcenter as well if you live near one. And maybe don't sample a bunch of monitors within a short time frame and you should be fine. Amazon is another option too.
 
NukeDukem said:
How’s the brightness on this? I’m tempted to try one out but I’m 90% certain it’s going to look dull and lifeless next to the TV. I think MistaSparkul has the right idea going with that 55” S95F. Price difference on the two isn’t big either.
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I feel it is bright enough. When playing games like Hell hivers 2, the explosions light up my room. I am coming from a 34" IPS ultrawide though. So not a high bar.
 
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Yeah, I fully understand they are taking a loss when someone returns a monitor or TV. Don't want to abuse the system. I'm going to wait until I can see one in person, sadly there's no Microcenter nearby. I hope you guys who got one are enjoying it! Looks awesome.
 
lol MUB literally just posted a video on this monitor a few hours ago so perfect timing to answer your question about the brightness actually:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70uei9-FqkE&pp=ygUQbW9uaXRvcnMgdW5ib3hlZA%3D%3D

As expected, about 700 nits on a 10% window which is in line with the other MLA WOLEDs. But at least unlike the QD OLED monitors this will not dim the crap out of high APL scenes when using high Peak Brightness. That is the reason why I got rid of my MSI QD OLED for the Asus PG32UCDP.

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700nits on a test slide. In actual content 10% highlights land in the 450nit range which is why this monitor looks so much more dim than the 42 C4/C5.
 
SoCali said:
700nits on a test slide. In actual content 10% highlights land in the 450nit range which is why this monitor looks so much more dim than the 42 C4/C5.
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Depends on scene APL. MUB shows it being able to do 756 nits but only in a low APL scene which is it's best case scenario so while technically it can hit 700 nits in real content, it's very limited in what type of content it can do that in so yeah I guess you're right in the majority of content it's probably going to be in the 400-500 nit range.
 
As someone who used a 48" CX and a 42" C2 for years, I find this monitor to be more immersive based on the curvature. The 45" LG is plenty bright for me at least. I thought I'd never leave my TV's as they were great, but this monitor and the previous gen 45" LG (even with it's 1440P screen) have changed my mind.
 
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I'm undecided on it because I use a 55" and set games to vert+ to fit 21: 9 into 16:9
 
Hey, got this monitor yesterday and love it so far. But anyone else got the problem of a hearable fan? Its making some kind of annyoing sound. Never had a Monitor with a fan before, so dont know if it is "normal" to hear the fan.
 
Maronius said:
Hey, got this monitor yesterday and love it so far. But anyone else got the problem of a hearable fan? Its making some kind of annyoing sound. Never had a Monitor with a fan before, so dont know if it is "normal" to hear the fan.
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I can't hear it, it is possible that yours is defective? (Fan)
 
Maronius said:
Hey, got this monitor yesterday and love it so far. But anyone else got the problem of a hearable fan? Its making some kind of annyoing sound. Never had a Monitor with a fan before, so dont know if it is "normal" to hear the fan.
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Now that you mention it, I did hear fan noise from the direction of the monitor briefly yesterday, and I was baffled because I had no idea what could be causing it - I didn't realize this monitor had a fan. I heard it only that one time yesterday even though I've been using the monitor ever since it came out. It didn't occur to me that it could be a fan in the monitor until reading your post.
 
Maybe its not a fan, it also could be coil whine. Are all your monitors completely silent? Or anybody else noticing some noise from his monitor?
Thinking about a replacement, but would make no sense if all of this monitors have this noise.
 
I get why this thing uses the resolution it does, but I'm not eager to increase the native resolution and performance demands in games. However, I've been shopping for a new monitor lately and I keep coming back to these LG 45 OLEDs. Though I thought the picture quality on the Samsung G9 49" was actually better. (The $1,700 version, whatever model that is.)
 
Dan_D said:
I get why this thing uses the resolution it does, but I'm not eager to increase the native resolution and performance demands in games. However, I've been shopping for a new monitor lately and I keep coming back to these LG 45 OLEDs. Though I thought the picture quality on the Samsung G9 49" was actually better. (The $1,700 version, whatever model that is.)
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Now that I got a driver that works it’s a beautiful display. I have the 1440P model also and that’s nice for games but for anything else the low ppi shows somewhat, but very doable.
 
Niner said:
Now that I got a driver that works it’s a beautiful display. I have the 1440P model also and that’s nice for games but for anything else the low ppi shows somewhat, but very doable.
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Unfortunately, the 3440x1440 model is just too low a resolution at that size. Tempting for games, but as you said for anything else its less than ideal.
 
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Bigmonitorguy said:
Now that you mention it, I did hear fan noise from the direction of the monitor briefly yesterday, and I was baffled because I had no idea what could be causing it - I didn't realize this monitor had a fan. I heard it only that one time yesterday even though I've been using the monitor ever since it came out. It didn't occur to me that it could be a fan in the monitor until reading your post.
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It wasn't a monitor fan. I had another computer on which was making this noise. I don't think this monitor has a fan.
 
