Primary use: Gaming
I am the kind of person to do a TON of research before purchasing anything. I was choosing between this monitor, predator x34 and asus PG348Q. After doing extensive research, i came to this monitor. Cant beat the design and 120mhz refresh rate! 2 clicks and BOOM - overclocked to 120mhz.
comes in a YUUUUUUUGE box, so make sure you have it delivered to your house and not your office. I'm talking TV sized box. Box came a little roughed up but that's shipping fault. Monitor was fine, tons of THICK foam in the box, you could prob roll it down a mountain and it would be fine (DONT TRY AT HOME). I chose next day shipping, arrived very quickly with signature confirmation.
Monitor is fairly heavy, stand is heavier than the monitor! If you do not have a fairly wide and long desk, this monitor will take up majority of your desk. I have the Kargby Ikea desk measuring 74 inches x 25 5/8 inches and with the stand it occupies half the desk. I decided to put this on a high quality desk mount instead to save me some space, there some "heavy duty" desk mounts available for monitors up to 32" and 20 lbs (works for 34" AW3418DW, which ways 16 lbs with no stand). Its a pain in the butt to mount by yourself, would recommend having help, but if you're lonely like me, its very much doable by yourself, just a tad bit harder. Looks perfect on a mount. BOMB DOT COM.
Too many people whining on here about Backlight bleed. Thats just the way it is with any monitors that come with this kind of display. There's always a small chance for backlight bleed, mine came with a very very small amout, not noticeable unless you really go and look for it. STAY AWAY FROM PREOWNED OR OPEN BOX VERSIONS OF THIS MONITOR. MOST LIKELY THEY ARE RETURNS WITH BAD BACKLIGHT BLEED.
I use this monitor primarily for gaming, i do not do ANY editing of sort at all. LOVE THIS MONITOR. even when you try to nitpick you CANNOT see any pixels. i upgraded from a BenQ 27" 144mhz refresh rate and i believe this is a very good upgrade. its not upgrading from a 20 inch tv to a 60 inch tv kind of upgrade, but you WILL notice the difference. Colors are rich and vibrant, with gsync on no screen tearing at all. With my GTX 1080 TI, games are EXTRA SMOOTH like cream cheese on a warm bagel. Especially when you bring up games with 21:9 support such as Ghost Recon Wildlands on ultra settings...SWEET BABY JESUS!!!!!! Performance so flawless makes you wanna scream!!! (not advisable especially at night). Sometimes i just like to sit in my chair and stare at my monitor. Backlight RGB LED of monitor is not really too noticeable to be honest and that doesn't bug me. would recommend 10/10. I'm trying to "force" my friends to get this monitor as well.
Disclaimer: not quite sure how this will perform on lower end graphics cards, GTX 1070 would probably be the minimum in order to get sick fps. well...you CAN use this with lower end graphics cards BUT you wont be able to get the most bang for your buck. i purchased this monitor with my new video card and motherboard. GO BIG OR GO HOME!!!!
Last but not least, this is the cheapest price you can get this monitor for. its $979 INCLUDING TAX AND SHIPPING. Other sites my offer lower prices, but when you add in tax BOOM 1k+++.
TLDR; read my review up there you wont regret it. butttt if still TLDR - Buy the monitor. Better than all the alernatives. You will find cheaper but with sucky screen panel types like VA and TN (EWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!) This is the cadillac of all monitors. If you are complaining about the price, then take your complaining somewhere else and go settle for a B or C rank monitor. Be the envy of all your friends and buy this.
| Standing screen display size | 34.1 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 3440x1440 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 3440 x 1440 Pixels |
