34UM65 or 4K

mrh2019 · 24 Jun 2014 at 14:57

Don’t know what to do, weather to go for a LG 34UM65 or a 4K monitor AOC or Samsung.
Will be used for internet/gaming etc.
This is doing my head in don’t know which way to go…
Regards,
Martin

N19h7m4r3 · 24 Jun 2014 at 15:03

Depends on if you want 2560x1080 or 3840x2160. That's a big difference, and personally I would go for the 34UM95 which is 3440x1440.

mrh2019 · 24 Jun 2014 at 15:38

N19h7m4r3 said:
I would go for the 34UM95 which is 3440x1440.

I would if I could afford it

wunkley · 24 Jun 2014 at 16:19

You'll struggle to run a lot of the best looking games at high details on pair of 670's on a 4k monitor. The 4GB is good, but you'll run out of grunt before any memory worries.
Unless you're upgrading your GPU's, go with the other. Or consider a 29inch 21:9 screen? Tighter dot pitch.

BubbySoup · 24 Jun 2014 at 16:23

It all depends how much you will use the monitor outside of gaming. IMO 21:9 can't be beaten when gaming, but a lot of people find the res is quite restrictive for doing any serious stuff in Windows.

Personally I find surfing etc fine at that res, which is the only other thing I do on my gaming PC.

AWPC · 24 Jun 2014 at 16:35

Avoid 4K for now due to font scaling issues in Windows & the extreme GPU power to get decent FPS.

Annihilation · 24 Jun 2014 at 17:14

I love my 4k but it's very gpu intensive. 3 way 290s are OK for example.

andybird123 · 24 Jun 2014 at 17:53

Having gotten fed up of ips blur at 1440, i recently went 4k and for gaming the 28 inch 4k's blow ips out of the water imo

BaDBoY_uK · 24 Jun 2014 at 17:57

N19h7m4r3 said:
Depends on if you want 2560x1080 or 3840x2160. That's a big difference, and personally I would go for the 34UM95 which is 3440x1440.

With free backlight bleed and poor customer service!

I would also avoid both the LG and 4k currently. Keep your money and save a tad more. Then buy DELL's 34" answer to the LG model

The 4k scaling issue and also some flickering issues being reported has put me off

snips86x · 24 Jun 2014 at 18:01

mrh2019 said:
Don’t know what to do, weather to go for a LG 34UM65 or a 4K monitor AOC or Samsung.
Will be used for internet/gaming etc.
This is doing my head in don’t know which way to go…
Regards,
Martin

*whether

BaDBoY_uK · 24 Jun 2014 at 19:45

snips86x said:
*whether

Words escape me on how helpful this post is... and how hilarious it is

shaffaaf27 · 24 Jun 2014 at 19:59

Kind of in the same boat, and like someone said, wait for dell's 21:9 1440p monitor

mangobreeder · 24 Jun 2014 at 20:00

snips86x said:
*whether

constructive

N19h7m4r3 · 24 Jun 2014 at 21:11

mrh2019 said:
I would if I could afford it

AOC have announced one, and it's supposed to come in around £600.

Ayahuasca · 24 Jun 2014 at 21:19

snips86x said:
*whether

*pathetic

eyetrip · 24 Jun 2014 at 21:32

snips86x said:
*whether

I feel you.

Don't understand why people get so upset at corrections like this...

wunkley · 24 Jun 2014 at 23:10

Count me in. I'm a grammar nazi. Can't abide thick people.

Weather your one or not two would have bean interesting to no.

Do I need to put an ironic icon thing after that? Hope not.

shaffaaf27 · 24 Jun 2014 at 23:12

Mispelt rather than grammar, no?

wunkley · 24 Jun 2014 at 23:21

shaffaaf27 said:
Mispelt rather than grammar, no?

Very good

mrh2019 · 24 Jun 2014 at 23:28

snips86x said:
*whether

I feel I need to say something but I can't be brothered

Anyway back to the matter at hand... most of the games I play are mmo based, gave up playing fps when they started being console ports, I'm in the trade, well TV repairs, I know from experience how BAD LG customer care is and i know in my head its a bad move even thinking at them...
Just wanna get away from the triple screens which I don't really use anymore and the 21:9 would be a nice replacement.
But having seen 4K TV's I know how good the pictures can look and I heard that with 4K res you don't really need to run AA etc to get a sharp picture. Looking at older benchmarks and reviews GTX670 in Sli is slightly better a GTX780... and the itch for something new is growing daily, if only I had better GPU's...