Samsung - Odyssey G7 32" LED Curved QHD FreeSync and G-SYNC Compatible Monitor with HDR (DisplayPort, HDMI) - Black

I ordered two of the 32" G7 monitors, and while I did test them with my older PC to verify they work, have little backlight bleed, and briefly viewed their performance in Fortnite, they currently sit awaiting my new gaming PC. I will update my review after using them for gaming and video editing (as G-Sync apparently has flickering issues from what I've read in other reviews), but I wanted to share photos of how nice this monitor looks when mounted. Yes, this is a Vesa 100x100 mount monitor, and it does come with the mounting plate. Be aware that when mounting, you cannot install the plastic ring on the back of the monitor where the LED display is or the cover to hide the cords (this particular mounting bracket does have cable management features though). I mounted two 32" panels on a Mount-It 1772 desktop bracket, and it does a pretty good job of holding these beasts at attention, though tilt adjusting is a bit tedious. Since the G7 has a large stand, mounting saves considerable desk space if you don't mind pulling your desk away from the wall a bit. Stay tuned for more once I am able to test these puppies with an RTX 2080ti and Ryzen 9 3950x.

After receiving and unboxing FOUR of these monitors, I'm ready to write my review: Spec for spec, this is the best gaming monitor that Best Buy offers. It's the only one with 240hz refresh rate, 1440p QHD resolution, QLED, GSYNC, and HDR support. This monitor is amazing! It has a huge 32" screen (which I didn't even know I needed until now). Gaming on this is a dream! The colors are vibrant, the HDR makes them really pop. The 240hz refresh rate is buttery smooth! You would expect nothing but the best from Samsung, right? WRONG!!! Upon ordering and receiving the FIRST monitor and inspecting the screen, my excitement and enthusiasm was immediately deflated due to dead pixels - one in the bottom right, and one in the top right. I called Best Buy support to report the problem. They were very sympathetic and kindly shipped me a SECOND replacement monitor. To my dismay, the second monitor also had dead pixels. This time in the dead center of the screen. When I called Best Buy customer service, they told me they could not ship me another monitor because they had already done a reship, so instead I took the second (worse) monitor into the store for a return. The representative was really nice and helpful. She set me up with a THIRD monitor to be shipped to me. Third time's the charm, right? Spoiler alert...NOPE! I received the third monitor and this time there were stuck pixels in the center of the screen. They were stuck on red so they only showed up on green, blue, and white images, but still very annoying and distracting. After being in complete and utter despair after having received THREE bad monitors, I had resolved myself to just keeping the original monitor because at least the dead pixels were in remote corners of the screen and less noticeable. Upon returning the third defective monitor, the Best Buy store manager surprisingly offered to ship me a FOURTH monitor. Reluctantly, I agreed because, I mean, what are the odds of getting 4 bad ones? I was actually in shock of how awesome and patient and understanding the Best Buy staff has been through this! I can't praise them enough! Well, today I received the FOURTH monitor and you guessed it...DEAD and STUCK pixels!!! There was another red stuck pixel (seems to be common with this model), a group of dark gray pixels that never changed right in the middle of the screen, and a dead pixel in the bottom right. Ughhh. At this point, if there was another brand of monitor that could offer me all of the features that this monitor has I would go with it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately...there isn't. So I guess I will begrudgingly hold on to the original monitor since it had the least amount of dead pixels because I just love this monitor so much and nothing else compares. It just infuriates me that Samsung could have this horrible of quality control! Ironically, I'm a big Samsung user. I have the Samsung Note 20 Ultra (no dead pixels), and I have 2 Samsung 4k TVs (both without any dead pixels). Until this, I have been happy with all my Samsung products. I don't know why their gaming monitor division is so terrible! If you are considering rolling the dice and playing "Pixel Roulette" with this monitor, make sure you purchase the Geek Squad protection plan because you are almost certain to see dead pixels at some point in the life of the monitor. Looking at Samsung's warrantee policy, they say that they will NOT warrantee any device unless it has more than SEVEN dead pixels!! Are you kidding me?? That in itself is an unforgiveable travesty, and tells you that they must KNOW that they are intentionally shipping screens with dead pixels!! What the heck Samsung??? If you are paying $800-$1000 for a TV/monitor, it should have ZERO pixel problems. So make absolutely sure you get the Best Buy coverage! If you are a pixel peeper like me, then I would suggest staying away. You're only setting yourself up for heartache and a LOT of trips back to Best Buy. If you are the type of person who doesn't see dead pixels or doesn't even understand what I'm talking about, then go ahead and get this monitor. You'll probably love it. If you do happen to get a monitor without dead pixels, congratulations! You won the lottery! You will enjoy a fantastic gaming monitor! Sadly, that's not something that I will ever get to experience.... Final ratings: Best Buy Staff: A++ The monitor itself (assuming you get a good one): A Samsung Quality Control: F-

