Electriq C series - 34" 3440 x 1440 VA QLED 144Hz for £350

Vvolix · 6 Oct 2020 at 14:19

Any early adopters kind enough to share their first impressions? I'm very tempted to pull the trigger on this one - specs seem almost too good for the price, £50 lower than the upcoming gigabyte.

Tutan · 6 Oct 2020 at 18:46

I’d like to know that too.
It’s bizarre that no one has even mentioned this monitor here.

Vvolix · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:14

Just bought one for 369 with 1 day shipping. Very curious to see what arrives in the box. Hoping for no dead pixels but we'll see. Making a jump from 24" TN so I'm curious to see the difference. Will post my first impressions tomorrow.

Tutan · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:19

Vvolix said:
Just bought one for 369 with 1 day shipping. Very curious to see what arrives in the box. Hoping for no dead pixels but we'll see. Making a jump from 24" TN so I'm curious to see the difference. Will post my first impressions tomorrow.

That would be helpful.I'm very interested in buying that monitor too.

Pauli_pierre · 6 Oct 2020 at 21:44

Does it use the same panel as the gigabyte/iiyama?

also looking at the back, it appears that it doesnt have vesa support.

Pauli_pierre · 6 Oct 2020 at 22:29

Just looking at it, apparently it doesn’t use the same panel as the flickering models......interesting.

Begbie · 6 Oct 2020 at 22:33

Pauli_pierre said:
Does it use the same panel as the gigabyte/iiyama?

also looking at the back, it appears that it doesnt have vesa support.

It does.

https://www.electriq.co.uk/p/eiq-34suwd144fshq/electriq-eiq34suwd144fshq

Under product info. It has to with a fixed stand really. It's hwo they save some money.

PC777 · 6 Oct 2020 at 22:39

I own the Electriq 27 1440P 95Hz IPS, been really happy with it, still up for sale but I got a way better price with vesa mount included about a year or so back.

Paid for a quality check so no danger of dead pixels, also even if just rebranded it's nice to have a UK brand as part of my setup.

Pauli_pierre · 6 Oct 2020 at 23:10

Begbie said:
It does.

https://www.electriq.co.uk/p/eiq-34suwd144fshq/electriq-eiq34suwd144fshq

Under product info. It has to with a fixed stand really. It's hwo they save some money.

yep missed that apologies. I have a monitor arm, would I need to buy an adapter or should the monitor arm attachment fit into the gap?

Begbie · 7 Oct 2020 at 07:22

Pauli_pierre said:
yep missed that apologies. I have a monitor arm, would I need to buy an adapter or should the monitor arm attachment fit into the gap?

100*100, should be OK?

I'd measure it to check. But vesa is a standard. No?

Pauli_pierre · 7 Oct 2020 at 07:28

Begbie said:
100*100, should be OK?

I'd measure it to check. But vesa is a standard. No?

I think I’ve misread it, ‘can be wall mounted with vesa approved bracket’ I think I read that as it will need an adapter.

Good to know!

will await the thoughts of the person that bought it in this thread.

ANDREW GREEN · 7 Oct 2020 at 10:10

Vvolix said:
Any early adopters kind enough to share their first impressions? I'm very tempted to pull the trigger on this one - specs seem almost too good for the price, £50 lower than the upcoming gigabyte.

I have one, absolutely love it.

It's a rebadged Mass Drop Vast - so you can look up reviews

I'd personally prefer a 144hz refresh, although my Vega won't hit that on new games

ANDREW GREEN · 7 Oct 2020 at 10:13

Oh so it looks like it's not longer a mass drop vast, has a worse stand but has a 144hz refresh instead of the previous 100hz refresh. I'll investigate to see if I can find what they've rebadged

Pauli_pierre · 7 Oct 2020 at 13:22

Yea I saw the 100hz variant online. This seems to be an upgraded model. Does anyone here have one? If it doesn’t suffer from the flickering issues then I am buying one.
How does it compare to the iiyama/gigabyte in terms of specs?

ANDREW GREEN · 7 Oct 2020 at 13:47

Pauli_pierre said:
Yea I saw the 100hz variant online. This seems to be an upgraded model. Does anyone here have one? If it doesn’t suffer from the flickering issues then I am buying one.
How does it compare to the iiyama/gigabyte in terms of specs?

Electrique buy other companies monitors and rebrand them. This one hasn't been on the market long because they were selling the massdrop vast before this. I think it'll be one of the 2 below rebranded:

dee · 7 Oct 2020 at 14:31

Really interested in user reviews from here to see what the story is.......could be the monitor I'm looking for!!

Tutan · 7 Oct 2020 at 15:27

ANDREW GREEN said:
I have one, absolutely love it.

It's a rebadged Mass Drop Vast - so you can look up reviews

I'd personally prefer a 144hz refresh, although my Vega won't hit that on new games

Isn't Mass Drop Vast flat panel? electriQ is curved..

Tutan · 7 Oct 2020 at 15:29

ANDREW GREEN said:
Electrique buy other companies monitors and rebrand them. This one hasn't been on the market long because they were selling the massdrop vast before this. I think it'll be one of the 2 below rebranded:

they don't buy other brand's "monitors" they buy panels from panel manufactureres like Samsung,LG,etc and put in their monitor,that's what many other brands do (Iiyama,AOC,Gigabyte,Xiaomi,Lenovo,even Dell,etc)

Pauli_pierre · 7 Oct 2020 at 17:51

ANDREW GREEN said:
Electrique buy other companies monitors and rebrand them. This one hasn't been on the market long because they were selling the massdrop vast before this. I think it'll be one of the 2 below rebranded:

I can’t find the thread but someone was saying that it isn’t the same panel as the above monitors you have stated. This is a QLED panel.

Vvolix · 7 Oct 2020 at 18:32

Overall after playing with the monitor for a couple hours I'm impressed with it. The monitor arrived in a thick Styrofoam coffin with no shipping damage to the box. It took one screw to assemble the stand and another 2 screws to attach it to a monitor. The colors are nice and vibrant and the difference between this VA and my old TN is a night and day. After running an eizo monitor test I found no dead pixels what so ever and only a little bit of backlight bleed in a round shape on the top left of the monitor, but even that was barely noticeable on a full black background. The OSD buttons take some time getting used to but the menu itself has everything you need including options including DCR, Hue and saturation sliders, Noise reduction, dynamic luminous control and MPRT. To be honest Im not sure what half of these do so I will have to play around with that later. There are even some build in crosshairs if you are into that. Now, the elephant in the room, the flickering. Using the bundled display cable and an rtx 3080 I noticed slight flickering on the left 1/4 of the display. Especially at the top. That is with a 141 fps lock. Dropping the frame lock to 120 did not fix the issue. Games tested were league of legends, cod modern warfare, escape from tarkov and watch dogs 2. I ordered a VESA certified 1.4 display cable to see if its the cable that's guilty or not. Lastly there is a nice red led at the back of the monitor around the stand. At the end of the day I'm quite happy with the monitor even if the flickering issue won't be fixed by changing the cable. For £369 with shipping I can't complain too much. The price is right.

Edit- After changing the gsync from both borderless to fullscreen only and launching the game in fullscreen the flickering disappeared from watch dogs 2.