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

perosus · 6 May 2015 at 08:54

Just got one of these yesterday, and so far very happy with it. This comes from someone who has previously returned no less than THREE of the IPS models from Dell/LG, due to terrible backlight bleed.

Happy to finally have a new monitor, that doesnt feel like a compromise, and a nice upgrade from 27" 1920/1080!

nacho_man1 · 6 May 2015 at 12:03

Matson said:
Does anyone else seem to get more eye fatigue with this screen than other screens?

I didn't really get any on the IPS screens I had and I don't with my HDTV but when I look at this screen after a while it starts to hurt my eyes.

I did and one of the reasons i returned mine. Less than 10 mins use and my eyes were killing me. Maybe i need an eye test for that screen but with my current 24" and 27" ips i have no issues what so ever. o.O

a66as · 6 May 2015 at 12:09

i cant decide between this and the dell ips

Matson · 6 May 2015 at 14:20

nacho_man1 said:
I did and one of the reasons i returned mine. Less than 10 mins use and my eyes were killing me. Maybe i need an eye test for that screen but with my current 24" and 27" ips i have no issues what so ever. o.O

Hmm yeah I seem to be the same. No problem with the IPS panels I had but with this one my eyes start hurting after a short time

old gamer · 6 May 2015 at 16:35

matson does text look any better if you put it in cinema mode as i noticed this sharpend up a lot of things

whyscotty · 6 May 2015 at 16:51

Really liking this monitor apart from the slight red tinge on the lower half of the screen.

I take it that it's a fault or does calibration sort it?

Sorry if this has been asked b4.

Matson · 6 May 2015 at 17:18

old gamer said:
matson does text look any better if you put it in cinema mode as i noticed this sharpend up a lot of things

Looks the same for me...plus I lose calibration if I do that. I think its just the type of panel that's effecting me. I never had this with my TN and IPS monitors.

Matson · 6 May 2015 at 17:20

whyscotty said:
Really liking this monitor apart from the slight red tinge on the lower half of the screen.

I take it that it's a fault or does calibration sort it?

Sorry if this has been asked b4.

Some of these have a red tint to them. Some worse than others.
My First one went back because it had a really bad red tint on both sides of the screen. This one I have now is perfect and has no red tint at all. Its just luck really what you end up with. You can dial some of it out with calibration though but some panels will be good some not so good.

whyscotty · 6 May 2015 at 17:25

Matson said:
Some of these have a red tint to them. Some worse than others.
My First one went back because it had a really bad red tint on both sides of the screen. This one I have now is perfect and has no red tint at all. Its just luck really what you end up with. You can dial some of it out with calibration though but some panels will be good some not so good.

It's not too bad, problem is I keep looking for it now

Thanks for the reply

old gamer · 6 May 2015 at 19:04

whyscotty said:
It's not too bad, problem is I keep looking for it now

Thanks for the reply

this screen does get better the more you use it, well this is my thought

Mayh3M · 7 May 2015 at 06:04

My screen(s) all had a red tint on the left side. Its annoying when I'm doing work on white backgrounds where it's easily noticeable. I've been through a number of these and in the end I gave up and just kept the last one.

The one monitor which didn't have this problem had a dead pixel... All in all quite demoralising really. Other than this though the monitor is seriously good, hence why I'm willing to live with this nuisance.

whyscotty · 7 May 2015 at 08:13

old gamer said:
this screen does get better the more you use it, well this is my thought

You may have a point -

Had a play with a few settings, it seems the red tinge is improving so to speak.

Will give it a few more days b4 deciding what to do.

Nexus18 · 7 May 2015 at 20:03

You also have a rog swift whyscotty?

How does the Samsung compare to the swift, colours, motion, input lag etc.?

whyscotty · 7 May 2015 at 22:30

Really enjoying the monitor apart from the red tinge

Colours are better, though it does suffer from slight colour shift.

Motion wise more than happy with that, although not as good as the Swift.

Lag for me is difficult to judge as I'm old and slow.

Suffice to say I'll be off loading the Swift

How this helps - probably won't though

Nexus18 · 7 May 2015 at 23:02

Thanks! hehe, no matter what you say, I will still probably be as indecisive as ever

It is good to hear people's thoughts on how this compares to different monitors though.

Torn between this and the asus IPS freesync screen. From what I have read, supposedly the input lag is quite a bit lower on the Samsung compared to the IPS 21.9 screens as well as motion clarity being better overall, although I can't say that the input lag on my 29um65 affects me at all, just the motion clarity that really bothers me now.

I just wish this screen had freesync and was £100 cheaper.

old gamer · 8 May 2015 at 09:56

the thing that bugs me about the gsync/freesync is if i bought a freesync monitor and amd gpu then later on i wanted a nvidia gpu then im back to sqaure one

Nexus18 · 8 May 2015 at 10:41

Yeah that puts me of big time too although I can see myself keeping my 290 for at least another 1-2 years.

I do think nvidia will support adaptive sync at some point though....

whyscotty · 8 May 2015 at 14:08

This is one of the reasons for buying this - no tie ins

whyscotty · 9 May 2015 at 09:57

Alas the red tinge is spreading so back it goes.

21.9 is defo for me so replacement or refund, sort of missing 120Hz

PCM2 · 9 May 2015 at 10:26

Nexus18 said:
I do think nvidia will support adaptive v-sync at some point though....

They already do.

It would be super if they would also support Adaptive-Sync, but they've already invested a great deal of resources into their own proprietary solution which I don't see them moving away from any time soon.