Just bought the LG 32GK650F and it is working out quite well for me

Deepak

I bought this monitor around 5 days ago.
I have been using it for 5-7hrs each day.
I never had the piercing headache like I would get when I used large (24"+) IPS monitors.
Right off the bat, the monitor image was much easier on the eyes.
I instead had different kind of issues - I call it the "VA kind of strain".
To give you'll an idea, these are the feelings I felt:
"wrecked, wretched, bad, disgust-ness, bittery, nausea, miserable, malaise, sickish, burnt out firey (head and stomach), irritated itchy eyes and stomach, buzzed head, disrupted/scrambled energy."
This was felt the strongest in the 2nd day after I bought it.
However, during the 3rd and 4th day these effects reduced significantly.
Like my body was getting quickly adapted to this.
And now it's the 6th day, and I was able to use it for 4hrs+4hrs with a break in-between.
I almost feel normal now using it, and I believe another few days it will be even better.
This is such a relief, because now finally I can use a monitor, and that too a 32" sized one (my favorite size).
Even now I get a bit woozy and scrambled after using it for many hours, but its not that bad, and I recover quickly too.
Another interesting thing is that, my eyes get a little red and slightly itchy sometimes, but in some other ways they are actually more relaxed and fresh using this monitor because I assume it is from the 3.5ft distance away from me, unlike my laptop which is usually only 1.5ft away from my face.

The settings I used were:
125% scaling/1440p/144Hz, Night light at 45% (I sometimes turn it off too), Brightness: 0-20.
I also sit around 3.5ft away.

K-Moss

Deepak How is the coating on that LG unit? I notice with my very matte HP IPS, if I don't have it on full RGB, I get more strain. I can run my low haze HP IPS either on full RGB or Limited. It's the very matte finish of the other one that requires the vibrancy of full RGB to effectively pierce through the haze coating.

On the other hand, some find Limited mode in general more comfortable. Like I say, I can use Limited with good vibrancy on the low haze unit. I've found from experience I prefer as little haze as possible.

mydevicedefineme

Deepak Are you using AMD based chip in ur laptop/desktop?? I am asking this because your monitor has Radeon Freesync. So, will it work smoothly with intel/nvidia based laptops too?

Deepak

K-Moss
Yea it is a lighter matte coating for sure.
I would say sort of in-between a glossy one and a full grainy matte.
That could be a contributing factor like you mentioned.
Ideally it could have even lighter, but it is much better than the full grain one for sure.
When switched on, I cannot notice it much at all though. Only when off I notice the lighter haze coat.

I compared it to my other IPS monitor which I will be selling soon.
The colors are more muted in the 32GK650F compared to the IPS.
In the IPS, the blue, green, reds, orange, pink are more punchy and intense, giving higher vibrancy.
Here even on RGB Full, it still looks sorta easier on the eyes, slightly de-saturated/muted.
I would say it looks more like "Limited" even on "RGB full".

The blacks are pretty good though, noticeably blacker than IPS.

Deepak

mydevicedefineme
I am using a laptop with Nvidia GTX 970m.
Yea, unfortunately I cannot take advantage of the FreeSync feature even when using DP1.2 in theory.
I read in some places that only from 10-series onward can Gsync work with Freesync monitors.

Motion handling overall I'd say is not stellar.
I have not compared it side to side with an IPS, but in some YT videos and in motion videos in general, I kina feel it is slightly smudgy.
With respect to games, my FPS is usually between 20-30, so I am barely taking any advantage of the 144hz, not even 60 for that matter lol.
Maybe the very large 31.5" screen makes one notice the imperfections more? I dono.
Overall its not a deal breaker though. You can get used to it.

In maybe 3-4 years time, I could finally get the dream montior: 4k 144Hz 32" 12-bit color, HDR1000 OLED (with burn in resolved) 😀.

Deepak

Update: After 6 months of purchase:
I still mostly use my laptop screens only.
Only sometimes I would watch a movie or a few videos on the large monitor, and then get back quickly to the laptop screens again.

I've noticed I have to sit a solid 4-5ft away to minimize the eye irritation effects.
But then that totally removes the immersion advantages and the screen size then is similar to having a laptop much closer to me.
If I sit closer, like arm's length away, then just 15-20m is enough to irritate the eyes.

The interesting thing is that, these "eye irritation, slight burn, itchy eyes, slight blur" effects happen many hours after I finish using it.
Like for instance if I use the monitor for 30m in the evening, I would get the irritated itchy eye effects at 10pm in the night (4 hours later)

Similarly if I watch a movie on the monitor in the night for 2-3 hours and go to sleep, the next day, I'll feel my eyes are a little weaker, get a bit burny and itchy easier.

The effects are not a deal breaker, but compared to having perfectly painless eyes, even the slightest irritation turns me off, and then I do not feel like using the monitor much at all.

There is something that is irritating my eyes related to the backlight I think.
It is not related to motion, because even if I simply keep the static desktop on it, I still get those effects.

Damn! I wish I could find some new tech like an OLED monitor with DC dimming or something in the near future, where I can enjoy a 4k 144hz 32" HDR experience sitting arms length away in immersiveness, and have 0 eye strain. As of now that is just a pipe dream.

Another issue is because of this I am forced to only buy laptops.
Because any desktop would need me to use a monitor, and with an external monitor comes a host of these deal breaker level issues.