LG UltraGear FHD 32-Inch Gaming Monitor 32GN50R, VA 5ms (GtG) with HDR 10 Compatibility, NVIDIA G-SYNC, and AMD FreeSync Premium, 165Hz, Black

Overall, I am satisfied with my purchase but feel it prudent to remind others: THIS IS STILL A VA PANEL. It will absolutely exhibit poorer performance in motion than TN or IPS counterparts. Smearing, especially when pixels shift from dark to light colors, is quite noticeable depending on the scene. It is still something I am getting used to. That isnt to say I think this is a bad product. Good color, great blacks, refresh rate is incredible especially in faster pace games (particularly for someone like me who has lived a 60hz life for far too long), and when you compare it to IPS alternatives which are far more expensive for comparable size/specs, and TN alternatives which are great for competitive gaming but sacrifice contrast and rich color, it is a good value. Just know if you go with this product that there are compromises for what you are getting at this price.

I finally landed on this monitor after a ton of research. For the price and size it was a bargain. Ive logged about 3 weeks of gaming and I have had zero issues. The extra features are more than I expected and with very little adjustments to the factory settings I am able to get great colors from this monitor. I highly recommend downloading the software from LGs website to give even more control over features you might not expect from a monitor. Lastly, going from a 60hz screen to a 144hz screen is more than noticeable and will change your life.

I wanted a new monitor, a larger monitor for my old fart eyes, a monitor that had a higher resolution, faster response time, and BIGGER than my previous HD monitor. This monitor fit the bill, it is gorgeous, and has met or exceed all my expectations. After it arrived I realized it has speakers! I got so caught up in researching the picture picture specifications that I missed that feature. My speakers dont work. My PC recognizes the monitor has speakers, but will not play through them. Even tried a different computer, no joy. I have external speakers and a headset that I use, I didnt buy this for the speakers, so I decided it wasnt worth the trouble to replace it for a function I didnt plan to use. But, yes it rankles a bit, so take off a star for what would have otherwise been a 5-star review.

I bought this, to replace a 271920x1080 monitor that I was trying out for portrait use, after realizing that Amazon.com and a couple other websites were having issues, with an effective 1080x1920 resolution, leading to horizontal scroll bars, when moving windows from my primary 2560x1080 monitor to the 1080x1920 monitor. Surprisingly, this is closer to matching the color temperature of my LG 34uc89g-b post calibration, then the VG279Q did, even though its a VA panel. I did play a round of Deep Rock Galactic on it before putting it in portrait orientation, and I was impressed with its performance, though I did miss the wider field of view, that my UltraWide provides... It feels claustrophobic, going back to 16:9 landscape, after using 21:9, even when the panel is this big. All in all, I would recommend this monitor. for someone, that needs a large 16:9 gaming display or needs an auxiliary portrait monitor. If youre going to use it for portrait, you really want to be sitting 2-3ft / 0.6-1M away from it, other wise, your going to be tilting your head a lot. Pros: Portrait mode Great blacks, compared to the IPS Panels, that Ive used in the past. 144Hz Cons: Limited stand movement. (It would be nice, if it could pivot anticlockwise and rotate more then 30 degrees.) PPI, slightly higher then what I prefer. (Im use to about 80PPI and sit about 2-3ft / 0.6-1M from my monitors.) Not as color accurate as IPS Viewing Angles not as good as IPS, but not horrible either. No USB ports Notes: X-Rite i1Display Studio and DisplayCAL were used for calibration, with a target brightness of 80 cd/m and a white balance of 6500k Desk is 30 inches deep. Pictures: 34 21:9 next to 32 16:9 34 21:9 next to 27 16:9 32 16:9 next to 27 16:9

Overall, I am satisfied with my purchase but feel it prudent to remind others: THIS IS STILL A VA PANEL. It will absolutely exhibit poorer performance in motion than TN or IPS counterparts. Smearing, especially when pixels shift from dark to light colors, is quite noticeable depending on the scene. It is still something I am getting used to. That isnt to say I think this is a bad product. Good color, great blacks, refresh rate is incredible especially in faster pace games (particularly for someone like me who has lived a 60hz life for far too long), and when you compare it to IPS alternatives which are far more expensive for comparable size/specs, and TN alternatives which are great for competitive gaming but sacrifice contrast and rich color, it is a good value. Just know if you go with this product that there are compromises for what you are getting at this price.

I got this on a Prime Day special for a great price. 32 1440p 144hz & Freesync support. Super easy set up the stand just clicks into place. It has DP and HDMI inputs, older cables require an adapter or gpu upgrade. I had some tearing on the windows start screen and desktop with Freesync enabled (gpu is a radeon rx 590) but I turned it off and cranked the refresh and now nary a pixel is out of place. Monitor control is a joystick nub front and center on the bottom edge . Its out of sight and no reaching behind the monitor to make adjustments - I wish every monitor was like that! Screen is super fast, bright, and clear with no dead pixels. Skyrim, SWTOR, ESO, sports streaming (mlb & nhl), streaming movies have never looked better!

I dont know if the speakers only work with HDMI, but they havent worked from day 1. Ive tried every setting I can find, but no luck. If it doesnt work with display port, they should mention it because the loss of resolution and refresh on HDMI isnt worth it. I dont think Im getting the refresh rate I was hoping for, but otherwise a good monitor.

