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Calibrating this thing is an absolute nightmare.
Why couldn't they have just included a gamma.option!
MSI Optix MAG271CQR - Brief Review
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Calibrating this thing is an absolute nightmare.
Why couldn't they have just included a gamma.option!
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Jut feels like a hard monitor to calibrate.
Colour accuracy is fine, then banding becomes an issue, or blacks are too black.
Banding is fine, colour accuracy is all over.
Hopefully, someone with a bit of knowledge, or, deals with calibrating monitors for reviews on a regular basis can shed some light on this.
It's tempting to send back, but, there doesn't seem to be much else out there!
Colour accuracy is fine, then banding becomes an issue, or blacks are too black.
Banding is fine, colour accuracy is all over.
Hopefully, someone with a bit of knowledge, or, deals with calibrating monitors for reviews on a regular basis can shed some light on this.
It's tempting to send back, but, there doesn't seem to be much else out there!
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just read the review of the msi optix mpg27cq which is basically the same monitor but think maybe the brightness is different they mention that callibrtion is an issue https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/msi-optix-mpg27cq-gaming-monitor,review-34519-2.html
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As soon as you enter custom colour, the brightness drops massively?
Running through a 6500k and 2.2 Gamma now with extended patches.
Will see what happens.
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Think I'm going to look at sending this back.
My 14 days with Box is up tomorrow so I'll get a return processed.
Such a promising monitor let down by bizarre colours and settings.
My 14 days with Box is up tomorrow so I'll get a return processed.
Such a promising monitor let down by bizarre colours and settings.
yea its a shame but if your not happy with it.
To me the out of box settings dont look too bad apart from the colour banding im just using the icc profile from the msi website at the moment and ive just adjusted the brightness
you could try this profile i think its very simliar to ones you did but worth a try https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/8j3ewi/msi_mag27cq_color_profile/
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I think i tried them, but, i'll try them again.
Yeah. The banding is whats annoying me, there shouldn't be that sort of banding!
Out of the box. default settings, the colours are all over and i mean all over! the Gamma has no curve, its a wonky line along 1.7/1.6?
After calibration, black crush then becomes an issue!
Plus the fact if you want the FW updating you have to send it off. That kind of puts me off a little too.
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Tried these again. DisplayCal measurement report is all over the place but that might be down to user error on my part!
Colours on that profile don't look too bad. Gradient banding is there but the colours seem to be absent from them which is something.
Here's the relevant images
https://ibb.co/8xvXNnD
https://ibb.co/w7JdtTr
https://ibb.co/m6dHdG6
sRGB was 99.4% too.
ive never done monitor calibration so im not clued up on it
so this seems to be the better profile so which profile is this?
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ive never done monitor calibration so im not clued up on it
The one you linked to.
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I got an email too but they want me to resubmit did you submit your invoice and serial number together in one image?
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Erm.
I uploaded the invoice and a photo of the back of the monitor where the label is.
Individual images. The invoice might have had the serial number on it too though?
Edit: Yeah, the invoice had the serial number on it too.
Edit two: Found a few more profiles for the MAG27CQ - https://sharefiles.app/download/3151fb4424efcf77c360ccd12108c3ebb03f04b1
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Ok i think i must uploaded the wrong barcode or something but ive sent a webnote to find out.
ok thanks ive just tried them but it just looks too dark ive been tempted to send this back as well but i paid £333 for this monitor plus i hoping to sell the headset so its not a bad price for a 1440p va monitor. Ideally i would like a IPS monitor but i just didn't want to spend £500 plus! especially when im thinking of upgrading to the new Ryzens soon.
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Yeah same here. The problem you have is you could fork out £500 plus and then be hit with IPS glow/bleed etc.
I've decided I'm happy with the default settings. (Believe it or not! ^^)
I'm in the same boat. Don't really want to fork out 500 plus for a monitor! I'm hoping to upgrade the 1600x I've got when the new ones are released!
Hoping to get £50/£60 which brings the overall cost down to just under £300 for me.
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@bazman25
Decided to manually calibrate and these are what i'm happy with.
Brightness - 30
Contrast - 50
Black tuner - 10
Color temp - Normal.
In the Nvidia control panel, under adjust desktop colour settings:
Brightness - 50
Contrast - 45
Gamma - 0.82
This brings the Gamma down to the 2.2 range. Banding is still there but it's not as bad as when i was calibrating with the Spyder!
Blacks are still nice but can be distinguished a bit better when looking at the black level test (http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php)
I'll be sticking with these for the foreseeable.
Any update on your headset?
Decided to manually calibrate and these are what i'm happy with.
Brightness - 30
Contrast - 50
Black tuner - 10
Color temp - Normal.
In the Nvidia control panel, under adjust desktop colour settings:
Brightness - 50
Contrast - 45
Gamma - 0.82
This brings the Gamma down to the 2.2 range. Banding is still there but it's not as bad as when i was calibrating with the Spyder!
Blacks are still nice but can be distinguished a bit better when looking at the black level test (http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/black.php)
I'll be sticking with these for the foreseeable.
Any update on your headset?
yea these settings look good turning up blacktuner makes a lot of difference on the blacks i think i will settle with these as well thanks for helping me out
i sent a web note yesterday and attached the invoice and barcode they haven't got back to me yet but it looks like they have reopened the promotion so ive resubmitted my application, I think the problem was i uploaded the invoice in PDF format so im gathering they dont accept PDFs. Ive uploaded it in JPEG now and its showing both images now so should get approved.
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yea these settings look good turning up blacktuner makes a lot of difference on the blacks i think i will settle with these as well thanks for helping me out
i sent a web note yesterday and attached the invoice and barcode they haven't got back to me yet but it looks like they have reopened the promotion so ive resubmitted my application, I think the problem was i uploaded the invoice in PDF format so im gathering they dont accept PDFs. Ive uploaded it in JPEG now and its showing both images now so should get approved.
Yeah. You might need to turn the brightness down on a night etc! They're fine other than that though.
Both mine where JPEG's. Might be the reason why!
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@bazman25
Not sure if you had the email from MSI?
We have received an update that there is a severe delay on gift delivery due to the high volume of redemption. And unfortunately your delivery is being affected.
We now open a replacement option - a DS B1 gaming mouse + GH60 gaming headset combo, if you want to receive the gift earlier. This will be arranged by another office so it could be delivered earlier with an estimation of Jul/early August. If you prefer to stick to the GH70 gaming headset, the estimated gift arrival date would be September/October.
Not sure if you had the email from MSI?
We have received an update that there is a severe delay on gift delivery due to the high volume of redemption. And unfortunately your delivery is being affected.
We now open a replacement option - a DS B1 gaming mouse + GH60 gaming headset combo, if you want to receive the gift earlier. This will be arranged by another office so it could be delivered earlier with an estimation of Jul/early August. If you prefer to stick to the GH70 gaming headset, the estimated gift arrival date would be September/October.
hi yes i received this as well i ended up going for the a DS B1 gaming mouse + GH60 gaming headset combo im not going to be selling them anyway as im giving them to my brother. I know the GH60s dont seem to be as good as there not 7.1 surround sound and no RGB lighting but i think there still pretty decent and ive checked a few reviews as well and they seem ok.
What are you doing are you getting the GH60s or hold out for the GH70s?