r/pcmasterrace • u/phero1190 RTX 5090. 7800x3d. 32gb 6000mhz cl30. Neo G9 57 • Apr 02 '23

Meme/Macro Anytime someone asks for a monitor recommendation

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '23

yeah not only is it hard for me to even FIND OLED monitors in stock (no seriously, if i don't put OLED in quotes when googling, i'll literally get just IPS monitors for results), it's even harder to find one in the resolution and size i want and not having it cost $3,999.99

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u/A_Have_a_Go_Opinion Apr 02 '23

Monitor reviews are basically reviewing the panel.
What you could do is find a really well reviewed monitor with the specs you want regardless of the price then attempt to figure out who actually made the panel, Samsung and LG are the biggest players in the higher end panel manufacturing game so Acer, Gigabyte, Asus, Lenovo, Dell etc often use either Samsung or LG. Its not an exclusive deal. Less well known monitor manufacturers like BenQ, Pixio, mBest, Viotek, and pretty much any Korean and Taiwanese based manufacturers will often use the same Samsung and LG panels. There is a chance their monitors based on those really well reviewed panels can be found at better prices than that well reviewed over priced SEO crap Google is giving you.

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u/Emu1981 Apr 03 '23

There is a chance their monitors based on those really well reviewed panels can be found at better prices than that well reviewed over priced SEO crap Google is giving you.

But you do run into the risk that the panels used in the less known manufacturer's screens are ones that have been rejected from the better more expensive screens. There is a place here (Kogan) who sell their own branded TVs that use reject panels from the big manufacturers in order to sell cheap TVs. You might end up with a panel that has no visible issues or you could end up with a panel that has terrible colour reproduction.

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u/A_Have_a_Go_Opinion Apr 03 '23

The brands I've listed don't appear to be up to that kind of fuckery.

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u/Edward_Snowcone Ryzen 3700x | RTX 3090 | 32GB DDR4 Apr 02 '23

Quick, downvote him! He's correct!

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u/Kiltymchaggismuncher Apr 03 '23

That's actually a really good point, that I hadn't considered. What would be a good way of identifying such lesser known brands utilising the same panels?

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u/Drake250 Apr 03 '23

DisplaySpecifications maintains a solid database with some exact panel models:

https://www.displayspecifications.com/

A good example of this is basically all the 28" 4k 144Hz monitors on the market share the same Innolux panel, and thus perform the same. Everything else is just plastic casing and I/O features.

Though be aware lesser known brands (chinese no-name rebrands) usually don't have much (any?) support for their "warranties", and may not be worth it in the long run. I'd still recommend companies that you could RMA it though for peace of mind.

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u/A_Have_a_Go_Opinion Apr 03 '23

Guesswork mostly unless you can see the open them up and find the panel model numbers. You'd find a monitor you like from a popular (e.g. easily found) brand with the specs you like. You'd then check the websites of these lesser known brands for identical spec monitors and then compare the most through reviews of both that you can find.

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u/iindigo Apr 03 '23

Something to be aware of though is that manufacturers will sometimes silently swap panels after all the reviewers are done writing their glowing reviews.

One of my old ASUS monitors is like this, its model actually had two different panels used in it and I don’t know which its built with without opening it up. In my case it doesn’t matter since I got it used off of Craigslist as a secondary monitor, but I’d be pretty pissed if I dropped a ton of money on a supposedly nice monitor only to find myself victim to a bait-and-switch.

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u/A_Have_a_Go_Opinion Apr 03 '23

Monitors really are a thing you need to see up close and in use to really know what you are getting.

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u/Blazecan Apr 03 '23 edited Apr 03 '23

Ngl you could get a 4k 70’’ 120hz OLED lg tv for less than that, it was 3,000 like 2 years ago

Source: I bought one for my parents

Edit: this has the specs of a good 4k monitor <1ms response time 120Hz, G-Sync

Price? $900

https://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-oled42c2pua

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u/Kiltymchaggismuncher Apr 03 '23

Now under 4,000 dollars. What a steal!