Inb4 "You say you're competitive but you're gold in Apex ranked" ... yeah because I don't play ranked. Here in Aus, you get up to Platinum and then have to play on high ping. A lot of great players are in pubs here because of that, so it's more fun just hot dropping and messing around. Also LOL at trying to go competitive in Apex; super random, buggy "let's give controllers aim assist to the point pros switch to it from mouse and keyboard" game. Hard pass from me. I'll play it because I love it and it's fun, not because I want to test my skills. I have Quake for that. 😊
I’m so glad you’ve highlighted the controller aim assist Crossplay in what is sold as a skill-based game. It’s a crock of shit. If this was the 90s/ early to mid 00s the current competitive scene would be laughed out of the door.
Yeah, people never understand the problems with our region. In CS:GO prior to the changes... You'd get hard blocked around MG2 as higher was such as small pool of players / cheaters. Same in Overatch... In 2017 I was Diamond and playing with my friends (mixture of Plat / Diamond) and we vs'ed top 500's / GM's. One of them disconnected right at the start so it was 6v5 and we still got steam rolled. OCE problems..
Haha I never got around to playing apex but I do remember some of us Q3A players saying t3>t4 for this reason lmao. Back when t4 was considered top online. It's funny to me how there was a time I could argue I could see the difference in all the fps and refresh rates etcetera but my eyes have worked so hard over the years idk anymore haha.
I have a G9 Neo. My highest competitive level is in racing games. I'm not currently but I have been in top 500 global leaderboards in multiple racing games (Dirt Rally 2.0 is the most notable). The 32 by 9 aspect ratio really shines in racing games, where I can play in cockpit view with no UI. This has several advantages. The biggest one is immersion. I'm using the instruments of the car to get info, not some off to the side tacked on UI element. Another is car feedback. Having the car around you provides another layer of feedback from the car that can communicate grip, speed, weight transfer, and other important information to the driver. In a 16 by 9 aspect ratio, this would come at the cost of visibility, as your eyes can't sweep across the viewing area and keep focus where you need to, on top of the fact that your worldview is too narrow to keep track of important elements of the environment and how they relate to the edges of your vehicle. In 32 by 9, it's all the benefits, but none of the weaknesses. I'd say the next most beneficial game type is anything that involves stealth. You just have so much more ability to stay aware of your surroundings with the wider screen. The benefits start to drop off a bit after those two game types, but it's still nice from an experience and immersion perspective, which is where my priorities are. I like to be competitive, but it's not my biggest priority when it comes to gaming.
Hey bro, this might be more of an unconventional idea, but: how about a video of how keep your equipment so clean? I try to keep my stuff clean but within several days everything is hella dusty again..
Even with cleaning I still had dust on the desk while filming. It's a nightmare we all face. But yeah sure, I can do a video on some of my cleaning methods.
For what it's worth, burn in is an issue even in full screen, ammo counter, health bar, score board, ext. Any overlay is there for quite a while. They design most OLEDs to help mitigate burn in, but it will always be an issue if you game for long sessions
Yeah agreed. I think this would've been super expensive regardless of which panel type they used though. Even that LG 38" 144hz Nano-IPS monitor was just shy of 3k AUD (Aussie Dollar), so this being about the same price is actually reasonable considering what you're getting. The Samsung G9 was up there too, which is 240Hz VA but super ultrawide and 49".
@@RocketJumpNinja Oh yeah, I agree. Corsair kept it reasonable considering the novelty of the monitor and its features. Generally speaking I wouldn't even mind spending the money since a monitor is not something you replace every year. But somehow with OLED I am terrified I mess up and get burn in, despite the warranty.
I hit top 1% on a few games like overwatch, fortnite, and predecessor. Currently learning apex and I am high plat. All of this was on a 3440x1440 monitor. I've debated on downsizing to have a better stream output, but once you go ultrawide you never go back. I'm upgrading to the Xeneon flex to combine my work setup with the KVM functionality. Inb4 text fringe, I literally couldn't care less. You can absolutely be competitive with ultrawide gaming.
LG burn in protection is really nice, been using a C1 as my primary screen for almost 2 years now and no burn in. I do hide the taskbar on my main machine though (leave it enabled for work machine which is also plugged into monitor).
Burn-in (or -out, if you want to be correct) is still an issue with black bars (if you intend to use the rest of the screen for other stuff), the center of the screen will eventually be dimmer than the sides
The live wallpaper isn't needed, just go with a black one or disable it in Windows for windowed gaming. Also, custom resolution utility or graphics driver options will let you use lower resolutions with high refresh rate, they're just not listed by default.
