https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/..._mini_led_1152/



https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/...ing_is_amazing/







https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/..._mini_led_1152/








https://www.reddit.com/r/Monitors/comments/...april_24_china/




i only managed to find 1 review for this redmi u mentioned. they claim the HDR is good, and u can get it cheaper than oled. not sure about warranty, never tried or used for redmi.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 2 2025, 08:31 AM

i saw this post too

very hard to find review about the 27Q

i just hope i get a good unit

so far i only experienced HDR on my phone..

cant wait to try it on monitor

english review for the gigabyte gen4 woled


reviewer says the matte looks fine.


looks good all round but few things

- listing price i saw was rm3k. compared to mo27q2 going for rm2k (but to be fair, the newer model has 2x LESS burn in than the Gen3 oled. for oled, burn in is always a concern so gen4 makes it better on that front)

- its matte. some people dont like matte over glossy. that said, reviewer said no issue with it. maybe the matte they did wasnt so terrible?





https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/commen...n_the_gigabyte/


personally i didn't know much about lg monitors, but i read about LG ultra gear monitors, how some of the firmware updates to fix some issues weren't resolved, leaving users in limbo. i couldnt find the reddit post that mention that. tried searching but found nothing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/commen...rmware_updates/


gigabyte is cheaper, so unless LG monitor is offering a glossy, i'm not sure they r offering anything better over gigabyte?

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 3 2025, 05:30 AM

saw at least 2 sellers on shopee for the Gigabyte MO27Q28G.

It's going for RM 2.4k So roughly almost same price i paid for the MO27Q2.

not sure if 10:10 is cheaper, or if it's best price right now. but availability is now available if u want to order now :}

if you can ignore matte (but the reviewer on hardware unboxed didnt say it was bad so maybe the matte is fine), everything else is good, price is good for oled. matching colors vs qd oleds (it use to be woleds had worse colors than qd oleds. but with this panel they closed the gap so shouldnt be a problem now), best brightness available for OLED, x2 more burn resistance compared to Gen 3 oled panels. use's less power, and generates less heat.


*update

tftcentral released a review



if you go to 19:10 in the youtube, they do a side by side comparison with the same panel just glossy asus vs gigabyte matte. if u r curious what is the difference between the glossy vs matte for this new gen4 panel.

for people who don't have good lighting management in their room environment, this woled with matte may work fine even under those lighting conditions more so than qd oled and glossy.

Forgot to mention the much better text clarity. 10:40 in video you can see the comparison. big difference.


Personally i dont have a issue reading on the gigabyte mo27q2 which is a gen3 qd oled panel. But it's clear improvements were made for this in gen4 woled panels.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 8 2025, 07:40 AM

Actually there is a glossy true black woled gen 4 available




This comparison was in the hardware unboxed video if not mistaken where they had them side by side.


that said i didn't see it on shopee, and no idea for pricing. Doubt they will be as aggressive as gigabyte on pricing.

These are already very expensive monitors (considering u can get a 27'' ips monitor somewhere between rm500-1.5k)


*update

msrp $699 USD



the Gigabyte MO27Q28G is selling for





If you need 4k resolution, gigabyte has the MO27U2. i thought initially this was a gen4 for qd oled, now not so sure.




This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 8 2025, 10:22 AM

saw this. he examines a ips mini led for a oled alternative for hdr gaming

tried xiaomi gpro 27i. I will say that mini led implementation on brightness control is really see how good the manufacture tune the monitor. The hdr only good when u are in dim lighting situation. Probably u are better off getting good manufacturer like samsung or whatever then the algorithm is better cos they are long time in the game. If u wan hassle free experience in hdr just get oled. I dont know if it is windows problem but when i connect my pc to lg oled tv i get fantastic hdr without much tuning. But i dont watch movie directly from tv i use plex so it probably can be due to software and hardware hdr implementation issue on windows. It just get very dim at low light scene. I have tried tcl mini led tv and it doesnt get so bad but i never connect pc to my tcl tv tho.

