MSI Full HD FreeSync Gaming Monitor 24" Curved Non-Glare 1ms LED Wide Screen 1920 x 1080 144Hz Refresh Rate (Optix G24C)

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So for starters, this is a very nice entry to the gaming monitor world. Lets go over some pros and cons, PROS: ~144hz + Grey to grey time is great. (When running blur busters, i had practically no ghosting.) ~The panel itself is very nice for VA. The contrast + viewing angles are near IPS standard (very good, much better than my TN), and the blacks are pretty dark. ~Being a 1ms monitor as well as a VA panel, This outperforms both IPS (slower) and TN (less vivid picture quality/ viewing angles) while staying within this price range. ~The pannel is also freesync, so that is a plus as well for AMD users. (Being equipped with only nvidia gpus at the time, i am unable to give feedback on its performance.) CONS: ~With a resolution of only 1920 x 1080, at 27" the pixels are a bit more noticeable than a 24", but definitely NOT a deal breaker. (keep reading for more info) This does make higher application antialiasing a little more important. ~Not having a fully adjustable stand is a bit annoying. (Its TILT up and down is adjustable... but nothing else.) ~Also not a VESA stand to fix the last issue. (it is not a bad stand, just not adjustable) ~I have a little backlight light bleed on the panel i received. However it is pretty much unnoticeable in day to day use. Tips/ help: ~The older generation of this model (g27c) had some issues with having the panel display blue artifacting. I can confirm as of now, this issue seems to have been fixed with the upgrade to the new g27c2. As well as a faster response time, Gen 2 is much better than its predecessor. (dont worry too much about reviews pertaining to the older model) ~27" 1920x1080 is not bad at all. (Unlike what some might say.) Unless you are sitting closer than 2 feet-ish, the PPI is not really that noticable. ~A close competitor to this monitor would be the VIOTEK GN32C, while being close in appearance, You may think, "oh nice, this one is 5" larger." While this is true, In my experience, at 32" 1080p, The PPI (pixels per inch) become much more noticeable. To simulate how this feels on your current monitor, open a game and drop the resolution down one or two options. (assuming you have a 20"- 24" 1080p monitor) This might give you a better idea of what to expect at 32 in. (Not being 100% accurate) You can use higher antialiasing to counter some of the effect, but it only works so much to fix the jagged edges due to the pixels being more spaced apart. ~A LOT of people say in their reviews that Grey to Grey time doesnt matter at all. I disagree, while it is not a deal breaker, It does make a bit of difference. Blur trails or "ghosting" behind moving objects becomes slightly less noticable as the response time gets smaller. This is really only important for fast paced fps games. In conclusion, would I recommend this monitor to the every day user/ gamer? Yes, I definitely would! I find that it falls between great performance for gaming and quality for everyday use, without stressing your pc. (In comparison to the more intensive 1440p) I have very few bad things to say about the monitor. Most of which can be looked over with no problem at all. With this monitor being so new, I understand proper reviews are scarce. so I hope my review covers any questions you have. If not, post a question and ill try to help out as best as I can.

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This monitor does what it is supposed to do. 144 hz is soo nice. Screen looks great, picture is crisp. It has all the right curves. I have already recommended it to a few friends. Now i am recommending it to you.

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Got the 1440p 32 inch version (Optix AG32CQ) there inst much reviews on this one so I thought this would be helpful for anyone interested in the same version. The monitor is awesome so far. I love the size and the curve really gives you a nice feel. The colors are great, definitely better than my old TN panel and the response time is very fast which made it an easy choice to switch from the old TN to this new VA panel. I play shooters, RPGs, strategies, simulators, you name it and this thing is epic for all of them. I sit about an arm and half length away from this beast and everything is really immersive. I upgraded from a 27 inch 1440p TN panel Acer, I just felt everything was two small on the 27inch so this panel works great for me.

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This gaming monitor is a great option for gamers who are looking for all-around performance. The 1440p 144hz screen is perfect when combined with a curve that is noticeable but not too ‘in your face’. The size is great because it is immersive while still being competitive, as I have never had to turn my head. The RGB lights on the bottom of the monitor are distracting and don’t have many game sync options, but can be easily turned off through the intuitive on-screen display. The backlighting looks great and provides a subtle glow even when not viewed head-on. If I had to critique the monitor on 1 thing, it would be lack of G-Sync, but it would be far more expensive and unnecessary. The colours are spot on and make gaming a blast, with crisp detail and an immersive feel, and all visuals will be very smooth. I definitely recommend this item.

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I highly recommend this monitor. I Have been using a Dell 1920X1080 monitor for close to a decade. MSI makes great products period. This monitor is 2560x1440 144hz more options then you can imagine....beautiful design. Quality is Top notch. Made extremely sturdy. All sort of gaming options included. Night and day difference next to 1920X1080 60hz Just make sure you have Graphics card to take advantage. Im running GTX 1080 which mows through everything even at high to ultra settings . Will be buying another one. Packaged well and arrived no damage and on time thanks Amazon!!!

