Best Cooler Master Monitors

Brilliant – I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with just how good this monitor is. A number of reviews I read suggested that the colour was horrible out… Read more

of the box, they must have cut and pasted that part of their reviews , because for me the colour was quite accurate, perhaps a tad more red than I would desire and after running my calibration tool the only difference was to the brightness which was a little off. For me though I turned that down and removed a little of the red channel. What I see and what you see are two different things and we all adjust a monitor to suit our own personal tastes. I guess the thing is though every monitor will differ in some way so you may get one that is way out of gamut.

Colour gamut is very wide @ 95% DCI-P3 , @ 142% sRGB, @ 97% Adobe .

This is the colour space provided by Coolermaster you can use this if you don't want to muck around in the settings. https://coolermaster.egnyte.com/dl/0zIBpPtMx7 t

TFTCENTRAL also have a ICC/ICM profile for this monitor but you have to become a Patreon member to access it for as little as $1.00 The stand has about 80mm adjustment and a 15 degree and 5 degree tilt , seems to be made out of metal so that's a good thing.

I have to say, the brightness on this monitor and the vivid colours surpass my previous monitor , a Philips 32inch 325B1L/75 2560x1440, by a country mile, even though that monitor was an IPS panel. Maybe that's the Quantum dots doing their thing.

This is a Samsung/TCL CSOT panel.

You might find that confusing but the original panel on this was a Samsung in 2020 , however, TCL bought the Samsung factory in Suzhou China along with 577 of it's patents although some reports say it was 2,000, although I am sure that was a world wide figure. Samsung became a minority shareholder in TCL CSOT (12%) and that company supplies panels to Samsung for their 8k TV's and its QNC99 VA panels.

whew!!, so these panels are now Quantum dot VA panels made by TCL CSOT.

If you haven't had a wide screen 34inch monitor before there are a few things you need to know. The panel is 2 inches narrower than a 32 inch(16:9) and 3 1/2 inches wider measured at the centre. The next thing is ,unless the content was made for a 21:9 format it will not show in that format. In other words some movies and some games will fill the screen but the majority of media will not.

The speakers on this are pretty good (2X5W) if you don't have a sound system, not bad at all. This is a VA 10bit (8bit+FRC) w/ Quantum Dot panel @320 nits brightness.

It is interesting to note that this has a 6 axis colour adjustment which gives you two more channels to refine your colour settings.

You have to use the display port or type C to get 165/180 hertz , the HDMI port is limited to 100 hertz, but it should not matter as both cables are supplied along with 2 power cables and the USB cable for the USB ports on the left side of the monitor(facing). You can also use a Type C cable with DisplayPort Alt Mode or Thunderbolt 3.you will have to buy yourself and of course have a graphics card to support it..

I also noted that the bit rate changes from 10 bit to 8 bit the moment you select 165 hertz or 180 hertz , so to put this into perspective, an 8-bit color system can display around 16 million colors, while a 10-bit system can display over 1.07 billion colors. This significant increase in color range is particularly noticeable in gradients, where smooth transitions between colors are essential . Now to confuse the issue this is a 8 bit plus FRC(frame rate control) .8-bit + FRC monitors have won the prestigious TIPA Award for Best Professional Photo Monitor for the past two years, so, no drama here. Really, I doubt you will see the difference as those extra colours are in the gradients when you transition from one colour to a lighter shade and makes it more smooth, or if your not gaming, just run it at 144 hertz.. I didn't see any motion smearing or ghosting running at 165 hertz and there are plenty of settings for gamers although I would turn them all off if your using this for general or photographic work as there is nothing to be gained.

A 4000:1 contrast ratio and HDR 400 complete the feature set although, HDR400 isn't real HDR , HDR600 is what I would have liked and my computer reported it could not find any HDR certification and if you turn this on it mucks with your colours using the screen for general use , not sure what the results will look like when gaming but it may have a different effect , anyway , I left this off.

The 1500 curve is nice and not exaggerated and is excellent for a curved monitor with no centre distortion and quite suitable for photographic and Video work. The response time is around 2-5 m/s GtG and 0.5 m/s MPRT and fast enough for most gamers.

The menu system is excellent and the number of choices to adjust your picture is staggering and will fit all needs regardless of what you do, maybe design work might need a more expensive screen , but for the money this one beats most monitors at this price point and many well beyond it.

I really can't fault this screen at the moment and it comes with a 3 year warranty. One thing I found was that the protective film does not extend to the screen but merely covers the edges of the screen so don't go trying to remove the screen coating thinking it's a protective removeable film. All in all a very nice screen that should satisfy most users.