Actually why hardly can see those branded like Samsung, Asus mini led TV?

samsung Mini LED TVs ramai boss. their Neo QLED lineup is Mini LED lineup, premium price some more. a few is more premium than OLED counterpart.
asus manade buat TVs. big playas in TV space are samsung, LG, hisense, TCL, sony etc.

but if ur saying monitors, then that's because Mini LED productions ceased in SK, so samsung and LG no longer produce and supply LCD panels and that includes Mini LED
now the production and supplies are from chinese, so BOE and TCL. the production of Mini LED panels for monitor screen size is very freaking selow.
see, when samsung and LG produce OLED panels suitable for monitor sizes, cepatnye Asus, Gigabyte, MSI etc. got hold on these panels and super fast market their models with these panels. supply and demand. whilst Mini LED panels are mostly produced for TVs and less on monitors. slow supply, and as a matter of fact, not high demand.

thats the gist really. hdr just go oled. if you saw the hardware unboxed, they said it as well, and they know much more about this cause they review a ton of monitors.

but people worried oleds have burn in. but with the recent gen4 woled, it's 2x LESS burn in than the previous generation. And if you see hardware unboxed burn in tests for gen3, it's hard to get burn in unless you really go out of your way to do so, and you don't enable any of the oled care features. I got all mine enabled on gigabyte and it doesn't even impact my viewing that i am aware. Example, there is one feature where it does something around the 4 corners, i hardly notice. Even pixel shifting, it does that to prevent static image, i dont even notice it doing that. yet it does it to protect my monitor from burn in.




the next issue oled vs ips is brightness. oled doesnt get as bright as ips. but with woled gen4, they improved the brigthness. i don't have a gen4, but the gigabyte mo27q2 i use which is a gen3, brightness is fine at least to me. but i have a well managed lighted room (meaning i dont have the sun or other light sources shining brightly overly much onto my screen to affect my viewing). I did not test the peak brightness mode for HDR





QD oled vs Woled. Each have their own pro and cons. For woled there is this



But with gen4, woled did fix their colors to make it closer to qd oleds. also they mention gen4 improved the text clarity for woled.


qd oled also has their fair share of downsides vs woled.



lastly, is price. last i checked during discount u can get the gigabyte gen4 woled 1440p 280hz for rm2.4k

by comparison on lowyat front page, a 120hz 1440p 27'' goes for RM499 (which is vastly more cheaper than the price of the oled gaming monitor but honestly, if you are going to spend money on a 5070ti or better, how do you not have a budget to go oled? the monitor is something you watch all the time, so for myself it was worth investing in. but if you are going budget build, then oled at these prices not quite there yet)

https://www.lowyat.net/2025/368825/illegear-insight-27/




so what NON oled monitor can do proper HDR? This AOC Q27G40XMN can



But the issue is the price. On shopee it's 1.7 - 1.8k But at those prices, it's not too far off from OLED 2.4k I feel may as well go oled at that point since not that much more. Cause oled does much more things better than VA and IPS (except brightness)



if want to keep up to date what to expect for oled




you wont see this awful magenta look for the right monitor example, if ur lighting is managed well and not shining too brightly or directly at your monitor. but if it does, then it will look like this.



This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 10 2025, 05:27 AM

the final video, i guess that is quantum dot, or matte screen problem. It is same for xiaomi gpro 27i. Glossy monitor i remember wont have such prob. The dispersing matte screen just make black looks washed. What are the glossy oled option? Qd oled or woled.

woled is known for having matte. glossy for it was rare. but they made an exception for asus due to some sort of deal.

Seems that gigabyte might also have made a deal because they touted in ces 2025 about having a glossy gen4 woled few months AFTER the matte release for their recent monitor.

Prior to all this, there was none. it only came in matte. so some companies got inventive and tried to add glossy in other ways.

this article goes deep into it
https://tftcentral.co.uk/articles/glossy-vs...strix-xg27aqdmg


this for example


the result wasn't good. the panel they got to my understanding was not glossy. they bought the panel then modified it themselves.

Whereas with asus LG deal, LG delivered a glossy panel from the get go.