The reason you get so much stretching on Quake is because of the high FOV you're playing on. Higher the FOV, the more the stretching. I don't think it has anything to do with how old the game is as long as you're able to set the game to your monitor's resolution. When playing with a monitor with a wide aspect ration like a 21:9 (let alone something like a 32:9), now you're getting even more horizontal FOV which will make the stretching even worse. It's like playing a game with triple 16:9 monitors. You get insane stretching. The only way to have less stretching is to reduce the FOV so everything became bigger and more realistically sized and scaled (but negatively affecting your peripheral vision) or by playing a game that has independent rendering for each monitor but sadly mostly only racing sims have this even like 20 years later. Game makers need to start including options for stretching. At the very least, they need to include options that allow to compensate for curved screens. At the same vertical FOV, a curved screen should be giving us more horizontal vision than the same, exact size monitor but in a non-curved version. Gamers aren't really getting what they should from their curved monitors until the curve is applied to the games' settings.
The FOV stretching happens on the sides. The stretching I'm talking about is referring to what's in the middle of the screen, because it's trying to render a 16:9 image on a 21:9 resolution. Go into Photoshop, take a screenshot at 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 (16:9), then stretch it to 2560x1080 or 3440x1440 (21:9). That's what's happening. Or you can do it reverse. Screenshot 21:9 and then transform > distort and then resize it to a 16:9 resolution. That will make Quake Live look normal again. Just a game engine problem unfortunately.
I just got the LG 27GR95QE-B and man OLED is a gamechanger. The only downside for me so far is the ABL but really only noticeable when it comes to office use. Just makes me excited what kind of OLED monitors we'll have in 5-10 years time.
I would hope for Micro LED. OLED has too many problems. Micro LED is gonna be awesome, in...... 15 to 20 years. I want a 21:9 ultrawide but most video content is 16:9. So watching youtube will wear the middle of the oled panel out fast and I imagine when it does a whole panel refresh it reduces voltage to those sides that haven't seen alot of use to match up with the worn out middle. It's all too risky. I'd be happy with a 34inch ultrawide 240hz fast Samsung VA I think.... until micro led. They just don't have it.
Thought I'd weigh in my 2 cents here, having competed in ALGS qualifier on a 21:9 and being exclusively on 21:9 for around 4 years. The biggest issue with being competitive on 21:9 is gaming compatability, valorant for example just gives black bars, and other high intensity esports like the original overwatch and starcraft is a bit of a pain. But single player experiences, most rts and mobas are superior. I use a 175hz oled and would never go back to ips, if you're fine with compatability and don't care to go into the top 0.0001% of gamers, the overall user experience on a 21:9 is far superior. I have a bunch of 21:9 apex footage on my channel.
Thanks for weighing in! What was your experience in competitive Apex like though? Superior in single player, not great for compatibility in certain games but ... Apex seems fine with it, so how was that?
@Rocket Jump Ninja competitive apex was fun to an extent, I played as igl / anchor with gibby, but we didn't get past the 2nd round of qualifiers and I had just started working so I got dropped from my team. Ive since taken a more casual approach to the game since at the top level i just get killed by a roller 9 times out of 10. Gameplay wise, in my opinion runs very well but has dropped in later seasons, I found that the sweet spot for me was 80fov at full res, I found that my aim was a little off with the full FOV at max, but this was only prevalent on apex. QC and Q3/Quake Live my aim felt great on max FOV. The main reason I found apex working so well was everything, at the time scaled well to the wider aspect ratio, while still maintaining the high fps I needed to be competitive. Games like MW2019 took a bug hit in the fps department on release, and OW1 had no 21:9 (not that was worth using, it limited ur fov to like 50) so from a Purley performance point of view, it was the best fps.
I would think that using an ultra wide screen would finally call for mouse acceleration that most players consider taboo... ...however i think mouse acceleration is a highly underrated function that if you train your muscle memory enough you will eventually see the advantages of using mouse acceleration...💯
Nice review. Thank you for it. The burn-in risk and other inherent problems of OLED are why I plan to stick to high refresh rate LCDs. I'll wait until microLED comes to make every previous display technology obsolete (And no, microLED is not MiniLED. MiniLED is different and inferior.) MicroLED is coming to TVs already and is similar to OLED, but it's not organic material. Every pixel is an inorganic LED, so it's superior to OLED in multiple ways, including lifespan. It has no burn-in or image retention problems. It can get brighter than OLED. It's much quicker than OLED in pixel response time; we're talking about nanoseconds here, not microseconds or milliseconds. We may or may not see computer monitors with microLED later this decade; I think it's coming some time before the 2040s.
