WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.800 A couple of months ago, I looked at a different 32-inch 4K QD OLED panel 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:17.000 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 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:26.200 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. 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:36.200 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 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.800 but instead the nice flat version that a lot of you have been clamoring about. 00:00:39.800 --> 00:00:42.800 Ever since QD OLED gaming monitors came out a few years ago, 00:00:42.800 --> 00:00:49.700 that's probably the biggest thing that a lot of people, aside from the ultra-wide only options that people were upset about. 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:56.000 I don't want a curved panel. I want a flat panel. Well, at long last, you can have your choice. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:02.000 We've got our quick start guide. We've got the base of our operation here, a base of our monitor. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:07.300 We'll take that out right now. Actually, why not just get it out of the package? 00:01:07.300 --> 00:01:14.600 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. 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:19.400 We've got our ultra high speed HDMI 2.1 cable. 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:23.300 Very nice. I like the all black look. This looks really beefy too. 00:01:23.300 --> 00:01:29.100 A lot of the time, this back plate that you're going to click-clack into the monitor is really small. 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:33.400 This looks like it has a little bit of extra support, but I guess we'll see. 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:39.300 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, 00:01:39.300 --> 00:01:43.900 which is actually one of the big things I like is when they've got a nice little perforated slit right here, 00:01:43.900 --> 00:01:50.600 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. 00:01:50.600 --> 00:01:54.000 We can get it in. Just going to... 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.200 Oh, that's tight. There we go. 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:08.700 Yeah. Yeah. I should have attached the stand first. I don't know what I was thinking. 00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:17.300 It's not that heavy, but when you're holding it kind of awkwardly like this and then trying to screw something on, 00:02:17.300 --> 00:02:20.200 it gets a little heavy. Ah, but we got it. 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:28.300 Here we go. I got to say, it looks really nice. 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:31.500 It's all blacked out nice and thin. You've got this... 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:37.000 It's a small issue, but on OLED panels, the panel itself is super thin, right? 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.600 But then you've got like the control box and whatever cooling in the back here. 00:02:40.600 --> 00:02:47.400 And so it's like... It feels fragile when you're just touching this pot and the rest of it is so bulky anyway. 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:50.800 It's like, why not just make a little box go all the way around like it doesn't... 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:55.100 It's here anyway. Just make it go to the edge. I don't know. Some of you might like the thinness. 00:02:55.100 --> 00:03:00.400 I'm not crazy about it. One thing a lot of you might appreciate is that there's not a ton of branding. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.500 We've got the MSI Dragon on the back, little MSI logo on the back, 00:03:03.500 --> 00:03:07.500 and then on the front, just a small MSI logo on the front here. 00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:14.200 Nothing too major, no big symbols anywhere. We're like all the way across the bottom or in the corners or anything. 00:03:14.200 --> 00:03:21.100 So that's cool. As for the IO, there's a few pleasant surprises and one small disappointment. 00:03:21.100 --> 00:03:25.500 We've got our headphone jack, two HDMI 2.1 ports, 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:31.500 DisplayPort 1.4, USB Type-C, USB-B, two USB-A ports, 00:03:31.500 --> 00:03:34.500 and then a C14 power connector on the back over here. 00:03:34.500 --> 00:03:38.500 You might be wondering to yourself, does this USB-C port offer something like 00:03:38.500 --> 00:03:41.700 90 Watts power delivery and DisplayPort alt? 00:03:41.700 --> 00:03:46.900 Well, it does. It's a small feature, but it's something that's really appreciated more and more 00:03:46.900 --> 00:03:51.400 these days as we collect more and more devices that connect through USB-C. 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:56.300 It's really handy to just have a laptop or something and just plug it in through USB-C. 00:03:56.300 --> 00:04:00.600 All of a sudden, this is your secondary display. And guess what? It's charging at the same time. 00:04:00.600 --> 00:04:07.600 Wow, 90 Watts, that's a lot of power. That one minor disappointment I mentioned, it doesn't have DisplayPort 2.1, 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:13.400 which offers significantly more bandwidth. Now, admittedly, there's only a few graphics cards out right now 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.900 that even have 2.1, but it's a feature that a lot of people are clamoring for 00:04:17.900 --> 00:04:22.800 with these high-end panels, especially when they're running 4K, 240 Hertz. 