Update - April 2024 - I've bought Oled/QDOled, Acer Predator X35 bmiphzx, and many other displays trying to find something to put this one to rest... I've still yet to find anything that performs as good in HDR at 82hz (10bit without dsc over DP), reaching well over 1000 nit. This thing still sits mounted to the wall, I never hear the fan when HDR gaming or on the desktop. I can't believe for the specs, there just isn't anything that blows this out of the water.
Update - One Month Ownership - June 20, 2020: So I'm still impressed by the monitor, I've now used it for a good month on Furlough from Covid-19. I average 8-12 hours of usage a day, maybe more depending on how into a mission or game I am. I can confirm that the PS4 Pro looks amazing, as does The Last of Us 2. You're really able to fine tune that picture to bring out the best colors and HDR that can be put on display. The monitor does have built in speakers, but I just plugged my desktop speakers in and it it just kind of outputs there as usual.
I will say that later in the review I talk about my LG OLED TV being peak performance, and I think now compared to the HDR Peak Brightness of this monitor I now choose this one. Would I still love an OLED Desktop Monitor at 4k/144hz with 1,000 nit peak brightness? Yes... who wouldn't? Anyway, just thought I would update for people reading reviews past my 1-2 week "OMG I LOVE THIS" review.
What can I say about this monitor? It's pretty much ticked all my check boxes for a display.
NO ASSEMBLY REQUIRED!! - I know right, it's crazy that literally you just take it out of the box and hook up power and video and you're ready to go... (yes if you want the cool shade around it you need to assemble that.
Great Color
Great Brightness
Great Response
Great HDR
To be clear, I suppose I "won" the panel lottery that people have been commenting on because I checked mine for issues that others were worried about but didn't see them.
My main gaming monitor has been a Dell 1440p 144hz VA Panel. The color was okay when calibrated and you sat in front of it. Mostly got it for the 144hz refresh. My backup display was my 65" 4K LG OLED TV from 2017. I basically want the color and vibrancy of my OLED and the speed of the 144hz. This is DAMN close to perfect and I would say the BEST implementation of HDR I've ever seen. The other monitor I was gaming on was an LG 27UL650-W, this was a cheap (sub $500) "HDR" monitor I picked up because my other Dell 4K ULtrasharp was bought before HDMI 1.4 so it can't do 4k/60hz making my few console gaming experiences terrible at 1080p/60 vs 4k/30?
The Division 2, Resident Evil 2/3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider heck even UHD-Movies look amazing to me.
Note that you can go 4K/10-12bit/60hz and I believe to go 120hz+ you have to drop to 8bit. Which gaming wise it still looks amazing.
Features in the menu are wonderful and allow you to save custom presets for quick access. It has an OSD (on screen display) that will show the current refresh of the monitor...though I'm not sure why it would be needed statically up there.
A cool feature is that the RGB's will either be set to a color you want or you can have it kind of do ambiance and change with the image on screen. Gaming at night is fun.
If there's one negative about it..hmm, well I dunno, your reading a week old purchase review. Oh, there's what appears to be a marketing sticker on the top right when you open the box. I thought it was a ripped screen protector but when you took the tape off it just makes a little fold up display as if you saw it in-store telling you all the cool features.
There is one thing to do, if you're not playing HDR games or watching HDR movies, you will be upset with the out of the box brightness. Just hop in the menu and go to "Peak white (nits)" and adjust to your comfort. Be careful because white is effing white!
| Standing screen display size | 27 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 3840x2160 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2160 |
