MSI - MPG ARTYMIS 343CQR

My tick is to strongly favor VA over IPS. I game a lot in darker environments, as well as watch shows and the occsional movie. VAs don't ghost, at least anything decent this side of lets say 2015-2020I bought an MSI 343CQR in 2021 during Covid. I did my research, and that panel was JUST barely out on the market, with almost no reviews to go by. When I set it up, tomshardware came out with a review stating its mostly pros with basically no cons, and if you adjust the colour, you're almost certainly making it worse, since the factory calibration is surprisingly perfect. Also, IPS still have a lot of glow in darker environments. VA barely has any in comparison and still has very decent blacks. Not OLED levels, but I can leave my va panel on all day, and there is 0 burn in.

Honestly mine is 1000r, and you want to be aligned dead center, so viewing angle isn't really not an angle. I have mouted it to my wall, and am always arm's length away. Palm straight out, not reaching, i can just barely touch it, which gives decent immersion and my eyes never get fatigued looking at it.

Got msi 2k 165hz now and I've seen black smearing, it is soo horrible.

In short. For me in my case no. I have both. An older MSI 34 VA 3440x1440 curved which I used to game on and bought a LG C2 42 Oled 2 years ago. Never would go back to the MSI for gaming. I just use it to work from home and slip it on the side whenever I want to start a Game. I know the MSI is not on oled but I love the size and the screen so much more on the LG. Plus the LG can do Ultrawide also which I use here and there for demanding titles and just because of better frames. If you can go 4K and have the hardware to do so then I would go 16:9. I don't miss the ultrawide and the 21:9 ratio at all.

Looks nice, I also have an MSI monitor but a curved 34UW. Works and looks great!

3440x1440 is something else been using my new msi one for 6 months now and it’s amazing. Got it for about 400$ but I am temped to get a OLED one at some point.