KTC M27P6 Best Settings Guide (Patreon)

Full review of this screen available here: https://youtu.be/DpIOWQYhw7w

Gaming and general settings

Overdrive = leave this on 'standard' for 160Hz mode operation and VRR. If using dual-mode 320Hz then you can move this to 'Ultra Fast' but only if you're getting 160fps and above frame rates. If you're getting lower frame rates, there's little need to use the dual-mode anyway, you might as well stay in native mode and set the resolution in your game to lower (like 1080p), but stick with 'standard' overdrive mode then.

Hot key shortcuts = it's useful to set one of these to local dimming and another for brightness, so you can easily change those settings in SDR mode between general apps and gaming/video.

Adaptive-sync = On, unless you want to use MPRT mode in certain gaming situations

Low input lag = on

SDR setup

Professional preset mode = Native (for wide gamut and to use with our calibrated ICC profile).

Or set to sRGB, DCI-P3 or Adobe RGB as appropriate if you want to clamp to those colour spaces all the time (don't use the ICC profile with those though)

Brightness = set this to whatever you find appropriate and comfortable for your ambient light conditions. A setting as low as 7 would be as close to 120 nits as possible if you want to target that luminance specifically.

Contrast = 50

Gamma 2.2

Colour temp = User

RGB = 50, 50, 49

Calibrated ICC profile attached below-----------------------------------------

Local dimming = in SDR mode enable this perhaps for gaming and multimedia, but we would recommend leaving it off for desktop and general usage. We found the 'low' setting to give the best balance between brightness, contrast and gamma, but experiment to see what you prefer.

Black equalize (SDR) = you can move this up from default 50 to 60 or maybe even 70 to improve shadow detail if needed for gaming, but it raises the black point a little if you do, especially at 70.

HDR setup

HDR preset mode = VESA DisplayHDR

Local dimming = low

Colour temp = Warm

Black equalize = increase this to 60 (minor black raise in doing so). Anything above that raises blacks noticeably and too much