Considering an ultrawide monitor

IvanDobskey

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I currently have a 27 inch 1440p ips monitor. It has a little backlight bleed and is only 60hz, but it is still a decent monitor.

I am wondering whether an upgrade to a 34 inch 1440p ultrawide 100hz monitor would be a worthwhile upgrade?

Looking at the Samsung cf791 specifically.
 
I went from a ROG Swift 27" 1440 to the ROG 34" and for me it was worth the upgrade. Some games still don't support 21:9 but the extra desktop space is useful.
 
IvanDobskey said:
I currently have a 27 inch 1440p ips monitor. It has a little backlight bleed and is only 60hz, but it is still a decent monitor.

I am wondering whether an upgrade to a 34 inch 1440p ultrawide 100hz monitor would be a worthwhile upgrade?

Looking at the Samsung cf791 specifically.
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I'm just having a playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins and after many times playing it the first time experience on 21:9 is amazing and it supports it natively!! Well worth it although sometimes I do kind of forget it's 21:9 and have to take a moment to have a look around the monitor.
 
Yeh, same 1440 rows of pixels, just wider.

I'm keen on the idea of a VA panel with the quantum dot tech to improve the colour and the 100hz refresh rate though.

So there should be other improvements other than just extra width.

The ips glow and backlight bleed is annoying. Although I have seen plenty of monitors worse than mine for this.
 
The move to 100hz and ultrawide will definitely be a worthy upgrade. Have not tried the Samsung personally but I can certainly spread the love regarding my Predator X34a!
 
Well the Samsung is pricey enough, so I don't think I'll be going for the predator or Asus ROG monitors.

Thanks for the insight, I'm mulling things over :)

Got a holiday to pay for first though.
 
I still have my swift alongside my X34 ( IPS 100Hz G-Sync), and if one of them had to go....it would be the swift , do have to say though an ultrawide is not a replacement for two monitors .

Although some video files can be a bit blocky.
 
Got it all set up now and I'm very impressed!

No dead pixels or backlight bleed that I have noticed so far :)

Both elite dangerous and Witcher 3 look fantastic.
 
I have an Acer wide-screen VA panel it does suffer from some ghosting which can be reduced playing around with settings but you do then encounter motion blur in certain situations by switching off the OD, if Samsung have managed to prevent this occuring then that is good.
 
Glad to hear it, strange how with pc monitors they think Ips are the best and va the worst yet with TVs it's the opposite. I have a ips TV and its awful
 
Ips have good colours and viewing angles, but suffer badly on contrast / blacks and also backlight bleed / ips glow.

I know VA has suffered with washed out colours in the past, but the quantum dot tech seems to help this on the Samsung.

There is a little colour shift when you are off-centre but nothing too jarring. Overall I'm really pleased with it though.
 
I know I have an LG IPS Uhd TV has terrible blacks, has low contrast so could never be true HDR as you need peak brightness of 1000 nits for that, bad light bleed too, but the colours are good quite natural, whereas on a TV VA does offer good HDR less light bleed and much better blacks
 
There are advantages and disadvantages for different panel tech, but having had VA and IPs now, I can safely say I much prefer VA.

Nothing more annoying than backlight bleed for me. There is zero noticeable bleed on my Samsung.
 
IvanDobskey said:
Got it all set up now and I'm very impressed!
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You didn't mention what card you're using?
If it's a Vega card, do you see any flickering with FreeSync enabled at all?
There's a rumour going around that the FreeSync flicker is fixed with Vega but not other FreeSync capable cards on this monitor and if so, it's making it look very attractive right now as there's still no FreeSync2 monitor atm with similar specs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6uxa3u/rx_vega_64_cf791_no_freesync_flickering/
 
I read about the freesync flicker issues.

I'm using an Nvidia 1070, so can't really comment on this.

I considered a gsync monitor but the extra £300 and ips panels put me off.

Don't want to deal with backlight bleed again. The Samsung is VA and has zero bleed.
 
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