Monday, February 27th 2023
MSI Announces the MEG 342C QD-OLED with 175 Hz Refresh Rate
MSI, the world's leading manufacturer of true gaming hardware, is proudly expanding the hardware possibilities for all gamers. Since the MEG 342C QD-OLED's first leak in 2022, MSI continuously fine-tuned every aspect of it for a better gaming experience. Now, we're proudly announcing our MEG 342C QD-OLED is finally ready.
The 34-inch QD-OLED panel is an incredible combination of Quantum Dot technology and OLED panel that exhibits the best picture quality with a perfect pixel lighting control that presents a true black scene. The HDR peak brightness is leveled up to 1000 nits, passing the VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certificate and providing the ultimate immersive gaming experience with a super-fast 0.1 ms response time and 175 Hz refresh rate.
The color performance is further enhanced by quantum dot technology unlike other OLED monitors. The color volume reaches 97.8% Adobe RGB, 99.3% DCI-P3, and 139.1% sRGB with the most vivid colors in default Premium Color Mode. In professional mode with a DELTA E value of less than 2, the display color is stunning and accurate for greater experience in gaming, watching videos, and more.
MSI, as an industry leading brand, is always improving, and will keep challenging itself in the design of gaming monitors. The unique SpectrumBar is not only a light bar that supports RGB lighting effects through Mystic light function but also features a new Glow Sync function that let the light bar automatically sync to the displayed content.
MSI Gaming Intelligence and OLED Care function are the best examples of showing strong integration between hardware and software. Thanks to AI you will always be one step ahead of your opponents and reduce OLED burn in risks.
The MEG 342C QD-OLED also offered plenty of I/O ports to gamers who like to use KVM to control multiple devices through built-in USB hubs and charge smart devices with USB Type-C ports (Power Delivery up to 65 W) and 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports. It is equipped with 2 HDMI Port support 3440 x 1440 @ 175 Hz as specified in HDMI 2.1 and is compatible with the latest gen of console devices.
The available date will vary by region, so please kindly contact your local channel for further information. The expected first shipment date will be the beginning of March 2023.
The 34-inch QD-OLED panel is an incredible combination of Quantum Dot technology and OLED panel that exhibits the best picture quality with a perfect pixel lighting control that presents a true black scene. The HDR peak brightness is leveled up to 1000 nits, passing the VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certificate and providing the ultimate immersive gaming experience with a super-fast 0.1 ms response time and 175 Hz refresh rate.
MSI, as an industry leading brand, is always improving, and will keep challenging itself in the design of gaming monitors. The unique SpectrumBar is not only a light bar that supports RGB lighting effects through Mystic light function but also features a new Glow Sync function that let the light bar automatically sync to the displayed content.
MSI Gaming Intelligence and OLED Care function are the best examples of showing strong integration between hardware and software. Thanks to AI you will always be one step ahead of your opponents and reduce OLED burn in risks.
The MEG 342C QD-OLED also offered plenty of I/O ports to gamers who like to use KVM to control multiple devices through built-in USB hubs and charge smart devices with USB Type-C ports (Power Delivery up to 65 W) and 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports. It is equipped with 2 HDMI Port support 3440 x 1440 @ 175 Hz as specified in HDMI 2.1 and is compatible with the latest gen of console devices.
The available date will vary by region, so please kindly contact your local channel for further information. The expected first shipment date will be the beginning of March 2023.
18 Comments on MSI Announces the MEG 342C QD-OLED with 175 Hz Refresh Rate
Given how the Aliewnare and samsung oled G8 are selling, I don't see them decreasing price tbh.
Every price is increasing sadly..
i'm confident monitors are going to see the same exodus in next two years. cpu's as well.
gpu's def not.
Like the design at least ;)
Display HDR1000 – for Professional and Enthusiast Monitors
EDIT: noticed speclist
And prices are still high, very limited (And expensive) options for 5k*2k IPS panels with 144Hz, HDR 600 and a few other features (PiP, PbP, USB-C and maybe a KVM) with a reasonable price.
Nice offerings but looking around on reddit, at least the first three modes mentoined had annoying panel/firmware quirks and bugs...
Found out first-hand myself on the G8 unfortunately. Returned it and will wait on the next gen (QD)OLED monitors, hopefully the implementation will be smoother...
Just bought mine, I have a weird issue where the display increases speaker sound volume, by itself, but it's really infrequent.
Otherwise really enjoying it, HDR 10-bit, high refresh rate, looks amazing. No cooling fans and really neat design too.
- the increasing volume (a benign little bug, reported many times on Reddit),
- monitor not waking up the pc display signal after monitor sleep (see also Reddit),
- a funky pixel line that flashes random pixels at random colors in certain HDR scenarios (see also Reddit),
- monitor not remembering pc/laptop in the Home screen,
On top of that, I was getting intermittent black screens too, very frequent, too many to just ignore. They came in clusters with 2-5 seconds apart, the clusters between 5 and 50 minutes apart.
I know, 'try another cable', but I tried literally 8 different DP1.4 and DP2.0 cables in varying lengths, price brackets. HDMI connection also showed the problem.
Different display signal settings, Driver updates, Firmware updates, different DP port; all did nothing.
Different monitors on my PC (RTX 3070) with different cables: NO black screen issue at all.
Watching a Netflix movie on the monitor as a smart TV did NOT give black screens so panel was OK, but seeing as my PC was OK with other monitors, I'd say it was the G8's signal processing for some reason?