Samsung LS34E790C - Curved 34" 21:9 super-wide

Are you all guys using this with Windows? how many mac users have this monitor?

I am on Mac (mini hd4000) and am using the posted profile and made my screen look a lot better than from factory.

Brightness - 35
Contrast - 85
Sharpness - 60
Gamma mode - 1
 
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SaL<XXX said:
The post I was referring to was about using Hex2Bit to retain ICC colour settings in games.

basICColor's only useful if you have a calibrator.
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im with you, im beginning to think I could have a problem with my gpu, cs go tomb raider and wolfenstein the new order look fine but for some reason bf4 does not look that good shadows are poor and it looks as it could be running at a lower res,
i have a 290 that was used for mining, im thinking mabe it has a fault that cant handle bf 4 at this res
 
BF4 has a natural red tint to it as designed - maybe your previous monitor was calibrated differently? I've taken a quick look on the net and there's quite a lot of inquiries about that. Use 100% scaling ingame - If not, roll back your drivers perhaps.


BTW all - I've collected a bunch of images for 21:9 wallpaper and will be posting them up in this subforum soon :) As long as imgur doesn't fluff up with the upload. Edit: http://imgur.com/a/indej
 
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Mayh3M said:
PCM2 should i buy this over the Dell and LG models?

Going to place an order tomorrow. :)
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It depends what you're using it for. I'm not going to give too much away before publishing the reviews, but unless you're doing 'colour critical work' it gives the more enjoyable experience in my opinion. ;)

I should also add that if you do a lot of text heavy work and are really particular about sharpness then the Dell may also have the edge. But for gaming, movies and general purpose use I feel the Samsung has more to offer - as long as you take the time to tweak it.
 
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After having a Dell Rev A00 & A01 both which had horrific backlight bleed. I think I am going to give this monitor a try. Because there is nothing else in the Curved Widescreen category. I am sure it can't be much worse than the Dell.
 
PCM2 said:
It depends what you're using it for. I'm not going to give too much away before publishing the reviews, but unless you're doing 'colour critical work' it gives the more enjoyable experience in my opinion. ;)

I should also add that if you do a lot of text heavy work and are really particular about sharpness then the Dell may also have the edge. But for gaming, movies and general purpose use I feel the Samsung has more to offer - as long as you take the time to tweak it.
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Thanks a lot much appreciated. Gaming, movies and general usage is exactly what I'll be doing.
 
Eatchipz said:
After having a Dell Rev A00 & A01 both which had horrific backlight bleed. I think I am going to give this monitor a try. Because there is nothing else in the Curved Widescreen category. I am sure it can't be much worse than the Dell.
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I do feel it is too common to get a U3415W with a real issue in that department. With the Samsung you are much more likely to have superior black uniformity. And I have to say, if people think Dell cherry-picks their review samples they can think again. :p

I should add that the Dell does still provide a nice gaming experience, I'm sure that will come across in my review. But really I know how people are going to feel dropping this much money on the monitor and to find it has some real uniformity problems. If people are really patient and are willing to return a few times then that's fine (and they may have to do that with the Samsung, although less likely I feel).

I do still prefer the sharpness of the Dell, colour consistency and slightly prefer the screen surface (don't read too much into that last point as it's a rather subtle difference). The colour consistency of the Samsung is actually good for a panel of its type and size overall, but the shifts are still apparent and it's why I wouldn't recommend it so highly for photo editing and suchlike. The sharpness issue I really haven't noticed in images and I feel it's not bad at all when ClearType has been fiddled with, but I can see why if somebody bought both the Samsung and Dell and compared side-by-side they may feel the Samsung has an issue.
 
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The fear I have of returning my Samsung because of that little blemish on the right hand side (it's like there's too much pressure on that exact part of the bezel like when u press ur finger against the screen) is that I'll get one back with other, worse problems. And honestly in day to day use I don't even notice it. This one is definitely a keeper.

I was hanging on for the Dell. Indeed, I'd been waiting patiently since the LG 34UM95 came out. There were rumblings all through 2014 of Dell bringing out a 34" 3440x1440 monitor (and the model name was even leaked well in advance iirc). I've had my 2405FPW for 10 years and it's still going strong (it's now in full-time portrait mode beside the Samsung) but I just didn't like the look of the issues with the Dell.

The monitor itself looks great, I can't emphasise how much I love the idea of an integrated KVM switch, and it's much better looking than the Samsung (the stand in particular). I do like Dell's styling on their monitors, it's no-nonsense and not flashy.

In the end I decided that the Samsung was the safer bet (at least of this generation and I wanted something now) and I've not been disappointed so far.
 
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I was lurking around here reading up on the various threads to try and decide which one to go for and I just wanted to say "Thank you" for all the advice that's been present.

I've had my Samsung for over a week now and am loving it, it did look a bit pale out of the box, but the colour profiles and advice here has made it nice and lovely.

However have been having a few issues, not sure if any others have:

a) Windows rearranging when powering off the Monitor... google says that this is a Displayport problem, but i've not found a working fix yet (i've tried editing the registry "Virtual" desktop to no avail).

b) Every so often, maybe once every 5min or so, the screen will flicker, maybe as if the image is being pulled downwards. It doesn't happen during gaming but does when watching a video fullscreen (although it's just a slight flicker), it's most notable on the Desktop with a window open like as i'm typing this -.-'.

