Upgrade from my X34 without remortage

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jul 2019 at 21:18

I've had my Acer X34 since they day they first came out, some years ago now, it overclocked well to 100hz the IPS glow is a more than I'd like but I've put up with it fine.

Now I have some cash burning a hole in my pocket I'm wanting to change the by far oldest item in my setup. I see a few gems on the horizon but there all £2k+ which although I'm a late 2018 OLED LG owner I can't get my head round spending the same sorta cash on a monitor.

Is there anything out there which would be a worth while upgrade from mine for up to £1200/1400? I see there's 120hz monitors out there and I want to stay UW if I can but 20hz doesn't seem worthwhile unless there's something I'm missing?

Howling · 28 Jul 2019 at 21:43

No, is the short answer. I'm in the same boat. I think my next monitor is going to be one of the 43" 4k panels, depending how good the HDR is. I'd much rather stick to Ultrawide - but there's no worthwhile upgrade in that aspect ratio without forking out 2.5k :/

Born_2_Kill_83 · 28 Jul 2019 at 21:46

Not sure I want to go back to 16:9, and I sit a little close for 43" as well, plus 43" 4k will only have the sameish dpi as a 34" UW 1440p, so not gaining anything there either....

Howling · 28 Jul 2019 at 22:28

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
not gaining anything there either....

Except a lot of screen real estate. I'm in agreement, I'd rather not go back to 16;9 - but the stagnation and/or extreme price inflation in the 21;9 sector is pushing me that way.

chaparral · 28 Jul 2019 at 22:48

Howling said:
I'd rather not go back to 16;9 - but the stagnation and/or extreme price inflation in the 21;9 sector is pushing me that way.

But you wouldn't save by going to 4k as that would need something like an SLI RTX 2080 GPU setup to get high FPS

Howling · 28 Jul 2019 at 22:53

chaparral said:
But you wouldn't save by going to 4k as that would need something like an SLI RTX 2080 GPU setup to get high FPS

Correction - not "going to 4k" - Going BACK to 4k, I was early adopter when the panels first came out

with a killer 7970 crossfire set up

marktruman · 29 Jul 2019 at 05:18

Isn't the new lg 38 inch ultrawide out soon? Overclocked to 175hz

Rroff · 29 Jul 2019 at 05:46

Howling said:
No, is the short answer. I'm in the same boat. I think my next monitor is going to be one of the 43" 4k panels, depending how good the HDR is. I'd much rather stick to Ultrawide - but there's no worthwhile upgrade in that aspect ratio without forking out 2.5k :/

I had a look at the current 43" monitors but didn't find them inspiring - most had one kind of issue or another that was off putting like the edges of the screen being dim or cut off, some have high input/processing latency and others just terrible quality control and so on. Also most used BGR layout instead of RGB which causes some issues with text rendering.

Howling · 29 Jul 2019 at 09:53

Rroff said:
I had a look at the current 43" monitors but didn't find them inspiring - most had one kind of issue or another that was off putting like the edges of the screen being dim or cut off, some have high input/processing latency and others just terrible quality control and so on. Also most used BGR layout instead of RGB which causes some issues with text rendering.

Yeah? Bugger. I'll probably be on my XR34 for another 4 years at this rate

JediFragger · 29 Jul 2019 at 09:58

The 43"/144hz panels coming are attractive to me BUT I'd prob create a custom UW res for gaming

The LG I have is a cracker and a def upgrade to the X34, but I'm a little biased

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Jul 2019 at 10:01

The LG is the one I really want as well, but I'm betting it's going to be £2200, I suppose it will last me for the next 4/5 years like this one has.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Jul 2019 at 10:15

Not sure whether to just settle with the LG 34GK950F, it seems to be a nice step up from an old X34 but nothing ground breaking

Quartz · 29 Jul 2019 at 10:25

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Is there anything out there which would be a worth while upgrade from mine for up to £1200/1400? I see there's 120hz monitors out there and I want to stay UW if I can but 20hz doesn't seem worthwhile unless there's something I'm missing?

There's the Acer Nitro 4K and the Samsung 32:9 monitor:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

1 x Samsung C49RG90SSU 49" 5120x1440 VA FreeSync 2 120Hz QLED 32:9 Curved Gaming Monitor= £1,199.99
1 x Acer Nitro XV273K 27" 3840x2160 IPS 4K UHD 144Hz FreeSync/G-Sync Widescreen LED Gaming Monitor= £844.99

Total: £2,058.18 (includes shipping: £13.20)

Howling · 29 Jul 2019 at 10:43

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Not sure whether to just settle with the LG 34GK950F, it seems to be a nice step up from an old X34 but nothing ground breaking

If it had HDR1000 then I'd pick it up too, but I think it needs that extra oompf to be worth the upgrade.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 29 Jul 2019 at 10:48

Yeah might thoughts as well, the only thing is the LG coming later in the year the 1600p one that's going to be over £2k is rumored to only have HDR400 as well. If that's the case might as well buy now.

JediFragger · 29 Jul 2019 at 11:30

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
The LG is the one I really want as well, but I'm betting it's going to be £2200, I suppose it will last me for the next 4/5 years like this one has.

In your shoes I'd say the only 'wow' upgrade would be the 38" LG, anything less is more of an upper side-grade. Worth saving a little longer for imo, and like you say would last you 5+ years easily :cool:

Born_2_Kill_83 · 31 Jul 2019 at 17:41

I've been thinking what I'll be gaining if I wait and SAVE for the £2k+ monitors coming in a couple of months over buying a LG34GK950F now. After watching Linus' video on the PG35VQ he was limited in running the full spec's of the monitor due to the current display port. He settled on 10-bit colour and 144hz, well if I'm mistaken that's what the current LG 34" does now? All I'm gaining on top is proper HDR. That alone isn't worth £1k+ to me.