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Samsung 32” Curved Gaming Monitor
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Years ago a computer monitor was just a monitor, a screen to
display data on and annoying green glowing lights on a small CRT screen. Today the world revolves around the ever changing
size of the flat screen that we carry in our pocket and/or hang on huge walls
in our home or office. The monitor (or
perhaps we can now call it a gaming monitor) are now the most demanding piece
of the gaming rig, next to the video card.
The Samsung CJG5 is a 32” gaming monitor which comes with “almost” all
of the required features to pacify most demanding gamers. I am focusing on the 32” monitor. To begin with I am upgrading from an older
27” monitor to the new 32” Samsung curved monitor. At first glance the picture is gorgeous. The curved VA panel comes with a 144 Hz
refresh rate. You need to plug into the
HDMI2 port to achieve that refresh rate or use the “not included” display port
cable. To focus on gaming Samsung
promises a 1ms response time in full game mode.
Contrast ratio is 3,000 to 1 making the blacks look great for a fairly
priced monitor. Samsung was able to keep
the price reasonable by leaving off features that we can live (and game)
without. Notably HDR and AMD’s Free Sync
(probably saves $200-$300). Can you live
without them? Sure and you can put the
savings towards a top line video card. Most
HDR systems relay on the basic standard display of the HDR 400. I think the 144 Hz refresh is a good trade
off. Also HDR on a 32” screen really
does not do much anyway. Besides there
will be a better HDR display in the immediate future as the OLED becomes more
into focus. AMD’s free sync is becoming
available on some NVidia cards now, but was made for Amd chips to begin with. So let’s face facts as prices drop you’re
going to buy an OLED monitor in a few years anyway and you will have a bunch of
new features that have not even been invented yet. The on screen display (OSD) menu is easy to
navigate. There are two HDMI ports and
one display port. The stand is a bit
weak in my opinion, but livable with vesa support. The Bezel is very thin, works great with dual
monitors (or even triple!!)! Basically
Samsung took the top of the line monitor and dolled it up and slapped a great
price on it. The result is a great
looking monitor with a great picture and a great price. A monitor you can game on even watch movies.
Let’s turn to the expert (my 15 year old “gamer “son). I figures I would have my son give me his
opinion of the CJG5 32’ monitor. After
all he puts in more time and plays the demanding games. He was excited about playing on a 32” curved
screen that seemed to envelop him into the same itself. He likened it to a “mini Imax”
environment. He plays a long list of
games, Rainbow Six Siege, Destiny 2, Call of Duty-Black Ops, Total War and
Civilization (me candy crush!). He feels
the 144 Hz refresh rate enhances the game immensely. Very smooth, no ghosting,
better color, feels that game play has taken a major step forward. He is looking at playing some older games,
just to see the improvement. One more
thing, he is now watching DVD & blue ray and streaming movies on this
monitor, he just loves the larger curved screen with its wide viewing
angle. The only problem, he had a dual
27” monitor set up now he has a 32” and 27”.
I know what he will be asking for next!
