DISCLAIMER: I bought this used, for just under 200 bucks - 199.18 to be exact. This is going to be rotated into portrait as a second monitor eventually, but I needed a fairly decent, cheap monitor at about 144hz as I was upgrading to a desktop after using a chunky lil Acer Nitro laptop, which also had a refresh rate of 144.Unfortunately, as many who have bought this have noticed - This monitor has a ghosting issue. Or non-issue, depending. I found if I turned off AMD Freesync, the ghosting issue decreased incredibly to the point it's only truly noticeable in certain areas, although you tend to see it easier with shadows on in windows performance settings, with windowed applications being moved on a dark-to-light PC background.The reason is because this is not an IPS panel, but a VA panel. In fact, most (As far as I know!) Samsung panels are VA. VA panels have the con of, surprise -- Ghosting! As well as losing colors if you look at the monitor from the sides. However, it lacks IPS's notorious glow and usually has better blacks than most IPS panels - Although personally, a good IPS will always beat a decent VA panel as IPS glow doesn't bother me as much as the ghosting :')This specific monitor has the best blacks I have ever seen, and while it's not the most color accurate panel, after messing around with the on-board monitor settings as well as Nvidia control panel settings it has become rather nice to view videos/movies, although I have a drawing tablet with a screen which I will always prefer over this for color accuracy... I'll leave both of those settings down at the bottom of the review in case - Haven't set it up using windows monitor calibration though, mostly because I struggle with it more than a bar that goes up or down depending on my fancy lol (Side note on color/brightness, do NOT use the eye care mode. It personally made my eyes strain more having it on than off, as well as turning everything gray and lowering the brightness so much even in the dark it made it hard to see.)Please note that while this monitor is a decent brightness, it is only 250 nits. Generally speaking, you'd want something about 300 nits or more, but maybe this is more of a "me-problem" and nit-picking than anything. It does the job, but I don't exactly have any way to really get a good performance-test look at it in a daylight-bathed room, sun shining on it, bright lights, etc. It's rather lovely in a pitch black room, since it really isn't that bright, but otherwise it is definitely useable in moderate lighting scenarios as that is how I like my lighting.The height adjustment is rather nice, as well as the rotation to portrait and angle adjustment by twisting the monitor from side to side. It makes for a rather nice main monitor despite everything, and the base doesn't extend past the monitor in length although it does come out a bit in front of it. I'm quite short (about 5'2) and have the monitor at the highest height and tilted just slightly down. So far I've found that quite comfortable, and I have also tried it lower but it was uncomfortable for me.On a side note - This monitor says it has speakers, which is partially true - If you connect your headset/sound device to it. It doesn't actually produce sound but rather has a sound card (I hope that's the correct term lol) that is used by the DP or HDMI cable, whichever one you use, although it comes with a displayport cable. Or perhaps mine is just faulty and it does have external speakers, but I doubt it :')Overall, my experience with this monitor can be put as "Just OK." I bought it for just under 200 (Shipping+Tax) and for the price, the quality is decent. Would I recommend this monitor? Maybe as a secondary monitor, but definitely not as a main unless you don't mind a bit of a ghosting - Personally I find it rather tolerable but I know many others don't. General advice would be to find an IPS GtG panel and buy used - Monitors these days are so expensive to buy new. Just double check what they say the damage is on the monitor, as it's usually only cosmetic issues on the sides/back - Although mine personally doesn't have any blemishes that are visible.The value of this monitor at the price I got it I would say is definitely worthy of the quality you get. Any more than 200 is a rip off in my honest opinion.For those that want it, my monitor settings laid out:Samsung Monitor Settings; Picture mode=RTS / Black Equalizer=20 / Response Time=Fastest / Brightness=100 / Contrast=60 / Sharpness=68Nvidia Control Panel; Digital Vibrance upped to 60%.I included a picture of the monitor as it is currently on my desk, no desktop icons + a Windows default background, though I'm not sure how helpful this picture is, I'm still going to include it just in case - And also apologize for the photo quality, my phone camera isn't exactly the greatest.