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

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Decided to just hold of till the end of the year and see what is what with monitors and GPU's, unfortunately none of the current monitors are ideal for me :( And AMD are slacking big time atm......
 
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After reading through pretty much the whole thread i'm sold, all I've got to do now is find a buyer for my Dell 2713HM!!
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I'm very impressed with mine - I don't think you can go wrong with this. Do remember that you very well may need a calibrator.. I got a cheapie Spyder4 Express and used basICColor display 5 with it and the results are bang on.
 
Thanks for the advice, I did pick up through the thread it seems to be a must. I remember reading you can sell them on for similar money paid, if that's true it's a no brainer. I've not looked in to it, what sort of money are they?
 
Dont suppose anyone knows of somewhere you could rent a calibrator (or nice enough OC'er to lend one out)? Dont really want to shell out £100 on top of a £700 monitor in order to make it look like it should.
 
I don't agree that you 'need' a colorimeter. It is true that the colour balance is usually a bit off, but that is correctable through the OSD without a colorimeter. A colorimeter is certainly useful to help guide you through colour channel adjustments, but ICC profiles on this sort of monitor and for the uses this monitor is intended for are not necessary. The gamma tracking is actually very good - and obsessing about that too much on a VA panel is a bit misguided anyway. Your colorimeter only measures and corrects for a central point from a perfectly perpendicular angle. Your eyes do not work the same way on a monitor of this size!

I'd recommend getting the monitor, trying some recommendations (such as those in my review) and making further manual adjustments until you're satisfied. I wouldn't reach for the colorimeter before you've even got the monitor, it may not be necessary at all.
 
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when I first had my monitor I messed about with settings daily and could not get it right, games looked washed out and it particular bf 4 where all the shadows looked red, I had serious doubts about my purchase and thought about getting rid of it.

then by chance because of adware I could not get rid of I did a fresh windows 7 install and reinstalled all my games, the difference was obvious from the off my games now looked fantastic with vivid colours, I put this down to maybe a driver problem but whats bugging me is it was fine on my old 16.9 monitor.

so heres my theory when switching from 16.9 to 21.9 does windows get a little screwed up, I cant say for sure but I now have a monitor with no calibration that looks great for gaming and anything else.

would like to hear the thoughts on pcm2 and baddass as to my theory holding any water or ive just been lucky and im talking utter rubbish
 
That is strange. It sounds more like you could have had an old ICC profile or software calibration activated from another monitor even when your Samsung was connected and that messed things up. Reinstalling Windows would set everything like that back to the defaults and deactivate and old/unwanted ICC profiles. Either way I'm glad to hear you got it sorted as this monitor certainly shouldn't look washed out or have dodgy red tints on shadows! :)
 
What gpus are you guys using out of interest?

I have a Gtx 970 and it copes reasonably well, albeit with turning off AA and some other settings. GTA V has been a bit difficult, vram might be the problem I think.

Also, what video player do you all use? I have media player classic with madVR, wonder what other alternatives exist that might perhaps be better.
 
Gtx 970 does struggle you're right, will be looking to get something with more oomph at some point. Have a parvum Veer so can only use one gpu, wish AMD would hurry up and release the 390x!

Nexus18, have you bagged one of these 34" screens or still waiting for something else?
 
Waiting for something else, as nice as this screen is (definitely the best 34" out atm imo), I have decided to go for a 144HZ IPS free/g sync screen as the three main things I want a big improvement in are; motion clarity, smoother gaming experience with no screen tearing.

Hoping something gets announced in the next few weeks as I don't fancy the acer gsync monitor and the asus limited freesync range is a bit off putting.
 
Freesync screens that I've seen are only in Freesync from 40hz+, should be a bit lower IMO.

Have you seen that benq 35" ultrawide screen? I was all but sold until it said the resolution was 2560x1080. Was almost the perfect screen. VA panel, ultrawide, can't remember the refresh rate but I think it was 120hz.
 
Yeah I would prefer it to go right down to 30 but due to the scalers etc. this means you won't have the freesync range extending to 144, a bit like the asus ips freesync screen, asus either had the choice of 35-90 or 40-144, they went with the former.

And yup seen that screen, res. is definitely a big turn of at that size, it is 144hz. Curious to see what price it will be though and how the motion clarity is.
 
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