Gigabyte M32QC-EK 32-inch QHD Widescreen Curved Gaming Monitor, 2560 x 1440, 165Hz Refresh Rate, FreeSync, 1ms Response Time, 3000:1 Contrast Ratio

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You get a big curved screen with decent detail clarity without being too demanding on the GPU, as well as deep blacks and vibrant colors. Some scenes can still look better, depending on the game and your personal preference, so you might choose to enable HDR in some titles, especially those with FreeSync Premium Pro certification (if you have an AMD GPU).

This will alter the gamma curvature so that the blacks are lighter for less black smearing, but the rest of the image will also be lighter than intended. It uses an IPS panel with wider viewing angles and faster response time, but it doesn’t have as high contrast ratio and suffers from IPS glow, resulting in grayish blacks in comparison. Finally, we measured a maximum brightness of 435-nits and a minimum of 50-nits, while the static contrast ratio amounts to 3350:1 at 200-nits.In addition, the Gigabyte M32QC supports MBR (Motion Blur Reduction) via their Aim Stabilizer Sync technology, which uses backlight strobing in conjunction with a variable refresh rate to reduce perceived motion blur at the cost of picture brightness (limited to 150-nits on this monitor), while also keeping screen tearing at bay between 100FPS and 170FPS. Other picture presets include FPS and RTS/RPG, which mainly just have an even lower gamma for better visibility in dark scenes but less accurate image, three Custom modes and a Movie mode, all of which are just the Standard mode with different default brightness setting, Reader (with a warm 5600K color temperature) and an sRGB emulation mode.

Accessories Often the packaging of desktop monitors and smart TV sets includes accessories for them. The exclusive monitor arm offers secure fastening of the screen and releases more workspace, giving someone more freedom and flexibility at someoner desk. The maximum number of colors, which the display is able to reproduce, depends on the type of the panel in use and color enhancing technologies like FRC. However, this is not a big issue for gaming and content consumption and mainly affects color-critical work, in which case you should be going with an IPS panel monitor anyway. However if you temper your expectations you realize that for the money this is a great value and a pretty nice gaming monitor.As for the image uniformity, there’s some minor contrast deviation on the left side of the screen, but it’s not noticeable in real use. Thanks to its decent brightness, contrast ratio and color gamut, some HDR content might appeal better to you than SDR, but keep in mind that due to the lack of a full-array local dimming solution or an OLED panel, HDR content won’t look the way the creator intended and details in shadows and highlights of the image will be lost. Crosshair This feature will allow you to customize crosshairs that helps improve your aim in the shooting game.