This is the 32 inch model here, and with this, just like my other reviews, I'm going to get into the specs first.

I'll talk about the things that I like about the monitor, the things that I don't like about the monitor, and then something different.

It won't be very long, but I do want to briefly cover the differences between the G5 here and then the more expensive G7, and then we'll finally wrap everything up.

So with that being said, let's go ahead and get into the specs.

The G5 is a 1440p LED VA panel with 144Hz refresh rate, 1000R curve, and HDR 600.

It has 16.7 million colors, with a 2500 to 1 contrast ratio, a 1ms moving picture response time, and FreeSync.

This covers 125% of the sRGB scale, and 90% of the NTSC scale.

This has 93 pixels per inch, as that is standard with any 32 inch 1440p monitor.

On the back, you will find 1 HDMI 2.0 port, 1 DP 1.2 port, and then a headphone jack.

The stand doesn't have height or swivel adjustment, but it can tilt negative 2 to 18 degrees, and has a small cable management hook.

You do also have the option to VESA mount this if you want, but we'll talk about that again here pretty soon.

Retail price is $369.99 for the 32 inch model, and $279.99 for the 27 inch model.

So now that we've covered the specs, let's go ahead and get into the things that I like about this monitor.

So the biggest draw for this monitor is going to be the price point and what you get with it compared to its more expensive sibling, the G7, which retails for $800.

So with this, the 1000R curve and the 144hz refresh rate are a big plus, and the coloring is solid on this monitor.

The 1000R curve isn't as noticeable for me until I go to a flat panel, and then I wonder how I ever played on a flat panel.

Now it's not as noticeable if you've played on a 1500 or 1800R curved monitor, but I personally think it looks great at my viewing angles and distance, which is usually about 2-3 feet straight on.

The G9 on the other hand would be the big reason to go for a 1000R curve, because it literally wraps around you, but $1600 is a steep asking price, and I just can't afford something like that.

The panel does work with G-Sync compatibility, and I haven't had any issues with screen tearing or flickering like I had with the G7, which, side note on that, I know that's been fixed with firmware updates for a lot of people, I'm still hearing some people say that they're still having issues, but overall I think it has improved with not only the firmware updates, but the manufacturing side as well, so if you do have the cache, and that's something you do want to look into, if you've seen my other videos on that, that may be solved at this point, but I didn't experience any issues so far with this monitor with any of the flickering or anything like that.

Sharpness out of the box is a bit off for some reason with this monitor though, so you'll need to turn that way down on the panel, but after it's set, everything looks great on screen, and coloring is very, very good.

Blacklight bleed isn't horrible with this monitor by the way, I have noticed that it does depend on the angle that you're looking at the monitor when it's going to showcase any blacklight bleed, which is interesting just because that goes back to that 1000R curve, and you do actually notice it more depending on the angle that you're at.

But if I'm looking dead on, it's actually pretty minimal compared to the other monitors that I've had, and I think that's a plus with this.

I personally have my monitor on an arm also, which makes it more functional for me, but that's an extra cost if you do want to add any height or swivel or rotation to the monitor outside of just the tilt, so that is something to consider, but that goes back to the price point, this is cheaper, so it wasn't something that I was actually expecting with this.

The menu button is a single button on the bottom of the monitor, which is the same for the other Odyssey monitors, and I like the ease of use with that.

The menu itself is also very user-friendly, which is a huge plus.

So overall my gaming experience has been great, and I don't notice any problems, but I did do a video on ghosting with this monitor as there have been reports of people having issues with that.

I'll make sure a link for that video pops up here so you can watch that if you want to.

I don't want to take up a ton of time with the review, so to summarize it, there is ghosting, and you will find it to some degree on most panels, unless you're going to go to some of the newer ones that are the 0.5ms response time, and they're more of the 240-360Hz panels with this.

Something to point out too, I'm going to make sure it pops up, this is the 1ms moving picture response time, and it's not the G-to-G, which is the gray-to-gray, gray-to-gray is actually quicker than the MPRT, so something to keep in mind.

Even though it is 1ms, it's not the fastest pixel response time, because it's not G-to-G, gray-to-gray.

But with this, I'm going to make sure that it actually pops up, and it showcases my Samsung G5 here, versus the MSI Ultrawide, which is also a 1ms response time, MPRT panel, so you guys can kind of compare.

