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Absolute Banger
By ams911 on Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2025
This monitor is a CERTIFIED FREAK. Now that my eyes have experienced QD-OLED I have been totally ruined. Nothing else looks good anymore. I have a 2023 16" MBP and a 2024 15" MBA and even though the MBP has a better display than the MBA, it looks like trash (exaggerating) compared to the MSI monitor. Seriously though, the MBP display is very quality, but it's just not quite as good as the QD-OLED, which I guess is to be expected. I was in the market for a monitor that would connect to my laptops with a single cable (i.e., USB-C PD) and this thing delivers. I was doing a good amount of searching and AFAIK very few monitors can deliver 90 W through the USB-C port. That alone was a huge benefit for me, since the MBP comes with a 140 W adapter and the monitors that have 15 W PD just wouldn't cut it. That kind of PD wouldn't even cut it for the MBA which comes with a 35 W adapter. I love love love this monitor. I upgraded from a 27" Dell (model S2721DGF) which was great in every way except it didn't have USB-C PD. Connecting to my laptops wasn't a huge problem since the MBP has a HDMI port but the MBA only has USB-C ports and so I was having to use an adapter. And of course I would have to have a power cable plugged in to the laptops if I wanted to use them in clamshell mode. Not anymore!! Now my desk setup is that much more streamlined. Oh and by the way can we talk about the ungodly refresh rate and response time/input lag? These things aren't at all important if you're not gaming, but if you are... oh boy. I game on Xbox Series X and PS5 which can display 4K or 2K at 120 Hz, so the beastly 360 Hz of the MSI monitor isn't even being taken full advantage of. The Dell monitor can display 2K at 120 Hz as well (it's actually spec'd to deliver 144 Hz over HDMI for gaming on a PC), and its response time was 1-4 milliseconds. The MSI monitor's response time, however, is 0.03 milliseconds. Response time is HUGEly important if you're playing FPS games online. I have a 4K 120 Hz OLED Sony Bravia 8 but unfortunately its response time is quite poor for FPS games. Part of the difference I was experiencing with the Bravia 8 compared to the Dell S2721DGF may have been due to screen size (55" vs 27"), but I think it had more to do with response time / input lag. I preferred the 1440p at 120 Hz on the Dell monitor over the 4K at 120 Hz of the Bravia 8 TV. Cons: My only complaint is that MacOS interprets the monitor as an external drive and whenever I unplug or turn off the MacBooks the "Disk Not Ejected Properly" notification appears. It doesn't matter if you "eject" the monitor "NO NAME" from the Finder window or Desktop icon before unplugging or turning off because since it's still connected it just reappears as an external drive. There have been 3 or 4 firmware updates for the monitor since it came out last year, but in order to install them you need a Windows PC with a DisplayPort 1.4a port and a USB-A port. You connect the monitor to the PC with the included USB-A to USB-B and DisplayPort cables, install the Gaming Intelligence app, and proceed. I haven't done this yet because like I said I use Apple MacBooks, but I'm going to borrow a PC from someone and update the firmware. I'll report back here on whether or not that solves the issue of MacOS detecting the monitor as an external drive. The other problem is that after sleeping or shutting down or disconnecting the laptops from the USB-C cable the monitor will turn itself on and off again several times. I have not figured out how long or how many times or when this happens. It will go from being in standby mode with a black screen and the power LED indicator colored orange (which is what it should be when nothing is delivering an image, to "on" with a black screen and the power LED indicator colored white (which it should not be doing). I'm hopeful that after updating the firmware both this and the external drive problem will be remedied. In summary: the MSI MPG 271 QRX QD-OLED monitor is basically flawless. I don't think it has any competition at the moment. I'm looking forward to even further enhancing my desktop setup with the MSI MPG MT201R monitor arm. I know there are a lot of different monitor arms out there, but after such a positive experience with this monitor (my first ever MSI product) I feel no need to try anything else.
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MSI for the lose
By Ryuji Takasu on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2025
This is a very good monitor. It is study, lightweight and works with multiple inputs. The quality of the image is excellent. However, one thing ruins this monitor. To protect it from damage there is a feature of all MSI monitors that after 8, or 16 supposedly if you set it, hours it forces you to execute an action that basically shuts the monitor off for several minutes which cannot be delayed. I called to ask, and they don't let you turn it off or control when it happens. You can trigger it manually, but even then it still happens when it decides it is time. For me today, that was 3 times. Two of which I shut the monitor off to take care of other offline things. The last while I was busy and had to stop. I don't recommend buying this or any MSI monitor as a result. I wish I never purchased it or returned it once I found out it could be stopped. I use this monitor for work so if it happens at the wrong moment I am in deep trouble, however MSI does not care about that, only forcing this feature onto everyone. If not for this flaw, this is a 5-star monitor in every other way.
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