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You might be wondering why they’d call it an Alarm Clock when there’s no alarm and no clock, and, well, so am I. There’s also an “Alarm Clock” setting which will display a countdown timer of anything from one minute to ninety minutes on different parts of your screen. “Inside the OSD, MSI has hidden a handful of game-centric settings including a handful of preset picture effects for genres like Racing or FPS, a black tuner to quickly change the brightness of scenes, response time options to eliminate ghosting, and Anti Motion Blur and Zero Latency to ensure the picture stays crisp and input lag non-existent. It really is as simple as pressing in the direction you want to move and clicking to select. Navigating the OSD on the MAG is intuitive. The implementation of the joystick is well thought out and I found it much easier to navigate than standard button controls. They’re also just off or on, so there are no special effects built into the monitor to choose from.
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It’s a nice touch but like most rear-monitor lighting is forgotten about once the monitor is in turned around and in place. The lights are only on one side and really serve to accent the glossy black design on the back. Looking to the rear of the panel, we find the joystick for navigating the OSD and a little bit of RGB for ambient lighting. Thankfully, the monitor supports VESA mounting, so it’s compatible with most aftermarket stands and mounts. If I’m turning my head, usually it’s to look up and being able to move it just an inch or two lower would really help with that. I also wish that you were able to lower the display more. More than once, I went to adjust the height and accidentally slid the monitor back so the rear leg pushed right off the edge. My biggest complaint about the stand is that it just doesn’t grip the desk enough. There’s no rotation since it's curved, however, so portrait mode is off the table and if you need to turn it, you’ll have to turn the entire stand. It also offers -5 to -20-degrees of tilt which came in handy when I wanted to stand at my desk. The monitor comes with a high-quality stand that offers just over five inches of height adjustment. Compare the bezels here to the those on the Acer Predator XB273K and you can easily see the difference this style makes. The plastic bezels themselves are only a couple of millimeters thick, so even with the black edges on the screen, it still feels very spacious. “Super narrow” still feels remarkably accurate, though. A quarter inch black border trims the screen before getting to the plastic bezels. MSI has gone with a “super narrow bezel” design their product page describes as “edge to edge.” This is not an edge-to-edge display. I also didn’t notice any text distortion at the edges which I’ve encounters on smaller curved displays in the past. The effect is subtle it doesn’t “make” this monitor but it is a nice feature the improves the overall experience. Since you’re sitting so close to a monitor, the curve gives a slight wrap-around effect that you can actually feel and does enhance the experience slightly, especially on a massive panel. Until trying curved screen monitors for the first time last year, I was skeptical of whether or not the curve would make any difference at all with TVs, I frankly didn’t see the benefit. The 1800R curve - the same found on many Acer Predator gaming monitors and the AOC AG273QCX-also enhanced this effect. The extra screen real estate really does help to draw you into the game, especially in first-person shooters and RPGs like Skyrim. After a couple of days, I adapted to the larger format and could begin sinking in to enjoy what I feel is a genuinely more immersive game experience. Danielle Abraham + 2 moreThat said, 32-inches is easily my favorite screen size for gaming.