Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
Despite still being in its relative infancy by AV technology standards, Samsung’s Quantum Dot OLED panels are seriously shaking up an already complicated TV world. The arrival of the first couple of generations of this pure RGB approach to self-emissive OLED screen technology has already forced its LCD and traditional WRGB OLED (with their additional white element) rivals to try and up their games at unprecedented speeds.
Having recently just spent a few days with Samsung’s 2024 flagship S95D QD-OLED range, though, I’d say it threatens to push the TV envelope to places other current TV technologies currently cannot reach. From what I’ve seen so far, it’s fair to say that Samsung will continue to shakeup the best TVs with its next-generation QD-OLEDs.
Samsung’s S95D takes brightness to a whole new level
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The single biggest reason I say this is its brightness. The first QD-OLED TVs from a couple of years ago threatened to shake things up in this respect, but the S95D takes things to a whole new level by reaching light peaks on a 10% white HDR test window – not a puny 2% one – of a fraction under 1800 nits.
The 2% measurement gets as high as 2144 nits too, but it’s the 10% one that really matters, I’d say, as it means the 65S95D is capable of delivering unprecedented amounts of brightness for OLED technology to a really wide array of high dynamic range images. To put some perspective on this, the S95D’s predecessor, the Samsung S95C and LG’s G3 OLED TV with its new-for-2023 micro lens array technology, both topped out at around 1400 nits on a 10% HDR window.
Achieving a brightness leap as extreme as the S95D’s in a single generation has a profound impact on its picture quality, especially as all that extra light has been partnered with a substantial upgrade to the picture processing Samsung deploys to get the best out of its latest QD-OLED panel.
Inside Samsung’s Neo Quantum Processor 4K brain
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The S95D’s punchily named (not) Neo Quantum Processor 4K brain does a much better job of marrying the set’s extended brightness to QD-OLED’s exceptional pure RGB colour potential than its predecessor, delivering even more colour volume and vibrancy without succumbing to the occasional flared out or flattened, cartoonish tones – even in Game mode – that could occasionally creep into the S95C’s pictures.
The resulting images look nothing short of radiant in the S95D’s Standard and vastly improved Movie picture presets. Especially as, thanks to OLED’s self-emissive nature, small bright highlights in otherwise dark areas shine forth with no compromise to their brightness and intensity and none of the object dimming or backlight blooming effects you would expect to find with such picture content shown on premium LCD screens.
The S95D’s dazzling new brightness has been found, too, without it having any negative impact on the profound black tones OLED technology of all types is now renowned for. So all that remarkable new brightness can sit right alongside all that traditional blackness – literally brightest pixel next to darkest pixel – without any compromise.
The already strong sharpness we’ve come to associate with Samsung’s premium TVs continues on the S95D too. While this is particularly true with native 4K sources, the use of the collective know-how of a claimed 20 neural networks in the development of the S95D’s video processing system has also helped it improve its upscaling of sub-4K sources over anything I’ve seen before.
Samsung’s new anti-reflection filter is a standout
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The S95D’s handling of dark scenes is further enhanced by the application to its screen of a startlingly effective anti-reflection filter. This soaks up reflections from your room, be they general ‘ambient’ objects or potent direct light sources, uncannily well, removing almost all traces of the familiar reflection ‘barriers’ to dark scene immersion that you would normally expect to see while watching TV in a bright room. The effect feels like looking at a matte painting rather than the usual TV ‘glass’.
There are a couple of negative side effects to this filter. Black colours can take on a slightly greyer look in bright rooms (also slightly shifting colour tones in dark areas) than they do in dark ones, and it seemed to my eyes as if there was a touch of faint blooming around the most stand-out bright objects at times that I don’t recall seeing with previous QD-OLED TVs. These issues are honestly very small prices to pay, though, for a filter that I think will benefit the all-round viewing experience of the vast majority of homes the S95D might end up in.
Sound quality is not a complete slam dunk
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The Samsung S95D’s sound quality isn’t as bar-raising as its picture performance, it has to be said. As we often find with Samsung’s high-end TVs the sound feels a bit stuck behind the screen rather than projecting forward, and can’t reach the sort of room-filling volumes such bold, cinematic pictures deserve.
Though Samsung’s object tracking sound system does do a good job of making sound effects seem to be coming from the correct area of the screen. Even tracking multiple noisy objects at once as they move around the image is effective.
Has QD-OLED solved the LCD vs OLED debate?
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Then there’s the premium LCD TV market to consider. The traditional argument for having both premium LCD TVs and the best OLED TVs in the marketplace has been that premium LCD TVs can deliver much more brightness than OLED TVs, making them potentially the better bet for bright rooms. Meanwhile, OLED TVs can deliver better local contrast and pixel-level light controls, making them better suited to dark home cinema rooms. With the S95D now getting into brightness territory that even many premium LCD TVs will struggle to beat or even match, though, are premium LCD TVs suddenly running out of room?
