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The Samsung C32HG70 is decidedly open about who it's aimed at, with QLED GAMING MONITOR emblazoned in huge letters on the packaging.
There's no power brick in the box, just a power cable, because the power supply is integrated into the monitor itself, which makes the latter a little heavier but saves on faff and clutter. You also get HDMI and DisplayPort cables, plus an upstream cable for the USB hub. The smaller circular attachment is used with the stand to hide the screw fitting. Alternatively, the larger round plate provides VESA mounting ability.
The C32HG70 comes factory calibrated, and there's a certificate to prove it. The panel curvature is 1800R, which doesn't feel that curvy on this screen, but is relatively rounded as curved screens go.
The screen finish looks matt black, like charcoal, but is actually a dark blue grey. This is perhaps a little too serious for a gaming screen, but it does give a sense of quality at least.
As with Samsung's previous range of gaming screens, a multi-link arm is used for the stand, but now this doesn't come permanently attached. Instead, it screws on and then the attachment is hidden by a large circular plastic cover.
The arm allows a host of adjustments, including tiliting 5 degrees forward or 15 degrees backward.
You can raise the sceen up and down by a substantial 145mm.
The screen can be swivelled 15 degrees left and right, too.
Perhaps least usefully, you can rotate the screen into portrait mode. We're never quite sure how this is beneficial in a curved screen.
The ports are hidden beneath a plastic cover. There are two HDMI 2.0b connections (this being the minimum HDMI version required to support HDR), and a single DisplayPort 1.4 (which also supports HDR). Then there's a minijack for headphones that doubles as a service port, and minijacks for inputting and outputting your microphone.
We always wonder why manufacturers place these in such an unreachable location on the back of a screen, particularly behind a plastic cover. Similarly, the USB 3.0 downstream ports can be found next door, and there are only two of them. It makes sense to put the upstream port here, but who wants to scrabble behind their screen to plug in a USB Flash Memory drive?
Although there are three buttons underneath the screen bezel, on the right, a joystick is the primary means of controlling the OSD on this screen.
Instead of lamenting the lack of Gsync, Tell nVidia to support open standards.
Have you tested the range on freesync? Apparently its quite poor on this monitor
That’s like asking apple to use a standard charging cable… isn’t going to happen
Did you upgrade the firmware before the review? Latest firmware is from November 10th, ver 1016.2.
Did you test the range of Freesync? Pixel response times and input lag? <- what gamers care about most.
THIS!
Literally had one of these delivered yesterday to replace my ROG Swift – £540
that is what CRU is for
Picked up this monitor a couple months ago and it is a great monitor. My only 2 issues with it are the cable area and included cables are terribly designed, the power cable plugs in backwards, it is an angled plug but plugs in so the cables goes into the side of the cable area instead of towards the hole in the plastic cover, the cord included to allow the monitor to act like a usb hub for your computer is very large and difficult to plug in without forcefully bending the cord just to fit it into the cable area to plug it in.
My other issue is that the stand is way too damn big, there is absolutely no reason for it to be so large, dumb thing is as deep as the actual monitor is tall, it is basically the size as a 32 inch crt would be. The stand being so large makes placement on your desk very limited. If you have your desk up against the wall you are forced to place your monitor at an uncomfortable angle. If you have a shallow desk you better get used to having your nose literally touching the monitor. The size of the stand nearly made me send the monitor back but it looking as nice as it does made me give it a chance, i will eventually get a new stand to replace it because it is a near dealbreaker. I am shocked that the stands size isn’t listed as a con because it is a very serious one imo.