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:26.300 That's a lot of bandwidth to actually use that without having any kind of 00:04:26.300 --> 00:04:30.100 display stream compression involved. And so it's just so nice to have. 00:04:30.100 --> 00:04:35.000 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. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.300 As for the rest of the construction and the stand, it's not bad. 00:04:38.300 --> 00:04:44.200 It's got the rotation on the base, which is nice to see. I would like a slightly more, but that's good enough. 00:04:44.200 --> 00:04:51.300 Can we, we can't go portrait, but let's be real, it's 4K, 240 Hertz, 32 inches. 00:04:51.300 --> 00:04:56.800 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. 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.300 It's not bad, definitely enough to get most people. 00:05:00.300 --> 00:05:05.000 And how is the height adjustment? Okay, I would love, I would love just a little more. 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:09.200 I would love to let the monitor go basically to the base down here, 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:13.300 but we're talking about what, an extra inch and a half of distance. 00:05:13.300 --> 00:05:18.400 It's fine. It's totally fine. And then on the back here, we've got a fanless graphene cooling solution. 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:23.900 So this thing should stay super quiet. As for navigating the OSD, it's not quite on the bottom. 00:05:23.900 --> 00:05:27.200 It's a bit on the back here. So you're just going to have to reach a little bit further. 00:05:27.200 --> 00:05:30.300 We've got one navigation nipple and then how many buttons? 00:05:30.300 --> 00:05:34.200 One, two buttons. Yeah, two little buttons on the back. 00:05:34.200 --> 00:05:38.000 As you can see here, it is nice and flat, nice and thin. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:43.100 And our bezels aren't actually that big either. So it's probably going to look pretty good turned on. 00:05:43.100 --> 00:05:46.300 Speaking of which, all right, monitor's on, looks pretty good. 00:05:46.300 --> 00:05:52.100 HDR is turned on. This thing supports both true black 400 as well as an HDR peak 1000 mode. 00:05:52.100 --> 00:05:57.400 It's also rated by Vesa for their new clear MR rating with 13,000, 00:05:57.400 --> 00:06:03.900 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, 00:06:03.900 --> 00:06:07.400 but 240 Hertz is fast. 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:11.000 And so it's going to be crystal clear basically all the time. 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:17.100 They're honestly going to have to invent another rating because all of these really high refresh rate OLED panels are starting to hit 00:06:17.100 --> 00:06:21.900 the max clear MR rating that Vesa created just recently. 00:06:21.900 --> 00:06:29.700 It's already capped out 1080p. No, no, no, we want 4K so we can get our sweet, sweet 140 PPI. 00:06:29.700 --> 00:06:33.500 Whether you're watching it in true black 400 or you're watching it in peak 1000, 00:06:33.500 --> 00:06:39.800 it just is absolutely insane how good HDR looks when you've got the right panel to match it. 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:45.100 Now we do have our set to peak 1000, which is pretty bright and you might be worried about image retention or burn in. 00:06:45.100 --> 00:06:48.400 The reality is not only is MSI offering this, 00:06:48.400 --> 00:06:56.700 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. 00:06:56.700 --> 00:07:00.300 So you're covered. I mean, don't get me wrong. 00:07:00.500 --> 00:07:05.100 Maybe it happened three years in, you know, you leave your monitor on for like a week straight 00:07:05.100 --> 00:07:11.300 and suddenly there's image retention. But like that to me gives me a lot of peace of mind 00:07:11.300 --> 00:07:16.400 and it's a big reason why I not only bought a QT OLED monitor years ago now, 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:21.200 but why I bought another one once this set of panels came out. 00:07:21.200 --> 00:07:26.000 If you are still worried about burning, this has got MSI's OLED care 2.0 built in, 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:32.000 which is going to do a bunch of stuff like pixel shift. It'll auto dim taskbars or any static icons, 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.300 even this little ShortCircuit logo or like the little bottom bar on a YouTube video. 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:42.200 If you got it up, that should all just kind of dim out and not be as image retaining. 00:07:42.200 --> 00:07:45.700 You don't want to you don't leave static stuff on screen for too long is bad, 00:07:45.700 --> 00:07:49.400 but like the reality is there burn is not nearly as much of an issue these days. 00:07:49.400 --> 00:07:53.500 One thing you might want to use those HDMI 2.1 ports for is a PS five 00:07:53.500 --> 00:07:57.500 or maybe an Xbox Series X because it also supports variable refresh rates. 00:07:57.500 --> 00:08:01.600 If you're not going to, you know, attach this to a 4090 and get crazy high refresh rates. 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.300 And then if you are, it's got their gaming intelligence app, 00:08:05.300 --> 00:08:08.600 which lets you auto switch between productivity and games. 