MSI has revealed its latest range of gaming monitors to us at Computex 2026, and there’s a lot of exciting tech coming our way shortly. The company has shared some details about how its latest triple-mode screen works, while also lifting the lid on several other QD-OLED monitors and some Mini-LED and IPS models too. We’ve had the chance to get our hands on the screens ourselves at MSI HQ in Taipei, so let’s take a look at what’s on the horizon.
MSI MEG X
The new monitor that MSI is really shouting about is the MEG X, which brings several AI features with it, as well as some fancy housing. The latter includes aluminium plates on the back, as well as RGB infinity mirrors, and it looks good in the flesh. When you’re paying for a premium monitor, it feels like a bit of a letdown when it comes in plasticky housing, so it’s good to see MSI going to town here.
There’s also a strip of RGB lighting under the MSI logo at the bottom, which MSI calls the SpectrumBar+. This interacts with one of the AI features mentioned earlier, called AI Gauge, and it can detect the health bar on your HUD, which it then recreates in RGB form under the MSI logo. You can customise the position and size of the detection area it uses to find the bar you want to recreate, or you can alternatively set it to produce an ambient glow based on the colours on-screen, among other features.
There are a bunch of other AI gizmos as well, some of which look more useful than others. One interesting one is an upscaling system, which MSI says will make 1080p content “nearly 4K” standard. It can also automatically detect what type of game you’re playing, and adjust the profile accordingly, and change its brightness depending on the pixels it can detect on-screen.
Perhaps more importantly, there’s a 3440×1440 QD-OLED Samsung Penta Tandem panel here, complete with a 360Hz refresh rate and an RGB-stripe subpixel layout. The latter means the red, green and blue subpixel lights are neatly arranged in rows, rather than in a triangle with green at the top and blue and red at the bottom. This does a lot of work towards minimising the purple and green fringing around black text on white backgrounds, which has been a problem on previous-gen OLED screens.
MSI OLED 322URDX36
Next up is the OLED 322URDX36, which marks MSI getting a world first with its triple-mode screen tech. This monitor not only runs at a super-fast 360Hz refresh rate at 4K, which already puts it ahead of the current 240Hz pack at this resolution, but it can also step down to two lower resolutions with even higher refresh rates. That includes 1920×1080 at a super-fast 680Hz, which was previously only the domain of 1280×720 resolutions, but there’s also a middle 2560×1440 mode at 520Hz.
Naturally, this isn’t a true QHD mode, as you can’t use integer scaling to get from 4K to QHD, but we pressed MSI about this at the reveal, and were told that the 2560×1440 mode is still very sharp, largely thanks to this monitor’s use of an RGB stripe sub-pixel layout. Put simply, it’s not going to be as precise as a native 2560×1440 screen, but it will look sharper than a last-gen 4K QD-OLED monitor stepping down to this resolution. Oh, there’s also a really cool infinity mirror on the back with an RGB dragon in it.
More OLED fun
Two other QD-OLED screens have also been announced in MSI’s MAG range. The MAG OLED 271QPX32 offers a Samsung Penta Tandem panel in a 27in WQHD format. We’ve been really impressed by the brightness of Penta Tandem tech in our tests, which you can read about in more detail in our MSI MPG 322UR QD-OLED X24 review. MSI says the 271QPX32 supports both the DisplayHDR 500 and ClearMR 15000 VESA standards, and it has a 320Hz refresh rate. Meanwhile, the OLED 321UPX18 also has a Penta Tandem panel, but ups the resolution to 4K on its 32in panel.
Don’t forget Mini-LED and IPS
It’s not all about OLED in MSI’s new monitor range. If you’re worried about burn-in issues and text fringing, even if it’s minimal, then you may be interested in one of the company’s Mini-LED screens. In particular, the MAG 271KRAW18 (available in black or white) has a huge 5K resolution spread over its glossy 27in panel, which gives you a super-sharp 218ppi pixel density. At this resolution you get a 180Hz refresh rate, but you can also switch it to a 2560×1440 mode running at 330Hz. There are 2,304 local dimming zones, which provides a decent amount of brightness granularity, with DisplayHDR 1400 certification.
Finally, MSI has another 5K dual-mode screen to tempt you its way, but without a Mini-LED backlight. The MAG 271KPD7 still gives you that razor-sharp 218ppi pixel density, but only with a 75Hz refresh rate, although that’s still a decent setup for work. Plus, when you want to play games, you can switch it to its 2560×1440 mode and get a 300Hz refresh rate, quadrupling the speed.
There’s no word on pricing yet, but we hope to get that information soon. In the meantime, check out our guide to buying the best gaming monitor if you’re looking for a new screen now. We’re reporting directly from the show floor at Computex, and you can make sure you stay in the loop by adding as us a preferred news source and following Club386 on Google News using the buttons below.