Samsung’s own upcoming QN95D flagship 4K LCD TVs might have something to say about this when they turn up, of course. As might the intriguing new mini-LED screen technology Sony unveiled at this year’s CES, along with the brand’s messaging about much more extreme brightness than even the S95D’s 1,800 nits on a 10% window being needed for potential future HDR content creation. Even the S95D’s brightness boost runs out of steam, too, compared with premium LCD technologies when it comes to showing full-screen bright images.
The S95D’s status, though, as an even more spectacular OLED brightness trailblazer than we’d expected really does have the potential to kick off some significant changes in the TV tech landscape in the coming months and years. Changes which will hopefully prove ultimately to be of benefit to us all.
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
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Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.
Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, more than two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.
What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently.
But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching for today’s Wordle answer, you’ll probably need some hints for this game too.
I’m a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Quordle hints to game #790 and the answers to the main game and Daily Sequence.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Quordle expert
Your Quordle expert
Marc McLaren
Quordle today (game #790) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
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Quordle today (game #790) – hint #2 – total vowels
What is the total number of vowels in Quordle today?
• The total number of vowels across today’s Quordle answers is 9.
Quordle today (game #790) – hint #3 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #790) – hint #4 – total letters
How many different letters are used in Quordle today?
• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 14.
Quordle today (game #790) – hint #5 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Where Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And rather than complete them in turn, you do so simultaneously. You get nine guesses, rather than the six for Wordle, but the rules are otherwise very similar.
As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world. And also as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight so you have a fresh challenge each day.
The website also includes a practice mode – which I definitely recommend using before attempting the game proper! – and there are daily stats including a streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements – specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of turns, playing lots of times, or guessing particularly hard words.
Oh, and it’s difficult. Really difficult.
What are the Quordle rules?
The rules of Quordle are almost identical to those of Wordle.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray…
4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all quadrants of the puzzle at the same time, so an A could turn green in one square, yellow in another and gray in the final two.
5. Answers are never plural.
6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
7. Each guess must be a valid word in Quordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
8. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses and there is no equivalent of Wordle’s Hard mode.
9. You have nine guesses to find the Quordle answers.
10. You must complete the daily Quordle before midnight in your timezone.
What is a good Quordle strategy?
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.
Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, more than two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but also difficult.
What’s more, its makers (now the online dictionary Merriam-Webster) are also keeping it fresh in the form of a variant called the Daily Sequence, which sees you complete four puzzles consecutively, rather than concurrently.
But Quordle is tough, so if you already find yourself searching for today’s Wordle answer, you’ll probably need some hints for this game too.
I’m a Quordle and Wordle fanatic who’s been playing since December 2021, so I can definitely help you solve Quordle today and improve your game for tomorrow. Read on for my Quordle hints to game #789 and the answers to the main game and Daily Sequence.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about Quordle today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Your Quordle expert
Your Quordle expert
Marc McLaren
Quordle today (game #789) – hint #1 – Vowels
How many different vowels are in Quordle today?
• The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 3*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
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Quordle today (game #789) – hint #2 – total vowels
What is the total number of vowels in Quordle today?
• The total number of vowels across today’s Quordle answers is 8.
Quordle today (game #789) – hint #3 – repeated letters
Do any of today’s Quordle answers contain repeated letters?
• The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 1.
Quordle today (game #789) – hint #4 – total letters
How many different letters are used in Quordle today?
• The total number of different letters used in Quordle today is 9.
Quordle today (game #789) – hint #5 – uncommon letters
Do the letters Q, Z, X or J appear in Quordle today?
• No. None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today’s Quordle answers.
Where Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day, Quordle presents you with four puzzles to solve. And rather than complete them in turn, you do so simultaneously. You get nine guesses, rather than the six for Wordle, but the rules are otherwise very similar.
As with Wordle, the answers are the same for every player each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world. And also as with Wordle, the puzzle resets at midnight so you have a fresh challenge each day.
The website also includes a practice mode – which I definitely recommend using before attempting the game proper! – and there are daily stats including a streak count. You also get Quordle Achievements – specific badges for winning a game in a certain number of turns, playing lots of times, or guessing particularly hard words.
Oh, and it’s difficult. Really difficult.
What are the Quordle rules?
The rules of Quordle are almost identical to those of Wordle.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray…
4. …BUT the word you guess appears in all quadrants of the puzzle at the same time, so an A could turn green in one square, yellow in another and gray in the final two.
5. Answers are never plural.
6. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
7. Each guess must be a valid word in Quordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
8. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses and there is no equivalent of Wordle’s Hard mode.
9. You have nine guesses to find the Quordle answers.
10. You must complete the daily Quordle before midnight in your timezone.
What is a good Quordle strategy?
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically.
That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but it’s even more important in Quordle.
There are two key things to remember.
1. Use several starting words
Firstly, you won’t want just a single starting word, but almost certainly two or three starting words.
The first of these should probably be one of the best Wordle starting words, because the same things that make them work well will apply here too. But after that, you should select another word or possibly two that use up lots more of the most common consonants and that include any remaining vowels.
For instance, I currently use STARE > DOILY > PUNCH. Between them, these three words use 15 of the 26 letters in the alphabet including all five vowels, Y, and nine of the most common consonants (S, T, R, D, L, P, N, C and H). There are plenty of other options – you might want to get an M, B, F or G in there instead of the H, maybe – but something like that should do the trick.
