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A couple of months ago, I looked at a different 32-inch 4K QD OLED panel

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and I've got to say, I liked it so much I bought it. Now, MSI has sponsored this video for me to take a look at the MPG321URX 4K 240Hz QD OLED monitor

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and I've got to say, it looks really impressive and there's one or two features that really have me wondering if I made a huge mistake.

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First of all, it's flat. If you can't tell from just how not enormous this box is, yeah, this is not the curved version

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but instead the nice flat version that a lot of you have been clamoring about.

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Ever since QD OLED gaming monitors came out a few years ago,

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that's probably the biggest thing that a lot of people, aside from the ultra-wide only options that people were upset about.

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I don't want a curved panel. I want a flat panel. Well, at long last, you can have your choice.

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We've got our quick start guide. We've got the base of our operation here, a base of our monitor.

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We'll take that out right now. Actually, why not just get it out of the package?

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Too bad. We've got a USB B to A cable for hooking up our monitor to our computer for whatever peripherals we might want to plug in.

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We've got our ultra high speed HDMI 2.1 cable.

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Very nice. I like the all black look. This looks really beefy too.

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A lot of the time, this back plate that you're going to click-clack into the monitor is really small.

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This looks like it has a little bit of extra support, but I guess we'll see.

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Probably doesn't need it. It's fine. These things aren't that heavy. Behind this little foam sheet, we've got the rest of our monitor,

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which is actually one of the big things I like is when they've got a nice little perforated slit right here,

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so you can peel it back and then click-clack, pull it out. We don't have that, so I could probably get this in here.

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We can get it in. Just going to...

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Oh, that's tight. There we go.

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Yeah. Yeah. I should have attached the stand first. I don't know what I was thinking.

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It's not that heavy, but when you're holding it kind of awkwardly like this and then trying to screw something on,

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it gets a little heavy. Ah, but we got it.

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Here we go. I got to say, it looks really nice.

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It's all blacked out nice and thin. You've got this...

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It's a small issue, but on OLED panels, the panel itself is super thin, right?

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But then you've got like the control box and whatever cooling in the back here.

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And so it's like... It feels fragile when you're just touching this pot and the rest of it is so bulky anyway.

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It's like, why not just make a little box go all the way around like it doesn't...

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It's here anyway. Just make it go to the edge. I don't know. Some of you might like the thinness.

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I'm not crazy about it. One thing a lot of you might appreciate is that there's not a ton of branding.

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We've got the MSI Dragon on the back, little MSI logo on the back,

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and then on the front, just a small MSI logo on the front here.

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Nothing too major, no big symbols anywhere. We're like all the way across the bottom or in the corners or anything.

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So that's cool. As for the IO, there's a few pleasant surprises and one small disappointment.

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We've got our headphone jack, two HDMI 2.1 ports,

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DisplayPort 1.4, USB Type-C, USB-B, two USB-A ports,

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and then a C14 power connector on the back over here.

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You might be wondering to yourself, does this USB-C port offer something like

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90 Watts power delivery and DisplayPort alt?

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Well, it does. It's a small feature, but it's something that's really appreciated more and more

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these days as we collect more and more devices that connect through USB-C.

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It's really handy to just have a laptop or something and just plug it in through USB-C.

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All of a sudden, this is your secondary display. And guess what? It's charging at the same time.

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Wow, 90 Watts, that's a lot of power. That one minor disappointment I mentioned, it doesn't have DisplayPort 2.1,

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which offers significantly more bandwidth. Now, admittedly, there's only a few graphics cards out right now

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that even have 2.1, but it's a feature that a lot of people are clamoring for

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with these high-end panels, especially when they're running 4K, 240 Hertz.

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That's a lot of bandwidth to actually use that without having any kind of

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display stream compression involved. And so it's just so nice to have.

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You're probably not even going to worry about it. You're not going to be able to use it, but I would love to see it here.

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As for the rest of the construction and the stand, it's not bad.

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It's got the rotation on the base, which is nice to see. I would like a slightly more, but that's good enough.

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Can we, we can't go portrait, but let's be real, it's 4K, 240 Hertz, 32 inches.

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I don't think you're going to put this in portrait mode. And then we've just got a little bit of play here.

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It's not bad, definitely enough to get most people.

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And how is the height adjustment? Okay, I would love, I would love just a little more.

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I would love to let the monitor go basically to the base down here,

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but we're talking about what, an extra inch and a half of distance.

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It's fine. It's totally fine. And then on the back here, we've got a fanless graphene cooling solution.

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So this thing should stay super quiet. As for navigating the OSD, it's not quite on the bottom.

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It's a bit on the back here. So you're just going to have to reach a little bit further.

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We've got one navigation nipple and then how many buttons?

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One, two buttons. Yeah, two little buttons on the back.

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As you can see here, it is nice and flat, nice and thin.

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And our bezels aren't actually that big either. So it's probably going to look pretty good turned on.

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Speaking of which, all right, monitor's on, looks pretty good.

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HDR is turned on. This thing supports both true black 400 as well as an HDR peak 1000 mode.

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It's also rated by Vesa for their new clear MR rating with 13,000,

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which is just I think as high as it goes right now. It makes sense because not only does OLED have basically instant pixel response times,

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but 240 Hertz is fast.