They're basically the same.

I don't notice it in most games.

So it's there, but personally I don't think you will notice it unless you're a hardcore enthusiast playing a competitive first-person shooter, where every edge essentially counts and you're looking at the screen to a degree that most people just aren't.

Now I will say the one area that I do notice it, I don't really notice it in games much, but it's when I'm actually moving the window around with Premiere Pro, and I don't notice it when I'm moving just regular windows on my desktop.

I don't know if it's the gray background, for whatever reason, that's where I actually notice ghosting the most.

Outside of that, like I said, I really just don't notice it that much.

So now that we've covered what I like about this monitor, let's go ahead and get into the things that I don't like about this monitor.

So the big thing to consider when you're looking at buying this monitor is that it's the G7 essentially without all the extras.

So obviously you don't get the 240Hz with this, that's going to be one of the big differences, but there's no RGB lighting, there's no extra USB ports, there's no height and swivel adjustment to the stand, and personally I have my monitor on an arm, which makes the monitor more functional for me, but it's an extra cost if you want to add height, swivel, and rotation to the And this is the autonomous monitor arm, I will make sure that there is a link for my video on that, and you can even click on the link in the description of that video to get, I think it's 5 or 10% off.

So it ended up being about $51, but that's still an extra cost, so that $370 now jumps up to $420, so if you don't want that stuff, this is going to be something that's going to be an easy choice if you're on a budget and you don't need all the extras, but something to be very very mindful of.

Now my main complaint here is going to be the ports, as they're older ports, so you HDMI 2.0, not 2.1, and DP 1.2, not 1.4, which means the bandwidth shouldn't support HDR, yet it has HDR, but with a little extra digging, and that was one of the issues that I ran to in with the unboxing video, I was actually able to find out why DP 1.2 can play HDR, so I'm going to pull up this quote that I found in regards to this.

It says that HDR extensions were defined in version 1.4 of the DisplayPort standard.

Some displays support these HDR extensions, but may only implement HBR2 transmission mode if the extra bandwidth of HBR3 is unnecessary, for example on 4K 60Hz HDR displays.

Since there is no definition of what constitutes a DisplayPort 1.4 device, some manufacturers may choose to label these as DP 1.2 devices despite their support of DP 1.4 HDR extensions.

As a result, DisplayPort version numbers should not be used as an indicator of HDR support.

So this would explain why this monitor, although it has DP 1.2, can actually support HDR.

I will make sure that a link for the website that I got this information from is in the description so you guys can kind of comb through that as well.

Now, I'm kind of going back and forth with these pros and cons a little bit.

Even though I'm talking about HDR and the DisplayPorts being older, but with this quote it's saying, hey, it still can support the HDR that this monitor has, I will say that HDR with this monitor has been the easiest to set up, and it's looked the best for me.

I think part of that is because I'm now messing with HDR with these reviews, so I'm getting a little bit more accustomed to tinkering with settings.

And Doom looked great, I've played No Man's Sky with HDR, and it's all looked phenomenal for me.

I still am not using it on a daily basis.

It's not something that I just turn on and leave on and turn it on in Windows and kind of run every program with it.

It's still not where I think it should be.

That's just my personal opinion in terms of HDR as a whole.

I'm waiting maybe a couple years before it's more standardized, and then at that point, yeah, I'll have HDR kind of turned on all the time.

The good news is, I'm just quicker to tinkering with these settings, so it doesn't take as long, but it's one of the complaints that I've had in general with HDR.

If it's not supported across the board, you're going to have to tinker with these settings individually within these games, and it just takes away from playtime essentially with this, especially if you're limited on time like I am with as busy as I am.

So that's just something to consider, but I will say tinkering with everything, getting everything set up on this display has been the easiest for me out of all the monitors that I've used so far.

So at this point, these feel more like a gray area than a true negative as the lack of extras can be expected with most monitors at this price point.

And after doing more research, I was able to find out that the DP 1.2 port can support HDR, and it's easy to set up versus my initial impression with it.

So if I had to find one solid negative with it, I think that the ghosting for some people would be a dealbreaker.

I also want to mention real quick that I haven't had any weird text or texture morphing towards the edge of the 1000R curve, like some people reported that they had with the G7.

I do think that some people aren't going to like this extreme of a curve, so maybe that could be a negative for some people.

So definitely know what you're getting into with this monitor.

