Now you can get yourself a lot of import gaming monitors that look very interesting the specs of
them great but do they actually check out are they any good so this particular model here
comes from alibaba it's from an odm the company's called cn hope star and this is their 35
inch ultra wide gaming monitor it has an r 1800 curvature to the screen and it does have a 21 by
9 aspect ratio and the resolution is 3440 by 1440 which is common now the default refresh rate on
this panel is 144 hertz but you can overclock it overdrive it to 180 hertz the best part about this
is that it does support nvidia g-sync amd freesync too both of them and it does have slim bezels
anti-glare coating up to 350 nits of brightness as their claim hdr 400 support and the brightness
should be well maximum around 350 nits so it looks very promising so let's find out if this 35 inch
gaming ultra wide panel is any good in the box you'll find three parts to the stand so we have
the main stand this is the mounting bracket which you screw on that then goes on to the back of the
monitor and then the base itself right here now there is a hook that you can slot onto the back
of it that is just for cable management and then you do have some extenders so these four
screws here are extended so the monitor can be mounted to a visa mount bracket so if you wanted
to do that you're able to which is good we've got an eu power cable a display cable and then
they do include some screws for the stand you can see we do have some rgb strips here on the back
and i'll show you once i've got it all set up and powered on of course so there are the four points
there to mount those extenders for visa mounting it and then the stand itself that clips in to the
back here so you pop it in this part first there is this little button that you can press in so
it just slots in like so and then you've got to clip it down and you'll hear a click noise
then for the ports on the back of it we have an audio out 3.5 millimeter two display ports which
uh display port 1.4 spec and then two hdmi 2.0 ports on the underside of the right of the screen
we've got some buttons here so one is our power button then four other buttons there to control
that on-screen menu which i'll run through now so cycling through the buttons we've got our import
source options there the two display ports two hdmi ports brightness and contrast color settings
you can tweak and adjust that picture quality settings there too display so you're able to go
through the aspect ratios there to have it normal or you can change that and the led mode too with
it audio so there's no actual speakers built into this model here at least i can't get any sound out
of it i don't think it has speakers so that's not actually an issue there multi windows grayed out
at the moment so if i do plug in another source i would be able to run that you can run two windows
have it split screen on screen display options and then other we just get a few other settings
in here most important is the adapter sync one and hdr2 you can turn that on from here
this monitor has a 15 degree swivel with the base which is quite sturdy too so you can go 15 degrees
both left and right we have height adjustment which is 95 millimeters okay that you can move
that up and down and there is some tilt to the screen too so you can tilt it to 2.5 to 17 degrees
so that's great it's pretty similar to other mono monitors there that i have covered that
you're able to tilt it angle the screen around to get it in the perfect position for you
so the screen here is 35 inches it's a va panel the curvature to it is r 1800 so typical to other
gaming monitors out there hdr 400 support the resolution is 3440 by 1440p so it has an 8-bit
panel and it can display 16.7 million colors the panel response time is 20 milliseconds with
a response time of one millisecond but that is the mprt so moving picture response time
our top and then the left and right bezels they are quite slim so they do look very good with
this monitor we don't have a huge bezel the only real noticeable bezel is down the bottom of this
monitor that's the one that stands out but i do like how slim these bezels are
now let's take a look at what kind of color gamut you can expect out of this panel so i'm using my
spyder x pro here then these are the results i managed to get out of my panel now it will vary
from panel to piano of course with these va panels so 100 srgb coverage then we have ntsc
which this is 82 adobe rgb 86 and p3 which is 92 of p3 so this for a gaming monitor is actually
pretty good and a lot better than i thought it was going to be so the maximum brightness they
claim is going to be about 350 nits between 300 which is the minimum now with my unit here i've
measured it to be 335 nits and of course as mentioned it's got that anti-glare coating
so indoors it looks fine it's bright enough then the light leakage on this panel you can see there
is a little bit here now i'm just displaying a complete black image and i've turned up the
iso of my camera so we can see it a little bit better so the bottom right hand side there is a
little bit of light leakage there and then the top left but very minimal and i only see this
with just black images like it is now that's the only time you're going to see this light leakage
from this va panel and because of how wide the screen is of course it's great for productivity
so i can easily have side by side two panels and it does look good so i've got steam open here i
can see all of my library scroll through that and then over on this side i've got chrome opened with
my youtube channel and you're able to run just the side-by-side applications there and that's
really good if you're multitasking like this you just get so much more work done for example you
can have on the right side spreadsheets and emails on the left you get the idea so it's not just for
gaming it's also good for productivity in order to enable the 80 hertz mode you do need to go through
the on-screen menu enable overdrive and it will go from the standard 144 hertz refresh rate up to
180 now so it does have a very good response time well their claim is the one milliseconds of moving
picture response time and i've n had any problems with response time at all but the actual panel
