hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech I've been waiting for this monitor for
about a year or so it was announced in January of 2018 at CES was supposed to
come out a few months later and then was pushed back and pushed back all the way
until November and I finally got my hands on it and what's unique about it
is its 5k by 2k it's the only 5k ultra wide on the market and what's unique
about this compared to the LG 5k display is it has multiple inputs so you can
plug it into whatever you'd like now currently I have it plugged into a 2018
MacBook Pro which goes through an eGPU and then to the display itself I also
haven't plugged into a Windows PC and we'll talk more about that in a moment
now this monitor is aimed mostly for people that do video or photography
since it's about $1,400 or so depending on when you're watching this so it's not
cheap at all and it is at 60 Hertz so it's not meant for gaming as well so
let's take a look at what comes in the box how it goes together what sorts of
options it has and how it works with different Mac's this is the box it comes
in it's 34wk95u it's a 34 inch ultra wide display and we've got a Thunderbolt
3 cable included along with USB type-a we also get a display port cable and
also a power plug that doesn't require a brick so that's really nice as well we
also have a ring that holds everything in place we have the base which is a
u-shape aluminum bracket and then on the back we have our Thunderbolt 3
DisplayPort to HDMI headphone jack USB type B USB a vase amount and where our
power adapter goes now what we can do is put this together we'll put the vase
amount or stand in place click it in place and then what we need to do is put
the bottom on where it screws together so we put that in place and it just
screws together really simply and it does feel fairly sturdy you see we'll
just screw this in place here and then once it's in place we're good to go we
can stand it up and use it so once it's on we have a bunch of menu options you
just push this little nub on the bottom that moves around
and then if we go to all the settings you'll see on the right what we get is a
bunch of settings for brightness we've got different input settings along with
picture modes and just general overall settings or options now if we go to the
quick settings we've got brightness it does go pretty bright I've been using
picture modes and I've been using DCI p3 now this is an HDR monitor and it has a
bunch of different options but only Windows supports this as an HDR monitor
so it doesn't really work on Mac OS with that so use it in DCI p3 I suppose and
it you'll get the widest color range for what you're doing now of course you've
got all the different picture modes and then also you've got a bunch of
different options as well as far as language and smart energy and then
DisplayPort versions and I found it works best with 1.2 so it will auto
choose it but it seems to work well that way the display is height adjustable and
is pretty sturdy but it's very difficult to push it up once it's already down so
push it up it's fine and it also has some tilt adjustment left to right not
very much and it's fairly sturdy but if you bump it it will wobble as you can
see it's a little wobbly there there is no other adjustments on it though and
the display itself looks good but it has a lot of light leak around the edge if
it's on full brightness and you have a black background so you can kind of see
that here where it's leaking around the edges from the backlight and while it
doesn't look bad as long as it's at normal brightness and you don't have a
black background it is noticeable more noticeable on the camera that it is with
the human eye but overall the display looks nice and crisp and clear you can't
see the pixels as long as you're not right up next to it and as you can see
here the same thing there's that black again and now it's at normal brightness
and you can't really see it bleeding around the edges so you don't have that
issue so much if you look at the display and very dark light you'll see that the
backlight is not a hundred percent uniformed so there is some hotspots in
there it's similar to an eye Mac Pro I took a picture of as well now it works
with just about every computer I've tried this is a Mac Mini I tried it with
and then I also plugged it into a MacBook Air the 2018 version and
everything seems to work okay there were some complaints of this not working with
certain computers and we'll wait for it to light up the display and it works
fine if you look at the resolution it's 5120 by 2160
and the UI looks like 2560 by 1080 you can't see this flicker it's
just the framerate picking up in the display does not flicker and doesn't
bother my eyes at all now if we look at the display plugged into something else
such as a 2016 MacBook Pro it works fine as well and then also a Windows computer
I plugged it in too and it works just as well also also it works in HDR so it
looks a little bit better on the windows side but if you're going to use it for
gaming you're probably not going to be able to push it at 5120 by 2160 and
also keep in mind that this display is only 60 Hertz so if you need that faster
refresh rate such as 144 Hertz or anything like that you may want to
consider a different display now there's one major issue if you have a 2018
MacBook Pro this includes the mid 2018 and the new Vega MacBook Pro it doesn't
work properly with this display until the next update comes out which
supposedly fixes it now that update could be out by the time you're watching
this and the problems not existent but I'm using it through an eg PU and then
from DisplayPort to the actual display and it works just fine if you're using
it directly from thunderbolt to the monitor it may not work for you
depending on if they've patched it or not at this time so that's it for LG's
5k ultra-wide now I wouldn't recommend this for gamers since you're going to
want to probably scale it down in resolution to get the faster frame rate
that you want so in playing battlefield 5 I was only able to get 60 frames per
second once I brought it down to 1440p and that's using a GTX 1080 founders
Edition with a core i7 quad core overclocked it's a 4 gigahertz and it's
overclocked to about 4.5 gigahertz so in order to get that pushing that many
pixels at 60 frames per second I still had to bring it down to about 1440p so
definitely not really for gamers and you can get much better options at much less
money but if you're into video editing or photography I definitely recommend it
is it's nice not to see all those pixels as far as the smoothness of all the
lines and everything it's just great to look at overall and it's like looking at
a iMac display stretched so if you have a 5k iMac you probably enjoy this but
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