Cooler Master Tempest GZ2711 27 OLED 2K 144Hz 240Hz QHD 2560 x 1440 PC Monitor 0 03ms MPRT

This packs a wallop for the price. 1440p HDR on a midrange budget. The local dimming doesn't look as good as an OLED but for the price point it's phenomenal. I recommend turning off local dimming completely for non-gaming use, which is really easy to do. Medium or even High look excellent in most games. Ergonomics and adjustability are excellent. The sound is just okay, I only tested it once before switching to my speakers. Color depth and clarity is excellent. I didn't notice the pink that some reviews seem to be complaining about. Read more

It is definitely bright. My monitor does not have any dead pixels yet. I've had it for about 3 days now. The picture is clear, contrast is very good. I had to set the OSD up myself to what looks good to me. Local dimming not too useful at the moment because it makes things too dark. With HDR in windows on, Local Dimming works better but because the monitor locks the color space to Bt. 2020, the color looks worse than SDR. The blacks are still sharp in SDR but it does have backlight so that affects it. I returned a VA panel and got this instead. It is definitely IPS with decent quality at different viewing angles. Overall, great monitor. I took 1 star off due to value for money. I'll say that it's brightness is really good and the "sharpness" of the image quality is definitely noticeable over the regular monitor due to contrast + brightness but I would still say that the cost for this image quality is a bit high. It would be worth it to someone that really wants high brights but still with sharp blacks. Cons There are some issues that weren't a deal breaker for me but may be for some. This monitor also suffers from one of the issues with the VA monitor I returned. On the very edge to either side there is a blur effect where image/text on the very edge blurs out when you look at it from an angle. This also exist on the very bottom edge but less. This isn't a deal breaker for me because majority of the time I don't notice. Other thing is that the previous monitor I bought had an "auto" option for local dimming. It made the blacks darker but also kept the brights highlighted. On this monitor, it doesn't have that option, it just adds local dimming with low, medium and high to the entire monitor. I'm guessing the local dimming auto on the other monitor made the dimming specific to certain areas at a time. Read more

The media could not be loaded. Update3: they're still not responding so i have the wrong monitor which doesn't match this product I ordered, this has been over a month. and 3weeks since they've last responded to the ticket. If I were waiting to return the RMA to Amazon this would be horrible ... my Order was ~Nov16 its currently Feb20. This is some of the worst customer services I've seen in the tech industry. Update2: My RMA ticket says it's still processing, but a monitor showed up but it's a different model. So I'm not even opening it until they respond to my new support ticket despite closing the original without ever confirming that I wished to close it and had open questions out to them. Update: They said a week ago that they changed systems and asked the RMA department for an update saying that this is unusual. However with another review saying that they've waited over a month I am not holding out hope that I'll see an update before the end of the year. I took a chance with this monitor because I've trusted their cases and power supplies in the past and since monitors just sources panels with different tick boxes I figured the "Build Quality" warnings from RTING and Hardware Unboxed was mostly limited to the cheap shell. I was wrong, this thing had the light panel set back visibly from the LCD itself so much that aittin 2.5-3ft away ~10-20 pixels would fall off due to seeig the side of the panel frame. It reminded me of LCD panels on the glass side of a computer. This disappeared at about 3 ft away if and only if you were 100% dead center. Additionally the panel had a weird shimmer to everything, I'm not sure if that was a artifact of my issue or the general design. I bought this for work, I'm a software engineer and use small text at the edge of the screen and I do prosumer hobby photo editing and the 1440p and color space coverage is why I bought this, gaming was a secondary concern but vrr and 144hz is a requirement. I used this for maybe 1.5 hours, 15 min of cyberpunk, and the rest trying to figure out if it was a deal breaker. It was on Linux and OSX. Windows and gaming it seemed livable (this is the only reason it gets 2 stars) But I haven't had this monitor for 3 weeks, spent 150$ (+30% of purchase now) on RMA shipping cost and no follow up after saying they would get me a shipping label for a replacement after receiving it. I should have bought the ASUS I was looking at even though it was 4k but missed out on the sale. I should have returned it or sold it to a gamer at a small loss. This is a mistake that puts me out ~600$ over a month of a monitor ... If you have the disposable income give it a shot otherwise wait till a v2 that might address all the issues this product has. Read more

The monitor is brigth, perhaps too bright for me (I suffer from migraines, and Bright light can be a trigger sometimes). The monitor had a few theething issues, and they are slowly being resolved via firmware updates. I am still on the OG Firmware, as a mew firmware is incomming, I'll be updating when I get the new firmware. The monitor is an absolute blast for the price, tested it with a movie (Lucy) and some light gaming (SOMA & Arkam City), and performed absolutely well. The base is, how to put it, sturdy buy sloppy, if you shake your legs the monitor will move, also it will be difficut to have it 100% horizontal or 100% vertical, if you care about those things, but it will not topple or fall over. and you will have space to put papers and trinkets in the hexagon, unlike other monitors ;-) There is some weird curvature optical effect in the left and right borders of the screen, but I (and probably you) will not even notice. The nub control is a tad fastidious, but bearable. Other than those minor things, I am 107% satisfied! Read more