Bought the display for an excellent price on Prime Day. Loved it for some things and couldnt stand it for others. Of the issues, at least one was an attribute of the kind of panel being used in the monitor and would not have been resolved by swapping for a replacement, so I ended up returning it. Part of me still regrets returning it, but I know that unless I was able to get a panel that didnt have any of my 3 issues, itd drive me crazy and Id be dissatisfied with my purchase. Pros: 144Hz, FreeSync, and LFC were amazing in games. Id never used a high refresh rate display before and it was absolutely buttery smooth the way Id heard - even for just basic computer usage. The display came color calibrated for sRGB with a calibration report in the box, so colors were very accurate out of the box. The display was easy to assemble and the stand is certainly a step up from what you get on cheap monitors. A bit of a small-time feature that most probably wont use or care about -- the headphone jack on the back of the panel is fed by HDMI or DisplayPort. This is GREAT! Most other displays Ive used in the past use a passthrough port where you plug in a 1/8 cable from your computer to the display. Paired with low quality amplifiers, these have always led to low quality sound with a lot of background hiss - which drives me crazy. While not amazing quality, Id say that the headphone jack was perfectly usable. Cons: I ended up returning the monitor. I had 3 minor to moderate issues with the panel. If the monitor I received had only 1 of the issues, I probably would have kept it and lived with it, but having all 3 was driving me crazy most of the time. 1. Blurry text Immediately after setting up the display and setting it next to my older HP Omen 32 (32, 1440p, 75Hz, VA) I noticed that text looked blurry. Almost like there was a smudge on my glasses. Yes, the panel was running at the native resolution. Since both panels are 32 and 1440p, it wasnt a pixel-pitch issue. It also wasnt the anti-reflective coating -- I have a Dell U2412M which has a rather heavy AR coating and that monitor was still sharper looking. I found and tried increasing the Sharpness setting, but the text remained blurry -- just with oversharpening/ringing artifacts around all the text. Gaming or watching video was fine, but I read a lot of code on my machine and having blurry text wasnt going to work out for me. Based on reading some other reviews of this and the similar 850F, it seems to be an attribute of the kind of VA panel theyre using and not a manufacturing defect. I tried getting side by side pictures, but when trying to take macro shots of a monitor with a camera, you just start seeing the pixel structure and I really couldnt tell from the pictures which monitor was blurry and which was sharp. 2. Banding The top ~1 of the panel had horizontal banding. Slightly darker lines across the whole top of the display. This was very noticeable with solid-color menu-bars in applications made them look like they were striped when they werent. It was also still visible in photos and in games, though not as noticeable. Not that I expected the issue to go away, but I tried different cables and tried connecting the display to a different computer, but the banding remained. I would imagine that this issue was a manufacturing defect. 3. HDCP issues ~1 in 4 times Id open Netflix or any other application that utilized HDCP the display would go black, then the panel would flicker on and off over and over for 30-45 seconds before finally figuring life out and bringing the picture back. Im not sure if theres a design issue or if this was a 1-off defect with this particular display -- but Id really hope that the HDCP handshake process was something that theyd have nailed down by 2019. This issues could have had something to do with not playing nice with an Nvidia 1080Ti + FreeSync/G-Sync Compatible. I did not test this with another machine or video card, but frankly this was not a determining factor in returning the display, just *another* nuisance on top of the other 2 issues.

First, Beach Camera is outstanding at the speed they shipped the item. I ordered yesterday and it was delivered to my home early this morning in perfect shipped condition. Awesome Beach Camera, thank you guys! The monitor is killer for gaming ... Clarity, speed, resolution, price, everything is great. This is a win plus the retailer kicked a**

The first monitor that was shipped out to me had a single, teeny, tiny dead pixel right dead center in the screen. I was devastated by this first world problem and immediately got on the amazon chat service. They were able to ship out a new monitor and I was able to keep the current one while it arrived. This was ideal since I had sold my previous monitor to help cover the costs for this one and would have been without a PC for several days. The second monitor arrived with no defects in all the original packaging, but curiously the box was labeled as Returned: did not want and I assume a different customer returned the item at their door. I was otherwise blown away by how nice the monitor looked. Stepping up from 1080p 144hz to 1440p 144hz was certainly nice, and switching from TN to VA panel technology meant that all the content on the monitor has an incredible contrast that wasnt there before. With just a few simple tweaks (without even using calibration software) you can get the monitor to near-IPS color levels, certainly significantly better than TN. My current settings are: 6500k color temp, 144hz, freesync on, 1ms motion blur off, 40 black stabilizer, and fast response time. Picture settings are 70 contrast, 70 sharpness and with gamma on mode 2. My other main concern was brightness. My eyes arent sensitive to light at all and generally I turn every display I own to max brightness. 350 nits is a sweet spot for me as its the same brightness level as my previous monitor, but this metric can be relative and they might only be advertising the peak brightness. All in all, this is a good monitor that I think is a great step between content monitor and gaming monitor that brings the best of both worlds, but not necessarily the best at both. However, for this price point, youre unlikely to beat the size and refresh rate with its actual best, most amazing feature: its a flat panel, not a curve! Thanks LG