Samsung C32HG70 FreeSync 2 HDR Monitor review
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Venix
Chris1479
Sounds nice enough but in all seriousness I bought three of these in a row and each of them were either 'actually defective' e.g a whole row of dead pixels appearing after a few hours usage or may as well have been defective with crazy purple colour shift and dirty screen effect. Samsung's QC has gone straight down the toilet. I got an AOC 1440p / 75 Hz / Freesync monitor for 150 euros on a flash deal and it's 95% as good and a quarter of the price. The 27" version of this Samsung monitor has even more QC issues than the 32" version. Just dig through the Amazon reviews and you'll get an idea of what the issues are. How there are so many glowing reviews out there on respectable websites I just don't know, fooled me though.
Frances
slick3
I have a curved 27 inch monitor, I didn't notice the difference at first - but you will see it when you go back to regular flat monitors. The curve wasn't why I got the monitor, it was an affordable 144hz monitor and the curve was simply a bonus.
The only difference I find however is I don't have to shift my eyes as much to look at the extremities. It feels more 'natural'.
With that said, if there are 2 exact monitors - one being curved, and the other flat, with the curve being $100 or more, I would go for the cheaper one.
GREGIX
"The Samsung C32HG70 claims a 1ms Motion Picture Response Time, and"
But Hilbert...
Did you test that settings in OSD, I mean faster/fastest, that enables blur reduction aka strobing? Because this is what enables 1ms MPRT. OFC, I bet it is less than 1ms in total, as I see wast difference between my sons qled samsung cfg27*** (FHD) something faster/fastest mode and my benqs Z2720XL benq blurr reduction. My TN is just better in it.
And, he has Vega 64, but prefer use this blur reduction mode instead freesync. I guess my infuence..:P
H83
I really considered buying this monitor but Samsung took a very long time to release and the price was too high for my taste so i´ve bought a LG screen with almost the same specs for 500€ and i´m really happy with it. It gets a little hot after intensive use and the single button to control everything is a little annoying but other than that the monitor is great. To bad the panel suffers from some bleeding in the left corners but that comes with the territory from what i understand...
NvidiaFreak650
@Hilbert Hagedoorn
I own this monitor around two months now with the latest firmware 1019.1, do you see any ghosting when turning the camera around in a game that is cap at 60fps, example: MGS V because I do see ghosting only when a game is cap around 62fps or 60fps.
also go to Radeon Setting, Display, Color and then change Color Temp from Auto to 6500K, the colors should pop now.
Also note this monitor support 4K down sample to 1440p on console like PS4 Pro and Xbox X.
NiColaoS
drac
Immediate buy if it was 4k. Could use G-sync too.
ChisChas
Hilbert
Dutch + Floor Jansen + Nightwish? Are you a fan of the wonderful Floor Jansen & the music of Nightwish btw?
Another fantastic review involving a lot of work (and as you say monitors not your primary expertise so no doubt more effort is required). No gaming/productivity monitor is going to be 'perfect' for everyone, reading the many monitor threads on guru3d makes that quite clear but I agree that this monitor appears to offer a very good spec for the money, it's a shame if Amazon reviews confirm a poor QC by Samsung.
Those who would prefer 4K + NVidia + 144Hz + HDR ++++, it will be literally years before this is affordable/doable for the vast majority of us, even to those of us who have the funds now but have decided (as I have) that I'm not willing to pay £1,500 for a monitor + £1,000 for an NVidia card. My Dell U2711 is now 8 years old, I must have been a 2K gaming pioneer but I didn't realise this at the time.
Silva