I regret my purchase... - MSI MEG 342C

God this thing's sexy my name is ploof and I have an aw3423 DW at home it's a nice monitor 34 inches cutie OLED today we've got msi's version the 34 2C cutie OLED it's a 34 inch Ultra wide display 21 by nine it's got 175 Hertz refresh rate and it's got something really cool that I haven't seen yet until today vasa's new clear Mr motion rating and it hits 9000 which is the best rating so I guess we'll see if that's any true or not uh let's open the box and take a look oh baby MSI makes okay monitors I've owned one before it was a pretty decent display it just didn't have the best HDR and when I tried the Alienware the aw3423dw and I saw the HDR image that that thing can produce and games I just couldn't go back so I bought one maybe I buy this thing after maybe I switched back to MSI I don't know they got a stand here we got screws for wall your monitors probably screws for wall mounting your monitor uh that's interesting I haven't seen screws like this included before but hey that's cool we've got our base of our stand here one thing about this that's very different from the Alienware is just the case in general there are a few other features that we'll get into that kind of differentiate it from it but yeah this gold is actually pretty sweet um we'll get a much better look once the whole thing's put together but it's a it's a really pretty monitor the Box I've seen on the box and it looks really nice there here's the rest of the stand they've really foamed it up keep it nice and fresh for you from the factory ah yeah off-gassing smells great it actually doesn't smell that bad it's not really off-gassing I'm just joking I don't want to say msi's monitor stinks it doesn't stink it smells like a monitor look at the rest of the stand also super gold a little bit on the inside here super cool it's got a good amount of plate it's just you know it's a pretty stiff spring when there's nothing on there and it's got basically the same kind of design that we've seen on most other more premium monitor stands where it's just kind of a column or two columns in this case inserting and then you got a screw on the bottom I do like the cool kind of not quite triangular look that's on the back here which is a little different from all of the hexagons that I've seen recently I don't know why it's like everyone's trying to be Cooler Master or something oh the stand actually has to get screwed in okay so that's why we got the bolts I'm surprised I didn't expect to be doing any of this today because uh this is actually the first time I've seen like a non-clipping stand on a premium monitor in quite a while now so I guess that's one thing to note is this isn't entirely tool-less you are going to want a little Phillips head screwdriver around to finish screwing this in I'll be honest it feels more secure too like as much as I love the ease of tool-less clip-in design and I I've never had a monitor fall um I'm a I'm an irrational paranoid individual and so this makes me feel just a little safer it's really pretty 34 inches 1800 R curvature so it's actually a pretty minor curve I personally wasn't super into curved displays at first but I think for Ultra wide specifically I actually don't want a flat Ultra wide and in this case 1800r was kind of just the right curvature to sort of like get me into being okay with a curved screen now that I've had it for a little while I actually wish it was a little more curved it doesn't need it but I think it could use it just a little bit I'm just gonna peel this off but yeah it's super color accurate from the factory Delta e of less than two 65 watt power delivery it's got a KVM Point 0.1 milliseconds gray to gray 175 Hertz like God I know it's not 240 hertz but honestly 144 is pretty good it's good enough for me personally so just being able to go to 175 just makes it a little bit more premium but not quite you know that 240 hertz OLED experience that you're going to get from a couple other brands specifically LG love it or hate it about MSI I actually love the dragon logo that they have sorry there's just a peel I'm trying to get off they've got a really cool gold Motif kind of going on with this one and then the navigation nipple and then they've got a couple of their buttons here probably power and I don't know what this guy does but uh yeah also gold you can fit so much I O in this bad boy we've got two USB 3.2 gen 1 connectors up here and then a microphone and headphone jack and then on the bottom one key difference from the Alienware monitor is these are HDMI 2.1 connections versus the 2.0 on the Alienware version as well as DisplayPort USBC I'll get to that in a second and then USB B Upstream as well as a couple more USB a ports and then an audio combo port at the very end the reason this USBC is so special is because it can do not only DisplayPort but it can also do 65 watts of power delivery that's really impressive that's basically fast charging on your phone um it's DisplayPort if you want to hook up a laptop or something to this thing it's just really really handy and it's kind of one of the features that I am sorely missing from my monitor this might be the upgrade I make it won't be but it might be and then just just over on the on the very left here uh we've got our nice C13 power delivery so it does seem to have the power brick inside the display which I'm personally okay with I don't need a oh I don't need a laser thin monitor personally I like and I don't like having my ground or desk like space cluttered with a big power brick that I've got a cable managed later but that's a personal preference kind of thing and then oh we've got our cable cover okay I'm not going to put this on because we still have to plug stuff into it but man if I just leave it I mean you can see the seams a little bit but man this thing's gonna look good this is the first time I think I'm actually going to put the cable cover on after I'm done just because of how good it looks and we're going to look at how good this display looks after we talk about our sponsor secret lab thanks to secret lab for sponsoring this video secret lab chairs are designed to keep you comfortable for those long nights of work and play they're Titan Evo 2022 series chair offers four-way lumbar support comes with a magnetic