Iiyama GB3461WQSU-B1 - Flat 34" 1440 144HZ 1MS IPS Freesync for <£400

KungFuSpaghetti · 25 May 2020 at 20:05

devilman_079 said:
Hi all,

How are you finding working/gaming on a flat ultrawide? I sit about 2ft from screen and am in the market for a new monitor to replace my aging (but served me well) Dell U2412M monitor.

This Iiyama looks like a good deal and my last Iiyama served me very well (it was one of their Flatron Vision Master Pro CRTs ).

I was originally going to upgrade to 1440p and was looking at the Dell S3220DGF (having seen it on some very good discounts recently). However, given how long I intend to keep my screen, I think it is better to go to ultrawide in the long term .

I think I read somewhere that Iiyama have a curved 34 inch ultrawide coming out soon??? – but this will be on a VA panel (not sure if anyone has any details on this???).

My budget is up to £600 and I need Freesync as I went for one of Gibbo’s deals last Dec on a Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 5700 8GB GAMING OC.

Any thoughts appreciated.

The exact reason I got the screen was primarily for work. I already was using an IPS 144hz screen, but needed 2 screens and the previous screen being 32" meant an ultrawide was the obvious choice.
It's brilliant for working on, I can have my coding on one side and anything else on the other and size wise it's easily big enough and legible. I have increased my scaling in Winders to 113% but that's my 39 year olds eyes lol.

I had previously had the AOC CU34G2X 144 VA on order but cancelled for this. So far im glad I did.

Nexus18 · 25 May 2020 at 20:33

Matkinson said:
20 brightness. 50 contrast
Overdrive +1.
Warm colour setting.
Reduced the greens a few notches and red a couple. (using windows calibration)

Using this, I have found +2 to be better

https://www.testufo.com/ghosting

EDIT:

also, this is 10 bit, could be 8 bit + FRC but I don't think it is

Kratos1029 · 25 May 2020 at 22:00

Hi, anyone experiencing "no signal" after waking up from sleep? It works fine after switching the monitor off and on. Tried re-inserting the cables again and it appears to resolve itself, but reverts back to doing "no signal" again, after a while. I'm using displayport with my GTX 1070.

Reppyboyo · 26 May 2020 at 05:21

Nexus18 said:
Using this, I have found +2 to be better

https://www.testufo.com/ghosting

EDIT:

also, this is 10 bit, could be 8 bit + FRC but I don't think it is

+2 introduces overshoot for me. (look for the purple trails)

Nexus18 · 26 May 2020 at 07:15

Reppyboyo said:
+2 introduces overshoot for me. (look for the purple trails)

Can't say I notice any, there probably is but the motion of the UFOs looks a lot clearer to my eyes with +2 :/

EDIT:

Just to report, no issues with sleep etc. still.

Starting to think it could be nvidia gpus not playing nicely with the monitor?

Phage · 26 May 2020 at 08:00

Nexus18 said:
Starting to think it could be nvidia gpus not playing nicely with the monitor?

That was my thought, and why I posted the firmware update link. No issues on my 1080ti though

Matkinson · 26 May 2020 at 09:46

Yeah not having any standby issues on my 2070. Touch wood lol.

KungFuSpaghetti · 26 May 2020 at 10:06

My standby issues have gone for a few days now... really odd...

413x · 26 May 2020 at 10:09

When it says matte for the screen what does this actually mean? I'm not sure if my monitors are matte or gloss

KungFuSpaghetti · 26 May 2020 at 10:52

413x said:
When it says matte for the screen what does this actually mean? I'm not sure if my monitors are matte or gloss

It means it's not a glossy reflective glass like finish to the screen is all.

Nexus18 · 26 May 2020 at 12:50

As said above.