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The OPTIX AG32C is an absolutely amazing monitor! I set it up and started watching some TV to warm the screen up for about an hour. After that the fun began, and I started gaming. Heres my personal take on it in a few different games. PUBG: Amazing colors both highs and lows, the low lighting in this game is a fantastic fit for the monitor and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Fortnite: Vibrant colors were sweeping the screen at an amazing pace without screen-tear or any blur. This monitor performed wonderfully. Far Cry V:The game played beautifully, and the curved screen and amazing color range gave the game a very immersive feeling. World of Warcraft: This is another game where the vibrant colors play a big role in the game. This monitor made everything extremely visually pleasing and the pop of the colors was magnificent. The only downside to it though is that my monitor took a week to arrive and had a single dead pixel, and dont feel like waiting two weeks for a replacement and going through all the trouble. Other than that, I would highly recommend this monitor to ANYONE. It has a fantastic color range that can be toned to whichever settings you would like, and a wide variety of settings and and modes to play with to make your experience as unique as you would like. And for the price, you arent going to find another monitor that beats this one in quality and style.

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Monitor was great for the first couple weeks. Was playing some Vermintide 2 and upon entering a loading screen (black screen), I noticed a little green pixel. Stomach dropped as I soon realized it was a dead pixel, first Ive ever had on any monitor. I thought, "Hey, its only one pixel on a 2560x1440 monitor, Ill just deal with it. Went through the hassle of getting it and now I dont feel like re-packaging and sending it back right as I was starting to enjoy it". So skip ahead approximately 3~ weeks later (9/19/2018). Turn my PC on, board posts and I get my Gigabyte splash screen and I thought I saw something. I initially thought that the dead pixel had gotten bigger or something. Then I moved my head around and I noticed the original dead pixel. Stunned, I log into Windows and pull up a black screen, only to see 3 dead pixels, right in front of me. Not kidding you, I started bobbing my head around try to find more, when I look back to the left hand side of the monitor, I saw a 4th pixel, then after seeing that one, I literally witnessed in real-time, a pixel dying as I was looking at it. I then had a total of 5 dead pixels within a corner of a screen. I had it boxed up and dropped at the UPS store for a return within 20 minutes. This was my first MSI purchase ever, and itll be my last. Huge let down.

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This monitor is simply... Brilliant.. Here is an extremely in-depth review of this beloved monitor (yes it has cons) Pros: - Beautiful display, crystal clear. - Extremely accurate colors - Contrast is impeccable. - Build quality is very strong and sturdy (was worried because of the small bezels). - The frequency and response time is out of this world. Cons: - VESA mount 100 x 100mm is very misleading. The manufacturer provides virtually zero guidance. You need to go to their website and then unzip a file to get their PDF manual (which is ridiculous, they link you to this page with a QR code on their one page pamphlet of a manual included in the box, I had to get on my laptop and find it because of the zip file). The holes on the back of the monitor are placed in an extremely poor spot, it’s not true VESA if I need to get longer screws to fit a VESA mount on the back. The plate of my mount won’t sit inside the hexagon shaped bezel where the stand sits (you can see this displayed in the manual and the pictures I posted), I’m guessing only VESA mounts with the corners missing the edges can actually fit inside. Be very careful with which VESA mount you choose. If this wasn’t such a great monitor, I’d take a star for that. - 1 or 2 grayed pixels. .. It did have a one or two lightly grayed pixels in the top left corner, but due to the pixel density of the 1440p screen (roughly 113ppi) it’s hardly noticeable. It looked like a dirty spec on white screens like Web Pages, Word, and Excel but only for a second and while I noticed it, it was very easy to forget about (honestly forgot about it completely but remembered for the purpose of this review as I couldn’t think of any other cons). You can take my review with a grain of salt as my primary use is for gaming. I just do some programming for school and fun, didn’t bother me with that either. Other reviews of monitors said this is an extremely little amount for bad pixels and honestly better to just bite the bullet than fight it because the next monitor could have even more. I’m not sure if this is acceptable or not but MSI doesn’t have major promises. I’d still give this product 6 stars if I could. Other thoughts: - The anti-motion blur (“fastest” response setting) creates a lot of ghosting on Windows.. I didn’t notice any of it in the heat of a game though. In fact, the “Fastest” setting reduces brightness and creates more ghosting than “Fast” setting, so I typically just use Fast for everything. It is by far the best. - Eye-saver setting really ruins color (with good reason), but I could see it being great for productivity, I can’t stand the color but I noticed INSTANT eye strain relief when I switched to it for web browsing. It was the strangest sensation. - SteelSeries GameSense doesn’t really have any compatibility at the moment and I didn’t have the patience to try and create custom profiles as it allows for... I can’t even see the LEDs while I’m gaming at a ridiculous pace like CS:GO and Overwatch. But it is cool to look at when you happen to notice or walk in to see your whole rig, with the LED lights synced up with your chassis (there is no setting for this, I had to sync it manually). - Overwatch and CSGO (CS:GO) look SPECTACULAR. The frequency and resolution are amazing. I have a GeForce 1080 Ti, and it’s pushing over 300 FPS at my settings, and still accomplishing roughly 110 FPS on highest (epic) settings on Overwatch. - The Freesync can’t work with GeForce but if you push over 144 FPS, it’s not noticeable. I noticed a tiny bit of stutter when it dipped below 100fps at higher settings, but it was still much better than 60hz, and would be improved further with an AMD card with Freesync. - My gameplay vastly improved at both games with hitscanning and twitch/flick shots, and I credit it highly to the new monitor. The response times are just ridiculous. I had a 24” 1080p 144hz AOC monitor before and could never achieve the beautiful fluid motion I have got with this monitor, it’s unreal. 10/10 would buy this monitor again, might even wait until it’s a better price for 3x displays.

