LG may have pioneered Ultra Wide monitors over three years ago
But it's taken them until now to offer a fully fleshed-out product line catering to gamers
introducing the 34UC89G-B
As much as we fun of other brands for s*** like 'Republic of Gamers'
Anything is better than 34UC89G-B.
Anyway, it's their first Ultrawide to offer G-Sync and a high refresh rate
We're talking 144 Hertz
overclockable up to
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The angular, crimson-streaked stand kind of says it all. This monitor is for 'gamers' with a capital 'G'.
It's got about 5 inches of height adjust, 25 degrees of tilt and
like many LG stands, no swivel.
It does give you three degrees of rotation though, in case your jerk co-workers decide to troll you, so...
That's something! The refreshingly easy-to-access IO panel has just one HDMI 1.4 in,
one DisplayPort 1.2 in, and an audio jack,
then we get a USB type B upstream port to power the integrated hub, with 2 USB 3 type-A ports with fast charging.
It apparently also has an integrated mouse bungee that "helps your organize your space"
a claim that I'd be happy to validate for you,
if only our unit actually came with it. The IPS panel is really nice though, with accurate colors,
great coverage of the S-RGB color gamut and high contrast, with higher-than-average
300 nits brightness. You could do some basic content creation on this thing for your let's play videos, for example.
But what's it like to game on it? Well in a word?
'Sweeeee'
As with all curved Ultrawides, the expanded field of view offers, not only a higher degree of immersion,
but sometimes even an advantage in games, where spotting an enemy or an objective
half a second before the competition can make a difference. The 5 millisecond grey-to-grey response times minimize ghosting and
for everyone running NVIDIA graphics,
G-Sync keeps the panel's refresh rate tuned to the FPS coming out of your graphics card to eliminate tearing and stuttering. And finally,
Yes, the monitor runs at 144 Hertz, meaning the image on screen refreshes a hundred and forty four times per second,
44% higher than the fastest Ultrawide that we've had in the lab previously. And it's even
overclockable,
up to 166 Hertz, though your mileage may vary.
Every individual panel overclocks a little bit differently, and ours
wasn't a spectacular overclocker.
Now, 16:9 monitors are available with refresh rates of up to
240 Hertz at this point, but unless you're global elite or some BS, the odds of feeling a difference between
144 Hertz and
240 Hertz versus the night and day difference between 60 Hertz, or even 100 Hertz and
144 is relatively slim, so with this product you're not choosing between
smoother onscreen animations and Ultrawide immersiveness. You can have both! Which doesn't mean that it's without compromises.
I have a confession to make.
I was super pumped for this monitor to arrive because for whatever reason,
I thought it was running 3440x1440 resolution
at 166 Hertz, which would have meant that it was using the shiny new
DisplayPort 1.4 standard.
And yes, that is what excites me. I've got no shame about that.
So then when it arrived and it was
2560x1080, I went through all the stages of grief.
Denial- "No, it can't be."
Guilt- "Maybe I saw
144 Hertz I thought
1440p oh God!"
And even anger- "They've had 1440p ultra wides for years! Why are we going backwards?"
Until finally I reached
acceptance, because depending on who you ask the lower res
could be considered as much a feature as it is a problem.
A lower resolution makes it easier to get higher frame rates in games.
A 1080P Ultrawide is just over half the number of pixels of a
1440p Ultrawide, so if you're not going to be able to play Doom at
150 frames per second, 3440x1440 resolution,
then why pay for all of those pixels? Better to drop the resolution, increase your graphics settings, and enjoy your
buttery smooth, golden river of frames.
So then with that said: should you buy this monitor over say the Acer Predator x34?
A similarly priced, similarly
featured, in that they both have G-Sync and IPS panels, Ultrawide, with a higher resolution
but a slower refresh rate?
That depends.
If you're all about the games, especially fast paced ones, then it's pretty easy to recommend this one
Ultraw ide is an awesome experience.
But if you do a lot of anything else, in my opinion
1080p at this size is
pretty pixely looking,
and I'll personally still be waiting excitedly for these features in a higher resolution model.
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