Waveshare 8inch Capacitive Touch LCD IPS Display, Without Back Case, 1280×800 Resolution, HDMI Interface, Compatible with Raspberry Pi 4B/3B+ etc. Support Jetson Nano/PC

Spent months designing a custom open frame E-ATX desktop workstation PC case. Needed to make some use out of the otherwise IMHO hideous unused blank space on the front panel. No, I didn't design a standard width pc case and I needed non-standard right handed access panel not a left sided access case as all the rest are built. AMD 12 and 24 core Threadrippers have massive forced air coolers and sometimes don't fit inside a standard pc case as I found out the hard way! SendCutSend fabricated my parts. After weeks of thought, why not for fun integrate a touch screen display? So the frameless Waveshare 10.1inch Capacitive Touch LCD IPS Display fit the bill. After making the mandatory connections to the ports on the ASUS ROG STRIX X399-E motherboard and the video card. It fired right up on first boot! Main 5v power was taken from the +5v pin that powers the little speaker/buzzer and the ground pin immediately next to it. From a 'net search, it is rated for 1 amp. I hacked a USB C charger cable with USB C on one end and an 8 pin female connector on the other. I also incorporated the speaker/buzzer into the same connector for an all in one cable. The rest of the hookup were the standard DP to HDMI cable and a male pin to dual USB socket converter slipped over the male pins of one of the available motherboard dual USB ports. You'll have to figure out for your situation where and how to mount the Waveshare's display button control board and possibly having to modify or create its custom connecting cable. I intended at first to use the 10" display for slideshows, a fish tank screensaver or turn it off. Or use it for displaying a computer status dashboard etc. Otherwise, my main displays are LG 27" UHD's. The workstation will boot with only the 10" display itself plugged into the first DP slot of the video card.

Really nice looking panel at 8 inches. The contrast and color range look great to me, and everything worked as advertised with drivers and hardware compatibility. Waveshare provides 2d and 3d drawings for the panel, which I found tremendously helpful for building a mount and enclosure. I noticed an issue with one of them and their support team got the documentation updated in less than a day.

The first one I got stopped working after a few days. It would sporadically lose image before, but eventually gave up. Backlight was on, but no image. Checked with multiple devices and multiple cables. The second one is working, but was clearly an open box product. In the right universe, there would be penalties for knowingly misrepresenting the state of a product. Update: I also returned the second one because it was clearly an open box item with the buttons missing, the protective film removed and re-attached and full of fingerprints. Similar with the third one: they didn't even bother to put the screen inside the protective foam; instead it was facing up and all the cables were directly on top of the display. Waiting for the fourth one.

Product has horrible contrast and blacks are gray. No amount of settings can fix it. The 8 inch version I have is far and above better.

I got this display to go with a VIM3 (running AAOS for development purposes.) At times the display worked OK, but it had weird issues. Flickering to black, lines through the display, offset color channels, display reboots, etc. I tried many different HDMI sources and they all exhibited the issue within the first 1-2 minutes of use. For the current price near $100 I expected so much more. Better build, better QA. I await a replacement and hope it's functional.