ASUS CG32UQ, 32 Inch 4k(3840x2160), Console Gaming Monitor, Freesync for Xbox, PlaySyatin and Nintendo Switch, DP, HDMI, UB3.0, DCI-P3 95%, DisplayHDR 600, Halo Sync, GameFast, Remote Control, Black

The media could not be loaded. Had this monitor for three years now and it's been wonderful. Popping colors, black blacks, and the feature set is very nice. But for £700 (It's now less than £400, but the point still stands even at that price) I do not expect to see faults, especially when I've gone out of my way to take good care of it.The sheer HEAT this thing radiates is too much for its venting system to manage. It was fine, at first, but every year grows hotter and hotter and eventually it starts to feel more like a radiator than a monitor.Now the thing is quite literally coming apart. The layers that form the monitor film, filter, lcd's, etc, have begun to separate due to the heat. This has created a frame of black splodge around the monitors screen that has only gotten worse with every passing day. I can turn the monitor off and let it cool down to room temp, and that'll fix it for a moment, but the monitor ITSELF is the source of the heat problem, so it very quickly ramps back up and begins to fall apart again.And of course this only happens one year after I fall out of warranty.Do not buy this. This is a short term screen with the price of a premium long-term/permanent monitor solution, you're getting ripped off.

The media could not be loaded. I was in search of a stunning 32-inch, 4K, flat-screen monitor with HDR. Nowadays, it seems like curved monitors are all the rage, but I'm just not a fan.I finally found one that ticks all the boxes. It not only has halo sync for full immersion but also boasts incredible colors. I'm not sure about its longevity, but it would be hard to find a better screen at this price.

Overall this is actually a very good product and ideal for use in a home office, "man cave" or bedroom where 1 decent size and good quality image screen can be used for multiple purposes, ie, office pc, console gaming & tv use. (through your connected devices, no tv tuner built in obviously as its a monitor).Being based on a VA panel means the black levels are very good for tv and console use, contrast is very good compared to using a IPS based monitor for games/movies & colours are great. The viewing angles are very poor, however the use case for this would be one person sitting directly in line with the front of the screen, so off angled viewing is not really very inportant in this case. That said, because of the size of the screen, the picture is a little off in the bottom corners when sitting close to the screen for pc use v sitting back a bit when playing a console game. Its not really an issue though and only noticeable on a majority black screen. Nothing too serious unless you keep the brightness set at the racing default level which is way too high.Out of the box on the default racing mode the picture looks terrible, however the only picture setting needing changing is dropping the brightness to 15ish from the 90 default & setting overdrive to 2 for the best balanced setting for motion blur/pixel response. The input lag and lag overall is very low (so good). So much so that wireless audio for a headset directly connected to the xbox or the controller audio out is noticeably delayed v the sound output and image from the monitor itself. Very impressive and must surely give a little bit of an advantage in online console games v eveyone else using a laggy tv.For pc use, the screen size and 4k res just about works in practice. Text and ui elements are very small at 100%/ no scaling however you could get used to it given time. 125% zoom/scaling in windows does give a nice magnification but at the expense of a bit of blurryness in some software and text. I still havent settled on what to use here and am seeing how it goes.The hdr performance when using the xbox is decent. It is a subtle but noticeable, nicely balanced effect compared to the retina burning brightnes of most hdr tvs. Although technically this means its not as good compared to top end tvs, I think I actually prefer this more subtle halfway house lighting/colour hdr than the blinding retina burning levels you get on a hdr1000 and up tv screen. Do you really want to look up at the sun in a game and have it so bright that it hurts your eyes like you are looking at it in real life?That said a number of annoying firmware bugs detract from an otherwise good product. Addionally despite ordering from amazon.co.uk and being despatched and sold by Amazon, as per another review on here, this monitor shipped from Spain and arrived with a EU 2 prong plug only. No UK plug is included in the box to actually use the thing. Currently having to use the power cable off of my printer.Firmware issues:The firmare experience is like it is an early beta version and not the quality anyone should be putting out or expect from a commercial product.- if you switch the monitor on and want to use a input different to the one last used, it will say no signal detected and power off. Despite hammering the change source button it will ignore this and power off. To change it I have to power on the last device used as well as the one I actually want to use, then change input to what I actually want & power off the other thing.-When the monitor switches out of hdr mode on returning to normal content, the settingsare reverted to the factory default racing settings with no prompt that this has occured. The default brightness on racing mode is 90 whereas a correctly calibrated setting is around 15. Therefore it is obvious when this occurs as the picture looks pretty bad, with large amounts of VA glow in the corners on 90 brightness. In practice this means every time you move from a hdr xbox game or video app and back to the dashboard, factory default settings are re-applied & you have to go back into the menus and set all your colour and brigtness settings up again from scratch. This can be alieviated to a degree by saving a custom user setting and applying the saved settings to a shortcut key on the remote, cutting it down to about 3 or 4 laggy button presses in the slow menus.- any config is universal across all inputs and you cannot assign different saved settings to different inputs. The ideal settings for the xbox in terms of brightnes etc are not what you would want to use for all day office pc work. This means again having to go into the menus and apply one of your saved configs manually, instead of simply being able to permanently assign a config against a specific display input port.-The monitor takes about 30 seconds to boot up on use. Sometimes on boot, the osd wil say the aura rgb lights are on and set to a colour, yet they are off. Changing any settings for them says they have been set but nothing actually appens. This can be solved by power cycling the screen. It is a regular occurance in the short time I have had the screen. The halo sync feature designed to match the lights with the onscreen content is laggy to the point of being distracting & unuseble in practice. The static colour modes are useful though to enhance percieved contrast and black levels on the eye. The yellow, cyan or red works well for this, although the red is very bright so might not be for everyone.- saved custom configs cannot be named, so you have to remember config 1 is xbox, 2 is for pc etc. when a monitor is used by multiple people in a household this is not very practical.