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Ive been using this monitor for two months now. Mainly for university homework and gaming. The aesthetic of this monitor is great and it gives an advantage of smoother motion for gaming. I have already put at least 100 hours into Rocket League since I bought this monitor and I noticed a big improvement in reaction time because of how much more information 144hz provides. Pros: • Very cheap. $239.33 is super affordable when compared to any other curved high refresh rate monitor • 144hz is great for gaming • VA color vs any TN panel. It looks as good as my IPS panel, with some colors being more saturated. It does not appear more accurate, just more vivid. • Matte finish on screen. My glossy screen is hard to use when its bright out, but this is typically easy to see in bright conditions. • DisplayPort is a must these days because it is so much more powerful than DVI or HDMI. • Design is great. It has thin borders and a solid plastic piece on the bottom where the logo is and it matches my other monitor perfectly. • The joystick works well enough for menu navigation. The menu always pops up if I turn the monitor off by long pressing the joystick button. • The curve is hard to notice when using the monitor and harder to notice after using it for over a month. Cons: • Brightness! It is not a bright monitor when you have the response time settings turned up to Normal or Extreme. This is not an issue if you dont mind the pixel blur. I dont have issues with this because the stock brightness matches my Acer H236HL and this monitors response time is still better. • VESA Mount. The mounting option is pretty awful if you dont have extra pieces of hardware lying around. The holes for the vesa mount are recessed and the screws that came with the monitor are not nearly long enough to get past the exterior casing and through a VESA mounting plate. I used 12mm spacers along with some extra long bolts (about 3cm but I think 2cm would have worked better) that didnt quite fit but get the job done. (Images provided) • Stuck/dead pixels. I have 5 stuck subpixels that just display green (4) and blue (1) all the time. 4 are in a line on the left and one is on the other side. I also have two spots on the screen that have either dim pixels or just some display manufacturing issue. One spot is in the middle on the far left, and it looks like a large dust spot but cant be wiped away, and the other is in the middle on the top edge. They arent too distracting but it always looks like something is on the screen and its visible in most program UI elements. (Images provided) • VA subpixel arrangement is strange and causes many things to look aliased. At first it is jarring, but over time you grow used to it. Text will look blurry right away, but your eyes can adapt rather quickly. Something about the VA panel also causes the pixels at the far edges to be hard to see. (Images provided) • Blue LED on bottom right corner. Its annoying because it projected 10 feet across my room to the other wall. A small piece of electrical tape alleviated the issue, but I know other monitors (HP Omen specifically) will allow you to turn stuff like that off. Its a great monitor for the price and even with the stuck green pixels I am enjoying using it every single day. Although I wish they werent there, they are only visible in dark scenes.

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So if you are looking for a good, shiny, 1440p 144hz monitor this could very well be the Benq XL2420TE of today. Those that dont know that monitor just know this: in 2013 it was the king of gaming monitors and had great color for being a TN panel. Crazy I know but believe me it shocked many a PC gamer back then. For those who just want to know what to do to make this thing look beautiful, running at full speed and not have to spend money on a near useless calibrator, keep reading. 1. First, go into your menus and under the gaming tab set the "Game Mode" (Carlin I hate that name for a mode) and select "User". 2. Go into the equally questionable menu called "Black tuner" and turn it down to 8. 3. Change response time to "Fast" 4. Turn on Zero Latency 5. Next drop down a main tab to "Professional" (here its time to face palms and laughs at this horrid naming convention) 6. Go to pro mode and also set this to "User" 7. Ignore HDCR but we will come back to that in a minute 8. Go to "Image Enhancement" and make sure that rubbish is turned off. (trust me its better for your safety this way) 9. Go to the main menu "Image" and select that. 10. Turn "Brightness" down to 50 11. Turn "Contrast" to 50 (if it isnt already set) 12. Turn "Sharpness" to 0 (good Carlin why do they have these settings) 13. Set "Color Temperature" to "Normal" 14. Crack open a beverage of choice and proclaim to the world that you are a god. I prefer the Norse gods myself. 15. If you like what you see, then leave it as is and enjoy. If you want a bit more brightness in certain spots go back to the "Professional" *laughs shaking head* and turn on HDCR. This should fix the washed out color. If you are wondering why you have a little black crush its because setting the black tuner to 9 washes out most blacks to a point that would make the jokers insanity look sane. Any higher and youll make the arch angel Tyrael need sun glasses. Sincerely, Youre Welcome.

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