I also should mention for those looking for a good monitor for the Xbox Series X, this would be a good fit.

But as of last week, Sony has announced that there is no native 1440p support for the PS5, so unfortunately this might not be a good option for PlayStation players.

Which that's actually the question I got asked the most on the unboxing video, so I just wanted to clarify that Xbox Series X, yes, if you're a PlayStation 5 owner, this probably isn't going to be the best option for you.

So, with all of that being said, let's get into the G5 to G7 comparison here.

Alright, so I'm actually on the Samsung website here, we're going to look at the comparison this way.

We have the G5, we have the G7 here.

This one, it's only going to show the 27 inch model, it's not until you click on it that you can then choose the 32 inch model.

Right now on their website, $70 off, I don't know how long that's going to last, but this is normally $800.

The G5 is $370, so that's a big difference, right?

You're looking at a difference of $430 more for the G7.

Scrolling down, just looking at the specs, everything should be the same between the 27 and 32 inch model outside of the pixels per inch, right?

That pixel density, which is going to be greater on the 27 inch model.

So that's why I'll just leave this like this.

So, they're both 1440p.

First big difference outside of below this is going to be obviously the refresh rate. 240hz for the G7, and then 144 for the G5 here.

Now I had the G7, I'm not in any AAA games hitting 240hz.

Most likely you're actually going to have to downgrade the resolution to 1080p to actually hit that.

So in 1440p, maybe if you're running a 3090 now, which I don't have.

Very few people have those, right?

For the average gamer, you're just not going to hit the 240hz in 1440p.

But 144 is more my gold standard right now, so that's going to be a difference.

And then we talked about the response time here.

So you have the 1 MPRT versus the 1 millisecond MPRT versus the 1 millisecond G2G.

The G2G is going to be faster.

The greater gray is going to be faster, so that is better on the G7.

And then with this, the difference in color support.

So 16.7 million colors on the G5 versus 1.07 billion on the G7.

So greater color with the G7 versus the G5.

Next, we're going to find down here, they're both, and this is where Samsung on their website does some weird stuff, HDR10 for the G5, but it's HDR600.

And then VESA display HDR600 over here, but they're both HDR600.

I did mention that this is mountable with the VESA mount there.

This is a 75 by 75 for the G5, and then 100 by 100 for the G7 here.

And then it'll tell you the height adjustment right here.

Obviously with the G5, you don't have that.

The G7 is going to have the height adjustment.

You can swivel it, so you can rotate it, things like that.

Both have eye saver mode.

Both have flicker free.

Picture by picture.

You can do that with the G7.

You cannot do that with the G5.

FreeSync, yes.

Say not available over here.

It does have FreeSync.

It has FreeSync premium, I believe.

And then with that, the G-Sync compatibility with both of these, but the G7 is certified G-Sync compatible where the G5 is not.

Quantum dot color.

That's going to go back to that 1.07 billion colors versus the 16.7 million.

So with this, the G7 has the quantum dot color.

The G5 does not.

Both have screen size optimizer, black equalizer, low impact lag, refresh rate optimizer, Super Arena Gaming UX.

And then we'll see the normal stuff, power consumption, things like that.

And then we will keep scrolling down.

And that's going to be it for this.

And this is going to tell you in terms of tilt, negative two to negative 18, or negative two to 18, negative nine to 13, stand simple, has pivot more than 100 millimeters, swivel, non, pivot, non, and then we'll look at what this actually has over here.

So looking at the ports, also, we scroll down on the G7 right here.

DisplayPort right here, it does have 1.4 with the G7.

Remember, we only have 1.2 with the G5 here.

And then HDMI, you have the 2.0, has two USB ports, and then it's 3.0 for that.

The G5 doesn't have any extra USB ports on it.

So something like I said, all the extras that you're going to get with this also are just gone.

And we can see on the back of this, you actually have the RGB lighting, right, with the logo and then the ring right here.

And then actually in the front, in the bottom corners right here, you have lighting and the G5 isn't going to have that.

So that's actually going to be the comparison here.

Like I said, what are you looking for?

What are you really wanting with your monitor?

And then more importantly, what is your budget with this?

So let's go ahead and wrap this video up.

So to summarize all of this, what I recommend this monitor, if you're on a budget and wanting to experience a high refresh rate at 1440p with a 1000R curve, then absolutely.