LG 34GK950G, 3440x1440, G-Sync, 120Hz

Come on LG I just build my dream pc that cost me over 4k £ and I use 22" FHD monitor T_T how long do we have to wait for our pre-orders :D
 
JSoi said:
I'm in market for an ultrawide display, and I've narrowed my choice down to Dell AW3418DW, LG 31GK950G or Acer X34P.

LG is the most attractive option, but I'm worried about how the wide colour gamut affects photo editing. It's only on hobby level, so not serious and no printing, but still it would be nice to know if it's a problem editing photos in Lightroom or Capture One and uploading them online. Would I be better off looking at the alternatives in my case?
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If you want any sort of accuracy for the web you need to work with a colormanaged workflow. This can be done with any monitor close to sRGB or greater but if a wide gamut monitor doesn't have a somewhat accurate sRGB setting you need calibration/profiling equipment to create profiles that you can then use in colormanaged applications. If you don't do this, your content will always look different than what you edited because some of colors you were seeing aren't visible in sRGB space.
 
Piotr Kozak said:
https://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/11/26/lg-34gk950g-ultrawide-g-sync-gaming-monitor-review IGN Review :D , only 8/10 wtf ??? :confused:
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To be fair sounds like an accurate write up. I’ve cancelled my order as I’m not prepared to pay a cutting edge price for something if we’re honest, isn’t perfect, has a lousy 1 year warranty (yes I know EU rules may extend this but that’s added hassle) and hasn’t been thoroughly road tested yet by the consumer. I don’t doubt the panel will be superior vs. X34P and AW3418DW but not £500 worth superior. The value to be had remains with either X34P or AW3418DW especially if you can pick up either of these for around £650.
 
i received my monitor today :) i just set it up and did some laps in my favorite race sim :)
the ips glow is not bad at all. but its normal ips glow but if you cant stand that ofc its going to be annoying and there is no real back lite bleeding.
maybe a tiny bit on the bottom left but nothing really annoying and the monitor is crazy bright
i use about 50-70% brightness

you could say there is a lot of glow but its the same for my TN 27 inch 120hz Samsung S27A750D its no ips glow but its a total lit up black which is the same kind of crap but different.
the only thing that wont glow is oled but there are no oled gaming monitors. and personally i wont choose va because it ghosts a lot more.
ghosting seems real good to me coming from a 120hz TN i expected ips to be a lot worse but it isn't.

The ips glow you only notice on a totally black screen ingame or in dark spots ingame in the realworld you don't see the glow that much, and the colors of the wide gamut are fine too no weird colors at all imho.
its not crazy over saturated or something.
my screen runs fine @ 120 hz oc no problem!

here is a video of the screen in action this is how it looks in the real world ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYOfmeKd7U

 
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SKeijmel said:
i received my monitor today :) i just set it up and did some laps in my favorite race sim :)
the ips glow is not bad at all. its normal ips glow and there is no back lite bleeding.
you could say there is a lot of glow but its the same for TN 27 inch 120hz S27A750D its no ips glow but its a total lit up black which is the same kind of crap but different.
which you only notice on a totally black screen ingame in the realworld you see no glow at all and the colours of the wide gamut are fine too no weird colors at all imho
my screen runs fine @ 120 hz oc no problem! and i use about 50-70% brightness

here is a video of the screen in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYOfmeKd7U

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Thanks for the video ! Colours looks good and not oversaturated . Looking forward to test my sample , then I will decide if it's worth to keep it . Are U overall happy whith the monitor ?
 
Piotr Kozak said:
Colours looks good and not oversaturated.
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That's because the entire video is desaturated. I have the F version and running it in any Native gamut has oversaturated colors. How much that bugs a person is subjective. It doesn't bother me for games but for anything else(video, photos, everything web) I can't stand it.
 
kundi said:
That's because the entire video is desaturated. I have the F version and running it in any Native gamut has oversaturated colors. How much that bugs a person is subjective. It doesn't bother me for games but for anything else(video, photos, everything web) I can't stand it.
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Yea good point. I will have too see how it will be looks for me in real life and then make conclusion . Just best way to find out . I will compare that whith my eizo fs2333. I wish to have acer x34p and compare side by side but I don't think I will get one for 650£ , they looks like gone allready .
 
