So after using the MSI MAG 274QPF X30M for a few days - for gaming and multimedia (especially HDR content) I'm really impressed. The combination of 1440p, 300Hz and well-confirgured HDR / local dimming works great and there are instances where I feel I'm actually getting better than OLED would give me (the brightness of lights or the sun in the Forza Horizon games with HDR springs to mind).
However - for work I currently have to review very detailed large images and documents in light mode. If you're looking at something large and white (or otherwise uniform and brightly coloured), the VA panel in this monitor brings a lack of tonal uniformity as viewing angle shifts slightly. There is a relatively narrow band you look at dead on that appears uniform, with notable tonal shift towards the edges. I have briefly mistaken side by side documents as having subtly different background colours as a result of it (actually they were identical). For the first time I'm starting to understand why some people prefer VA monitors to be curved. And it looks like my eyes are a little sharper than I thought. Actually - when zooming out of those images, 4k would have been very handy to keep text readable when zoomed further out. And its a tiny niggle - but the mouse pointer darkening over a dark background with local dimming turned on isn't ideal.
In some ways I feel I'm still looking for that ideal single do-it-all monitor. I see from Computex that MSI and Gigabyte have 27" 5k / 1440p dual (or triple with 4k and AI scaling) mode glossy IPS mini-LEDs with 2,304 dimming zones coming up and wonder whether one of them might fit all my requirements better in one device... https://www.tomshardware.com/monito...native-180-hz-refresh-rate-to-330-hz-at-1440p
Edit: Meanwhile LG are going to be launching the 27GM950B-B with similar specs (5k, 1440p mini-led) in July. It looks rather too expensive for me, I'm afraid...
However - for work I currently have to review very detailed large images and documents in light mode. If you're looking at something large and white (or otherwise uniform and brightly coloured), the VA panel in this monitor brings a lack of tonal uniformity as viewing angle shifts slightly. There is a relatively narrow band you look at dead on that appears uniform, with notable tonal shift towards the edges. I have briefly mistaken side by side documents as having subtly different background colours as a result of it (actually they were identical). For the first time I'm starting to understand why some people prefer VA monitors to be curved. And it looks like my eyes are a little sharper than I thought. Actually - when zooming out of those images, 4k would have been very handy to keep text readable when zoomed further out. And its a tiny niggle - but the mouse pointer darkening over a dark background with local dimming turned on isn't ideal.
In some ways I feel I'm still looking for that ideal single do-it-all monitor. I see from Computex that MSI and Gigabyte have 27" 5k / 1440p dual (or triple with 4k and AI scaling) mode glossy IPS mini-LEDs with 2,304 dimming zones coming up and wonder whether one of them might fit all my requirements better in one device... https://www.tomshardware.com/monito...native-180-hz-refresh-rate-to-330-hz-at-1440p
Edit: Meanwhile LG are going to be launching the 27GM950B-B with similar specs (5k, 1440p mini-led) in July. It looks rather too expensive for me, I'm afraid...
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