LG Flatron 29UM65-P (29") UltraWide Monitor Owners Thread

SINDRONE · 10 Jan 2015 at 16:56

I can't see any at all on Amazon that are 75 and 50cm long, 43cm's the longest i've found so far and it's £33

Nexus18 · 10 Jan 2015 at 17:01

Hmmm not too sure what you can do then

Maybe ergotron would have something although they are pretty damn expensive.

james.miller · 10 Jan 2015 at 18:13

i recon you'd be ok. might need a right angle connector for the hdmi port but should be ok ?

SINDRONE · 10 Jan 2015 at 18:25

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE Found one that's 47cm, doesn't exactly look the best and the black fascia's got pretty bad reviews on the next model up, but still 4/5. Think it'd fit?

SINDRONE · 10 Jan 2015 at 18:27

james.miller said:
i recon you'd be ok. might need a right angle connector for the hdmi port but should be ok ?

I didn't even know you could get right angle adapters, thanks for the idea

Clairvoyant · 24 Jan 2015 at 12:43

I got a DP cable, but every time my PC puts the monitor in to sleep mode. The only way I can get the monitor to come back on is to unplug the power from the monitor.

Snaggle · 3 Feb 2015 at 01:20

I got my 55 today ... happy with the quality but for some reason does not work with my dvi cable . So using hdmi atm

It seems to be more blue on the right hand side which is kinda worrying is this normal or adjustable ?

claypigeon101 · 22 Feb 2015 at 13:23

Snaggle said:
I got my 55 today ... happy with the quality but for some reason does not work with my dvi cable . So using hdmi atm

It seems to be more blue on the right hand side which is kinda worrying is this normal or adjustable ?

You probably don't have Dual Link DVI. Some DVI single link cables only support up to 1920x1080 I believe. This monitor is 2560 across

paulo7 · 22 Feb 2015 at 23:00

Is this better than a dell 2711?

Nexus18 · 22 Feb 2015 at 23:49

IMO yes.

chrysanthos · 17 Mar 2015 at 17:56

(new member here)
First off, hello all.
Secondly, I recently bought the LG 29UB55-B http://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-29UB55-B and it's very good.
Helped by the fellow members who recommended on the LG 29 21:9 monitors.
Luckily, I haven't witnessed any Bleed coming from it, aside the IPS glow (goes away when i get closer to that spot).
Good monitor overall, MASSIVE real estate( coming from a Samsung 20 inch Syncmaster).
So yea, definitely get it, if you arent ready to invest in big expensive GPUs to handle 4K (and above???

)

eg. if anyone has got any settings to try for the monitor settings( color etc)!!! I am ok now with Cinema mode, but wouldnt mind tinkering a bit

skarpinis · 17 Mar 2015 at 18:13

chrysanthos said:
(new member here)
First off, hello all.
Secondly, I recently bought the LG 29UB55-B http://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-29UB55-B and it's very good.
Helped by the fellow members who recommended on the LG 29 21:9 monitors.
Luckily, I haven't witnessed any Bleed coming from it, aside the IPS glow (goes away when i get closer to that spot).
Good monitor overall, MASSIVE real estate( coming from a Samsung 20 inch Syncmaster).
So yea, definitely get it, if you arent ready to invest in big expensive GPUs to handle 4K (and above??? )

eg. if anyone has got any settings to try for the monitor settings( color etc)!!! I am ok now with Cinema mode, but wouldnt mind tinkering a bit

congrats and welcome enjoy!

Moobert · 18 Mar 2015 at 18:38

Been looking at getting 29UM65 for the £290 mark but am worried its going to look a bit small, cant justify the price for a 34 though as id want to jump to 1440.

What size have most of you guys upgraded from

snips86x · 19 Mar 2015 at 08:26

I really liked it when I had it but the vertical height of the actual screen was too small. If it was a few cm bigger, it'd have been perfect. I subsequently sent it back and purchased a 27" ASUS 1440p panel! Much better

Vimes · 19 Mar 2015 at 09:04

snips86x said:
I really liked it when I had it but the vertical height of the actual screen was too small. If it was a few cm bigger, it'd have been perfect. I subsequently sent it back and purchased a 27" ASUS 1440p panel! Much better

Agree with those findings. It was like looking through a letterbox for me, with the lack of vertical height. I passed the 21:9 29" LG onto my Son and then bought a 27" 1440p.
For the balance of vertical and horizontal desktop space the 1440p much better suits my needs.
I was watching my Son play Dying Light on the LG and was surprised to see that some of the menus and overlays were still depicting in a 16:9 mode, if that makes sense. Things like that just do not happen with a 1440p screen.