Maronius said:
Maybe its not a fan, it also could be coil whine. Are all your monitors completely silent? Or anybody else noticing some noise from his monitor?
Thinking about a replacement, but would make no sense if all of this monitors have this noise.
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It does have a fan, according to many sources I've seen. As always some people will hear it, some won't. Most people don't hear the fan in the Quest 2 and Quest 3 either, but it is there and for me it's quite annoying.
 
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kalston said:
It does have a fan, according to many sources I've seen. As always some people will hear it, some won't. Most people don't hear the fan in the Quest 2 and Quest 3 either, but it is there and for me it's quite annoying.
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I used to have great hearing and stuff like you describe would bug the crap out of me. Now I have tinnitus and that pretty much trumps all other annoying noises.
 
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undertaker2k8 said:
Wise decision, WOLEDs suck compared to QDOLED.
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Yeah, I've now tried two W-OLED panels (this LG 45GX950A and a LG 32GS95UE). They looked good but something felt off. When I setup this Dell AW3425DW QD-OLED, I was shocked at the brightness and color clarity difference from the W-OLED panels I had used previously. I stepped down to 3440x1440 as I refuse to pay $3,000 for a 5090 to continue driving 4K max settings in game and I've always prefered 21:9 over 16:9

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pandora's box said:
Yeah, I've now tried two W-OLED panels (this LG 45GX950A and a LG 32GS95UE). They looked good but something felt off. When I setup this Dell AW3425DW QD-OLED, I was shocked at the brightness and color clarity difference from the W-OLED panels I had used previously. I stepped down to 3440x1440 as I refuse to pay $3,000 for a 5090 to continue driving 4K max settings in game and I've always prefered 21:9 over 16:9

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Yeah I like consistency between my displays and going to the GX from my S95C tv always felt off, with the AW3423DW the colors etc. are all consistent, peak brightness is the only major difference. Not to mention the 65" S95C has near perfect edge to edge uniformity just like the AW, the GX was much worse in comparison.
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
Y'all keep saying the QDs are brighter, but every review says otherwise for monitors.
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The stuff about uniformity being better on QD is definitely true, and this monitor being very wide probably amplifies the issue. But yeah overall brightness is higher on WOLED for sure. There is no scenario in which a QD monitor is brighter than a WOLED because TB400 caps brightness to 450 nits and P1000 has crazy amounts of dimming.
 
The problem isn't the brightness. The colors just don't look as vivid when compared to the QD-OLED. In addition, the matte coating gives the image a bit of a grainy look. Also, the lower PPI when compared to 32" QD-OLED makes things worse.
 
Bigmonitorguy said:
The problem isn't the brightness. The colors just don't look as vivid when compared to the QD-OLED. In addition, the matte coating gives the image a bit of a grainy look. Also, the lower PPI when compared to 32" QD-OLED makes things worse.
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From what I've seen the colors look just as vivid since QD OLED monitors are too gimped to make full use of their color advantage. Doesn't matter if one car is making 1000hp while the other makes 300hp if they are both speed limited to 40mph. The brightness and color vividness sort of go hand in hand here.
 
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MistaSparkul said:
From what I've seen the colors look just as vivid since QD OLED monitors are too gimped to make full use of their color advantage. Doesn't matter if one car is making 1000hp while the other makes 300hp if they are both speed limited to 40mph. The brightness and color vividness sort of go hand in hand here.
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I have an AW3225QF side-by-side with this monitor, and the colors are better on the QD-OLED.
 
Bigmonitorguy said:
I have an AW3225QF side-by-side with this monitor, and the colors are better on the QD-OLED.
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And I did side by side comparisons too lol. The colors were not way better. The colors on my S95F however, is indeed way better.
 

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Compared to QDOLED, WOLED have a pronounced DSE due to sub par uniformity.
Every single one I have tried including the 48 CX 5 years back has had it.

QDOLED is the end game, by all means improve it especially black depth issues but WOLEDS are a waste of time, just like regular IPS screens.
 
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And I did side by side comparisons too lol. The colors were not way better. The colors on my S95F however, is indeed way better.
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As I mentioned before I did a comparison with my three monitors and I prefer the LG’s over the QD Oled Alienware. I guess we all have our preferences/differences from one to the other.
 
Bigmonitorguy said:
The problem isn't the brightness. The colors just don't look as vivid when compared to the QD-OLED. In addition, the matte coating gives the image a bit of a grainy look. Also, the lower PPI when compared to 32" QD-OLED makes things worse.
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I guess you meant to say the lower PPI compared to any 4K 32" monitor?
 
QD-OLED monitors come with wide gamut profile out of the box, so for any comparison I hope you remember to either set both to HDR mode, or both to sRGB mode for SDR. Also if they don't have similar coating I guess the comparison isn't very fair.

But yeah my QD-OLED monitor doesn't have any colour advantage over my LG CX due to the brightness limitations. HDR is also poor in comparison. Luckily I bought it for competitive high refresh gaming with low settings and that's SDR material.
 
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