Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I’ve made a huge mistake… – MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED”.
A couple of months ago I looked at a different 32-in 4K QD OLED panel, 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 mpg 321 urx 4K 240 HZ, QD, OED, Monitor 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. First of all, it’s flat, if you can’t tell from just how not enormous this box is um yeah. This is not the curved version, but instead the nice flat version that a lot of you have been clamoring about.
Ever since C OLED gaming monitors came out a few years ago, that’s probably the biggest thing that a lot of people, aside from the ultrawide, only options that people were upset about. I don’t want a curved panel. I want a flat panel well at long last, you can have your choice. We got our quick start guide. We’Ve got the base of our operation here. Base of our monitor, we’ll take that out right now. Actually, why not just get it out of the package too bad we’ve got a usbb to a cable for hooking up our monitor to our computer, for whatever peripherals we might want to plug in we’ve got our Ultra highspeed HDMI, 2.1 cable, very nice. I, like the all black look.
This looks really beefy too A lot of the time this back plate that you’re going to click clack into the monitor is really small. Um. This looks like it can, you know, has has a little bit of extra support but uh. I guess we’ll see probably doesn’t need it. You know it’s fine. These things aren’t that heavy behind this little foam sheet we’ve got the rest of our monitor, which is you know. Actually, one of the big things I like is when they’ve got a nice little perforated slit right here, so you can peel it back and then click clack pull it out. Uh. We don’t have that.
So you know I could probably get this in here. We can. We can get it in just going to oh that’s tight.
There we go yeah yeah. I should have attached the stand. First, I don’t know what I was thinking.
It’S not that heavy, but when you’re holding it kind of awkwardly like this and then trying to screw something on, it gets a little heavy. Ah, but we got it here we go, I got to say it looks really nice, it’s all blacked out nice and thin. You’Ve got this the it’s a small issue, but on OLED panels the panel itself is super thin right, but then you’ve got like the control box and whatever Cooling in the back here, and so it’s like it feels fragile when you’re just touching this pot and the Rest of it is so bulky anyway.
It’S like why not just make a little box go all the way around like it. Doesn’T it’s here anyway, just make it go to the edge. I don’t know some of you might like the thinness, I’m not crazy about it. One thing a lot of you might appreciate is that there’s not a ton of branding. We’Ve got the MSI dragon on the back little MSI logo on the back and then on the front.
Just a small MSI logo on the front here, nothing to Major, no big symbols anywhere or like all the way across the bottom or in the corners or anything. So that’s cool. As for the I/O there’s, a few pleasant surprises and one small disappointment: we’ve got our headphone jack two HDMI 2.1 ports display port 1.4, USB type-c, usbb, two usba a ports and then a c14 power connector on the back over here you might be wondering to yourself: Does this USBC Port offer something like 90 WS power delivery and display port alt? Well, it does it’s a small feature, but it’s something. That’S really appreciated more and more these days as we collect more and more devices that connect through USBC uh. It’S really handy to just have a laptop or something and just plug it in through USBC.
All of a sudden. This is your secondary display and guess what it’s charging at the same time, wow 90 Watts. That’S a lot of power that one minor disappointment I mentioned it doesn’t have display port 2.1, which offers significantly more bandwidth now, admittedly, there’s only a few graphics cards out right now that even have 2.1, but it’s a feature that a lot of people are clamoring for, With these high-end panels, especially when they’re running 4K 240 HZ, that’s a lot of bandwith to actually use that without having any kind of display stream compression involved. And so it’s just a nice to have 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. As for the rest of the construction and the stand, it’s not bad. It’S got the rotation on the base which is nice to see. I would like a slightly more, but that’s good enough.
Can we we can’t go portrait, but let’s be real. It’S 4K 240 HZ 32 in I don’t. I don’t think you’re going to put this in portrait mode um and then we’ve just got a little bit of play here. It’S not bad, definitely enough to get most people and how is the height adjustment? Okay, I would love.
I would love just a little more. I would love to let the monitor go basically to the base down here, but we’re talking about what an extra inch and a half of distance it’s fine, it’s totally fine and then on the back here we’ve got a fanless graphine cooling solution. So this thing should stay super quiet as for navigating the OSD, it’s not quite on the bottom. It’S a bit on the back here, so you’re just going to have to reach a little bit further.
We’Ve got one navigation nipple and then how many buttons one two buttons yeah two little buttons on the back. As you can see here, it is nice and flat nice and thin, and our bezels aren’t actually that big either. So it’s probably going to look pretty good turned on speaking of which all right, monitor’s on looks pretty good. Hdr has turned on this thing supports both true black 400, as well as an HDR Peak 1000 mode.
It’S also rated by vesa for their new clear, Mr rating with 13,000, 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, but 240 HZ is fast, and so it’s going to be Crystal Clear. Basically, all the time they’re honestly going to have to invent another rating, because all of these really high refresh rate OLED panels are starting to hit the Max uh clearr rating that vesa created just recently. It’S already capped out 1080p.