memory foam head pillow and is offered in different upholsteries like hybrid leatherette soft weave fabric and Napa leather best of all a five-year extended warranty is included along with a 49 day return policy so you're covered if anything goes wrong head to the link in the description and check out secret lab today HDMI yeah there's cables that come with this thing we got an HDMI 2.1 cable a DisplayPort cable but most importantly aside from our power cable was the handy dandy USB C to C cable that you get which is nice because a lot of the time something like this might have a nice like 65 watt power delivery on it but it doesn't actually come with a cable and the problem with finding USBC cables is a lot of them are rated for completely different things because USBC has been so like around for so long so it's not always easy to find one that has DisplayPort and fast charging on it so thanks for including it MSI that's nice with HDMI 2 oh that's weird as well why is why to do this something's not right here it says that it's trying to do 4K but it's also trying to do 1440p all I did was change this to 120 hertz I'm going to drop it back down to 60 and see if it's suddenly full screens again yeah it did so I don't know why uh something to do with HDMI the reason why you might want to use HDMI 2.1 on this thing is because if you have a console then you can hook it up a lot easier because they don't have DisplayPort on them but we have a 4090 so we're going to use DisplayPort because that just kind of always works I gotta say even with the black bars one of the best things about OLED is that once you're watching something you don't notice them nearly as much as you do on an LCD panel because it's like actually black here instead of being a weird like off-gray kind of color so this thing is only rated for HDR 400 but you can do Peak 1000 which will do a 1000 nits Peak on whatever your brights are in the scene it will probably wear your panel out faster I'm not going to lie you're pushing it a lot harder when you put it up to Peak 1000 but I mean personally I've used a similar display like this for Wow almost a year now and I've had it cranked to 1000 the whole time and I've never I don't have any issues so far myself yeah the reds are crazy that's kind of partly just cutie OLED though is is like it makes red actually look red instead of white OLED will it Reds still look red with white OLED this is really kind of splitting hairs but when you've got them side by side um cutie OLED red just looks like actually red instead of just like a really dark orange it's hard to explain that without actually seeing it in person but it handles yellows and reds particularly well what else we got in our OSD we got GI which is like gaming intelligence and then we've got a whole gaming mode here so right now it's set to premium color changing the selective function may increase power consumption yes see this looks bad I think I'm like racing the most though but what else can we change in here we've got night vision refresh rate alarm clock oh this is just stuff to show on screen adaptive sync yeah it's got vrr that's great one nice thing actually is you can put it into whatever color mode you want it to be in movie is probably relatively accurate and then uh user I have no idea what they're going to set it to srgb office Adobe RGB display P3 not only is this thing calibrated from the factory so it is relatively color accurate out of the box but it also has a pretty wide color gamut hitting 99.3 percent of DC ip3 and 97.8 percent of adobe RGB so you can use it for quite a few things and have and have a lot of faith in how it's going to look here so right now it's in P3 image enhancement I don't know this does uh mostly just makes it brighter hey or like sharpening it's way sharper I think strongest looks awful don't get me wrong I would never put it the strongest but weak I think I do want just a little bit of sharpness but I'm also one of those crazy people who like UPS the sharpness on their TV just a little bit just a little bit I know um so yeah we'll keep all that image sharpness screen size oh this is cool you can change different aspect ratios put in a 4x3 16x9 or the native 21x9 we're just gonna stick in 21 by nine because that's what we're going with and then yeah you can change the HDR to either true black 400 or Peak 1000 I like Peak 1000 personally just because I like having stuff crazy bright it's just really fun and that's about it aside from our OLED care so we've got pixel shift which you can set slow normal and fast this is actually really nice having this uh with three different options here instead of having it just turned to on or off pixel shift is where it takes the entire image and it just shifts it about three or four pixels over or like a round or whatever panel protector is pretty cool it looks like you can do either a short or a long refresh the short one only takes about 15 minutes to get rid of any image retention that you might spot on your display and then for anything that's a bit harsher like say maybe you forget and you leave this thing on for two days straight with a game running and there's just like a little health bar or something on there try the long time panel protect feature and see if that helps fix it and then it's got static screen detection which what this does on a lot of panels is it turns it on and then it will find different static elements that are sitting there and it'll dim them a little bit to kind of make it so it doesn't wear out quite as quickly and then oh this is actually really cool too it's got OLED panel info I have been wanting something like this for panels and also other PC parts for the last couple years this is great it's got your short time in a long time I don't know what the difference is there but it's telling you uh how long it's been running and this thing it looks like it has an hour and 46 minutes of run time so that's really cool actually I can't wait to see that in more monitors and more peripherals like everything just give me some kind of internal clock that tells me how long something's been used for oh that oh this goes really low wow I actually really dig it um I'm the kind of person who sits super low at their desk like this isn't even correct for me my posture is not good and you know