Watching Films tv 10 out 10 k4 picture Outstanding PS5 gameplay spot-on pricey but brilliant quality JJ

I’m torn whether or not to return this monitor back to Amazon having now used it for a couple of weeks. Many of the internet review websites rate this monitor highly and it’s not hard to see why, the picture really is excellent (at last to me compared to my previous 1080p Zowie monitor. The HDR works very well and seems even brighter somehow than a 1000nit Sony 4K TV I have (the Asus is HDR600 rated). Images move fast with minimal blur and input lag seems very low. I use the Asus with a Sony Playstation 4 Pro and the image looks amazing (top tip, make sure you use a HDMI 2.1 cable to get RGB colour profile at 4K with HDR, makes a big difference). The sound is also good, a lot of bass for the size.So why my reservation. The ASUS has a number of issues which will not be addressed by any future firmware updates. I have logged the issues below with Asus and had a lot of discussion with them but these ‘issues’ are by design. My list of issues.1. HDR mode does not allow you to change any settings! If a HDR signal is detected you cannot change brightness, contrast, etc. You can’t even select one the visual gaming modes, the default is ‘Racing’ so if you want to apply the ‘FPS’ mode you can’t. As this is highly promoted feature of the monitor I can’t believe ASUS have taken this decision. This is a monitor designed for console HDR use but all the gaming modes are greyed out when HDR is on! I have found a workaround detailed below.2. The monitor will occasionally loose signal coming out of sleep and only a hard power on and off will reset. This happens to me every couple of days with the monitor failing to lock onto a video input. The screen will display a white or blue screen but not the image expected. It’s a not a cable fault. Powering the ASUS off at the mains and on again resolves the issue.3. The monitor will power off if the last video input used is not active. The ASUS has 4 ports (3x HDMI and 1x Display Port. Say I used my PS4 on HDMI1, then power off, come back and want to use my Mac on HDMI2 the monitor will turn on, check the HDMI1 input last used, not detect a signal then power off again. You have to power on and quickly press input select button to chose the input you require. Annoying.4. The monitor will not accept a HDMI or Display port feed from a USB-C cable fed from an iPad Pro. Refuses to lock on to the signal. The iPad and same cables work with other monitors. The feed will also result in interference on the other inputs. USB-C input did work from a HP Windows 10 laptop.WorkaroundI mention in point 1 you cannot change visual settings in HDR mode. However, what you can do is apply saved settings. The ASUS monitor allows 5 configuration favourite setting groups to be saved. Therefore, you can save a profile with your preferred settings in non HDR mode, say FPS mode and contrast adjusted then apply that favourite setting after HDR is enabled. This works but just means you can’t see a change dynamically to see the difference it makes. See screenshot with this work around applied.I’ll probably keep the monitor as the picture is so good but the flaws annoy me and the loosing signal worries me. Is this likely to get worse over time?One last thing, the monitor came with a Euro style 2 pin plug, not a UK 3 pin plug so you may need to source your own.