MicroLED is so far away from being ready for consumer market. Current energy regulations also make it completely infeasible for private use. We can enjoy another 10+ OLED generations before microLED. And if it ever comes it will have new problems. Side fact, conventional LEDs age as well and OLEDs slowly close the gap with new materials.
@@Ir0n_One I hope you're right about OLEDs, because I dislike burn-in even more than LCD's inferior motion clarity. These next generations will be interesting...
I prefer the extra height on the 32"'s, not a fan of how they shrink the height on the ultra wides, after using a 32" for me its like looking through a wide horizontal narrow window.
Doesn't it happen to you that when you open the "Google" browser, when the browser tab is small in size, the white color appears stronger, but then when you maximize the browser window, the white color darkens? Do you know if there is any way to remove that?
I had to watch it on my phone, and not because it fits its screen better than my 16x10 monitor, but because it has more hertz than my monitor - 90 vs 60. So i watched it in 1.5x speed, just to see more frames, because I have no idea what high refresh rate looks like, except for watching Avatar 2. And to be honest, i got used to phone's 90hz pretty quick. So i wonder, if i should look for and save money (or better say - take a credit in a bank) for 144hz, or 240hz minimum?..
Hey since I couldnt find any other way to contact you this might be the best way. Can you recommend any mice that have a similar shape as the logitech g9x? I have searched a lot and even bought a g9x, but sadly its specs are not really usable anymore.
Man...i am only just now looking at high hz 1080p displays...240 hz OLED would be a dream. Not sure about the super wide and curve though. Prefer 16:9 or even 16:10.
Have you considered adjusting your in game FOV? did you reduce, increase or kept the same fov for all games? I tend to reduce it to allow myself to see bigger targets while sacrificing less compared to regular monitors.
Even resolution for size aside, it's quite huge, I'd have to have to so further back so I don't need to look around. Then again I'm fine with regular wides, also many competitive games don't support it properly or if at all. But seeing OLED monitors releasing is great, now to see more models. Waiting for 32" 4K 240Hz one now, slap 1000Hz 1080p mode option on it and gg.
just use 2 27" high refresh rate monitors. 144p - who cares about UHD (uhd, 8k and stuff like that is a marketing gimmick). Better, more flexible and cheaper.
the latency on refresh rate is something we have gone BACKWARDs on since CRT. but i think there is ONLY one monitor that claims like 0.23ms refresh or along those lines at the moment while remaining HDR bright also every moniter that has claimed 1ms Responce time has been a BLUR buster nightmare and proven to be BS lies i have a Vq278HE TN and a vg32vq1b both ASUS, the 32 inch tho it's HDR DOOM looks amazing compaired to the 28 inch 3D monitor it's seriously blury when moving i don't play FPS as much any more i feel skills go down the toilet as you get older if you switch to a LCD pannle too. something about the CRT tube and static electricity keeps your eyes focused where just naked light can't (something i noticed with TVs too)
Wait another 5-10 years for CRT to finally be made 100% obsolete by microLED; microLED is coming to TVs already and is similar to OLED, but it's not organic material. Every pixel is an inorganic LED, so it's superior to OLED in multiple ways, including lifespan. It has no burn-in or image retention problems. It's much quicker than OLED in pixel response time; we're talking about nanoseconds here, not microseconds or milliseconds. We may or may not see computer monitors with microLED later this decade; I think it's coming some time before the 2040s.
Oled is by far the best monitor tech and burn in really isn’t as bad of an issue as everyone thinks it is. I gamed on an lg c1 for 2 years and never got any burn in.
How much do you use it daily, and do you do other stuff than playing games for significant part of that time? We all use computers differently, so some may have 2-3 hours gaming session and that's it, while others spend 10+ hours daily doing various stuff. Burn in is not concern when playing games or media-consumption (watching films), because the pixels are changing all the time (maybe aside from HUD/UI). Concern rises in more static work environment, like office, programming or media creation. Even if nothing happens in one or two years - one would expect to last such expensive monitor (OLED or not) to last longer, like 5+ years. I still have monitors from over decade ago - they are inferior now, but still work and are enough for basic usage.
@@RocketJumpNinja Idk if you have a PS4/5 but there's a Wipeout game on that system if you're interested. Not sure if it'd be good as the ones back in the ps1/2 days though.
oled is overrated imo for competitive. no clue why people want deeper blacks for shooters so you can watch your enemies disappear even more. perhaps im misunderstanding something though. also question zy. why u no use rivatuner to limit fps? i've always had issues with screen "flutter" with other limiters but i've never owned a higher specd monitor. aoc 24g2 is the best i've ever owned.
