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Hello everyone, I most recently had an LG 34UC97-S curved monitor that went out on me after a year of usage. It was a perfect monitor other than a few minor draw backs. It had a 10 bit panel, IPS, 3440x1440.... Now I'm trying to find something to replace it and I want the best possible monitor on the market similar to what I had. I have went ahead and bought a OLED C7 55' tv to use as a monitor, and while the colors are amazing, it's too big and making me dizzy and nauseous so I'll be returning that.

Here is what I am comparing:

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ASUS ROG Swift Curved PG348Q

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Alienware AW3418DW



If money was no object, what monitor would you buy, and why? I'm also open to other options, these two are just the ones most similar to what I had.

I know asus is coming with ROG Swift PG35VQ but it will be a while and I keep hearing it's a VA panel and I prefer IPS... I need something asap so I can't wait.
 
From my personal research, the Dell is the current top 3440x1440 monitor to have. Hits the most check boxes for must haves.
 
If it is IPS, it will not be the best monitor in the world, by a large margin: low contrast, backlight bleed and IPS glow.

With caveat that after gaming on OLED, everything will look terrible to you.
You will need at least VA+ULMB to counter OLED contrast and 0.1ms response time.
 
First of all I wouldn't buy a gimmicky ultrawide, the standard will probably never even get proper support. Nor would I buy IPS, these modern day panels with bleed, excessive IPS glow and lack of A-TW polarizer aren't worth the IPS hype.

The new LG 32GK850 seems a really really awesome monitor, good 165Hz VA panel with nice response times + no obvious uniformity issues or "VA glow" because of bad black viewing angles like on the Samsung CHG70's.
 
ULMB is only useful if you can maintain 120 FPS without dips, using V-Sync to cap games to 120 FPS. Otherwise G-Sync (or FreeSync) is the way to go for most people in most graphically intensive games.

I have the new LG 32GK850G-b and with G-sync on it is far from "eye raping". It's a fantastic gaming monitor.
 
geok1ng said:
lack of ULMB puts it miles behind the CHG70s when it comes to gaming. VA without ULMB= eye raping blur.
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I was fine even with the CHG70 with strobing disabled. The 32GK850 is supposed to be even better without strobing than the CHG70?
 
geok1ng said:
I dont condone buying monitors without checking pursuit camera images first. CHG70s are a blurry mess without scanning ( they allegedly do not strobe, but instead scan), adn i am yet to see a VA that does not degrade image quality when running above 120Hz.

just check this review to compare Va with and without ULMB:
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_rog_strix_xg35vq.htm#response
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CHG70 is far from blurry mess though. My laptop IPS screen is a blurry mess, or U2312HM without overdrive is a blurry mess, but the CHG70 is just fine unless you really start nitpicking.

The real problem with the CHG70 is gray uniformity and low black viewing angles.
 
I like the IPS screen because of the color vibrancy and saturation.... That's why I also like this OLED, but it's just too big. So far I've yet to find a viable replacement. I prefer something with G sync because there will be less motion blurr and my titan XP SLI setup with a I9 7980xe will have no problem pushing 100+ frames on most games.
 
I've seen some stray comments about image retention on these early run OLEDs. Is that really true in the year 2017 practically 18?
 
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I like the IPS screen because of the color vibrancy and saturation.... That's why I also like this OLED, but it's just too big. So far I've yet to find a viable replacement. I prefer something with G sync because there will be less motion blurr and my titan XP SLI setup with a I9 7980xe will have no problem pushing 100+ frames on most games.
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I'd trade you my ASUS X34 for your OLED :D Hopefully you'd find what you're looking for. I for one looking for OLED
 
I have a 2 year replacement on image burn in with OLED (if it happens). The problem is the size of the screen. I wish they made OLED monitors.... The only OLED monitor is dell for 3.5k. and even then that’s a flawed design vs a HDR OLED C7 tv.
 
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geok1ng said:
lack of ULMB puts it miles behind the CHG70s when it comes to gaming. VA without ULMB= eye raping blur.
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I'm not moving to using ULMB until I can have both G-Sync and ULMB. We know NVIDIA has researched this, filed patents, and has yet to apply those patents to released products.
 
Get the LG 38UC99

It's 38" widescreen. The size and resolution is fantastic. I prefer it over 34" widescreen.
 
Love my x34, it has everything I currently want in a screen, and its over two years old.
when a GPU can push 4k at 120fps, then maybe Ill look at a new screen, until then though its x34 for me.
 
After searching in Google and found Acer S277HK is the world best monitor in 2017. Hope its correct. :)
 
I got th Asus PG348Q, and the colors looked so washed up compared to the OLED that I literally couldn’t stand it lol! I guess I’m going to stick with my LG C7 55’ for now.... nothing better it seems is out for now.
 
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