MSI - Optix MAG342CQR

Mine arrived at the weekend. I love it. My previous was a very basic 1080p 27 inch, so I dont have anything to compare it to, but I am more than happy with it

its got a lot of ghosting on darker objects out of the box. its a decent monitor overall. UI is a little annoying to control though. if you turn response time to the fastest it removes some of the ghosting, but it’s still there. i’m comparing it to my samsung odyssey g7, 1440p 240hz VA panel also. it obviously has more ghosting than that. if you find a review of the original 342CQR i think it’d basically the same, just probably an overclocked screen. overall it’s a decent monitor, i think i might just keep it. pls dm me for a pic of the ufo test or something. idk how send pics on reddit

bro chill, i bought the same one this week and it works fine . u probably got a defected one

I decided to go with MSI MAG 342CQR E2 so far, all gooood need to get a USB type-C to DP cable to make full use of the monitor

Hmm IDK tbh Did not find much options in this category at all It was either MSI, Dell, or LG Out of these lots, MSI had slightly better specifications compared to other 2 models better refresh rate, better color output, curvature So far, *with just couple hours of usage*, its pretty good even the display clarity is very decent.

It's awfull . While this would have been my first ultrawide monitor I sent it back the same day .The ghosting is just unaccaptable. You can't scroll trough a website without noticing it. In game anything with even slightly high speed movement will seem a blurry mess. I tought my previous monitor had bad ghosting but this is honestly just pure garbage.While I saw that some people say it's just bad on blacks that's a lie It's bad on everything ALL THE TIME. This is genuinly ridiculous. BUT on the off chance that this is normal with ultrawides under 500$ than otherwise it's fine. But if it's normal to be this bad even down at 100hz then why do these things exists at this price point?

I bought this monitor a couple days ago and iv been blown away by how beautiful the display is. i have a rtx GC so cant use the adaptive sync. Im using it off a laptop and can only use hdmi atm capped at 8bit / 100hz full res. Cant seem to find a DP to DP-mini that will let me use all 180hz at 10bit if anyone knows a cable please let me know. other than that ghosting is bad on blacks. but this is at 100hz, it mostly goes away by turning ur brightness up 1 or 2. if i can find the dp to dpmini cable that lets me run this monitor to the max ill report back

It has adaptive sync. So if you enable that on the actual monitor itself, G-sync DOES come up in the nvidia control panel so it does work. If you don't have adaptive sync on, tho the option won't appear in nvidia. I personally don't use gsync. Update on the cables - got it running at 180hz at 8 bit colour. 144hz at 10 bit colour. Black smearing is definitely more noticeable at 144hz compared to 180hz. Especially spotify if you move the window around. There's the typical amount for a 180hz va display. Games like minecraft are a bit hit or miss when underground in low light. Games like League of Legends, tho this monitor is perfect, which is what I mainly play. Turning on MPRT on the monitor settings seems to be the best at removing black smudging, makes the display a little darker but it makes it run at the fastest possible refresh rate which is advertised as 1ms but I can't confirm that, but it feels better in low light games than just the 'fastest' option in refresh time on monitor. Any questions, hmu

I ordered it today and will receive in few days,. I will post here with UFO test. Hows your experience going overall?

Yeah been using it more than a month and it is great for me.

How does this compare to the MSI 342c? Just ordered one from eBay for $560