SAMSUNG Odyssey G5 Series 27-Inch WQHD (2560x1440) Gaming Monitor, 144Hz, Curved, 1ms, HDMI, Display Port, FreeSync Premium (LC27G55TQWNXZA)

Great monitor. Only downside, if you go to put the monitor on a monitor stand down the road. It’s a pain to take the stand off that comes with the monitor

Image quality is great, interface with the PC is great. The only minus is the weird little track-pad-nub-style button under the monitor by which you access the menu. You have to use this weird anachronism to set the refresh rate to the advertised 144 Hz - it comes preset at 60 Hz for some strange reason.

Got this monitor to replace my old acer 3D monitor. The feature 3D on the monitor should tell you how long ago I purchased a monitor. So I'm expecting a nice longitivy with this monitor. I've only had it for about 4 days so I'll leave that part out for now.Now I consider myself a hardcore gamer as I put in anywhere from 60-90 hrs a week just gaming. Moving up to 1440p has been great games look much better but I quickly found that my 1070 can't play all my games at ultra settings but visually it still looks amazing.Now I play zero competitive games honestly dont care for it. So that may affect some for this review. But for me as a single player only type gamer this monitor had zero tearing, zero lag, zero flickering, and no issues with ghosting. The monitor has 144hz but me turning all my games to the highest settings I was lucky if i broke 100 fps most my games stayed around 60-80 fps. Some even dropped to 30s or 40s so again I want to stress I'm not a competitive player so this had no affect on me. So of course all the positives I just said this monitor could do with no issues.HDR is ok on it but didn't expect much and it's not a feature I would use anyways. Now the VESA mount it does work for the G5 however, make sure you use the rubber washers included in your monitor arm if you use one. When I first tried to set this up the placement of the 75x75 made it difficult because of the round backing. So the rubber washers helped lift it up just a bit so that the VESA mount was perfect.Now I didn't have any dead pixels another plus with this monitor and the backlight bleed for me was hardly noticeable so plus again. The 1000r curve made me completely fine with losing 3D as I'm in the minority who loves 3D gaming along with 3D movies. But after seeing the curve and how it works I'm perfectly fine with losing that feature now.Overall, I'm very happy with this monitor especially since I was able to nab this at $200 which I dont know of any 1440p 144hz you can get at that price so as long as this monitor can give me 5+ years I'm going to recommend anyone who is not a competitive player to grab this.

For context, I'm coming from using an ASUS VG248Q, and this monitor is an upgrade in (almost) every way. TL;DR: Compared to the other 1440p 144hz 27-inch monitors out there, this one is a great value for those who want to upgrade to a larger or higher resolution monitor but can't quite afford the more expensive ones.Positives:+ Build quality is A+, it doesn't feel cheaply assembled.+ The anti-reflective coating on the front does a decent job at getting rid of reflections.+ The colors look pretty accurate and have some vibrancy without feeling oversaturated.+ The "black equalizer," which seems to adjust the backlight brightness based on the content on-screen to make black levels deeper, works pretty well and isn't distracting most of the time. Only when there is a rapid change from black to white does it feel distracting.+ All the settings out-of-the-box gave me the best picture, I didn't find the need to change anythingMediocre:~ The response times are what you'd expect from a VA panel, in that they're better than an IPS display but worse than a TN panel. Leaving the response time set to the "Faster" seems to be the best option. Even the "Fastest (MBR)" mode, which strobes the backlight for less trailing and faster perceived response times, was jarring and looked worse to me.~ It might be because I have a NVIDIA card, but the AMD FreeSync setting, which does work on my card, seemed to make the response time worse and didn't seem to provide a noticeable benefit to screen-tearing. Probably best to leave it off unless you have an AMD card.~ The curve. It's a very tight curve, and coming from a flat screen it was pretty jarring at first. However, I've quickly gotten used to it. The most it's made me uncomfortable was quick horizontal movement on-screen, whether in a top-down game or in a first-person game. However, I've gotten used to this as well, so I wouldn't consider it a downside. It does make it a bit easier to see the whole display edge to edge.Negative:- The stand. It's extremely barebones and definitely where they saved cost. It's just a fixed height stand with no swivel, no rotation - only tilt.- The on-screen display and the control nub. The joystick on the bottom of the monitor feels like the cheapest part of the monitor, and the OSD is, to me, pretty ugly.- The auto-switching between the two inputs, DP and HDMI, was hit or miss for me.Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with this monitor and don't regret purchasing it. Even if I didn't purchase it on sale, I still would have been satisfied. The response times are acceptable for the price you pay, and even in competitive first-person shooters it's not distracting to me. I only wish that it came with a better stand - height adjust would have gone a long way as a taller person. I recommend it to anyone looking to move into the next tier of monitors but aren't ready to spend upwards of $400.

I don't write reviews much but felt that this one needed it. I was temporarily using an old 24 in monitor that is well outdated but was a great size and when purchased was top of the line (10+ years ago). Building a new computer needed a new monitor and I occasionally play some FPS games. Purchased this for multiple reasons including space and price. 4K sounded great till cost is calculated for usage. 32 inch sounds good till you hold up a tape measure and realize it will take up my ENTIRE desk (it is smaller). Pulling it out of the box, I thought I might have made a large mistake. It looked a little smaller than I expected and the curve felt a bit odd. Plug it in and start using it and you realize that it was everything you wanted. Fits perfect, looks perfect, games perfect (for me).So yes, buy this one if your looking for a reasonably sized quality monitor for a good price that can handle anything you need.