If all goes well, that will give you a good lead on what one or sometimes two of the answers might be. If not, well good luck!
2. Narrow things down
Secondly, if you’re faced with a word where the answer might easily be one of several options – for instance -ATCH, where it could be MATCH, BATCH, LATCH, CATCH, WATCH, HATCH or PATCH – you’ll definitely want to guess a word that would narrow down those options.
In Wordle, you can instead try several of those in succession and hope one is right, assuming you have enough guesses left. It’s risky, but will sometimes work. Plus, it’s the only option in Hard mode. But in Quordle, this will almost certainly result in a failure – you simply don’t have enough guesses.
In the scenario above, CLAMP would be a great guess, as it could point the way to four of the seven words in one go.
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Meet MSI’s latest and greatest QD-OLED gaming monitors
A great monitor all starts with a great display, and MSI QD-OLED’s offer the best performance you can get for PC and console gaming right now., that use a special graphene film to help heat dissipation and facilitate a noise-free, fan-less design, and all come with MSI’s warranty-backed OLED Care 2.0 technology to fend-off burn-in.
To maximise gaming performance there’s Adaptive Sync technology to prevent image tearing. MSI’s QD-OLEDs support the VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 high-contrast rating and designers will love that they can display 99 per cent of the tricky DCI-P3 colour gamut thanks to MSI’s QD Premium Colour technology (to a Delta E≤2) standard. FPS players will like the superimposed Smart Crosshair (which includes Sniper mode) to boost aiming accuracy. All gamers will love the rapid 0.03ms GTG pixel response time which marries with fast refresh rates to banish blur; plus MSI’s Gaming Intelligence App to access every setting via Windows. All have USB-A and (DisplayPort compatible) USB-C ports for KVM functionality.
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Even console gamers are catered for thanks to HDMI 2.1 ports that support 120Hz refresh rates and image enhancement technologies like VRR and ALLM to prevent image tearing.
Which is the right MSI QD-OLED monitor for you?
There are four main flavours within MSI’s next-gen QD-OLED gaming monitor range:
Blistering Speed!
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First up is the MSIMPG 271QRX QD-OLED. This 27-inch, flat-screen, 1,440p, 16:9 monitor is perfect for fast-and-frantic gamers who require ultimate pixel performance. The bright, colourful and high-contrast display has a 360Hz refresh rate which marries with the crazy-fast 0.03ms pixel response time to render, even the fastest moving objects, buttery smooth.
It also has a small, stable stand which pro players can get right up close to and its generous height, pivot, swivel and tilt adjustments mean you can tailor your positioning, just so. If your need for speed approaches greed, this is the model for you. Own the show for $1,799.
Furiously Fast 4K
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If you want more screen real estate, both in terms of resolution and physical inches, then check out the MSIMPG 321URX QD-OLED. This 32-inch behemoth’s 16:9, flat-screen display is perfect for gamers who need to see as much as possible, all at once. It has a UHD, 4K, 3,840 x 2,160 resolution that will enable you to see opponents coming from any direction or plan your attack with the best view of the lay of the land. There’s very little compromise in speed, too as it still offers an incredibly fast 240Hz refresh rate. Find it for $2,199.
Big n’ Curvy
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The 34-inch MSI MAG 341CQP QD-OLED is the choice to make if you want a curved gaming monitor (rated 1800R). These monitors are great if you want to reduce eye fatigue as your eyeball needn’t refocus as it pans across the screen. That’s particularly useful when you’re gaming for long periods, whatever the genre.
The ultra-wide, 21:9 format, high-resolution, 3,440 x 1,440 display has a fast, 175Hz refresh rate meaning it’s particularly perfect for flight sim and sim-racing games – it’s like looking out of a cockpit. The fast performance and plentiful real estate means you can clearly see rival drivers and hit those apexes perfectly when racing while the bright colours and impeccable contrast make flight sims even more realistic. It even has height, swivel and tilt adjustments. Get it exclusively at JB Hi-Fi for $1,999.
Go Wide, Really Wide
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The MSI MPG 491CQP QD-OLED gaming monitor (with a whopping 32:9 aspect ratio) is for those who want total immersion and an outlook that even caters to your peripheral vision. This curved (1800R) beast has a whopping 49-inch diagonal and this, coupled with the enormous 5,120 x 1,440 resolution, means you can see everything ahead of you, all at the same time.
It’s got a speedy 144Hz refresh rate meaning, whether you’re racing, flying, owning, or adventuring, the MPG 491CQP is the ultimate choice for immersing yourself in the latest and greatest, eye-candy rich games. It’s available now for a cheaper-than-rivals price of $1,999.
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So, whichever MSI QD-OLED gaming monitor tickles your fancy, upgrade to an ultimate gaming (and creator) visual experience today and be rewarded, not just by a phenomenal, endgame OLED gaming monitor and a peace-of-mind, anti-burn-in, three-year warranty, but a US$100 Steam voucher too! Click here for more details.
