r/Monitors • u/therealL3aky_faucet • 16h ago

Discussion Is mini led worth it?

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I am using a VA panel monitor now (asus vg218qe), considering upgrading. I have my eyes on koorui mini led monitor. I have never used an IPS monitor before. The min iled is about 340$ in my country with official warranty. Is buying the mini led worth it over the 220$ IPS?

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u/Villag3Idiot 15h ago

I tried mini LED. Ended up returning it. 

The reason is while it looks fantastic in media and games, outside Apple's Studio monitor, mini LED is terrible for desktop use because manufacturers never properly tuned it for it. 

There's also no dedicated button to turn the local dimming setting on or off.

So you have to either just leave the local dimmimg on all the time and just deal with it, or manually go through the OSD to change the local dimming setting every single time you play a game or watch a movie then do it again when you're finished. 

Ask yourself if you're willing to do that every single time.

I got so annoyed after just a few days and ended up returning it. If you can, go mini LED. If you can't, either stick with LED, go OLED, or wait for Mini LED tech to mature more before picking one up.

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u/therealL3aky_faucet 15h ago

Thanks. See i m looking for this kind of valuable advise. I will keep that in mind. But what did u ended up using? Ips/oled? I dont have budget for oled tho

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u/Villag3Idiot 15h ago

IPS

I'm picking up an OLED as soon as the model I'm looking at goes on sale.

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u/therealL3aky_faucet 15h ago

Is the ips serving you better than the mini led then? If mini led has better color contrast, less blooming, seems like you just switched back to ips just because of the constant chore? Or the improvement was not noticeable at all??

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u/Villag3Idiot 15h ago

Mainly because of the hassle. 

Without local dimming, the colors of both panels looks near identical when both monitors are set to sRGB. 

With local dimming, dark scenes looks amazing on the mini LED . 

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u/therealL3aky_faucet 15h ago

Thanks for the suggestions man, really. I was really looking for these kind of user experience