Alright i can barely fit myself here in the shot so this is the xiaomi mi curved gaming monitor
it's 34 inches the resolution is 3440 by 1440p so what is great about this particular monitor here
it has a four millisecond response time for this resolution it's fairly decent it's not going to
set any records and of course it has a refresh rate which is very high 144 hertz so for such
a gaming monitor here you're going to need some beefy hardware of course to power this and the
new nvidia rtx 3000 series for example the 3080 is going to be ideal for driving such a monitor with
your aaa titles as far cry 5 i'm having a look at here but of course this is not just for gaming it
can also be used for professional use and it does have a very decent color gamut coverage
which i will show you in this review along with my experience and a few other things unboxing
after using this now for well over a week so the price of this one does vary at the time of this
video it is selling for now about 390 euros but sometimes you have to pay for the postage other
times you do not so the price is going to be up and down but normally it is below about 450 euros
which is fairly decent for this spec of monitor so this comes in a really big box i mean it's
massive i could barely fit it on top of my table really well packaged it's very easy to assemble
so you do actually just need to assemble the stand now this particular stand here is made
out of metal and the base of it as well and there's just one screw that you need to tighten
up to get this on and it's not really an issue to do it and then it simply just clips into
place the monitor so we get inside the box a display cable we had various different screws
here so it can be visa mounted a warranty card power cable and an instruction manual
so the curved me gaming monitor has a very sleek nice looking design very good build quality and
finish to it typical xiaomi now the stand itself does have a magnetic cover over it for cable
management which is absolutely fantastic i love this design and the back two has a cover as well
where your cables go in so for our inputs here we've got two hdmis two display ports and there's
also audio out so there are no actual speakers in this particular monitor the controls are rather
simple so we have a power button and then four menu keys and it's fairly straightforward to go
through the on-screen display set yourself up and like all on-screen displays it's sometimes
a little bit fiddly i do find but the button quality is also very good so this stand lets
us move it to the left and to the right a fair amount as you can see right now it's quite a lot
and you can also push it down very low for those that like to use it in a low down position
and then raise it up quite high what it cannot do is tilt left and right so on screen display
the on screen menu here we've got picture and picture control so yes you could set up having for
example an xbox 360 on one have your pc on your other we've got our smart modes here so this is
standard it's just different color modes tweaking a well of the sharpness and the response time
and noise reduction that is also possible now this particular monitor here has a four millisecond
response time now that for a 1440p monitor is not the best in the world but it's still very
good now there's all sorts of typical settings in here like under picture for example your sharpness
your brightness controls your contrast all of that can be adjusted within the on-screen display menu
so when you watch 16x9 content which is your typical youtube videos like the ones in my channel
you are going to have these ugly black borders the black bars left and right this of course is normal
because it is a 21x9 aspect ratio monitor but when you watch a movie that is for example in 21x9
you won't have this issue it fits the screen then perfectly so with this particular monitor i'm not
seeing any ghosting i'm not seeing the mouse pointer trail behind no issues at the 144 hertz
refresh rate so with windows of course you can run various different windows side by side to increase
your productivity and this is great being able to do this you can just fit so much more on screen
than say a 16x9 monitor the higher resolution does give us plenty of space so it is good for
productivity but what about the color coverage the color gamut let's have a look at that now
just before we do i wanted to point out that there is a little bit of light leakage that i can see
depending on the colors being displayed so right now i'm going through the calibration here with
my spider 5 pro which i do on all my monitors and you can see it's not evenly distributed
perfectly it actually looks worse here on camera than it does in real life i don't find it to be
that bad at all and again it's only when you're really looking at a solid color that you will
notice this difference with the shadowing on the edges and a little bit of backlight bleed
now the brightness is very good so measuring right in the center it is 360 nits as per their claim on
the edges i noticed it dips down then to about 340 to 330 nits but for a matte screen it is bright
so the outer box calibration uncalibrated right now now it is calibrated wasn't brilliant so i
definitely recommend for professionals out there do calibrate this monitor first so we've got a 99
srgb coverage here so that is good their claims 121 ntsc is 81 adobe rgb is 85 and p3 coverage is
88 so all up for professional use this is good it's not the best but it is still quite good
