At 4,500 hours, MSI’s OLED MPG 321URX is exhibiting noticeable visible artifacts — intentional burn-in check reveals the boundaries of monitor tech after 18 months of non-top use

Monitors Unboxed is constant its prolonged OLED monitor stress testing video sequence with a burn-in replace on the 18-month mark. The YouTube channel’s host, Tim Schiesser, printed a new video detailing all the burn-in results his MSI’s MPG 321URX is now displaying after a whopping 4,500 hours of use. Long story quick: a few of the show’s burn-in artifacts are actually exhibiting up throughout day-to-day use.

For these unfamiliar with the video sequence, Monitors Unboxed started stress testing an MPG 321URX virtually two years in the past to report the burn-in susceptibility of OLED shows. To do that, Schiesser changed his LCD show at work with an MSI MPG 321URX OLED gaming monitor and is utilizing it for day-to-day duties comparable to writing scripts, video enhancing, and photograph enhancing.

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The stress Schiesser is placing on his 321URX is considerably extra demanding than what most 321URX house owners put their displays by. No gaming is being achieved on the monitor, and the monitor is getting used for 8 hours per day — 250 hours per 30 days. Additionally, Schiesser is additional stressing the monitor by working Windows gentle mode (with the taskbar set to darkish mode), calibrating the display screen to 200 nits brightness, and setting the display screen to solely flip off after 2 hours of inactivity.

According to Monitor Unboxed’s newest replace, the MPG 321URX getting used for this stress check is now creating burn-in results which might be seen in particular conditions throughout day-to-day use. A line that has been burning down the middle of the display screen for months is now turning into seen in sport footage. At first Schiesser thought the difficulty was coming from video corruption from sport footage he recorded by a seize card, however, after double-checking, he realized the artifacts he was seeing had been coming from the monitor itself. The challenge is refined and exhausting to identify, however the monitor’s burn-in points have technically reached a degree the place they’re affecting his viewing expertise.

Other burn-in results are additionally turning into extra prevalent on the 18-month mark, although they don’t seem to be seen throughout day-to-day use — not but, anyway. Using a digital enhancement filter, Monitors Unboxed demonstrated that taskbar burn is turning into extra obvious in comparison with the channel’s final burn-in replace (printed on the 15-month utilization mark), regardless of utilizing darkish mode particularly for the taskbar in Windows 11. Uneven brightness uniformity has additionally turn into extra obvious for the reason that 15-month replace, because of a number of home windows getting used aspect by aspect. This challenge is an extension of the aforementioned burn-in line, for the reason that line is created from one aspect of the show having worse brightness than the opposite aspect.

Monitors Unboxed’s newest replace confirms that trendy OLED shows will ultimately attain a degree the place burn-in results have an effect on the day-to-day viewing expertise. The excellent news is that this refined quantity of seen burn-in took a very long time to construct — over 4,000 hours of use, all whereas working a workload composed virtually solely of static desktop home windows.