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I love QD OLED gaming monitors, but you know what I've got at home? 240 Hz.

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That's not fast enough. What I want is MSI's new 500 Hz QD OLED gaming monitor, the MPG272QR.

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This thing is fast. Unfortunately, we can't really game on it, but it's got a clear MR 21,000 rating

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from Vesa. The typical 0.03 millisecond gray-to-gray response times for lightning fast QD OLED pixels.

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UHBR 20 for full-fat DP 2.1 and 98 watts on the USB-C port so that you can actually charge

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basically whatever you want while you're doing everything else on this monitor.

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And while I can't game on it, I can look at everything else physically, like this really

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nice single-piece base that just rests on your table. No legs jutting out anywhere,

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takes up just a minimal amount of desk space. It's great. We've also got the typical laser

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case for the monitor, other than the rest of the control box on the back of the monitor.

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But hey, we don't talk about that. We just talk about how thin the panel is at its thinnest point.

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As for the stand, seems decent. It's got some up and down. I don't want to move it too much because

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we're just at CES, but it's got swivel. It's got tilt. Can it pivot? It can pivot. I'm not going

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all the way, but it can pivot. It's got AI, but what's really cool is this true black 500 rating

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from Vesa. I have been waiting for a monitor that's OLED that can do true black anything other than

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400. But as cool as this is, I've seen 500 Hertz monitors before. You know what I haven't seen?

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600 Hertz and MSI's got that. This is the 600 Hertz 24.1 inch monitor from MSI. It's the MPG

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242R X60N. It's a TN panel. So obviously you're going to be sacrificing some of the nicer

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color and viewing angles that you're going to get from something like a QT OLED that we were just

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looking at. But 600 Hertz? That's wild. That is so incredibly fast, and I can't wait to try it.

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We turned everything to as low as we could, set it to 720p, and we're still getting only 300 frames

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a second. This is MSI's computer. I don't know what's in it. You can go faster with the 4090 or

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even a 5090, but you know what? We just wanted to see how good it could look at a high refresh rate

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with as much FPS as we could crunch into this thing. And I've got to say, while the game might

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look like ass, the monitor itself does it. It's very typical TN, which is fine, because most of the

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time you're going to be like this whenever you're gaming. It's of course 1080p, HDR 400. There are

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two HDMI 2.0 B inputs, which should let you get that full 600 Hertz at 1080p. And one of the nicest

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touches is that, like the other monitor we looked at, it's got 98 watts of power delivery on the

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USB-C. That's a lot of juice. It's pretty dang fast. And until other technologies like OLED or just

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even regular IPS are fast enough to run at 600 Hertz, this is the fastest you're going to find.

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And so all the eSports gamers, this is probably what you're going to get. Another major difference

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between this and the monitor we just looked at is it is a chunky boy. It's big. It's thick. There's

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no laser thin panel on this guy. But you know what? Does it really matter? Unless you're on an ARM

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trying to get as close to the wall as possible. Who cares? I could be gaming on a CRT for all I care.

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But I can't not tell you how thick it is. As for the stand, it's got most of your typical features.

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It can go up and down. It can swivel left and right. It can tilt. But I think I don't. Oh,

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it can pivot as well. Both ways. Both ways. So no matter whatever configuration you want,

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you're going to be able to get it to there. There's an absolute ton of stuff at MSI this year.

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We can't take a look at everything. But thanks for taking a look at this one with us. We've got a

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lot of other CES coverage. Make sure to check it out. Thanks for watching. See you next time.
