Question Oled monitor questions

[noluck4]

Overtine at work has been mentally draining, but I've been considering upgrading to a 4k oled. I think my system can handle it with a 4080 and 9950X. But the recommendations I see make me ask questions. The ASUS monitors, is the software as resource hungry as Armoury Crate? Is the cost worth it?
The MSI MPG 321URXW looks good too and is what I have in my cart.
And the Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 (G80SD) looks exceptionally good. Which ones the best choice between panels and longevity?

 

[Eximo]

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/oled

I would ask what software you would install for a monitor outside of the driver? Also, at least my OLED has no driver, just plug and play only and it just works.

Longevity is a tough question to answer, they haven't been around all that long.

 

[noluck4]

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/oled

I would ask what software you would install for a monitor outside of the driver? Also, at least my OLED has no driver, just plug and play only and it just works.

Longevity is a tough question to answer, they haven't been around all that long.

I would prefer just the driver. I am seeing the asus has software like some widgets. Their coding and updates over the years has become a turnoff for me. If it's not required that could be a good thing.

 

[JayGau]

No monitor "requires" to install a software on the computer. If a company tells you that, they are lying to you. Some of them (Asus, LG, etc.) have an app to access and configure some settings instead of having to go to the monitor OSD, but they are for convenience, never mandatory.

And according to reviews, the Asus
PG32UCDM is the best on the market right now, mostly because it's brighter than the competition so the contrast and HDR are better.

I personally stay away from oled because I am totally unable to bear screen flickering and oled monitors are very well known to do that with VRR enabled. But if you are not sensitive to that (or screen tearing so you can keep VRR disabled) then it's not a problem.

 

[BFG-9000]

If you had downloaded the "driver" say for example for the ASUS that Jay mentioned or that MSI, you would have seen it is only a custom ICC color profile. All of the other monitor capabilities information that Windows needs to set up the resolution and refresh rate is plug&play sent over EDID through the display cable itself, no driver or software required.

As for software to control RGB lighting and such, well the ASUS monitors actually do use Armoury Crate itself, which probably only makes sense to use if you have other ASUS products with bells and whistles that you'd like to customize. Some of those settings are not accessible any other way but are usually not for anything important to the operation of the monitor. Which is quite different from the fashion nowadays with routers, where some of the most basic and necessary functions can now only be accessed through an app.