Yeah that's a good point ... I would've said it's more for the pixel refresh time, I mean even without DyAc it doesn't blur the text while strafing past it in Overwatch, so that should be great for keeping enemies clear as they strafe/move around corners.
People want oled for the pixel response times not the deeper blacks! You can adjust the blacks to what you want them to be just like every other monitor. Nothing beats the responsive of oled.
OLED response time is superior to any LCD, so you don't get to see motion blur or previous frames as the pixels are still shifting. But then, currently OLEDs go only as far as 240Hz, while LCDs have models up to 500Hz - you get to see more frames more quickly.
Well it has potential to show you darker shades than an LCD, so you‘ll see more on the same Gamma curve. Low end gamma can still be raised as on all monitors e.g. with Shadow Boost/Black Equalizer etc.
Yeah I bought this one ... and no, no burn in, I've been leaving it on a black screen every time I walk away from the computer or I'm doing something like text editing on another monitor. So I'll only use this monitor when I'm actually doing something with a lot of motion on it. That said, I have made a few mistakes with it and it's automatically dimmed itself, so seems to have decent defenses to stop the burn in. I'm probably a bad test because I'm trying to make sure there's no burn in. I should've treated the demo version like a regular monitor to see if it would get burn in, but I treated that one really well too!
@@RocketJumpNinja Hmm didn't you say you wanted an super ultrawide like this mainly for productivity? Adobe Premiere and Fruity Loops don't exactly have motion over the whole screen. I've read multiple people online saying it's actually quite difficult to burn in modern OLED displays, even with a lot of static colors. Maybe it only becomes a problem when the brightness is raised to the maximum. According to the rtings long-term test, it's becoming apparent that LG W-OLED panels are more resistant to burn-in than QD-OLED.
That's good to hear. And yeah I edit videos on this, but I have the apps fullscreen and then alt tab to a folder to get a file, or maximise a window, so I'm still refreshing all the pixels. Plus breaks. Haven't done anything with music lately but I'll probably just follow similar principles.
Inb4 "You say you're competitive but you're gold in Apex ranked" ... yeah because I don't play ranked. Here in Aus, you get up to Platinum and then have to play on high ping. A lot of great players are in pubs here because of that, so it's more fun just hot dropping and messing around.
Also LOL at trying to go competitive in Apex; super random, buggy "let's give controllers aim assist to the point pros switch to it from mouse and keyboard" game. Hard pass from me. I'll play it because I love it and it's fun, not because I want to test my skills. I have Quake for that. 😊
I’m so glad you’ve highlighted the controller aim assist Crossplay in what is sold as a skill-based game. It’s a crock of shit. If this was the 90s/ early to mid 00s the current competitive scene would be laughed out of the door.
Yeah I know what you mean. Stay tuned, I'll be weighing in on the debate with a dedicated video for it soon!
Yeah the aim assist in apex is horrendous. Overwatch is bad for it, but in apex it actually just plays the game for you.
Yeah, people never understand the problems with our region.
In CS:GO prior to the changes... You'd get hard blocked around MG2 as higher was such as small pool of players / cheaters.
Same in Overatch... In 2017 I was Diamond and playing with my friends (mixture of Plat / Diamond) and we vs'ed top 500's / GM's. One of them disconnected right at the start so it was 6v5 and we still got steam rolled.
OCE problems..
Haha I never got around to playing apex but I do remember some of us Q3A players saying t3>t4 for this reason lmao. Back when t4 was considered top online. It's funny to me how there was a time I could argue I could see the difference in all the fps and refresh rates etcetera but my eyes have worked so hard over the years idk anymore haha.
I have a G9 Neo. My highest competitive level is in racing games. I'm not currently but I have been in top 500 global leaderboards in multiple racing games (Dirt Rally 2.0 is the most notable).
The 32 by 9 aspect ratio really shines in racing games, where I can play in cockpit view with no UI. This has several advantages. The biggest one is immersion. I'm using the instruments of the car to get info, not some off to the side tacked on UI element. Another is car feedback. Having the car around you provides another layer of feedback from the car that can communicate grip, speed, weight transfer, and other important information to the driver. In a 16 by 9 aspect ratio, this would come at the cost of visibility, as your eyes can't sweep across the viewing area and keep focus where you need to, on top of the fact that your worldview is too narrow to keep track of important elements of the environment and how they relate to the edges of your vehicle. In 32 by 9, it's all the benefits, but none of the weaknesses.