Asus marketed as true glossy. Their first woled true glossy, there was an article, their follow up successor will have an even better true glossy coating.



https://www.forbes.com/sites/mitchwallace/2...aming-monitors/




https://tftcentral.co.uk/news/asus-debut-tw...-glossy-coating



there is this whole matte vs glossy debate. this youtuber is famous/infamous for glorifying glossy, and saying matte is bad



my only experience with matte was with an IPS monitor (i think was a dell or hp? can't remember). So yeah i am familiar with the matte grainy/cloudy look and how pictures that come through it feel like clouded. but the thing was, that was with an IPS. i never tried a matte oled, but from what he showed in his side by side comparison, seems like that particular kink still remains for a matte coating.

the qd oled i use is a glossy with anti reflective coating. so semi glossy? which is somewhere between a glossy and a matte. It looked fine to me. so i'm not too hung up on having a true glossy, as long as i dont notice any glaring issues, i'm happy with what i have. i dont even have the gen4 woled because i didnt wait, but even that im ok cause i paid based on the budget i planned, and im content with the current oled. there will always be something better, and will always out


it's funny, cause i started out being (must get a matte) because i'm the guy worried about sunlight and lighting in my room making the monitor hard to see, and reflective. But these days, i just properly manage my lighting, and am fine with just getting a glossy or semi glossy to enjoy that POP vibrant color goodness


woled had diagonal line issues. not sure if gen4 fixed or not. but there is a test


https://www.reddit.com/r/LGOLED/comments/1l...al_lines_on_lg/

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/lg-2024-ol...2#post-63364462



This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 10 2025, 09:26 AM

Yes you are right. For Monitor, quite limited besides those China brands and very very slow supply. I prefer Mini LED over OLED (still not confident of burn in issue). MSI or Gigabyte launch Mini LED monitor but price wise too expenses. Xiaomi got but kind of worry their quality since owned their TV few years ago and started to have issue within 2 years. Hard to make choice.

This post has been edited by jhleo1: Oct 10 2025, 11:05 AM

Hey man, if im not mistaken u were looking to buy oled monitor earlier this year..from yr sig it looks like u buy fo32up , how was it?
I actually buy the same model too, wanted alienware at first but that earc seems confusing , fo32up fr me has been vry good..speaker is ok but not tht bad actually , that usb c has been very useful except it can’t charge dualsense for some reason..price now even cheaper at 4k
Is the new gigabyte mo27u2 any good?

review here











https://tftcentral.co.uk/news/gigabyte-mo27...gaming-features


Rm 3k on shopee. I dont recall seeing any other 4k oled at this price point for a 4k resolution oled but i could be wrong


This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 10 2025, 01:40 PM

used for almost 1300 hours now in 7 months. pretty good and no issue so far.
using it for browsing, watch movies, gaming, and even static contents. no burn in atm because my contents are pretty varied. let's see when it hits >3000 hours.

so did any1 get either a Gigabyte MO27Q28G or LG 27GX790A-B during the sales in person to share review with?

even better for someone who had a previous oled previous gen3 (either qd oled or woled) and preferably glossy or semi glossy panel to compare it against

is it worth the hype? night and day difference for the PQ?

i'm especially interested to know whether the matte is ok or not? or were people worrying needlessly

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 19 2025, 07:19 AM

Instead of the gigabyte, the Asus ROG Strix XG27AQWMG seems better to me. because

1. true black glossy
2. also has the gen4 woled panel (with all the benefits that come with that)
3. price msrp similar to the gigabyte
4. has BFI (black frame insert)
5. proximity sensor


they say availability is Q4 2025. i didn't see this on shopee yet. Assuming that launch price comes with discounts, i would recommend that over the gigabyte especially if you are not a fan of matte. The only main gripe with the gigabyte is mostly it's matte which not everyone likes. If you are ok with matte, then you can just go gigabyte without waiting.



theres also english reviews for the LG UltraGear 27GX700A




not a fan of this brand because i read on reddit how some of their older models that had issues, they did not release firmware to fix those issues and left those users without a solution i don't know if it's true or not, but made me wary for this brand haha..

in this LG review the reviewer flamed the matte. He actually used it in person and pointed out the clarify suffers due to the matte coating. Whereas in hardware unboxed they never mentioned that.

so matte oled? no thx

to clarify the LG gen4 panel is good, but the ultragear monitor is bad, according to the reviewer



Here is a side by side comparison for qd oled semi glossy, woled true glossy asus, and matte (probably woled)


if you want true black no matters the lighting conditions, and you don't mind about reflections being too obvious (but even if u did, you can just manage your lighting to avoid that problem), and you want the image to pop in quality, then true glossy is your go to.


This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Oct 30 2025, 06:04 AM

How about LG 45gx950a? Went up for pre-order last month.
Is this model using latest woled panel?