I can warn everyone to buy this monitor.
The pros:
-It's bright
-Good color performance/color space is very wide
-My units had good white uniformity
-DSC (144 hz 10 bit @ uhd)
The negatives:
-The fans are annoying, rattling and loud, one unit had a whine => comparable to the PG35VQ where i had to swap the cheap Sunon fans, this noise ****** me up
If you consider to buy this monitor as stand alone monitor and you have good ears and a silent system don't do it
-3 of 4 units had multiple dust spots inside panel
-3 of 4 had pixel failures (dead pixels and sub pixel failures (pink on white))
-None of 4 was without dust or pixel failures
-Halos are enormous, if i wouldnt know its a mini led, i would think its the old X27(P)/PG27UQ, i saw them even in brighter hdr videos like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX2vsvdq8nw
and especially extremly awful in such demos like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3zmQbICOQ
In games it sucks too, look for haloing reports on youtube, amazon or hardforum PG32UQX thread
-The anti glare coating is way to aggressive, it's destroy the benifits of 140 ppi because of its grainyness
-Many very slow response times, white smearing a lot motion blur, look for hardwareunboxed review on youtube
-short image rentention, halo traces on grey images like the grey private screen of firefox are showing an awful trailing
-The oled display animation sucks with this constanly appearing ROG logo show
-The build quality is cheap, housing and stand using cheap plastic
I also bought 3 G9 Neo it's also sucking, but overall less:
Pros:
-It's pretty fast
-The contrast ratio is great
-The coating is good/no grainyness
-HDMI 2.1/DP 1.4 DSC
-Much less blooming compared with PG32UQX, so it has some kind of logo dimming like Samsung TV's (Neo Qled series (mini led))
-2048 dimming zones
-It costs max. only 2199 Euros
-very good white homogenity
Negatives:
-All 3 dust inside panel, 1 time in addition several pixel failures and damage of polarisation film; a few mm long scratch inside panel with rainboweffect
so awful qc, or no qc
-Scanlines
-Hdr looks dimm (worse than a hdr 600 monitor)/washed out/bad colors
-HDR dynamic mode has awful color banding
-Free-Sync Range at DP 1.4 crappy, it's starts at 96 hz (if i remember it correct
)
-reports are mentioning free-sync flickering, dont tested it, i was done with all 3 monitors if i saw the panel quality with dust/pixelfailures/panel defects and the poor hdr
-sub pixel rendering is crap on Samsung sva panels, it means text and contours are fuzzy, so the image is not as sharp as you expect from a 109 ppi monitor, its closer to 92 ppi or 109 ppi bgr crap
-Overshoot is quiet heavy
-Popping noises according to a reviewer the_retrocave and some users on reddit, i know the old G9 has popping noise, it's using the same case. i didnt use my models longer than 20 - 30 minutes, i haven't experienced it yet. I have heared it by using the old g9 without fald. It was awful.
-dimming low is killing a lot of details in the darkness when removing bloom, look for the_retrocaves flight simulator video:
https://youtu.be/Rl6slnNMkh8?t=469
I tested also a LG 32EP950 with Joled panel
Pros:
-Per pixel dimming, no blooming/haloing @ hdr
-Very sharp (rgb subpixel structure)
-Very fast, below 1 ms real response time, 60 hz motion is looking very good, 60 hz on an lcd looks slow like playing on a office monitor, on PG32UQX its a blurry mess
-The pedestal is made of metal, feels and looks like the pedestal of the LG 38GL950G
-My unit has no dust inside panel
-Very good coating for dark room, no grainyness
Negatives:
-To expensive for the specs
-only 60 hz
-no adaptive sync
-max. 400 - 500 nits sucking, looks like a cheap HDR 200 - 400 monitor depending on the white ratio, but hey it has no blooming, so it looks better than the cheap global dimming lcd hdr 400 monitors
-Overall cheap build, stand and housing is made of the cheapes plastic
-My unit had a dead pixel
-Uniformity was awful; 70 % of the image had a yellow tint, remember it should be a monitor for professionals
-Pretty reflective coating in a bright room; it's very light ag coating (very close to glossy)
-maybe fast burnin/only 2 years bring in warranty (i doubt its for burn in)
-not flicker free/no dc dimming
I have a LG C1 48 inch, it's overall much better than all of the monitors mentioned above
All monitors above are something like a beta tester product. The "best" of them is the LG 32EP950. But nothing i would spend so much money for. It could be burned in after 1-2 years usage and hdr is beside of the no blooming experience not amazing. So i would spend maybe if usage of max. 1 - 2 years is ok, and i would only use it from time to time 1000 Euro.
