Pros: Excellent Contrast Deep blacks No backlight bleeding Excellent sub-24" monitor for space constraints Good quality picture

Cons: Motion blurring is rather visible. Screen is slightly glossy, so shadows and reflections affect image quality.

Overall Review: This is a $250, 8ms monitor with an MVA panel. It has no speakers, although it does have an audio in port so you can attach your own. It also features a two-port USB hub so that you can attach USB devices without touching your computer directly. It features DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA connections, and both DVI and VGA cables are included. It's a very good monitor for what it is, but there's a 4ms version of this monitor available in Canada for the SAME price, and certain BenQ monitors use basically the same panel while costing $100 less and being 4ms panels. If I had to do this over again, I'd wait until mid-2013 to buy a new monitor, when all the good models will be out.

Pros: This is the nicest looking monitor I've ever owned, very easy on the eyes. Everything looks so clear and crisp. Better for movies than a lot of TVs I've owned, and it's just as good at rendering text. Other monitors I've owned are only good for reading, or for gaming/movies, but this one is great for both.

Cons: The touchscreen has increasingly malfunctioned, and cleaning the monitor doesn't seem to help. When I first got the monitor, it worked okay until this weird area in the upper left corner of the monitor began acting like it was being pressed. I was able to reset it by unplugging and reinserting the USB on the back of the monitor. Eventually, resetting it this way worked for shorter and shorter periods of time, until now I have to leave the touchscreen cable completely unplugged at all times if I don't want applications randomly closing or being launched.

Overall Review: LG has been making TVs and monitors for a long time, and it shows. But they clearly don't know the first thing about making touchscreens. I would have sent it back if it weren't such a great monitor. I couldn't stand the thought of having to use one of my other monitors while this one was being replaced. So, I'll just settle for having a touchscreen on my Surface Pro, and keep using a mouse on my desktop for the time being. I guess it will be a while before the manufacturers figure out how to make working touchscreens. Sigh.

Pros: I didn't realize when I purchased this motherboard that it was the cheapest Z590 motherboard MSI offers, so I have to admit I was a little worried after I found that out. I haven't bought a new motherboard in a while and so things like PCI-E slot armor and the M.2 slot cooler made it look very premium to me. I also liked the PS/2 port and the more professional look of not having LEDs, bright colors, or anything like that. I also don't use Wi-Fi on desktop, so I didn't want that feature. I've heard horror stories about entry level motherboards not having sufficient VRMs for overclocking, and I was wondering whether I'd actually be able to do a 5GHz all-core overclock on my 11700K with this board. I'd invested in an NH-D15 and wanted to get the most out of it. However, this one has everything you need for overclocking with a high-end air cooler.

Cons: The only real downside is that the standoffs for the M.2 slot are in a very small bag that doesn't stand out and isn't clearly labeled, so they almost got thrown away with the box before I could install my NVMe drive. I wouldn't have realized that I needed extra standoffs without watching the extremely helpful installation video on MSI's YouTube channel. Another minor issue is that the onboard LAN chipset seems to be very new, and thus wasn't detected by Windows 10 (or a lot of other operating systems) out of the box, and requires the included driver DVD in order to get online. In fact, I wound up having to buy a separate ethernet card in the end because none of the virtualization software I tried was compatible with the onboard LAN.

Overall Review: After researching this board, comparing it to others, and having tested what it can do, I would probably use this board again if I were building another 11th Gen Intel system. However, if I didn't need the PS/2 port and needed a LAN chipset with wider support out of the box, I might get the Z590 Torpedo instead. The Torpedo has a nice color scheme and looks like a solid board as well with a very similar design to this one, but it seems like both are very competent boards.