Gigabyte AORUS FO32U2P

“I recently bought a Gigabyte AORUS FO32U2P - but after a week of use, I returned it. If gaming is only what you are interested in - then don't read any further, just buy an OLED monitor. If media consumption is more of what you will use the monitor for, then my suggestion is to get an OLED TV instead. There are far too many people on the internet that take objection to anything negative being said about OLED's - but an honest opinion was asked for by the poster. I would like to say that I don't dislike OLED's - I have had 2 previous OLED TV's. I do play games on my PC, although not exclusively - I have 2 console's and an Nvidia Shield connected to my primary TV. I had 2 high end Dell IPS monitors - UP3221Q and a UP2718Q, while the UP3221Q has a self calibration device, I use an i1 Display Pro hardware calibration device to calibrate my monitors. As I needed a replacement for the UP3221Q (which is exceptional, although limited to 60hz), I was convinced to try an OLED as my primary monitor. I previously tried a 42" OLED, although the text fringing was really bad - it is reduced a lot using a 32" OLED. I tested the AORUS alongside the UP2718Q in a dual monitor setup. Once I calibrated the monitor, I did notice the colours were still a bit too saturated for my liking - when trying to edit photos. I preferred using the UP2718Q for this, perhaps I was just used to the colours produced by an IPS. Another issue I found was that an OLED is very dark in near black scenes - it does crush darker colours so that they appear darker than they should be. Comparing the same image on the IPS and OLED showed how bad it is. The AORUS had a setting that you could increase to try mitigate this. Another issue was the brightness limiting - I had calibrated the monitors to use 110 LUX, but I did notice that the OLED did tend to dim slightly, depending on what was on screen - and this is understandable, these are the OLED protection features to try eliminate burn in. But, for me, this was not acceptable. You cannot edit videos or photos when knowing that the monitor will subtly change the brightness of the image. And if writing any text in a word processor, on the web or in an IDE, I found this to be distracting, especially because the IPS monitor stayed constant. I do still think the OLED monitor is great, but unfortunately I don't only play games on my monitors, I need them to be useful in a variety of situations. I ended up replacing the FO32U2P with a Dell U3225QE, which is better suited to what I need in a monitor.”