You just got your beautiful new 34-inch ultra-wide monitor
Welcome to the absolute cream of the crop of gaming
productivity and cinema
experiences my friend
is what I would have said if Samsung hadn't just grabbed the bar and
re-
stretched it
with their brand new
$1,300
9-inch
32x9 high refresh rate super ultra wide gaming monitor
But is this thing like totally worth it man, or just like
totally stupid man
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The CHG90 is an absolute
behemoth its 49 inch diagonal
Quantum dot panel is nearly 4 feet wide and all together it weighs
33 pounds and yet it still manages to look light and streamlined
With thin bezels and a slender yet robust stand with a charcoal and titanium finish that hits that sweet spot between
gamery and
Boring the 1800r curved screen can swivel up to 15 degrees in either direction tilt between minus 2 and 15 degrees and elevate about 5 inches
So not nearly as high as it would have to be to support rotating into portrait mode
Sorry reddit fanatics, but that is more than a little silly
Flipping around to the back we find the integrated cable management hook standard power cable no brick required and a cover that pops off
Revealing two HDMI 2.0 ports two DisplayPort 1.3s one of which is of the mini me variety and
Audio in and out so all that is actually pretty darn good
But we do wish that the USB hub was a little more
2018 with more ports and maybe a type-c in there
Oh, right, and they also threw in this secret headphone hanger that I'm betting exactly no one will use the awkward position aside
most people are unlikely to have a
Desk that is deep enough to spare the extra three inches that you would need given that the monitors legs
Already jut out in front of the screen and the screen itself is so wide that you literally
Cannot see all of it at once if you sit too close
28 inches is the minimum that you would need to use this thing comfortably and even then you will end up turning your head a
Little bit to see the start menu and the system tray
Which I guess brings us to the experience of actually using it in a word
Pretty dank
Okay, that's two words, but you could basically think of the 32 by 9 aspect ratio as kind of like having two
27 inch 16 by 9 monitors side by side but without any bezels harshing your vibe
kind of in practice though a
34 inch ultra wide already feels about as
productive as two monitors this
This lets you comfortably have three or maybe even four things open side by side if you stretch a bit
It is so wide that it will actually require a little bit of
Creative thinking to make efficient use of it even your 21 by 9 cinema scope movies will have black bars on the side
So I mean one of the ideas we had was to run a 16 by 9 game in the middle with streaming and
Social media Windows surrounding it cool, right?
speaking of gaming
Yes
Just like with a regular ultra wide support for this resolution can be a little hit or miss with some games giving you black bars
Some zooming in and some of them working correctly other than that the HUD ends up so far to the side
That's more like a herd
With that said when it's good. It's really good
You can have so much of your field of view filled up?
With screen that it's not that dissimilar to VR goggles
but without the screen door or any controller dongle itch and
the girthy screen isn't the only perk for gamers the CHD 90 rocks a
144 Hertz refresh rate backlight strobing and
FreeSync 2 although it should be noted that strobing can't be used with FreeSync running at the same time
The upside is that Samsung included some shortcut buttons to make toggling between custom displays?
modes easy
So we made one each for FreeSync versus fast response time and then another with I saver for working
Now let's have a little chat about one of the other features on the box
HDR this display claims to support HDR
but as far as we're concerned it only kind of does to really give you the HDR effect any
display technology with a backlight needs full array local dimming and a
peak brightness of a thousand nits
This puppy can hit peaks of 600 nits with typical brightness in the 250 to 350 range
Which will enhance the look of the few games out there that support HDR?
But buyer beware because these HD aren't monitors are on the rise
Leading us then to the CHG 90s biggest weak point the resolution. It's 3840 by 1080
So compared to 16 by 9 4k it is half as many pixels
Making it easier to drive for your graphics card
but also
It's huge and only half the number of pixels
So at this size you're only getting about 80 pixels per inch the same as a
34 inch
2560 by 1080 ultra wide at a third of this one's price now to be clear
It's not a the complete amazing turning dentro show method
unusable it just hurts the otherwise futuristic experience it's like it's
like being in a self-driving electric car and going to roll down the window
and being like really really Windows that go like this not like this but I'm
not blaming Samsung for any of that because they're limited by what can be
done today with the HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.3 or 1.4 standards over a
single cable so then there are two questions that we have to answer in our
conclusion one is super ultra wide something that deserves to exist well I
would say as long as your desk and the stand are sturdy enough we're giving it
the thumbs up and number two should you buy this monitor that one's a little
tougher it's got a high quality VA panel that's color calibrated right out of the
box and offers a gaming and productivity experience that's unlike anything else
available to you
today but the HDMI 2.1 spec is already out so unless the timing and the price
of the CHD 90 lineup perfectly with your upgrade cycle and your budget and you
really need something today it might be worth waiting to see how Samsung's
competitors super ultra widen the selection in the coming months
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