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:15.700 It'll change settings for you on the fly. Convenient. 00:08:15.700 --> 00:08:19.900 Convenient. 00:08:19.900 --> 00:08:23.400 I've got to say that CS 2 with a modern high end graphics card 00:08:23.400 --> 00:08:28.100 and then a modern high end monitor. It's just it's something else went. 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:32.200 Oh my God. Okay. Well, oh, it exploded. Okay. That makes a lot of sense. It's like that guy did not shoot me. 00:08:32.200 --> 00:08:36.700 Man, this looks good. I already bought a similar monitor at home. 00:08:36.700 --> 00:08:41.000 I couldn't wait. I thought, you know, I don't care about the curvature. 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.400 I want it now. I'm an inpatient gamer. I don't wait. 00:08:44.400 --> 00:08:50.800 I just buy stuff at full price like an idiot. I got to say that the flatness is actually really appealing. 00:08:50.800 --> 00:08:53.800 I didn't think it bothered me as much and, you know, it's fine. 00:08:53.800 --> 00:09:03.900 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 00:09:03.900 --> 00:09:07.200 for your desk. As long as you can have something a little bigger than 27 inch, 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:12.900 it's like it's it's perfect and you really don't need curvature 00:09:12.900 --> 00:09:17.200 unless it's bigger than this or ultra wide at a similar size. 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:20.200 And as for the rest of the panel, it just looks incredible. 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:26.100 Like I cannot get over how good 240 Hertz running at 4k resolution 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:30.000 with Qt OLED just incredible colors. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:34.000 God, it's stunning. Even everyone behind me is like, wow, that looks so good. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:37.600 It's like, yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah, you sound exactly like that bell. 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:44.200 That's exactly what you sound like. Yep. That's those 0.03 millisecond OLED pixel response time 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:48.500 that is basically near instant. I bought one of these for a reason, not this exact model, 00:09:48.500 --> 00:09:52.000 but don't take my word for it. Let's talk Labs results. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.600 For color gamut coverage, we've got 147% of the sRGB color space 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:01.800 and the advertised 99% of DCI P3 as well as 78% of BT 2020. 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:05.200 For sRGB color accuracy, it was pretty good with the Delta E average 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:09.000 of just 1.7 in the pro sRGB picture mode. 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:14.200 HDR is another story. We had similar results in both game user and pro user picture modes 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:17.600 averaging around a Delta E of 23 with luminance error. 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:21.200 It's oversaturating, which honestly, most people kind of like anyway, 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:24.400 whether it's correct or not. Here's the thing though. 00:10:24.400 --> 00:10:33.000 This 32 inch 4K, 240 Hertz QD OLED display retails at $950. 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:37.200 That is absolutely wild and is kind of a steal. 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:43.700 And that makes this version of this QD OLED panel really freaking competitive. 00:10:43.700 --> 00:10:50.500 I mean, you've got your 90 Watts power delivery. You've got perfect viewing angles from literally anywhere you are. 00:10:50.500 --> 00:10:55.200 You got 240 Hertz. Like there's just, there's some trade-offs for sure. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:00.900 For example, the only cables we got in the box were power, the USB B and HDMI 2.1. 00:11:00.900 --> 00:11:03.900 So if you want DisplayPort, you're going to have to go buy a DP cable. 00:11:03.900 --> 00:11:07.200 If you want the USB-C 90 watt power delivery, you're going to have to make 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:12.600 sure you have a USB-C cable that can do 90 watt power delivery and DP alt mode. 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:18.300 But like, you probably already have those things anyway, or at least the DP cable. 00:11:18.300 --> 00:11:22.300 I don't think you need USB-C unless you've got like a laptop you want to hook up. 00:11:22.300 --> 00:11:28.500 For being $250 cheaper than the competition, honestly, I think it kind of wins. 00:11:28.500 --> 00:11:33.100 And I think I regret my purchase yet again. 00:11:33.100 --> 00:11:36.800 That's not the first time I've bought the first shiny new monitor that comes along. 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:41.900 And then like three months later, I am kicking myself for not being a more patient gamer. 00:11:41.900 --> 00:11:51.300 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. 00:11:51.300 --> 00:11:57.100 It brings this under a grant, which is honestly a really big sweet spot when it comes to price 00:11:57.100 --> 00:12:03.000 and performance for people buying brand new displays that they want to use for like the next five plus years. 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:08.100 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.