Cooler Master Tempest GP2711 27” 2K 165Hz Mini LED VA Quantum Dot QHD 2560 x 1440 PC Monitor, HDR1000, 4ms (GtG)|1ms (MPRT), DCR, FreeSync Premium, DP1.4 * 1, HDMI2.0 * 2, USB C*1, KVM

Context: First ever OLED. Came from a 1080p 144hz TN Panel.Review:It's an OLED. Everything good and bad from an OLED is here. But the difference is that this is cheap af. For $400 or so this is probably the best entry OLED right now. I've had it for a few days and I honestly don't have much a problem with it. It's just a super bright, vibrant, and smooth monitor.Compromises:ABL was notorious on this monitor amongst people online but tbh I only really noticed it when viewing predominantly white content like websites. It will turn down the brightness very evidently and brighten up when you're not viewing that content anymore. Another thing, I kinda wish it's manual has a more indepth explanation of what some of the settings mean. Another thing is the bottom chin indicator, the manual doesn't tell you what any of the color means. From what I've learned white just means it's on and most likely have a signal, and orange is also turned on but on idle/no signal. It does have some protection built in for burn in but honestly idk what they really do, more specifically for the pixel refresh test.Conclusion:If you just want to experience OLED at an affordable price I'd say go for it. If you can live with any of the issues I mentioned (which I can) then honestly this is probably an end game monitor for most until it stops working at least lol.

The media could not be loaded. Update3: they're still not responding so i have the wrong monitor which doesn't match this product I ordered, this has been over a month. and 3weeks since they've last responded to the ticket. If I were waiting to return the RMA to Amazon this would be horrible ... my Order was ~Nov16 its currently Feb20. This is some of the worst customer services I've seen in the tech industry.Update2: My RMA ticket says it's still processing, but a monitor showed up but it's a different model. So I'm not even opening it until they respond to my new support ticket despite closing the original without ever confirming that I wished to close it and had open questions out to them.Update: They said a week ago that they changed systems and asked the RMA department for an update saying that this is unusual. However with another review saying that they've waited over a month I am not holding out hope that I'll see an update before the end of the year.I took a chance with this monitor because I've trusted their cases and power supplies in the past and since monitors just sources panels with different tick boxes I figured the "Build Quality" warnings from RTING and Hardware Unboxed was mostly limited to the cheap shell.I was wrong, this thing had the light panel set back visibly from the LCD itself so much that aittin 2.5-3ft away ~10-20 pixels would fall off due to seeig the side of the panel frame. It reminded me of LCD panels on the glass side of a computer.This disappeared at about 3 ft away if and only if you were 100% dead center. Additionally the panel had a weird shimmer to everything, I'm not sure if that was a artifact of my issue or the general design.I bought this for work, I'm a software engineer and use small text at the edge of the screen and I do prosumer hobby photo editing and the 1440p and color space coverage is why I bought this, gaming was a secondary concern but vrr and 144hz is a requirement.I used this for maybe 1.5 hours, 15 min of cyberpunk, and the rest trying to figure out if it was a deal breaker.It was on Linux and OSX.Windows and gaming it seemed livable (this is the only reason it gets 2 stars)But I haven't had this monitor for 3 weeks, spent 150$ (+30% of purchase now) on RMA shipping cost and no follow up after saying they would get me a shipping label for a replacement after receiving it.I should have bought the ASUS I was looking at even though it was 4k but missed out on the sale.I should have returned it or sold it to a gamer at a small loss.This is a mistake that puts me out ~600$ over a month of a monitor ... If you have the disposable income give it a shot otherwise wait till a v2 that might address all the issues this product has.

It is definitely bright. My monitor does not have any dead pixels yet. I've had it for about 3 days now. The picture is clear, contrast is very good. I had to set the OSD up myself to what looks good to me.Local dimming not too useful at the moment because it makes things too dark. With HDR in windows on, Local Dimming works better but because the monitor locks the color space to Bt. 2020, the color looks worse than SDR.The blacks are still sharp in SDR but it does have backlight so that affects it.I returned a VA panel and got this instead. It is definitely IPS with decent quality at different viewing angles.Overall, great monitor. I took 1 star off due to value for money. I'll say that it's brightness is really good and the "sharpness" of the image quality is definitely noticeable over the regular monitor due to contrast + brightness but I would still say that the cost for this image quality is a bit high.It would be worth it to someone that really wants high brights but still with sharp blacks.ConsThere are some issues that weren't a deal breaker for me but may be for some. This monitor also suffers from one of the issues with the VA monitor I returned. On the very edge to either side there is a blur effect where image/text on the very edge blurs out when you look at it from an angle.This also exist on the very bottom edge but less.This isn't a deal breaker for me because majority of the time I don't notice.Other thing is that the previous monitor I bought had an "auto" option for local dimming. It made the blacks darker but also kept the brights highlighted. On this monitor, it doesn't have that option, it just adds local dimming with low, medium and high to the entire monitor.I'm guessing the local dimming auto on the other monitor made the dimming specific to certain areas at a time.

I acquired the OLED monitor for $329 "used like new" and it's fantastic. I use it alongside a 144Hz 4K IPS monitor and there's no comparison, I did not understand until i saw them side by side just how much better an OLED was, even @ 2k vs 4k. I put it in HDR mode and the colors are fine, IDK why others complain about the color on online forums.