Samsung 32' Curved Gaming Monitor! Fantastic Monitor

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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!