MSI MAG274QRF-QD Review ! ( for mix usage but mostly Apex Legends ! )
Posted: 19 Jul 2022, 18:45
Greetings to all, I absolutely wanted to talk about my current monitor which I thought would be my perfect monitor at the moment but CLEARLY NOT! (because before that I tried lots of IPS 1080P 240hz IPS but I didn't like it...same for TN, I would like IF POSSIBLE not to go back to TN anymore)
The MSI MAG274QRF-QD.
It clearly has the best color reproduction on gaming monitors I've ever had, 10/10 on color volume and SDR Color Gammut on RTINGS it's clearly incredible, for my non-gaming use it's insane, the Quantum Dots filter is appreciable and this time visible, not like on the Odyssey G7...
It's sharp ( thank to 1440p panel even if it's only grainy matte coating... )
We have the Gaming OSD which is really good! to configure several profiles and change a parameter super quickly, I love it.
But for the negative point of the monitor ... that's why I'm going to sell it and faster than expected.
In fact I played on TN 240hz for about 3 years and so it's been almost a year that I play in 1440p 165hz and I'm still not used to it....it's so blurry...micro stuttering/tearing without G-Sync because of the low hertz rate it's also super boring...
In reality, even if the monitor has 100% in terms of "refresh compliance" ( you can see that on Hardware Unboxed channel ) I don't care because for me it's almost unusable in FPS like Apex Legends against people from high level that requires a good reaction time and super fast movements to be able to handle this kind of strong enemy (which are often on BenQ 240hz, something like that)
And since I left my AW2518FH Alienware, I feel like a big shit in all my FPS, I play in 2304x1440 stretch 16:10 1440p, because 16:9 1440p are so slow to play with that ( slow for fast movement with my mouse, it's just the feeling and the drop of FPS are to much high for me )
Yes, the ghosting of this screen is really horrible, it's super high and on top of that the brightness is not that high, especially in Apex Legends, I constantly have to put my contrast above 65 with 100% brightness otherwise I find it dark (and even with the black equalizer)
The biggest concern here is this monitor's ability to handle motion blur, for my purposes that's horrible, so ok, for digital drawing that's cool! (my wife has the same monitor and loves it for drawing) but she has the same concern as me, the ghosting is just too high, so much so that I have to play on the overdrive mode at maximum level to limit the ghosting even if I have to accept the fact of playing with reverse ghosting.
ELMB mode is clearly garbage, crosstalk all the time and the screen is even darker, impossible to play with that.
It's a little rough, but if you have any questions don't hesitate, anyway I'm going to part with it, I'm going to test 1440P 240hz IPS and TN in August, I can't wait to replace this screen which very clearly restricts me.
And another concern that I almost forgot, the screen for office use in a dark or dimly lit room burns your eyes! even by setting the contrast / brightness super low, on the other hand if I put it too low I see nothing, this screen drives me crazy xD
The MSI MAG274QRF-QD.
It clearly has the best color reproduction on gaming monitors I've ever had, 10/10 on color volume and SDR Color Gammut on RTINGS it's clearly incredible, for my non-gaming use it's insane, the Quantum Dots filter is appreciable and this time visible, not like on the Odyssey G7...
It's sharp ( thank to 1440p panel even if it's only grainy matte coating... )
We have the Gaming OSD which is really good! to configure several profiles and change a parameter super quickly, I love it.
But for the negative point of the monitor ... that's why I'm going to sell it and faster than expected.
In fact I played on TN 240hz for about 3 years and so it's been almost a year that I play in 1440p 165hz and I'm still not used to it....it's so blurry...micro stuttering/tearing without G-Sync because of the low hertz rate it's also super boring...
In reality, even if the monitor has 100% in terms of "refresh compliance" ( you can see that on Hardware Unboxed channel ) I don't care because for me it's almost unusable in FPS like Apex Legends against people from high level that requires a good reaction time and super fast movements to be able to handle this kind of strong enemy (which are often on BenQ 240hz, something like that)
And since I left my AW2518FH Alienware, I feel like a big shit in all my FPS, I play in 2304x1440 stretch 16:10 1440p, because 16:9 1440p are so slow to play with that ( slow for fast movement with my mouse, it's just the feeling and the drop of FPS are to much high for me )
Yes, the ghosting of this screen is really horrible, it's super high and on top of that the brightness is not that high, especially in Apex Legends, I constantly have to put my contrast above 65 with 100% brightness otherwise I find it dark (and even with the black equalizer)
The biggest concern here is this monitor's ability to handle motion blur, for my purposes that's horrible, so ok, for digital drawing that's cool! (my wife has the same monitor and loves it for drawing) but she has the same concern as me, the ghosting is just too high, so much so that I have to play on the overdrive mode at maximum level to limit the ghosting even if I have to accept the fact of playing with reverse ghosting.
ELMB mode is clearly garbage, crosstalk all the time and the screen is even darker, impossible to play with that.
It's a little rough, but if you have any questions don't hesitate, anyway I'm going to part with it, I'm going to test 1440P 240hz IPS and TN in August, I can't wait to replace this screen which very clearly restricts me.
And another concern that I almost forgot, the screen for office use in a dark or dimly lit room burns your eyes! even by setting the contrast / brightness super low, on the other hand if I put it too low I see nothing, this screen drives me crazy xD