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And so it's going to be crystal clear basically all the time.

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They're honestly going to have to invent another rating because all of these really high refresh rate OLED panels are starting to hit

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the max clear MR rating that Vesa created just recently.

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It's already capped out 1080p. No, no, no, we want 4K so we can get our sweet, sweet 140 PPI.

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Whether you're watching it in true black 400 or you're watching it in peak 1000,

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it just is absolutely insane how good HDR looks when you've got the right panel to match it.

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Now we do have our set to peak 1000, which is pretty bright and you might be worried about image retention or burn in.

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The reality is not only is MSI offering this,

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but most brands are these days with these monitors. They're offering a three year OLED care warranty that does cover burn in and image retention.

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So you're covered. I mean, don't get me wrong.

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Maybe it happened three years in, you know, you leave your monitor on for like a week straight

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and suddenly there's image retention. But like that to me gives me a lot of peace of mind

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and it's a big reason why I not only bought a QT OLED monitor years ago now,

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but why I bought another one once this set of panels came out.

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If you are still worried about burning, this has got MSI's OLED care 2.0 built in,

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which is going to do a bunch of stuff like pixel shift. It'll auto dim taskbars or any static icons,

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even this little ShortCircuit logo or like the little bottom bar on a YouTube video.

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If you got it up, that should all just kind of dim out and not be as image retaining.

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You don't want to you don't leave static stuff on screen for too long is bad,

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but like the reality is there burn is not nearly as much of an issue these days.

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One thing you might want to use those HDMI 2.1 ports for is a PS five

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or maybe an Xbox Series X because it also supports variable refresh rates.

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If you're not going to, you know, attach this to a 4090 and get crazy high refresh rates.

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And then if you are, it's got their gaming intelligence app,

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which lets you auto switch between productivity and games.

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It'll change settings for you on the fly. Convenient.

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Convenient.

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I've got to say that CS 2 with a modern high end graphics card

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and then a modern high end monitor. It's just it's something else went.

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Oh my God. Okay. Well, oh, it exploded. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. It's like that guy did not shoot me.

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Man, this looks good. I already bought a similar monitor at home.

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I couldn't wait. I thought, you know, I don't care about the curvature.

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I want it now. I'm an inpatient gamer. I don't wait.

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I just buy stuff at full price like an idiot. I got to say that the flatness is actually really appealing.

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I didn't think it bothered me as much and, you know, it's fine.

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I'm going to go home tonight and I'm not going to cry about it, but I really prefer the flat 31 and a half inches 4k like this size

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for your desk. As long as you can have something a little bigger than 27 inch,

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it's like it's it's perfect and you really don't need curvature

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unless it's bigger than this or ultra wide at a similar size.

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And as for the rest of the panel, it just looks incredible.

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Like I cannot get over how good 240 Hertz running at 4k resolution

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with Qt OLED just incredible colors.

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God, it's stunning. Even everyone behind me is like, wow, that looks so good.

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It's like, yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah, you sound exactly like that bell.

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That's exactly what you sound like. Yep. That's those 0.03 millisecond OLED pixel response time

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that is basically near instant. I bought one of these for a reason, not this exact model,

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but don't take my word for it. Let's talk Labs results.

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For color gamut coverage, we've got 147% of the sRGB color space

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and the advertised 99% of DCI P3 as well as 78% of BT 2020.

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For sRGB color accuracy, it was pretty good with the Delta E average

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of just 1.7 in the pro sRGB picture mode.

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HDR is another story. We had similar results in both game user and pro user picture modes

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averaging around a Delta E of 23 with luminance error.

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It's oversaturating, which honestly, most people kind of like anyway,

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whether it's correct or not. Here's the thing though.

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This 32 inch 4K, 240 Hertz QD OLED display retails at $950.

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That is absolutely wild and is kind of a steal.

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And that makes this version of this QD OLED panel really freaking competitive.

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I mean, you've got your 90 Watts power delivery. You've got perfect viewing angles from literally anywhere you are.

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You got 240 Hertz. Like there's just, there's some trade-offs for sure.

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For example, the only cables we got in the box were power, the USB B and HDMI 2.1.

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So if you want DisplayPort, you're going to have to go buy a DP cable.

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If you want the USB-C 90 watt power delivery, you're going to have to make

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sure you have a USB-C cable that can do 90 watt power delivery and DP alt mode.

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But like, you probably already have those things anyway, or at least the DP cable.

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I don't think you need USB-C unless you've got like a laptop you want to hook up.

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For being $250 cheaper than the competition, honestly, I think it kind of wins.

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And I think I regret my purchase yet again.

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That's not the first time I've bought the first shiny new monitor that comes along.

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And then like three months later, I am kicking myself for not being a more patient gamer.

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And here we are. Sure, there's some other features that I wish were here and they're not, but like it's like $250 is just a huge price difference.

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It brings this under a grant, which is honestly a really big sweet spot when it comes to price

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and performance for people buying brand new displays that they want to use for like the next five plus years.

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Thanks so much to MSI for sponsoring today's video. If you want to get one of these, check it out in the link in the description below.