• LG’s 5K AI upscaling happens inside the monitor, downstream of your graphics card.
• Only three of the five 2026 UltraGear evo models include it.
• It smooths edges and gradients but cannot invent detail that was never drawn.
• The feature needs a 1080p or better source, and stays off below that.
• Leave it on for video and handhelds, off for competitive shooters.

• One panel can appear under ten brand names, so announcement counts mislead.
• Seven big panels produced 33 monitors, and only 10 reached US shops.
• A 32-inch 4K 240Hz OLED was badged four times and shipped zero times.
• Burn-in cover now stretches to four years on one Gigabyte screen.
• Buy on the panel and the warranty; the brand badge tells you little.

• Panel wear follows current, and the brightness slider is what sets the current.
• Keeping desktop brightness near 150 nits is the one habit worth real effort.
• Blue subpixels wear almost twice as fast at 400 nits as at 200.
• Screensavers and burn-in fixer videos change close to nothing on a modern screen.
• Heat drives wear too, so airflow behind the screen beats another software trick.

• Passive DP80 cables stop at 1.2m, and many are only 1m or 0.8m.
• Active DP80LL cables reach 3m and cost far more than passive copper.
• A cable that can’t keep up drops the link with no warning.
• 5K2K at 165Hz needs about 60Gbps, so DSC is mandatory below UHBR20.
• Linux can show your real link rate in one file. Windows can’t.

• Gigabyte covers the Aorus FO27Q28G against burn-in for four years.
• Rival premium OLED monitors stop at three years, so this is a first.
• Only two Aorus models get the extra year; the rest of the range keeps three.
• Warranties pay for burn-in, never for image retention that fades on its own.
• A longer warranty tells you more than any lifespan slide.

• The triangle subpixel layout is what makes QD-OLED text look fuzzy.
• Samsung’s new V-Stripe panels line the red, green and blue emitters up vertically.
• The 32-inch Odyssey G80SH appears to use the older panel, so text is unchanged.
• Stretching 4K from 27 to 32 inches drops density from 163 PPI to about 140.
• Test any OLED with black text on a white page at 100 percent scaling.

• Past 360Hz, each refresh jump saves well under one millisecond.
• Going 360Hz to 500Hz cut real input lag by about 0.39ms in testing.
• The big win is 60Hz to 144Hz, which alone drops almost 10ms.
• Above 360Hz, your mouse, CPU, and game usually decide the lag.
• Most players cannot tell 360Hz from 480Hz in a blind test.

• The PS5 does VRR only over HDMI 2.1; the Xbox does it over older ports too.
• Both need a full HDMI 2.1 screen and an Ultra High Speed cable for 4K 120Hz.
• The PS5 never sends more than 32Gbps, so a 48Gbps port is optional.
• An “HDMI 2.1” label alone does not promise VRR or ALLM will work.
• The PS5 wants HDMI-Forum VRR; plain FreeSync can still leave it tearing.

• The pricier AW3926QW is not the faster screen on paper.
• Its 5120x2160 panel packs about 143 pixels per inch against 110.
• The $349.99 VA model wins refresh rate, 240Hz against 165Hz.
• Only the OLED has a KVM, 90W laptop charging and burn-in cover.
• Buy VA for fast shooters, OLED for text, film and colour.

• BFI drops black frames between the real ones, so motion blurs less.
• It works cleaner on OLED than LCD because OLED pixels switch almost instantly.
• The picture gets dimmer, since black frames mean less light on screen.
• On the PG34WCDM it runs only at a fixed 120Hz in SDR.
• Turn it on for fast games where sharp motion beats a bright picture.