GIGABYTE M32UC 32″ Curved Gaming Monito

Pros: – Overall image quality (except for thin text looks bad) – No obvious light bleeding – Ease of use (after downloading that “sidekick”) – Huge variety of settings – Deep blacks, bright whites – Gamma presets are great – The Curve is pretty sweet, I’m a believer now (unless you need to align stuff eg graphics designers) Cons: – Overdrive is complete trash – it leaves really nasty ghosting artifacts on fast-moving pixels, such as when dragging a window or basically any contrasting colors in games. Turning it off fixed it. – I don’t know what HDR does but I don’t notice a difference. Turning it off in Windows 10 helped with the heavy blurring/fading when moving windows around. – Had to turn sharpness completely off because there were heavy red/blue artifacts around thin black text on white backgrounds. There still is, but it’s limited to the actual letters and not around them. Switching to “FPS” mode also helped a bit. – Thin black text on white backgrounds still has that red/blue shift though, like it’s a tube monitor from the 80’s or 90’s. I use dark themes so I can deal with it. Never happened on my old Asus ProArt monitor though, so that sucks. – The bezel is misleading, there’s half-inch black bars around the top and sides. Not cool. – The stand is lop-sided such that the left side is about a half-inch lower than the right side. Can be fixed by using an arm instead which I guess I’ll have to do and that’s annoying. Overall Review: Took a long time to configure properly, and I had to download the “OSD Sidekick” app from gigabyte’s website to be able to change the brightness and contrast. But from there I could change the quick switch shortcuts to access it with the hardware nub, which is great. It’s only 8-bit colors, but the blacks look pretty good after fiddling with the settings a bit (FPS mode, gamma 3, mid contrast, no blue reduction, black eq at 10). Had to use display port to get 144hz – I don’t know why everyone keeps mentioning HDRI like it’s desirable anymore. Can’t go back to 60hz now, it’s so nice. The front panel itself runs really hot, enough to feel a temp difference from about half a foot away so it will definitely affect room temp in smaller rooms, especially in summer. Might be nice in winter though. If it weren’t for the dead pixel, I would have kept it.