ASUS ROG Strix 32” 1440P USB-C Curved HDR Gaming Monitor (XG32WCS) - QHD, 180Hz, 1ms, Fast VA, Extreme Low Motion Blur Sync, FreeSync, DisplayWidget, Tripod Socket, AI Technology, 3 yr Warranty

Excellent Value under $300 for a top of the line IPS monitor. It is not a OLeD but it has great colors and decent contrast considering. The stand is built soo well it tilts and moves up and down with sense and stays in place you don’t need to tighten any screws it just moves freely and stays where u leave it. Also it has a center crosshair mode where you can change style and color. A gaming mode and a on screen overlay for frame rate. Lots of gaming features gotta be one of the best IPS out there. If you can’t afford or don’t care for OLEd this is the ticket

It seems like there's good VA monitors and bad ones, and this is the first VA panel I have purchased. This one is fast enough with hertz, and has no black level smearing that I could see. It has a three year warranty, and the build quality is great. In recent years, good brands like Samsung and now Asus have given us real speed improvements with the hertz refresh rate. I'm avoiding certain, obscure brands that may not have adopted these VA refinements. Maybe those are okay, maybe they're trash. But it's a gamble, often without warranty. The contrast of this monitor is very good, IPS monitors can't say that. There's no burn-in risk, unlike LED. The colors are not bad, but this is the only thing left to improve and it's not for color accurate work. However, a large monitor like this for this price, is why VA is not only in the mix it's actually hard to beat. Asus, I hope you make a 24 inch version or 27 inch version.

The monitor has good picture quality and build. I do not think anything lesser than an OLED monitor would surpass. A few things I would like to see improved: * If it does not find the signal, it shuts off in like one second. Damned, need to leave some time for the user to figure what is going on. I get it energy saving is important, but should stay on for at least some ten seconds?! This is really annoying, all the more so because HDMI seems to have issues with waking up when the laptop is put to sleep. * Between day time and night time, monitor brightness needs adjusting. There should have been some easier means to do this, ideally even automated with an ambient light sensor. However, various monitors do not seem to support this. This monitor does allow having two setting profiles and you can customize the button to switching between these with just two clicks (I have set up upward click on its button to open setting 1 with larger brightness and downward click to open setting 2 with lower brightness. * For some reason, monitors do not allow lowering the brightness below a certain level, which itself I find too high for night environments. I wish they allow letting the brightness scale do all the way to zero.

Works perfectly for games, despite playing FPS I'm not sensitive to ghosting in games so can't comment on it but with text it clearly washes off the text a little if scrolling but goes back to normal instantly as soon as you stop scrolling which is normal with VA panels. Colors are vibrant, very bright and gets dark enough for darks. My old MSI Optix monitor had a darker black but had inconsistent backlight which made it look weird, this one doesn't turn as black as the MSI but does have much less backlight and its more consistent so doesn't affect the experience negatively. No dead pixels. Install to arm was straight forward. Nice stand too. 4 stars because on videos there's a color/vibrance shift when scrolling but again goes back to normal as soon as you stop this does not happen at all while watching videos/movies unless you scroll and also does not happen in games in any way. My old monitor did it too but did noticed it slightly more on this one. The text ghosting doesn't bother me since i use IPS monitors for reading to the side. The video vibrance shift also doesn't bother me since its minor, and does not affect the video quality. But just things to keep in mind when buying this monitor quality is definitely great videos, movies and games all look amazing and for curve lovers and dark room gamers or movie enjoyers the VA panel with high contrast and brightness makes it great for enjoying it at night or with lights on! Gsync enabled and it works perfectly which my MSI could not do without flickering every second or going black. The only flicker iv had is when at a menu and instead of a flicker it feels like someone changed brightness settings from 100 down to 98 for a 1/5 of a second. 180hz on DP1.4 at 1440p no issues in the week and a half I've had it as primary monitor. Definitely recommend at the price.

really nice monitor, great quality, 180 hz is really smooth while gaming.