A Closer Look
This is a premium gaming monitor with one of the more high-end panels available on the market today, it’s sure to have its appeal for any enthusiast PC gamers out there. However, it’s not all just ultra-fast refresh rates. It comes with slim bezels on all four sides, making it easy to integrate into a multi-monitor configuration, and the compact stand is weighted and durable, meaning it doesn’t wobble around while you’re mashing away at your keyboard.
There’s a good focus on ergonomics, with a good rate of rotation and tilt, ensuring you can always get that perfect viewing angle, or simply turn the monitor to show someone a video, or tilt it to accommodate when you’re laid back and feet up in your gaming chair watching eTeknix on YouTube.
Given that it’s QD-OLED, the viewing angles are flawless, even from the most extreme angles, the picture is perfectly clear. Plus, it’s a 2560×1440 resolution, but also a slightly smaller panel than I’m used to, so the pixel density is excellent, making the image pin sharp even when you’ve got your nose pressed up against the screen.
The monitor is well connected too, offering up 1x DisplayPort 2.1a (UHBR20), 2x HDMI 2.1, and 1x USB Type-C (DP Alt. / 98W PD), giving you a good array of options to hook up your PC (DisplayPort), your consoles (HDMI), and even your laptop, which can get audio, video, KVM and charge functions from a single cable. The USB hub features 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, and 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-B (Upstream), ensuring easy setup of your peripherals, webcam, microphone, or anything else you need.
The rear of the monitor is nice enough, with a slim panel around the edges, but there is a fair bit of depth back here. This is common on the more extreme refresh rate monitors, as it allows for larger heatsinks to maintain the panel performance, as they typically have higher power draw. There’s a stylish MSI dragon on the side, and a subtle ARGB lit logo towards the top, but otherwise, it’s kept pretty minimal.
The stand is flexible, as I said, it offers plenty of tilt and rotation, but also accommodates a full pivot to put it into portrait mode, and can be removed to reveal VESA compatible mounts too, allowing you to use a wall mount or similar.
Control of the UI comes from this handy joystick located behind the monitor in the middle of the bottom bezel. It also acts as the OK/Power button when pressed or held down, making it very easy to control the display.