I'd say the next most beneficial game type is anything that involves stealth. You just have so much more ability to stay aware of your surroundings with the wider screen. The benefits start to drop off a bit after those two game types, but it's still nice from an experience and immersion perspective, which is where my priorities are. I like to be competitive, but it's not my biggest priority when it comes to gaming.
I'm not competitive, but I play a lot of games. I've been on 3440x1440 for years now. I cannot go back, I absolutely love it.
You gonna love 4k even more
I think this should have been a 34”. The PPI is a little low IMO.
Hey bro, this might be more of an unconventional idea, but: how about a video of how keep your equipment so clean? I try to keep my stuff clean but within several days everything is hella dusty again..
Even with cleaning I still had dust on the desk while filming. It's a nightmare we all face. But yeah sure, I can do a video on some of my cleaning methods.
@@RocketJumpNinja That'd be great man because your table certainly looks cleaner than mine 🤣
All of these high refresh OLED panels coming out make me excited. Might even upgrade in due time with how much I love great blacks.
What about burn in?
For what it's worth, burn in is an issue even in full screen, ammo counter, health bar, score board, ext. Any overlay is there for quite a while. They design most OLEDs to help mitigate burn in, but it will always be an issue if you game for long sessions
I believe I will purchase this monitor and simply move my windowed game around the screen each day
Great review Zy! I really hope they will come out with more 240hz OLEDs. The price is pretty steep so more on the market should bring that down a bit.
Yeah agreed. I think this would've been super expensive regardless of which panel type they used though. Even that LG 38" 144hz Nano-IPS monitor was just shy of 3k AUD (Aussie Dollar), so this being about the same price is actually reasonable considering what you're getting. The Samsung G9 was up there too, which is 240Hz VA but super ultrawide and 49".
@@RocketJumpNinja Oh yeah, I agree. Corsair kept it reasonable considering the novelty of the monitor and its features. Generally speaking I wouldn't even mind spending the money since a monitor is not something you replace every year. But somehow with OLED I am terrified I mess up and get burn in, despite the warranty.
I hit top 1% on a few games like overwatch, fortnite, and predecessor. Currently learning apex and I am high plat. All of this was on a 3440x1440 monitor. I've debated on downsizing to have a better stream output, but once you go ultrawide you never go back. I'm upgrading to the Xeneon flex to combine my work setup with the KVM functionality. Inb4 text fringe, I literally couldn't care less.
You can absolutely be competitive with ultrawide gaming.
I'm happy with my LG34GN850. No Burn In issues (because it's IPS). Good refresh rate at 144Hz. And all the other benefits (aspect ratio, resolution)..
LG burn in protection is really nice, been using a C1 as my primary screen for almost 2 years now and no burn in.
I do hide the taskbar on my main machine though (leave it enabled for work machine which is also plugged into monitor).
You could buy the LG 45GR95QE , same as the Flex just locked to an 800R curve just way cheaper.
Burn-in (or -out, if you want to be correct) is still an issue with black bars (if you intend to use the rest of the screen for other stuff), the center of the screen will eventually be dimmer than the sides
The live wallpaper isn't needed, just go with a black one or disable it in Windows for windowed gaming. Also, custom resolution utility or graphics driver options will let you use lower resolutions with high refresh rate, they're just not listed by default.
Yeah for sure, but black background is so boring, I'd rather just set it to something cool and leave it go.
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The reason you get so much stretching on Quake is because of the high FOV you're playing on. Higher the FOV, the more the stretching. I don't think it has anything to do with how old the game is as long as you're able to set the game to your monitor's resolution. When playing with a monitor with a wide aspect ration like a 21:9 (let alone something like a 32:9), now you're getting even more horizontal FOV which will make the stretching even worse. It's like playing a game with triple 16:9 monitors. You get insane stretching. The only way to have less stretching is to reduce the FOV so everything became bigger and more realistically sized and scaled (but negatively affecting your peripheral vision) or by playing a game that has independent rendering for each monitor but sadly mostly only racing sims have this even like 20 years later.
Game makers need to start including options for stretching. At the very least, they need to include options that allow to compensate for curved screens. At the same vertical FOV, a curved screen should be giving us more horizontal vision than the same, exact size monitor but in a non-curved version. Gamers aren't really getting what they should from their curved monitors until the curve is applied to the games' settings.
