Samsung 34" 3440x1440 Curved VA 100HZ Freesync

[Nexus18]

So then, anyone buying one of these? If so, post your thoughts + pics/videos please.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...ero-dot-widescreen-led-monitor-mo-232-sa.html

£800 is a rip off for a monitor but given that it could be the new king of ultrawides, it isn't badly priced in that regard and should be a nice stop gap until 2019+ when we start to see OLED monitors (hopefully...), at least until it goes back to £1000, in which case lol...

Also, will you be reviewing this any time soon badass or/and PCM2?

EDIT:

PCM's review of the smaller model sounds rather promising

https://pcmonitors.info/reviews/samsung-c24fg70/

 

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Yup I am expecting the price to plummet as even when the first version of the acer x34 freesync was £600, it wasn't selling well enough and gibbo/ocuk stopped listing it altogether.

Yes, I've requested a sample but will have to wait a week or so for an update on that as the guys are on their Christmas break still.

PFFFFFFFT!

Slackers

 

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Another thing that bothers me is for around £100 more you can get Samsung ks7000 hdr 4k 55" local dimming, the monitor isn't really offering anything more other than freesync & 100hz.

Yup exactly why I refuse to get any of these high end monitors now, just not worthwhile paying for them when you can get a superior display/tv for similar pricing, even significantly cheaper models will be far better than these 'high' end monitors... As you said, the only reason to get a monitor nowadays is for g/free sync or/and lower input lag. The thing is, freesync will be coming to TVs and consoles so the only advantage for monitors will be the low input lag then... Won't be much longer until the 2016 55+" OLED 4k HDR drops to £1500

EDIT:

Heck even my neighbours 40" LCD Samsung TV has superior IQ than my monitor and it was about the same price iirc (£300) as well as being a couple of years older...

 

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Gibbo has said 3-6 months for gsync and that it will cost more.

It is going to be interesting seeing the price as the freesync version of this looks rather thin so I imagine Samsung have had to do a lot of re-designing etc. in order to accommodate the gsync module. As I said in another thread, I will laugh if the gsync version is around £1300/1500 and laugh even more at people who buy one at that price when you could get a LG 4K OLED HDR 55"+ currently for £1600 and by the time the gsync version comes along, it might be even cheaper than the gsync version

When will this be happening do you reckon?

Well supposedly the current consoles and even some TVs have the required hardware for freesync already so all that is needed is a firmware/software update for both but I won't be surprised if Sony + Microsoft + TV manufacturers withhold the feature for the next gen consoles and new TVs for marketing purposes i.e. giving "another" reason for people to upgrade so yeah, I am expecting things regarding freesync to kick of when the new gen consoles are announced.

 

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The problem with 4K TV's is the response time will not even be close to this monitor. PCM2 messured the 24" 144hz display as 4ms and i'd expect this to be similar. Even the best 4K TVs are in the 40ms range from what i've seen which is a huge difference! Combine that with the strobing mode for motion clarity and the benefits of a higher refresh rate and i don't see how a 4K TV can compete if you are mainly interested in gaming.

I don't know about LCD TVs as I've got no interest in them but OLED technology has superior motion/pixel response times than any LCD/144HZ display. Saying that... I don't see any reputable TV review sites ever stating a figure for response times, only ever input lag, which is usually between 20-40ms. For MP gaming, that input lag is a big no no but for single player games, <30ms is fine imo.

 

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I was interested until I saw read that the monitor was silver and not white, at first glance it looked white and I thought yeah maybe I could get this to go with my white case that doesn't go with the rest of my set up and décor but.....nooooo

Personally I hate silver/white products Especially for monitors, don't know why they didn't go with a nice gun metal finish.

34" Acer freesync's are still for sale as they always were under a slightly different revision number as they er, revised something:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/acer...tra-wide-led-zeroframe-monitor-mo-11d-ac.html

Yeah only difference is the curve iirc.

I was referring to the first version, originally launched at about £800+ and just kept dropping in price right fown to £600 (and regularly on sale for £560) but gibbo said it just didn't sell well so they stopped. If that one didn't sell well at £600 then this new version stands no chance of selling well at that price either.

 

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Well it seems like this guys prefers the microboard over the samsung 34"....

 

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Yeah some of his reasoning was a bit stupid and he is awfully hung up over the extra 5HZ lol, other main points were:

- price, samsung wasn't worth it in his opinion (which I would agree with tbh)
- colours (although not sure if he calibrated the samsung one or not, pretty sure he said he had a calibrator in his asus 34 VS microboard 34" video though...)

And yeah warranty, customer service etc. is the only real downside with microboard, if I could get one through the rain forest for £600 or less, I would jump at that. Seems like most people are getting good ones though i.e. no dead pixels, uniformity or bleed issues.