34" UltraWide decision

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Ok currently have a lovely 32" 1440p VA 16.9 monitor which im extremely happy with. The urge to go ultra 21.9 has hit me hard (1440p version 60 htz).
Do i just drop £550 on one and hope ill like the edtra width (mainly for racing sims as i have a sim set up on a 42" TV atm)

Has anyone else recently gone 34" ultrawide 1440p and had no reservations about doing so. I'm not interested in g sync and 144htz and what not. I am determined not to get ultra fussy and anal about tearing and seeing beyond 60 htz because im bound to notice it, prefer it and then ill have a lot of monitors to replace and CANNOT replace it all and feed them with £800 quids worth of gpu`s for each set up . Do i go ultrawide or stay as i am for now for playing racers and benefitting from the wide aspect, and for first person shooters and Anno 2250 etc ?

Normally i just do as i please but i feel this is a big decision as what i have is top quality just not ultrawide .

Thanks
 
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I am in the same boat as you really just ordered a dell 3415 off the rainforest to give ultrawide a try if i dont like it after a week i will send it back. Not sure how my gtx 670 will cope though. Will post back tomorrow with my first impressions.
 
it will look like a smaller screen. in the Office the boss has a BenQ BL3200PT and I've got the LG 34UM95 ultra wide and the benQ looks bigger. Mine has more desktop real estate though and it's miles better to look at. If i was buying now it would probably be a 40" 4k panel though, so that doesnt help much lol

Not sure how my gtx 670 will cope though. Will post back tomorrow with my first impressions.
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It wont :p
 
james.miller said:
It wont :p
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Depends how much you're willing to compromise on settings. I'm playing GTA V @ 1440p (16:9) with a 560ti / g3258 and it's perfectly playable. VSYNC is on half so of course people are fully entitled to laugh at my 30FPS. :D

GPU/CPU upgrades are incoming when I've saved up some more pennies.
 
I have a 1550 mhz overclocked 980 gtx to power a 1440p ultrawide and a 40" 4k is too much to sit in front of let alone power gaming on it. My 42" LG is great to game on but everything else (ok it's 1080p) is just too much in your face and I set it to 4k with Nvidia drivers to see and ok it was smudged but nah 4k too tiny definitely. Either 34" ultrawide 1440p or I buy nothing and stay with my 32" VA 1440p
 
remember its a bigger pixel count as well, 2560x1440 (which looks the same as a 24 inch 1200p monitor in terms of IQ)

vs

3440x1440 (same IQ as a 27 inch 1440p but wider)

for this alone you should have a better gaming experience, what games you thinking of playing? i tried going back to 16:9 and it looks like someone chopped the sides off in games due to having less vision. i have also played fps games with friends over skype (rainbow six siege) where im trying to tell them there is a guy in the corner and they cant see him so maybe the ultrawide will benefit you in that regard too. I wouldn't bother with 4k unless you want to play on low settings, even my 980tis have a problem maxing some games out at 4k
 
marc2003 said:
Depends how much you're willing to compromise on settings. I'm playing GTA V @ 1440p (16:9) with a 560ti / g3258 and it's perfectly playable. VSYNC is on half so of course people are fully entitled to laugh at my 30FPS. :D

GPU/CPU upgrades are incoming when I've saved up some more pennies.
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anything's playable if you turn everything down i guess. I'm already doing that, though, with a 970 at 2560x1080, so the idea that a 670 will cope at 3440x1440 will cope fine is daft. OK, yes it will if you turn everything down, but it'll look rubbish.
 
GTX 670 won't cope at 3440x1440. You want a 780ti and up to cope with some settings turned down. 980ti for all the eye candy and ultra settings.
 
I went from 2560x1440 IPS to the LG 3440x1440 just before Christmas.

I can't go back. I had reservations, they went as soon as I sat down and used it for the first time :D
 
Imo the vertical space loss is not worth the resolution increase, not to mention the money. I'm in the exact same spot, BL3200PT atm, but honestly until they get some 4K >75hz monitors out, all I can see are sidegrades. The ONLY thing that's worth considering right now, is something with G/Freesync (but you said you aren't interested) and even then, if your hardware is much stronger than the games demand, it's no biggie.
 
Main reason for the additional purchase is I race a lot lately (g27) and I really like the field of view the extra width it'll give me, not to mention the wow factor. I'm not swapping it for my 32"VA 1440p panel, the ultrawide is additional purchase.
 
Mikey C said:
I went from 2560x1440 to 3440x1440 last month and absolutely love it.
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Well in my case a few months ago - both IPS panels - first was AOC 34" (went back due to other issues ) but did find the extra width 'too much' - kinda like movements out of corner of eyes which was a little disturbing/uncomfortable :eek: - second attempt was Dell 34" curved - still got it :)

With curved no problem with extra width - feels natural & for gaming and films 'great'. (Do not use for work much but had no problems yet when doing so)

You do need gpu's to power it - am currently running 2 x 290 which is probably a little ott ( when originally planning was thinking of a 4k monitor- which did not pan out)- if I were buying now would go for (min) 390 but more likely r9 Fury or Nano or looking on the Greeen side (min) 970 but more likely a 980.

Am assuming that it would be your intention to keep the monitor for 3 yrs so no point in going for the power to push 4k - if you were thinking that then a 980ti would be my choice.
 
To mention - the actual visible screen on my Dell - measured 'flat' is just over 31.5" & including frame it measures 32.5".

Probably not that much different to your existing 32"

Would still recommend the Dell but if you could ,try and have a go to see if it's for you.

Maybe it's an (old-ish (over 60) in my case) age thing - the liking of curve etc :D
 
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I've got the Dell U3415 and had an AOC 27" as my second screen. I broke the AOC (Hit by a falling speaker :( ) and have just replaced it with a Dell U2715.
I did think about getting a 4k (or the Dell 5k) screen but after gaming on ultrawide I don't think I could go back to a 16:9 screen.

As has been said though. Your 670 will struggle.

(Ignore the mess. I'm a slob)
 
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