itself without the overdrive model on the panel response is 20 milliseconds there now you can
see the top line that is our 180 frames per second and movement and everything looks good but i have
noticed that putting it onto the 180 hertz mode it does not seem as sharp as 144 hertz so whether or
not that trade-off is worth it depends on the kind of frame rates you want to run if you do really
need in games 180 hertz by all means run it but i'll be quite happy with actually just 144 hertz
what about ghosting do you see any of that like if i move anything around especially in windows
here panels from one side or about very quickly i don't see any lag issues any latency problems
any ghosting coming through with this va panel now the good news is with this monitor it does support
g-sync and freesync but you need to enable it so you go into the on-screen display here in other
see this adaptive sync you need to turn adapter sync on and then freesync and g-sync will work
and these are the options that i do get so i can enable the g-sync full compatibility here to have
it on full screen mode and full screen and even windowed mode there so that's typical i even get
these options with my lg c1 which is an oled 4k 120hz screen so great to see this on a more
affordable monitor so we've got g-sync and then freesync support if you happen to have an amd card
finally gaming performance just want to point out here that i am in the highest refresh rate
possible 180 hertz the overdrive mode and i do have the 3440 by 1440p selected as the max native
screen resolution and then the native 21 by 9 aspect ratio but you can see that either side
on the left and the right here that we do have those black borders but that's normal a lot of
titles will still have the menus in 16 by 9 but then when you get into game as i'll show you now
that is all right there you go that is now at our 21 by nine aspect ratio and it looks very good
now i've got vsync off and this graphics card that i am using unfortunately it doesn't quite
have the power to be able to run this title far cry 6 at 180 frames per second so you do need
a very potent card really to be able to get with the newer titles at least a constant steady 180
frames per second you really do need something like an rtx 3080 uh or even a 30 90 with such a
demanding game depends on the course your graphic settings that you do like so there should be some
enemies ahead just point out when i quickly look around here i'm not seeing any screen tearing any
issues like that and what about the input latency too so when i fire that's that's coming through
instantly i'm not seeing any noticeable delay there at all with that
i just should be some enemy soldiers around here but they seem to have disappeared
no there's no one around here but it is very good so this is what the screen is all about with
this 21 by 9 aspect ratio it's super immersive it looks really good especially for titles like this
and then to answer that question i asked at the start and the title of the video is it any good
the answer is yes it is and i love it when i do test out products like this which i'm
really unsure of i thought that well it might not actually be that good at all
turns out it's a great ultra wide gaming monitor very very good and i'm impressed with the overall
performance of it you've got the 180 hertz the overdrive mode the only thing as i have noticed
not in games but in the desktop area that tex doesn't look quite as sharp at 180 hertz compared
to 144 hertz which is the default so you're overdriving the panel getting that increased
refresh rate there 180 is quite good it's quite fast and i know yes there are 200 hertz
screens out there with the same resolution that are ultra wide the 35 inches huge size big
immersive size to it and of course you've got all your typical adjustments with that stand which is
very sturdy so we've got the 15 degrees left and right swivel swivel that's in the lowest position
now and then you can raise it up about that high there too which is it's a good overall height to
it and then you're able to angle it up or down now the anti-glare coating on this display does
make it very practical it's less prone to reflections and the inwards curvature to it
that are 1800 means that it does reflect a little bit less than again because of the curvature it's
not a flat panel which would tend to reflect more now although i can't measure the exact response
times of this screen i'm not able to do that i'm not having any problems at all with input lag
and then response times from this panel it looks great there's no noticeable tearing here any
issues at all and i'm only just using an rtx 3070 ti here i know some people are going to say in the
comments what do you mean only i've got a yeah a 1050 ti or something like that i know i know but
still you do need quite a demanding gpu to run modern titles like far cry 6 that i have here at
a really high frames per second to try and match will get close to 180 frames per second even on
low settings you're probably going to need an rtx 3080 to be able to do that with the screen like
this but when you game at 180 hertz here compared to say 60 wow do you notice that difference
everything's so smooth it's fluid and as soon as i press everything you know it's coming through fine
there's no input lag or any problems like that so the things that i don't like about this monitor
well not really that much at all the supposed rgb lighting on the back uh isn't rgb it's just red
only the on-screen menu to go through those those are always kind of frustrating and annoying to
use i find it a little bit fiddly but it's got all plenty of settings that we do need in there which
is good and the other is there does not seem to be any built-in speakers at all well i can't get any
audio out of i don't think it's got speakers and to be honest most monitor speakers are garbage so
we're not missing out there anyway you'd use your own speakers your own headphones anyway so there
we go i took a risk here and i can thankfully say that it is actually a good monitor so you
can import these cheaper ultra wides and some of them like this model here definitely is a great
screen so thanks a lot for watching this review of this 35 inch ultra wide 180 hertz gaming monitor