No, no! No! We want 4K. So we can get our sweet sweet 140 PPI, whether you’re, watching it in true black 400 or you’re, watching it in Peak 1000. It just is absolutely insane how good HDR looks when you’ve got the right panel to match it. Now we do have our set to Peak 1000, which is pretty bright, and you might be worried about image retention or Burning uh. The reality is not only is MSI offering this, but most brands are these days with these monitors. Uh they’re, offering a three-year OLED care.
Warranty that does cover Burnin and image retention, so you’re covered, I mean, don’t get me wrong it. Maybe it happened three years in you know you leave your monitor on for like a week straight and suddenly, there’s image tension but like that to me, gives me a lot of peace of mind and it’s a big reason why I not only bought a QD OED Monitor years ago now, but why I bought another one once this set of panels came out. If you are still worried about burning, this has got MSI OLED care 2.0 built in which is going to do a bunch of stuff like pixel shift, it’ll, uh, Auto taskbars or any static icons. Even this little short circuit logo or like the little Bottom bar on a YouTube video, if you got it up that should all just kind of dim out and not be as uh image retaining you don’t want to. You don’t want to leave static stuff on screen for too long.
It’S bad, but like the reality is there burning is not nearly as much of an issue these days. One thing you might want to use those HDMI 2.1 ports for is a PS5 or maybe an Xbox series X, because it also supports variable refresh rates if you’re not going to. You know attach this to a 49 90 and get crazy high refresh rates, and then, if you are, it’s got their gaming intelligence app, which lets you auto switch between productivity in games, it’ll change settings for you on the Fly, convenient convenient. I’Ve got to say that CS2 with a modern high-end graphics card and then a modern high-end monitor it’s just it’s something else. Oh my God, okay! Well, oh explod! Okay.
That makes a lot of sense. It’S like that. Guy did not shoot me man. This looks good. I already bought a similar monitor at home. I couldn’t wait, I thought you know, I don’t care about the curvature. I want it now, I’m an impatient gamer. I don’t wait. I just buy stuff at full price. Like an idiot, I got to say that the flatness is actually really appealing. I didn’t think it bothered me as much, and you know it’s fine, I’m going to go home tonight and I’m not going to cry about it, but I really prefer the flat 31 1/2 in 4k, like this size for your desk. As long as you can have something a little bigger than 27 in it’s like it’s, it’s perfect and you really don’t need curvature unless it’s bigger than this or Ultra wide at a similar size and as for the rest of the panel, it just looks incredible. Like I cannot get over how good 240 HZ running at 4K resolution with QD OLED, just incredible, colors God, it’s stunning, even everyone behind me he’s like wow that looks so good.
It’S like yeah yeah. It does sound like yeah. You sound exactly like that Bell.
That’S exactly what you sound like yep, that’s those 03 millisecond OLED pixel response time that is basically near instant. I bought one of these for a reason, not this exact model, but don’t take my word for it. Let’S talk Labs results for color gamut coverage. We’Ve got 147 % of the srgb color space and they advertised 99 % of dcp3 as as well as 78 % of bt220 for srgb color accuracy.
It was pretty good with a Delta average of just 1.7 in the Pro srgb picture mode. Hdr is another story. We had similar results in both game user and pro user picture modes averaging around a deltae of 23 with luminance error. It’S oversaturating, which honestly most people kind of like anyway, whether it’s correct or not. Here’S the thing, though, this 32in 4K 240Hz QD OED display retails at $ 950.
That is absolutely wild and is kind of a steel, and that makes this version of this QD OLED panel really freaking competitive. I mean you’ve got your 90 wats power delivery. You’Ve got perfect viewing angles from literally anywhere you are.
You got 240 HZ like there’s just there’s some trade-offs for sure. For example, the only cables we got in the Box were power, the usbb and HDMI 2.1. So if you want display port you’re going to have to go, buy a DP cable.
If you want the USBC 90 wat power delivery, you’re going to have to make sure you have a USBC cable that can do 90, wat power delivery and DP alt mode. But, like you probably already have those things anyway, or at least the DP cable, I don’t think you need USBC. Unless you’ve got like a laptop, you want to hook up for being $ 250 cheaper than the competition honestly, I think it kind of wins – and I think I regret my purchase yet again – it’s not the first time. I’Ve bought the first shiny, new monitor that comes along and then, like 3 months later. I am kicking myself for not being a more patient gamer and here we are sure, there’s some other features that I wish were here and they’re not, but like it’s, it’s $ 250 is just a huge price difference.
It brings this under a grand which is honestly a really big sweet spot when it comes to price or performance for people buying brand new displays that they want to use for like the next 5 plus years, 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 .