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LG Electronics UltraGear Gaming Monitor 32GQ950-B - 31.5 inch, Nano IPS with ATW UHD 4K Display, 144 Hz (O/C 160Hz), 1ms GtG, 3840 x 2160px, VESA Certified AdaptiveSync, VESA DisplayHDR 1000, HDMI 2.1

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Get the ultimate gaming monitor. Discover the features that make LG's Ultragear an innovative collection, a game changer. Learn more about LG's gaming monitors& their features. The best 4k gaming monitor we've tested is the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 S32BG85, a fantastic gaming monitor with a 4k @ 240Hz refresh rate. While you still need a high-end graphics card to reach its max refresh rate, it's at least a good choice if you plan on upgrading your PC and don't want to buy a new monitor in the future. However, if you don't want such a high refresh rate, you can consider the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 S32BG75, a very similar monitor with a 165Hz refresh rate instead, which also tends to cost less.

Further, the IPS panel ensures 178° wide viewing angles with no brightness, contrast, gamma or color shift at skewed viewing angles. Thanks to its wide color gamut and consistent colors, the 32GQ950 is suitable for professional color-critical work. How good the HDR experience will be depends significantly on the content you're viewing. Brightness is a non-issue on the 32GQ950, this one gets bright and delivers strong highlight performance. Real world content examples were often in the 600 to 800 nit range, which is similar to true HDR displays.

We do like the rear design used by LG, we've never been fans of "gamer" designs, but we feel LG is creating a subtle but still gaming look that we quite like. The flat plastic section has a nice pattern integrated into the design, and the angular raised bit is flanked on either side by RGB LED lighting that's integrated well. The front is pretty barebones with standard bezels around the panel. The monitor uses matte anti-glare coating which isn't the best, it reflects more than the average amount of diffuse lighting, but depending on your setup this might not be an issue.

Work more efficiently with LG's Office computer monitors that are ultra-clear and wide, offering true color contrast and detail at any angle. Discover a richer, brighter, more detailed online experience. With an in-place switching IPS monitor, you can experience stunning images from any angle. So I have had the Lg 32GQ950 for a week now. Some initial thoughts and hopefully some points that might help some people on making a decision. This monitor has impressive factory calibration for greyscale. LG has made a noticeable effort to ship the monitor with a 6500K white point and sRGB gamma out of the box, which leads to excellent deltaE numbers. Default SDR performance is only let down by an unclamped color gamut rather than a restriction to sRGB, which leads to some oversaturation. With that said this is one of the more accurate oversaturated results, if that's a thing. As for the M27U, it's very similar to the ASUS ROG Swift PG27UQR as it's also excellent for gaming, but there are some minor differences. It has less HDMI 2.1 bandwidth than the ASUS, as it only supports 24 Gbps of bandwidth compared to 48 Gbps on the ASUS. This doesn't make a big difference, as you can still reach its max 160Hz refresh rate with 4k signals, but your graphics card needs to use compression for those signals. It can negatively impact picture quality, but it isn't a significant difference.

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If we look at the LG 32GQ950 purely as a 32-inch 4K SDR display, it's one of the best that we've tested so far. It's faster than other 4K monitors of this size, which significantly improves gaming motion, and it complements this with excellent color quality. If you find the Sony INZONE M9 out of your price range, then the LG 32GR93U-B is a good alternative at a lower price point. It has a 144Hz refresh rate like the Sony, but it also has a larger screen for a more immersive gaming experience. However, the biggest difference between these two monitors is that the LG doesn't have a local dimming feature to improve the contrast ratio in dark scenes. This means it has worse picture quality, especially if you game in dark rooms, and highlights don't pop as much, but this is the trade-off for getting something cheaper.

With an LG computer monitor you’ll discover cutting-edge display technology and slim designs, from our dazzling LED and LCD monitors, which offer state-of-the-art display and features. You’ll get a new outlook on life with monitors and other computer monitors from LG. There's really a lot to like here and among the 32-inch 4K monitors we've tested, this is definitely the one we'd recommend for non-HDR use based on its performance and the overall experience it offers.For full screen sustained brightness the 32GQ950 is a decent monitor offering 650 nits of brightness, which is similar to other products but not as good as the best LCDs. Peak flash brightness increases to 1175 nits, which is very good. 10% window brightness sits around 1000 nits too, so again this display is very much capable of the 1000 nits it advertises. The difference between sustained and peak brightness is typically around 400 nits at or below 25% window sizes, while the gap closes at smaller windows to the point where there's not much difference. On average across the refresh range the 32GQ950 performs well. While it is a mid-table performer using the Normal setting, it has exceptionally low overshoot. It's roughly 50% faster than older 32-inch 4K monitors like the Asus PG32UQ and MSI MPG321UR-QD, while also delivering less overshoot, so that's an excellent result. All of the monitors that beat it in response times have higher overshoot, except OLEDs, of course, and if we had used the Fast mode instead of Normal mode it would have come close to matching the Neo G7. The main issue here are HDR claims. While LG does advertise this as a HDR 1000 product, I feel that's misleading due to the poor HDR capabilities that only reach semi HDR standard. I'm sure the monitor does properly pass the loose DisplayHDR 1000 certification standard, however this standard is not useful for consumers. The reality is the 32GQ950 is significantly inferior to proper, true HDR monitors. However I didn't spot any issues or defects with other areas to the display. What We Learned It’s an overall exceptional SDR gaming monitor, but there are better HDR displays around this price range. Specifications Screen Size The monitor even supports hardware calibration, so pairing it with a decent colorimeter will make sense for any serious colorist anyway.

There's also an annoying automatic standby setting which will turn the display off after 4 hours regardless of what is happening, and that's enabled by default. We wondered why sometimes the 32GQ950 would randomly turn off and we thought it was a firmware issue, but it turns out it's just this setting, which we recommend you to disable. Display Performance

All of this performance is available at a typical power consumption level for a 32" 4K panel, it's not the most efficient option we've seen, but I don't have any complaints given it sits somewhere in the middle. Enjoy High Performance with LCD LED Monitors high performance for dual work as well as play purpose.

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