LG 27GM950B-B Buyer Beware
As I’m sure some people have seen, LG’s offering for 27” 5K@165/2K@330 Mini LED has been a bit of a disappointment. Like everyone else, I am experiencing the issue of the right side of the screen looking jagged when compared to the left side. Honestly I could have lived with that issue and waited for a firmware release to patch that up, it’s only really noticeable under certain conditions.
What I absolutely can’t live with is this issue I’m having with the fan. The fan will randomly decide to spin up to max speed and after a couple minutes, the monitor shuts off. Sometimes it does this once or twice, sometimes it does it several times in a row. It’s completely random and I have checked in the diagnostic menu’s history to confirm that the monitor is being shut off due to a fan error. I opened an RMA with LG and they are asking me to buy a box (my bad for not keeping the monitor box I guess) and ship it out to them instead of just replacing. I’ve had the monitor for 17 days which is just outside of their return window of 14 days and they wouldn’t authorize a replacement.
Extremely disappointed with the whole experience and wish I would have just waited for the MSI option.
Overall review:
Monitor: 0/5 Avoid
LG: 0/5 Avoid