The FOV stretching happens on the sides. The stretching I'm talking about is referring to what's in the middle of the screen, because it's trying to render a 16:9 image on a 21:9 resolution. Go into Photoshop, take a screenshot at 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 (16:9), then stretch it to 2560x1080 or 3440x1440 (21:9). That's what's happening.
Or you can do it reverse. Screenshot 21:9 and then transform > distort and then resize it to a 16:9 resolution. That will make Quake Live look normal again. Just a game engine problem unfortunately.
@@RocketJumpNinja Oh geez, I didn't realize it was stretching a 16:9 image to 21:9. That's a whole different story. My bad.
I think you were right with the 32" ... I haven't looked back ever since.
I just got the LG 27GR95QE-B and man OLED is a gamechanger. The only downside for me so far is the ABL but really only noticeable when it comes to office use. Just makes me excited what kind of OLED monitors we'll have in 5-10 years time.
I would hope for Micro LED. OLED has too many problems. Micro LED is gonna be awesome, in...... 15 to 20 years. I want a 21:9 ultrawide but most video content is 16:9. So watching youtube will wear the middle of the oled panel out fast and I imagine when it does a whole panel refresh it reduces voltage to those sides that haven't seen alot of use to match up with the worn out middle. It's all too risky. I'd be happy with a 34inch ultrawide 240hz fast Samsung VA I think.... until micro led. They just don't have it.
Thought I'd weigh in my 2 cents here, having competed in ALGS qualifier on a 21:9 and being exclusively on 21:9 for around 4 years. The biggest issue with being competitive on 21:9 is gaming compatability, valorant for example just gives black bars, and other high intensity esports like the original overwatch and starcraft is a bit of a pain. But single player experiences, most rts and mobas are superior. I use a 175hz oled and would never go back to ips, if you're fine with compatability and don't care to go into the top 0.0001% of gamers, the overall user experience on a 21:9 is far superior. I have a bunch of 21:9 apex footage on my channel.
Thanks for weighing in! What was your experience in competitive Apex like though? Superior in single player, not great for compatibility in certain games but ... Apex seems fine with it, so how was that?
@Rocket Jump Ninja competitive apex was fun to an extent, I played as igl / anchor with gibby, but we didn't get past the 2nd round of qualifiers and I had just started working so I got dropped from my team. Ive since taken a more casual approach to the game since at the top level i just get killed by a roller 9 times out of 10. Gameplay wise, in my opinion runs very well but has dropped in later seasons, I found that the sweet spot for me was 80fov at full res, I found that my aim was a little off with the full FOV at max, but this was only prevalent on apex. QC and Q3/Quake Live my aim felt great on max FOV. The main reason I found apex working so well was everything, at the time scaled well to the wider aspect ratio, while still maintaining the high fps I needed to be competitive. Games like MW2019 took a bug hit in the fps department on release, and OW1 had no 21:9 (not that was worth using, it limited ur fov to like 50) so from a Purley performance point of view, it was the best fps.
Yeah roller is a bit of an issue, going to do a video about it soon. Thanks for the thoughts, interesting to read!
I've always wanted something like this but the upkeep on hardware is going to be costly, especially graphics cards.
dont need a screensaver, just set your monitor to go sleep/idle after 5 minutes
Heya, we miss your mouse reviews xD it would be nice to have a look at the lamzu atlantis mini / pulsar X2 mini :)
Something about grabbing my monitor and flexing it feels wrong but hey if it looks cool.
Switch it to 16:9 for quake
I would think that using an ultra wide screen would finally call for mouse acceleration that most players consider taboo...
...however i think mouse acceleration is a highly underrated function that if you train your muscle memory enough you will eventually see the advantages of using mouse acceleration...💯
MOAR MONITORZ! MOAR!
Next up is BenQ Zowie 360Hz with DyAc, really interested to see how that goes. Stay tuned!
Nice review. Thank you for it.
The burn-in risk and other inherent problems of OLED are why I plan to stick to high refresh rate LCDs. I'll wait until microLED comes to make every previous display technology obsolete (And no, microLED is not MiniLED. MiniLED is different and inferior.)
MicroLED is coming to TVs already and is similar to OLED, but it's not organic material. Every pixel is an inorganic LED, so it's superior to OLED in multiple ways, including lifespan. It has no burn-in or image retention problems. It can get brighter than OLED. It's much quicker than OLED in pixel response time; we're talking about nanoseconds here, not microseconds or milliseconds. We may or may not see computer monitors with microLED later this decade; I think it's coming some time before the 2040s.
