MSI’s intelligent new 500 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor can detect once you go away the display screen and switch itself off to start its anti-burn-in cycle

Should you thought your gaming monitor was quick, effectively, it may be. However as quick, as intelligent, and as luscious to have a look at because the newly-announced MSI MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50? I doubt it. MSI’s 27-inch, 1440p, QD-OLED magnificence was in entrance of my very eyes right this moment at Computex 2025, and it is bought fairly the spec sheet—together with MSI’s AI Care Sensor for a spot of monitor peek-a-boo.

Permit me to elucidate. A CMOS sensor module sitting on the backside of the show captures photos of whoever’s sitting in entrance of the monitor each 0.2 seconds, then filters that info by means of an NPU (yep, right here comes the magic of AI).

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Must you resolve to stand up and make a cup of espresso, the monitor can detect your absence, then swap itself off and start its OLED care cycle to stop burn-in. You’ll be able to sit again down in entrance of it earlier than it is completed, too, and it will flip itself again on with out grievance.

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I used to be proven a brief clip of the monitor appropriately staying on for a human topic, then switching itself off when confronted by a dragon plushie, so it is bought that all the way down to a superb artwork, a minimum of. In apply, the monitor used within the stay demo was a contact sluggish to react—though an MSI rep advised me it might be a lot sooner by the point it reaches the cabinets.

Anticipating privacy-related points, my MSI hosts have been eager to level out that the AI Care Sensor captures photos for detection, however would not retailer them. Simply as effectively, actually. In any other case this explicit monitor would have hundreds of images of my haggard, jet-lagged visage on file, and no person deserves to see that.

Not solely can the sensor flip off the monitor solely, however it could actually additionally activate adaptive dimming, which auto-adjusts the display screen brightness once you look away to save lots of energy—and auto-adjust the color temperature of the show to compensate for the extent of ambient mild in a room.

I am undecided I am solely offered on the concept of my monitor messing with the settings for me, AI-powered or not—but when it really works in addition to MSI says it does it could effectively prolong the screens lifespan fairly considerably, in addition to make it look higher over the course of a protracted day.

All this ties in with MSI OLED Care 3.0, which additionally extends the utmost obligatory OLED refresh immediate from 16 hours to 24. That ought to imply much less interruptions for these of you irritated by such issues. I am undecided who’s leaving their OLED monitor on for 16-24 hours straight to start with, nevertheless it positive appears like an enchancment, a minimum of.

Again to the specs. With a 500 Hz refresh price the MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50 is blazing quick, and a 2560 x 1440 decision is well-suited to its 27-inch panel dimension. As you would possibly count on from a monitor with these credentials, it isn’t low-cost—$899, to be exact—which places it in competitors with the slower, but nonetheless beautiful MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED, which might typically be discovered for roughly the identical cash.

That is a 32-inch 4K stunner, so whether or not the large refresh price (and spectacular get together tips) of the MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50 wins consumers over stays to be seen.

The identical panel additionally comes (with out the AI Care Sensor) within the type of the $849 MAG 272QP Q-OLED X50, which was sitting considerably forlornly off to the facet in a really crowded room. It nonetheless seems like a stunning show, however everybody wished to play with the sensor-equipped model.

It isn’t daily you see a monitor taking part in peek-a-boo, I assume, and at $50 extra I reckon just a few would possibly pay the additional only for the novelty.

Nonetheless, I’ve stood in entrance of loads of luscious shows through the years, and these two actually seem like beautiful panels within the flesh. MSI makes a number of the greatest gaming screens we have examined so far, and I will be anxious to see if both of those two make the lower once we get them in for assessment.