Thanks for any help :S.
 
vdbswong said:
I was lurking around here reading up on the various threads to try and decide which one to go for and I just wanted to say "Thank you" for all the advice that's been present.

I've had my Samsung for over a week now and am loving it, it did look a bit pale out of the box, but the colour profiles and advice here has made it nice and lovely.

However have been having a few issues, not sure if any others have:

a) Windows rearranging when powering off the Monitor... google says that this is a Displayport problem, but i've not found a working fix yet (i've tried editing the registry "Virtual" desktop to no avail).

b) Every so often, maybe once every 5min or so, the screen will flicker, maybe as if the image is being pulled downwards. It doesn't happen during gaming but does when watching a video fullscreen (although it's just a slight flicker), it's most notable on the Desktop with a window open like as i'm typing this -.-'.

Thanks for any help :S.
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just a thought have you installed the monitor drivers from the disc, also have you set the monitor to displayport 1.2
 
I don't get the flickering thing but I do get the first problem.

Before I got this I had dual monitors (a Dell 2405FPW and an old LG 19"), both on DVI-D and when coming back from sleep, I never had any problems with windows rearranging. Now, though, with the Samsung on DisplayPort (1.2) and the Dell on DVI-D, everything that was on the Dell now gets shoved over to the Samsung when waking from sleep. It's only a couple of VMs and a VNC session so it's not all the world to move them back over but it's annoying all the same.

I've got the Dell in portrait mode and I've put on DisplayFusion to break it up into two virtual desktops so I thought that might've been causing a problem but it's encouraging to hear somebody else suffering too.
 
@vdbswong: I thought the fix for your first problem was switching off the "Off Timer"

@Everybody: I've been speaking with a guy over at the Bit-tech forums and he's worried about banding on some websites, game loading screens and some skies ingame. I pointed out that they use often low res bitmaps etc, but also it's a drawback of 8-bit panels like TN and VA. Coming from IPS this bothered me somewhat, but now I'm OK with it.

I've posted up some shots here of my Samsung: http://imgur.com/a/v7wEa. 1 and 2 are screen clips, 3 and 4 are from my camera phone (overexposed of course). I'm presuming everybody here is getting this (and that Russian review supports this) - am I right?

It is really bothering him (he's using a borrowed profile), but I'm thinking he's perhaps calibrated his panel badly with possibly poor gamma.

Thanks for any replies.
 
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old gamer said:
just a thought have you installed the monitor drivers from the disc, also have you set the monitor to displayport 1.2
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Yup, tried both DP 1.1 and 1.2, still the same issues :(.

phiiil said:
I don't get the flickering thing but I do get the first problem.

Before I got this I had dual monitors (a Dell 2405FPW and an old LG 19"), both on DVI-D and when coming back from sleep, I never had any problems with windows rearranging. Now, though, with the Samsung on DisplayPort (1.2) and the Dell on DVI-D, everything that was on the Dell now gets shoved over to the Samsung when waking from sleep. It's only a couple of VMs and a VNC session so it's not all the world to move them back over but it's annoying all the same.

I've got the Dell in portrait mode and I've put on DisplayFusion to break it up into two virtual desktops so I thought that might've been causing a problem but it's encouraging to hear somebody else suffering too.
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Yeah, from what I'm read it seems like something to do with Windows now being able to "detect" when a Displayport monitor is connected (i'll get the new hardware found/lost sound sometimes when I turn off the monitor) and so it runs a virtual desktop at a different resolution.

I'm thinking it's doing it at the same resolution my old monitor was at, which makes me think that if I reinstalled Windows i'd eliminate the problem... but who wants to do that for a new monitor -.-'.

SaL<XXX said:
@vdbswong: I thought the fix for your first problem was switching off the "Off Timer"
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That would only be a fix for the Monitor turning itself off i think which would result in the same problem.

However there are times when I manually switch off the monitor (leaving stuff to DL overnight or just popping downstairs etc.) and when I come back and turn it back on i'll have to rearrange again (although now i generally just close everything).

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One other thing, which is probably the daftest question for asking... is there an easier way to turn off the monitor apart from "Menu -> Power Off"? When shutting down the PC it puts the monitor into Standby and then when you hit the Menu button it takes about 5-10s to Power back up only to turn it off again.

Not really sure where i've placed the Manual either >.>
 
vdbswong said:
Yeah, from what I'm read it seems like something to do with Windows now being able to "detect" when a Displayport monitor is connected (i'll get the new hardware found/lost sound sometimes when I turn off the monitor) and so it runs a virtual desktop at a different resolution.
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Thinking about it again, I now think we're talking about different problems. Only the stuff that's on my secondary monitor gets moved over the primary (the new Samsung) - everything that was on the Samsung stays where it was before the monitor(s) went to sleep. I've put it down to not having used DisplayPort before and it does something differently. My 2405FPW was pre HDMI so both old monitors were on DVI-D and maybe both being connected via the same interface meant that Windows knew how to deal with them properly in a dual desktop environment. All of that is just a guess though.

And I've not been turning mine off, I assumed that was the way to go because it immediately went into standby as soon as I turn off the PC. As for the manual, it's on the CD that came with the monitor. There was a paper quickstart guide but I don't remember seeing a printed manual. Here's a link to the PDF on Samsung's site.
 
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