MicroLED is so far away from being ready for consumer market. Current energy regulations also make it completely infeasible for private use. We can enjoy another 10+ OLED generations before microLED. And if it ever comes it will have new problems. Side fact, conventional LEDs age as well and OLEDs slowly close the gap with new materials.
@@Ir0n_One I hope you're right about OLEDs, because I dislike burn-in even more than LCD's inferior motion clarity. These next generations will be interesting...
just change the aspect ratio of the monitor to 16:9. its a standard resolution so youll have no issues
What happened to your Samsung G9 from two years ago?
I prefer the extra height on the 32"'s, not a fan of how they shrink the height on the ultra wides, after using a 32" for me its like looking through a wide horizontal narrow window.
Agreed!
3:16 what's the racing game?
Does XTRFY ever plan to release MZ1 wireless LARGE ? There was a rumor several months ago ....
I wanted to like this monitor, but that resolution is too low for the size of the display, and drops the PPI down too much for my taste.
Deathadder v3 review please
Would this work okay with a m1 Mac?
Doesn't it happen to you that when you open the "Google" browser, when the browser tab is small in size, the white color appears stronger, but then when you maximize the browser window, the white color darkens? Do you know if there is any way to remove that?
Are you going to review the Razer Viper Mini SE?
I had to watch it on my phone, and not because it fits its screen better than my 16x10 monitor, but because it has more hertz than my monitor - 90 vs 60. So i watched it in 1.5x speed, just to see more frames, because I have no idea what high refresh rate looks like, except for watching Avatar 2.
And to be honest, i got used to phone's 90hz pretty quick.
So i wonder, if i should look for and save money (or better say - take a credit in a bank) for 144hz, or 240hz minimum?..
What desk are you using? Looks to be a corner desk with a rounded front?
Hey since I couldnt find any other way to contact you this might be the best way. Can you recommend any mice that have a similar shape as the logitech g9x? I have searched a lot and even bought a g9x, but sadly its specs are not really usable anymore.
Man...i am only just now looking at high hz 1080p displays...240 hz OLED would be a dream. Not sure about the super wide and curve though. Prefer 16:9 or even 16:10.
How is the ppi for productivity ? bearing in mind mist desks are probably around 60 - 80 cm, mine being 60cm deep
Fine for me, I have a 32" 4k next to me and I'm more comfortable using this.
What's that mousepad? (the green one)
With Valorant choose "windowed fullscreen" and it should goe into ultrawide, works with LG C2 42" at 3840x1600.
holy shyt!!!!
THAT IS BAD AZZ!!!!😎💯
Is that ASUS ROG PG27AQN, 1440p 360Hz IPS with G-Sync module? Thoughts?
Nah it's the older one I made a video on, 25" 1080p.
So I will wait for the 360Hz version wwith black equalizer and get this. Thanks.
You think the difference between 240 en 360 is big enough?
@@danielk3893 Depends, where you are coming from. I have a 32" G7 as well. There is no big upgrade in this for me.
NO 4K DOWN SIDE
what was the game at 3:14
Have you considered adjusting your in game FOV? did you reduce, increase or kept the same fov for all games?
I tend to reduce it to allow myself to see bigger targets while sacrificing less compared to regular monitors.
Still no burn-in?
None, but I'm taking good care of it.
Even resolution for size aside, it's quite huge, I'd have to have to so further back so I don't need to look around. Then again I'm fine with regular wides, also many competitive games don't support it properly or if at all. But seeing OLED monitors releasing is great, now to see more models. Waiting for 32" 4K 240Hz one now, slap 1000Hz 1080p mode option on it and gg.
just use 2 27" high refresh rate monitors. 144p - who cares about UHD (uhd, 8k and stuff like that is a marketing gimmick). Better, more flexible and cheaper.
the latency on refresh rate is something we have gone BACKWARDs on since CRT.
but i think there is ONLY one monitor that claims like 0.23ms refresh or along those lines at the moment while remaining HDR bright also
every moniter that has claimed 1ms Responce time has been a BLUR buster nightmare and proven to be BS lies
i have a Vq278HE TN and a vg32vq1b both ASUS, the 32 inch tho it's HDR DOOM looks amazing compaired to the 28 inch 3D monitor it's seriously blury when moving
i don't play FPS as much any more i feel skills go down the toilet as you get older if you switch to a LCD pannle too. something about the CRT tube and static electricity keeps your eyes focused where just naked light can't (something i noticed with TVs too)
Wait another 5-10 years for CRT to finally be made 100% obsolete by microLED; microLED is coming to TVs already and is similar to OLED, but it's not organic material. Every pixel is an inorganic LED, so it's superior to OLED in multiple ways, including lifespan. It has no burn-in or image retention problems. It's much quicker than OLED in pixel response time; we're talking about nanoseconds here, not microseconds or milliseconds. We may or may not see computer monitors with microLED later this decade; I think it's coming some time before the 2040s.
