Upcoming PC Displays To Watch Out For This Year

It's a herculean task to pick out a new display for your computer. They're not cheap (and that's definitely not going to change in 2025), and there are so many of them. Some are better for office work, some are better for gaming, and some are so good that they can handle both with aplomb. A variety of companies showed their latest displays off at Computex, the annual computing convention held in Taipei, Taiwan, and these are the screens from the show that are worth keeping your eye on, both figuratively and literally.

OLED is getting better and better

OLED displays can be stunning, with perfect blacks and vibrant colors making for a stunning picture (as long as you can stand OLED flicker). But there have long been well-founded concerns about burn-in. The last thing you want to see when you're trying to play an immersive first-person RPG is the ghost of your taskbar at the bottom of the screen. But thanks to built-in features like MSI's OLED Care, this problem is getting better. The company showed off a monitor it's been running with its OLED Care 2.0 tech that has remained on for three years with a static image showing for eight hours a day--with about an hour of burn-in prevention across that time--and no signs of burn-in to be found. These new monitors will ship with OLED Care 3.0, an improved version of the tech. In other words, OLED is A-OK.

MSI MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50 - Hyper-fast Refresh and AI OLED Care

The name might be a mouthful, but this monitor has some great features to make note of. The 27-inch, 1440p display offers a maximum refresh rate of 500Hz--that's up to 500 frames per second, eSports players--and is rated with VESA ClearMR 21000 and DisplayHDR True Black 500 certifications. The former indicates a very high level of clarity in motion; ClearMR 21000 is the highest possible rating and indicates that the screen has 195 clear pixels for every blurry one. True Black 500 rates the screen's contrast and color; 500 is a mid-range number in terms of ratings, which go up to True Black 1000, but it's still an excellent place for a screen to be color and contrast-wise.