my shoulders are probably going to hate me in a couple years but it is what it is I don't know I don't know what to tell you I like gaming really like low down and kind of like lean back like this so I love that this thing gets this freaking low that's crazy um also gets pretty high too like stands not bad it's got a bunch of tilt that's it's a pretty wide range can it not swivel it can't okay so that's the one major disadvantage is it's fixed so you're going to have to adjust the stand itself and not the monitor unless you want to buy an arm and then put it on a on your wall mount or on an arm off your desk or something it also can't pivot which that's fine I don't think anything that's doing like high refresh rate or is a cutie OLED panel needs to Pivot so that you can watch it in portrait mode portrait mode usually caps out at like 60 hertz anyway on a lot of displays so it's kind of a waste it's got about the same amount of wobble that most stands are going to have if you want to eliminate wobble I highly recommend wall mounting we figured out our mystery button back here apparently it's just a hotkey so you can just assign it to whatever you want probably like a certain setting like oh I want to go into racing mode right now with like HDR 1000 whatever my current settings are boom hit that one button there you go we got a game on this thing oh yeah we're getting 370 plus FPS and counter straight go because it's a 40 90 on a 1440p screen not quite as demanding 4K is about 8 million pixels and 1440p Ultra wide is about 5 million so there is a big performance difference there trying to run oh I didn't get the one dig that's so bad on top of the decent High refresh rate of 175 Hertz we're also getting OLED pixel response time which is just massive crazy how fast this thing is their advertising is 0.1 millisecond grade response time and then what's really cool is I mentioned earlier that this is clear Mr certified from Vaso which is the new certification that we're going to be seeing a lot more uh throughout the next few years until someone else invents something different I guess and what it does is it basically measures it takes some images I don't know the exact testing procedure but it takes some images and they'll count the blurry to non-blurry pixel ratio and then they'll score it based on that so for example clear 5000 includes a range from 4 500 to 5500 and it means that there should be 45 to 55 times more clear pixels than blurry ones so with this monitor we're getting clear 9000 which means we're getting at least 85 times more clear pixels to blurry ones and it's really just because the pixels refresh so instantly on OLED in general compared to LCD technology all right let's see let's go uh yeah High refresh rate looks really good does 175 Hertz I'm never going to complain about that we're playing for just a few seconds these guys are like oh the fov like I wanted to change the fov because I know you can pull it back just a little bit more and they're like oh it's already so wide I'm like yeah it is because we're playing on this nice Ultra wide display look at how much you can see around Leon is it like an internet least or something like why is it so shimmery oh yeah that fixes it like instantly one thing you might want to use that hotkey for is the image enhancement it's basically just kind of a sharpness slider although it does have an extra sharpness slider as well um I liked it for video but as soon as we started playing Resident Evil 4 it looked terrible there was all this weird Shimmer on everything where it's trying to sharpen the image or something not a fan but yeah you know it looked good for videos it just did not look good for games this game looks amazing however with the HDR experience that I'm getting with this display getting about 180 FPS with our 4090 here with basically everything cranked and Resident Evil 4. you don't know how good HDR looks until you've seen a really good HDR experience as well a lot of people look at HDR content on a monitor that doesn't really support HDR all that well like it has a box that says HDR but it's not good it's like you know column column brightness or like it's either like columns for the full array local dimming or it's a single edge lit kind of display and it just brightens basically the whole thing when you can do every pixel as its own dimming Zone it just God it looks incredible aside from the black bars that we've got because all the cut scenes are only in 16x9 it just disappears everything else just looks like perfect like as we get to hold on like all these Shadows that are basically black they actually look black so there's some sections of the game especially uh near the end that have just got these huge floodlights on you and like I my eyes were starting to hurt from using my own monitor at home the impressive thing is having this really hot like spot right there and then having just this like perfect black kind of over here and in the corner here um having that full range is what HDR is all about and it really is impressive once you see it in person if that was even just a little bit more my eyes would be just seared from how bright it is this monitor is great and even if you're worried about image retention on oleds in general I don't think it's that much of a problem if you do certain things like have your taskbar hide away don't show desktop icons maybe turn your monitor off when you're not using it stuff like that is going to make it last quite a while we can't find any information when it comes to how long the actual warranty is and whether or not it covers stuff like image retention so that could be a pretty big sticking point for a lot of people when it comes to choosing between this and say the Alienware version or maybe one of the other panels that comes out because we're going to see a couple more of these before the year is over this guy right here the meg342c is retailing for 1100 US dollars that's a lot of money it absolutely is but for you to be able to get a 1440p Ultra wide 175 Hertz Peak 1000 nits HDR experience with a QD OLED panel especially now that it's got the 65 watt power delivery on the USBC I don't know I think you should just get it it's just a fantastic monitor uh 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Published: Tue Apr 11 2023