Ultrawides are fine for any kind of gameplay, just don't buy this one, it's so bad.
You say you're competitive but you're gold in Apex ranked
* shakes fist
Oled is by far the best monitor tech and burn in really isn’t as bad of an issue as everyone thinks it is. I gamed on an lg c1 for 2 years and never got any burn in.
How much do you use it daily, and do you do other stuff than playing games for significant part of that time? We all use computers differently, so some may have 2-3 hours gaming session and that's it, while others spend 10+ hours daily doing various stuff.
Burn in is not concern when playing games or media-consumption (watching films), because the pixels are changing all the time (maybe aside from HUD/UI). Concern rises in more static work environment, like office, programming or media creation.
Even if nothing happens in one or two years - one would expect to last such expensive monitor (OLED or not) to last longer, like 5+ years. I still have monitors from over decade ago - they are inferior now, but still work and are enough for basic usage.
What's the racing game at 3:55?
It's called "Pacer" on Steam, made by some guys behind the "Wipeout" series on Playstation, which I was a huge fan of back in the day.
@@RocketJumpNinja Oh, I remember that game being under a different name while they worked on it for Early Access. How is that game now?
Yeah Formula Fusion, way better now! But honestly doesn't have the same extra cool vibe of Wipeout.
@@RocketJumpNinja Idk if you have a PS4/5 but there's a Wipeout game on that system if you're interested. Not sure if it'd be good as the ones back in the ps1/2 days though.
oled is overrated imo for competitive. no clue why people want deeper blacks for shooters so you can watch your enemies disappear even more. perhaps im misunderstanding something though. also question zy. why u no use rivatuner to limit fps? i've always had issues with screen "flutter" with other limiters but i've never owned a higher specd monitor. aoc 24g2 is the best i've ever owned.
Yeah that's a good point ... I would've said it's more for the pixel refresh time, I mean even without DyAc it doesn't blur the text while strafing past it in Overwatch, so that should be great for keeping enemies clear as they strafe/move around corners.
People want oled for the pixel response times not the deeper blacks! You can adjust the blacks to what you want them to be just like every other monitor.
Nothing beats the responsive of oled.
OLED response time is superior to any LCD, so you don't get to see motion blur or previous frames as the pixels are still shifting. But then, currently OLEDs go only as far as 240Hz, while LCDs have models up to 500Hz - you get to see more frames more quickly.
You cant say oled is overrated and only have used a 24g2 lol. Thats like saying a tesla is overrated and only driving a toyota aygo.
Well it has potential to show you darker shades than an LCD, so you‘ll see more on the same Gamma curve. Low end gamma can still be raised as on all monitors e.g. with Shadow Boost/Black Equalizer etc.
"I want to move to ultrawide" except that this monitor is NOT ultrawide....it's literally not.
It's 21:9. What do you think ultrawide is?
hahah 20year old player play in window mode...
maybe DISPLAY SCALING + CRU CUSTOM RESOLUTION? NO?
Judging by your aspect ratio in your new videos, I assume you bought this monitor?
Have you gotten any burn-in yet?
Yeah I bought this one ... and no, no burn in, I've been leaving it on a black screen every time I walk away from the computer or I'm doing something like text editing on another monitor. So I'll only use this monitor when I'm actually doing something with a lot of motion on it. That said, I have made a few mistakes with it and it's automatically dimmed itself, so seems to have decent defenses to stop the burn in. I'm probably a bad test because I'm trying to make sure there's no burn in. I should've treated the demo version like a regular monitor to see if it would get burn in, but I treated that one really well too!
@@RocketJumpNinja Hmm didn't you say you wanted an super ultrawide like this mainly for productivity? Adobe Premiere and Fruity Loops don't exactly have motion over the whole screen.
I've read multiple people online saying it's actually quite difficult to burn in modern OLED displays, even with a lot of static colors. Maybe it only becomes a problem when the brightness is raised to the maximum.
According to the rtings long-term test, it's becoming apparent that LG W-OLED panels are more resistant to burn-in than QD-OLED.
That's good to hear. And yeah I edit videos on this, but I have the apps fullscreen and then alt tab to a folder to get a file, or maximise a window, so I'm still refreshing all the pixels. Plus breaks. Haven't done anything with music lately but I'll probably just follow similar principles.