There are different types of matte finishes too, some have a hazy effect and some have no hazy effect at all. My 29um65 was superb for its finish, it had a nice "pop" look to it where the image feels like it's floating on top of the display where as the iiyama is ever so slightly muted, almost like a screen protector over it, but I am extremely fussy about this so it probably wouldn't bother 99% of other people

EDIT:

One other niggling "feature/issue", so when freesync is enabled, you can't enable any of the other features, which is understandable, however, can't even adjust the aspect ratio of the monitor to suit other systems with freesync turned on :/

KungFuSpaghetti · 26 May 2020 at 13:19

yeah I noticed that if you want HDR etc on then no freesync... although I'll be honest, I've never been able to tell the difference with having gsync/freesync enabled in games, but then I always try to target a minimum of 100fps in most games I play.

Nexus18 · 26 May 2020 at 13:22

KungFuSpaghetti said:
yeah I noticed that if you want HDR etc on then no freesync... although I'll be honest, I've never been able to tell the difference with having gsync/freesync enabled in games, but then I always try to target a minimum of 100fps in most games I play.

It's not really a big deal either as this monitor like 99% of the other so called HDR monitors out there don't actually have the proper hardware to do what HDR was made for, it's just a case of it being able to support a HDR signal and that's it.

KungFuSpaghetti · 26 May 2020 at 13:23

Nexus18 said:
It's not really a big deal either as this monitor like 99% of the other so called HDR monitors out there don't actually have the proper hardware to do what HDR was made for, it's just a case of it being able to support a HDR signal and that's it.

I dont really get HDR to be honest, just looks like someone has turned the digital vibrance up to 70% lol

Double07 · 26 May 2020 at 15:04

Kratos1029 said:
Hi, anyone experiencing "no signal" after waking up from sleep? It works fine after switching the monitor off and on. Tried re-inserting the cables again and it appears to resolve itself, but reverts back to doing "no signal" again, after a while. I'm using displayport with my GTX 1070.

Yeah happens now and again to me but I am used to it from my old monitor which also did it so it doesnt really bother me but I get it can be a bit infuriating

Double07 · 26 May 2020 at 15:06

KungFuSpaghetti said:
I dont really get HDR to be honest, just looks like someone has turned the digital vibrance up to 70% lol

Yeah you arent going to get proper HDR at this price point, its just not practical really. Its more there as a "yeah it can accept a HDR signal" but I wouldnt bother with it to be honest. Id rather have a good SDR image than a crap HDR one to be honest.

Fyter · 26 May 2020 at 15:42

Double07 said:
Yeah you arent going to get proper HDR at this price point, its just not practical really. Its more there as a "yeah it can accept a HDR signal" but I wouldnt bother with it to be honest. Id rather have a good SDR image than a crap HDR one to be honest.

I feel like HDR on current value monitors are gimmick, Id rather wait for OLEDs for HDR capabilities. They have true blacks and have deep rich colours. Having HDR on IPS which has low contrast ratio to begin with is wishful thinking at this price bracket.

firegate · 26 May 2020 at 15:52

Nexus18 said:
Can't say I notice any, there probably is but the motion of the UFOs looks a lot clearer to my eyes with +2 :/

EDIT:

Just to report, no issues with sleep etc. still.

Starting to think it could be nvidia gpus not playing nicely with the monitor?

Double07 said:
Yeah happens now and again to me but I am used to it from my old monitor which also did it so it doesnt really bother me but I get it can be a bit infuriating

Try to disable hybrid sleep (sleep settings in the advanced power options). That solved the issue for me, but at least once that setting turned itself back on. I will check the firmware upgrade tool later on my computer as well.

Nexus18 · 26 May 2020 at 16:44

HDR is fantastic on a proper display especially OLED, nothing like it.

Always pains me going from LCD displays to OLED.

Poolybit · 26 May 2020 at 19:54

Phage said:
Just a thought. Older GPU's may need a firmware update to use DP 1.3 or 1.4. Could it be that the cards are just not happy with the resolution ?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/nv-uefi-update-x64/

I have had the screen all boxed up ready to send back but I thought I would give this a try first. My card (1080) was flagged for an upgrade so I have done that and I will get it set back up again.

Out of interest those running nvidia cards who haven't had issues, have you got gsync enabled?