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“Best color experience” is entirely subjective – certainly for your uses. But don’t worry about it. Just use the MAG274QRF-QD as is, which will use the native gamut and full saturation and see how you find it. With reduced brightness, as you’re already used to. You may like how it looks natively, in which case you don’t need to worry about any of that. If you find the saturation too strong and you dislike that (entirely subjective), then that’s where you would want to work to cut that down. But it’s also very easy to switch between the ‘Pro Mode’ colour spaces to change the look if you need to. It is, after all, just a preset on the monitor. And installing ICC profiles as guided in the article, if you wish to try that out an alternative is also a possibility. One you may or may not wish to explore. The articles I’ll link you to guide you through everything and explain the purpose of various things, so to be clear you have 3 options:

1) Leave the monitor ‘as is’ with its native gamut.

2) Select a ‘Pro Mode’ for a named colour space (Adobe RGB, DCI-P3 or sRGB) to give your preferred ‘look’ and saturation levels. Or try colour space emulation at the graphics driver level, if you prefer for extra flexibility.

3) Use an ICC profile, with caveats explored in the article and previous few posts.

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Some feedback shared by AliveNoMore on the MSI here. As you can see, they’re coming from a very different monitor and there will be an adjustment period – but even early on there are some good positive experiences shared as well.

[AliveNoMore]

Hello again!

Not sure if this thread is the best place for the question but it seems appropriate. I apologize if it isn’t.

I was recently made aware of the novideo_srgb tool. Since the MAG274QRF-QD has sRGB emulation and it’s closer to a set-it-and-forget-it option (the driver-level tweak having to be re-applied in certain situations), is there any point in using the tool instead of the monitor option? Would the tool provide a more accurate sRGB clamp, or should they be close enough to each other?

Also, if I may sneak another question that is somewhat still related to the emulation.
I may be able to get my hands on some calibration hardware. Since the MAG274QRF-QD unclamps the sRGB mode when color temperature is customized (or if any other profile other than “Normal” is selected in the “Color Temperature” setting), my guess is that I would need to calibrate the monitor at its native/full gamut as only then would I have proper access to the necessary controls, and clamp it with the novideo_srgb tool after the calibration. Or would it be better to calibrate it with novideo_srgb clamping already active since I plan on using sRGB constantly anyway?

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In general you will probably find either method of sRGB emulation just fine for the MAG274QRF-QD. The advantage of the GPU-level clamp is that you can use a preset on the monitor which uses the full native gamut and therefore doesn’t restrict your colour controls. If you wish to adjust the white point (or colour channel balance) you can do so. You may not feel the need to do that, in which case it’s probably best to stick to the monitor’s own emulation. The GPU-level clamp relies on generalised data from the EDID of the monitor (which works just fine for general viewing), whereas the setting on the monitor is usually calibrated at least to some degree for your specific unit. And as noted in the article: “…significant corrections are applied at the GPU level, this can introduce slight banding which you may notice if you view fine gradients or work with very subtle variations of shade.”

To make sure you get full sRGB gamut coverage and to allow you to tweak as much monitor-side as possible, you should calibrate the monitor with your calibrator using the full native gamut and all the controls unlocked. A neat thing about the novideo_srgb tool is that you can allow it to read from the ICC profile via the ‘Advanced’ tab, as covered in the article. You should then use the tool alone without the ICC profile active – which should give you a well-tuned sRGB experience for all applications.

[AliveNoMore]

Many thanks for the information!

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