Introduction

Dough, formerly known as Eve, prides itself on being a community-driven gaming monitor brand. The company actively (and publicly) communicates with its customers through the r/doughcommunity subreddit, discussing product features and upcoming updates as well as tackling issues. This approach is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it’s great to see a manufacturer that proactively shares information about its products and is willing to face customer inquiries head-on. On the other hand, as you can imagine, the most vocal members of such communities are usually the ones with something to complain about. As a result, the subreddit paints a fairly bleak picture; at a quick glance, you might get the impression that Dough’s monitors are barely operational, which doesn’t match my two-month experience using the Dough Spectrum Black 32 at all.

The Spectrum Black 32 is the company’s current flagship product. It’s a 31.5-inch 4K OLED monitor equipped with LG Display’s third-generation WOLED panel with MLA+ (Micro Lens Array Plus) technology, which maximizes light emission through a layer of micrometer-sized convex lenses to achieve very high peak brightness. On the gaming front, the Spectrum Black 32 boasts a 240 Hz refresh rate at 4K, but the monitor also supports Dual-Mode functionality—originally introduced by LG—which switches it to Full HD at 480 Hz with the push of a single button.

There are three variants of the Spectrum Black 32 available. The one I’m reviewing has a matte screen coating and comes with no USB hub. It’s equipped with a single USB-C port, which can only be used for firmware updates. Then there are two variants with Gorilla Glass 3 covering the panel: one without a USB hub and one with it. The USB hub variant offers a USB-C port with DP Alt Mode and 100 W Power Delivery, a 10 Gbps USB-C upstream port, two 10 Gbps USB-C downstream ports, and two 10 Gbps USB Type-A downstream ports. This variant also has an integrated KVM switch and a DisplayPort 2.1 port instead of DisplayPort 1.4, supporting daisy-chaining. Additionally, there are three 27-inch 1440p variants of the Spectrum Black available – with and without a USB hub/Gorilla Glass – using a similar WOLED MLA+ panel and offering the aforementioned Dual-Mode functionality.

Specifications