***21.9 Ultrawide Thread***
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Cheers dudeThe second one turned out to be better. Not massively - there's still some issues in the bottom corners - but enough not to be noticeable during general use. Otherwise it's excellent and I haven't been as happy with a monitor since my old FW900, which costs an arm and a leg!
I've only ever bought an very expensive monitor once and it was the first one i bought, a 20" compaq in the late 90s, which cost about the same as the PC tower to go with it, im starting to to think about biting the bullet and just sell up my AMD stuff and go nvidia so i can try out one of these bad boys with gsync.
I've only just finally got enough radiators to keep these 290x cards cool without a load of fan noise, i think 4 radiators might be a bit overkill for a 1070
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Ordered the X34A along with the EVGA classified 1080, so looking forward to good bash of gaming on this
Good purchase.
Loving my combo so far
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I can't justify the premium. My 390x is still doing sterling work and the freesync monitors, to me at least, are better value. Polaris has me more excited than the new nvidia cards too. I'll be sticking with 2560*1080 until there's 1440 options with less of the issues we have currently. A bit of bleed is ok on something costing £370 - for something nearly a grand, it would wind me right up!
3440x1440 at 200HZ (supposedly TN panel) is the new boss!
If it's TN it's the boss of nothing... weak feeble loser more like. Not want.
And those pictures... I'd like some monitor with my bezel please! Yuck.
If it's TN it's the boss of nothing... weak feeble loser more like. Not want.
And those pictures... I'd like some monitor with my bezel please! Yuck.
Considering the vast majority of "Gamer" IPS panels suffer from annoying Glow, I would rather pick a TN with shoddy Vertical Gamma. Not to mention the superior image clarity in motion.
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This. I wouldn't trust any IPS/VA to behave properly at that refresh rate. I'm already kinda sceptical on the Agon, which will be VA at 144hz so, a good TN at 180 juicy Hz and hopefully not being priced in kidneys? Hell yeah.
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TN at that size? The gamma shift should be a major flaw.
Why? Wouldnt be much worse than that Samsung VA 34".
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Are you kidding? The VA has better viewing angles. There is just a simple color shift viewing it from far Right/Left/Up/Down
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Hah, yeah. TN colour shift is unacceptable once you've had a VA or IPS. Doesn't matter how good the TN performance is, it's just not good for viewing angles.
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My 34" VA Samsung does never look so bad, like this...
Every size above 24" make no sense for TN imo. 27" might be acceptable, but even bigger? should be horrible.
I'm hoping either PCM2 or Badass can give their thoughts here but it seems highly unlikely this display is actually TN - there a no known TN ultrawides in production so it would be very strange for it to suddenly appear. On top of that the specs (35 inch, 1440p, 144Hz+) completely match AUOs planned VA panels. In short - it's probably VA.
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That summarises my thoughts nicely.
I haven't seen anything approaching official confirmation of the specifications for this model and I think until then anything should be taken with a pinch of salt. Being especially cautious about something as fundamental as panel type.
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I'm not sure it matches that "+" after 144 you put there. Which is the main reason why this one is supposed to be TN, but hey, if you tell me that a native 144hz VA panel can be overclocked at 180/200 (means keeping it below 5ms constantly and _for real_) without melting colors into a grey-white-ish blur then I'm fine with it being VA
I thought the same, but that picture speaks volumes and really looks shocking from that acute angle. My X34 looks nothing like that so I can't see this is IPS, and if your VA 34" doesn't either, that does point more towards this being TN unfortunately... which is a major fail in my view but I can still see it selling at the right price, just as many other TN's still do. TN doesn't seem to bother people who are already on it... it's only us who've lived with IPS and VA that can't stomach it.
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You have no base to compare it to. You'd need an image taken in the same room, same lighting conditions and same camera settings from directly in front. Otherwise there is nothing to go on. The room is clearly very bright and all you can really see from the image is a fair amount of glare (as expected from such an angle) and an image affected by the camera taking the image.
True, well we'll see what comes of this. I can't see the sense in them making a TN 21:9 at this size... never thought I'd see it tbh, but it would be cheap to make and they'd make a tidy profit selling them so you never know! As Warbie mentions though, I'd have thought we'd have heard of such a panel in existence which we haven't.