Piotr Kozak said:
Thanks for the video ! Colours looks good and not oversaturated . Looking forward to test my sample , then I will decide if it's worth to keep it . Are U overall happy whith the monitor ?
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After reading all the horror here ;) i am very happy and its a big step up. nothing that really annoys me on this monitor. and the stand is quite sturdy which is handy with my Direct Drive Force Feedback wheel. and the colors look very nice to me nothing too unnatural or too over saturated.
 
Brun said:
I'm a bit concerned with that as well, am in a similar situation to you. Have been tempted to go for the F instead, but really don't want to sacrifice gsync and latency.

If you can wait until the pre-orders have been shipped, I can upload side by side comparisons with a U2711.
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kaidanovsky said:
I have no experience on wide gamut displays so take this with a grain of salt:

As long as you are not doing prints, you can manage. And if it's not commercial.
Preferably you might have to do some double-checking on some other device, say, smart phone or another display to see how your works behave, but as long as you're not doing prints or doing design for a full-time time job, it's just a question of working around different kinds of devices.

What I'm saying is that yes, having no sRGB is a problem but as long as if you're on a hobby level and have access to different monitors / displays, i wouldn't worry about it too much.

When I was studying graphic design and layout work, I used a TN panel for Photoshop for several years. Don't ask... :D But I still got good grades.
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kundi said:
If you want any sort of accuracy for the web you need to work with a colormanaged workflow. This can be done with any monitor close to sRGB or greater but if a wide gamut monitor doesn't have a somewhat accurate sRGB setting you need calibration/profiling equipment to create profiles that you can then use in colormanaged applications. If you don't do this, your content will always look different than what you edited because some of colors you were seeing aren't visible in sRGB space.
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Thanks for the comments. I have other devices I can check how the photos look before I post them anywhere. I can calibrate the monitor with Colormunki Display, so the out-of-box image quality is not a concern for me. Usually I don't have to fiddle with colours too much either, because the photos look good straight out of camera too (Sony A7 III).

At the moment I'm using Dell 2715H and Asus PG279Q, but my girlfriend informed me that two monitors are not very visually pleasing to her in our new apartment. Naturally that means that I can go ultrawide now. :D I guess I'll wait for some impressions and see if the prices drop to the same level as the other alternatives.
 
SKeijmel said:
i received my monitor today :) i just set it up and did some laps in my favorite race sim :)
the ips glow is not bad at all. but its normal ips glow but if you cant stand that ofc its going to be annoying and there is no real back lite bleeding.
maybe a tiny bit on the bottom left but nothing really annoying and the monitor is crazy bright
i use about 50-70% brightness

you could say there is a lot of glow but its the same for my TN 27 inch 120hz Samsung S27A750D its no ips glow but its a total lit up black which is the same kind of crap but different.
the only thing that wont glow is oled but there are no oled gaming monitors. and personally i wont choose va because it ghosts a lot more.
ghosting seems real good to me coming from a 120hz TN i expected ips to be a lot worse but it isn't.

The ips glow you only notice on a totally black screen ingame or in dark spots ingame in the realworld you don't see the glow that much, and the colors of the wide gamut are fine too no weird colors at all imho.
its not crazy over saturated or something.
my screen runs fine @ 120 hz oc no problem!

here is a video of the screen in action this is how it looks in the real world ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYOfmeKd7U

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Thank you for the feedback, on the glow thing you do have local dimming (called FALD for the acer x27) that reduces it considerably as an intermediate steps between IPS and OLED which doesn't not yet exist for monitors. Of course the only monitors with local dimming yet come with a steep premium but I wouldn't be surprised to see those dropping quickly in price over the next year.
 
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