so what about gaming this is what this monitor was intended for 21x9 aspect ratio it is super
immersive the curvature this is the 1500 r is great i thought it might be a little bit too much
but no once i start gaming on this the anti-glare the lack of glare on the screen 144 hertz it just
looks amazing and i've been enjoying this so much i've just been gaming so much on the screen when
i'm not editing my videos of course so you do need some very powerful hardware a really good gpu to
be able to drive at least with the aaa titles like far cry to be able to maintain that 144
frames per second means that yes you're going to need a top tier top of the line gpu for this
and it does of course support freesync amd freesync and that helps cut down on screen tearing
when the frame rate dips below than 144 that you're probably aiming for all right so after my
week now of using this build quality excellent i love the flexibility with the fact that this thing
angles away so much this is really really good a lot of monitors don't allow this flexibility which
is it's really good that xiaomi's been able to do this with the design screen goes up high enough
for anyone if you've got a quite a high seat then that is ideal you can push it down very
low if that's the way you like to work there cable management very good on-screen controls
do take a while to get used to the on-screen controls i find a little bit frustrating at times
especially when i go back to adjust the brightness having not used the on-screen controls for say
three or four days you're like ah and then you make a mistake you've got to go back again but
most on-screen controls are a little bit like that a little bit painful so split screen
option there's plenty of options in there for your colors color gamut coverage as i showed you so 85
adobe rgb is very good and then we get 99 srgb overall for professional use it's gonna be fine
now the out of the box calibration is quite off okay so i i really kind of expected this but
you'll be probably using a tool to calibrate all your monitors anyway the professionals out there
in the channel will be doing that so that's not really an issue but for gaming the calibration is
fine you've got the various different modes there too which of course changed that now response time
very good ghosting on the screen i'm not seeing any issues that i can complain about um in terms
of looking at this with the curvature uh the glare is very very good anti-glare coding so
i'm not having any problems with that very easy on my eyes i've been using this thing until three
o'clock in the morning editing some of my videos especially the recent week i've had with a lot
of releases like the poco x3 nfc i was using this and it didn't tie my eyes out as much as
say my azus monitor that i i have as well and if you're into the higher resolution you want one of
these 21 by 9 aspect ratio monitors i think it's very very good especially for this right here so
for gaming it is really immersive i wasn't really convinced i mean this is my first
21 by nine aspect ratio monitor the ultra wide here and i just thought i i like 16x9 because i
create content i edit in 60 minute aspect ratio but gaming when you game like this it is i won't
go as far to say it's a game changer no but having it either side of you and the 1500 r
curvature that this particular screen this monitor has is really really immersive and i
just i'm just enjoying gaming like all over again displaying some of these games is great of course
there is an obvious big con here driving such a resolution 34 40 by 14 40 you do need powerful
hardware especially for triple a titles like far cry 5 that i'm showing right here you are going to
need a beefy gpu so it will be perfect for those new nvidia rtx 3000 series releases coming soon
of course that's why we said the the start there i think it's going to be ideal for that but that's a
con you do need to have a good gpu to drive this particular monitor here but if you're not gaming
then you don't not gaming you can do your windows with your particular laptop that's all going to be
fine so build quality check everything's checked but what are the cons everything's obviously not
going to be perfect there's a little bit of light leakage that i see some depending
on what i'm looking at like a constant gray or red color you will see that it's just a little
bit of a dimmer around some areas here but it is very very very minimal on my particular unit here
maximum brightness 360 nits checks all boxes i measured it here 360. over here was about 330
uh up the top here about 340 so it does vary a little bit but overall it's quite an even
backlight that is on this particular display so that is another positive there it is really
really good now there's no things like usb hubs on this which would have been nice if we had say usb
ports along here uh and some people might say that oh it should have had vga on here for analog but
who's really using that now i know some people still are but no not me personally and yeah the
cable's the way it's all tucked up everything about this just screams quality and i have other
brands like azus with monitors and i did have a philips 4k one before and this thing's on path
same kind of level with them so really it does come recommended it is expensive uh this ordered
from banggood is about currently at the time this video about 450 euros there so that's something
to cause to factor in when you're looking around for monitors so thank you so much for watching
this review here and i do hope to see you back in the channel with more up-and-coming videos