Overall the 29" was a good screen but handicapped with the lack of vertical height for me.

snips86x · 19 Mar 2015 at 09:18

Vimes said:
Agree with those findings. It was like looking through a letterbox for me, with the lack of vertical height. I passed the 21:9 29" LG onto my Son and then bought a 27" 1440p.
For the balance of vertical and horizontal desktop space the 1440p much better suits my needs.
I was watching my Son play Dying Light on the LG and was surprised to see that some of the menus and overlays were still depicting in a 16:9 mode, if that makes sense. Things like that just do not happen with a 1440p screen.

Overall the 29" was a good screen but handicapped with the lack of vertical height for me.

Yeah, seems to be a common comment with the 29" Super-wide screen. I think the 34" would be better but prices are nuts!!

Vimes · 19 Mar 2015 at 09:25

snips86x said:
Yeah, seems to be a common comment with the 29" Super-wide screen. I think the 34" would be better but prices are nuts!!

It was one of those purchases where I wished that I had the chance to use one before I bought into the 21:9 aspect ratio LG. If I had then I would not have bothered.
Having two documents or photos etc side by side was useful but then the relative lack of vertical height made me think of it as only being half a monitor, chopped horizontally. I was forever scrolling to compensate.

As you note the 34" one might haven been better apart from the humongous price but then that would have given me another headache, this time with my GPU.

Pushing the amount of pixels around that a 34" has in comparison to a 29" wasn't something that I liked to think about. I also remember Mrk having horrendous issues with LG's customer services with his premium LG 34".

The 16:9 or a 16:10 aspect ratio monitor simply works better for me.

Nexus18 · 19 Mar 2015 at 10:02

I really like the 29" LG screen, I too would have preferred a few more CM in height but as said above, no way am I going to pay £700+ for a monitor unless it was OLED....

Saying that, I am now thinking of going with the benq 27" freesync monitor for a few reasons:

- as good as 21.9 support is, the lack of proper support for games is getting annoying and the flawless widescreen guys seem to be taking forever to add games and in some cases not even bothering i.e. COD AW
- motion clarity, for some reason (probably my eye sight getting worse

), I seem to be getting more sensitive to this
- stutter in games, hopefully freesync will eliminate this
- screen tearing, seems like some of the latest games are terrible when it comes to this now, having to use vsync which isn't ideal with the input lag + FPS drops below 60...

Vimes · 20 Mar 2015 at 17:13

Nexus18 said:
I really like the 29" LG screen, I too would have preferred a few more CM in height but as said above, no way am I going to pay £700+ for a monitor unless it was OLED....

Saying that, I am now thinking of going with the benq 27" freesync monitor for a few reasons:

- as good as 21.9 support is, the lack of proper support for games is getting annoying and the flawless widescreen guys seem to be taking forever to add games and in some cases not even bothering i.e. COD AW
- motion clarity, for some reason (probably my eye sight getting worse ), I seem to be getting more sensitive to this
- stutter in games, hopefully freesync will eliminate this
- screen tearing, seems like some of the latest games are terrible when it comes to this now, having to use vsync which isn't ideal with the input lag + FPS drops below 60...

My Son is just complaining that he can't find support for Far Cry 4 (FOV), I knew there was another reason to not have a 21:9 monitor and then I remembered all the fiddling around that I had to do with certain titles to get them to work, although sometimes menus and cut scenes etc were not changed.

Nexus18 · 20 Mar 2015 at 18:15

Far cry 4 isn't too bad for 21.9, certainly better than far cry 3 anyway. But yes it needed a FOV option still.

I found flawless widescreen great, easy and quick to use but as mentioned, it is more or less dead now

I don't think cut scenes etc. can ever be fixed though