My full review of this 32" model is on the 27" product page if you wish to have a look! In a nutshell however, this monitor is great, except with a few compromises that while may not be a deal breaker for me, might be for others. You could spend (quite) a bit more for a better monitor, particularly 4k, but that in and of itself comes with some issues, such as making sure your computer has enough horsepower to run at higher resolutions. For the price, and given that currently there is a slim market for monitors that offer this feature set, especially at this price, I would not hesitate to recommend it. If all you want is gsync, or a high refresh rate for gaming, you could do yourself a favor and save a few bucks and go for something cheaper. As for me, I'm keeping my baby! (this monitor).... .... TLDR: If you have poor eyesight like me, I will say by all means go 32"; if you are an artist needing the highest color fidelity possible however, do not skimp out and go for the model that rhymes with Hacer that just dropped about 400, or the Hasus 4k 2000 dollar monitor, with your Daddy Warbucks self.

I'll preface by saying that I use this monitor for gaming. That being said it is got to be one of the best out there for that. Having G-Sync and FreeSync on the monitor means that I can use the monitor for both my computer gaming and Xbox gaming needs. You don't realize how the tech from 240 hertz refresh rate helps till you see it first hand. Previously I would complain about not hitting targets that were moving due to ghosting done on my old monitor. Now I know I just missed or I actually hit the target. One feature that is awesome is the red dot sight that is in the menu. You can load up your favorite fps game aim down sight and move the position of the sight on to be perfectly center with the game. Using this has made me better at figuring out where the center of my screen is. The curve of this monitor is something that I love as well. One word: IMMERSION! And this monitor does that amazingly. I have seen posts about this monitor flickering and let me first say that I never noticed it until it was brought to my attention. The flickering I observed was only when opening an game on PC from the desktop in full screen mode. Finally its pretty straight forward to fix via firmware update at Samsung's website. After the firmware is updated I haven't noticed anything. The 32 inch is a big boy and consideration should be taken into account of how much desk space you can afford to give up for it. But if you are at this part of my review then you will probably make the room for it. Personally I use a Veridesk monitor stand and it has been excellent. Before warned though... This monitor will make you look down on everyone as a lord to a peasant might.

I just got this monitor and the screen would flicker while playing games with adaptive sync on. I've updated the driver and firmware from the Samsung website and still no fix. I'd like to fully enjoy my purchase, but knowing that turning (adaptive sync on) causes screen to flicker, I'm not at all. Not worth spending this much on a defective product.

I bought this monitor when it launched. It had a few issues, but later FW corrected these. It is a very good monitor! I thought the viewing angle was going to be a problem, and it's not. I actually do not really notice it for non gaming tasks. For a VA panel it is the best I've seen, and I'm an only IPS fan boy. Before this monitor I was running 4K @ 60Hz, well 240 HZ is awesome. This monitor will tide me over until 4K @ 144Hz with decent HDR, and 2.1 HDMI comes out at sub 1k!

I have been buying gaming monitors in the last 6 months in the hope of finding a color accurate gaming monitor. I already have two 32" professional monitors (Asus PBQ32) here, and I always place the gaming monitor in between these to see just how color accurate it is. This samsung G7 has great blacks. The same goes for the other two which are also AMVA panels. The G7 is somewhat color accurate. Some red and green colors are off. I can't quite get the G7 to imitate sRGB. So I can't recommend it for color critical work. This monitor came with two red dead pixels, in the upper middle of the screen. It came without a DP cable or HDMI cable. It was an open box though. When I return a monitor I meticulously repackage everything and triple check the accessories. I can tell the person before me, had also desperately tried to calibrate Srgb, because of the custom settings I found that he had entered. I was perplexed when I did not find a "blue light filter" in the menu, neither did I find any saturation controls??? Other problems I found was when dragging a bright object around from one screen to another the samsung shows a lot of bleed on the bottom of the screen. The object I was dragging was a windows calendar widget. You know the orange calendar? If you drag that from one monitor to the g7, the g7 will switch brightness at the bottom of the screen where the task bar is. The curve doe not disturb me, but does nothing to please me either. When i get up in a standing position the middle of the curve has light bleed coming from the bottom. The real deal breaker for me is HDR. I actually think this monitor may be defective? Whilst watching a YouTube HDR video it flickers in and out of HDR. When HDR kicks back in, the white explode out of proportion and the whole scene is nearly invisible. I had also tried the Dell S3220DGF, which did not have this problem. I have not yet gamed on this monitor, and I am sure it will be nice and smooth. I have a 2070 so i doubt I will be able to push anything above 140 fps @ 1440p

Wow, this beast has it all! HDR, G-Sync, Freesync, 240Hz refresh. The curvature is a little extreme but I git used to it in no time. I would recommend you have 3 feet + on your desk of distance. Also, make sure you flash to the newest firmware to avoid flickering issues when VRR is enabled.