sorry guys I am feeling a little sick coming into this video that is to say
I'm sick of ultra wide monitors costing so
much okay no but seriously so this
company Zotac reached out to me offering to send
their 34in LED curves monitor to have a
look at and initially I was just like H it's another cheap Korean monitor off
eBay and then I was like right it's a cheap Korean monitor off
eBay that's 34 in Ultra wide and is
anywhere from4 to $500 cheaper than the
ones that you can get from brand names so is it up to Snuff let's find
out Mass drop is Now featuring their custom configured AKG k7xx audio file
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description all right so let's get this baby open so honestly I wasn't even
going to look at this like I said in the intro but for more reasons than
just it's an eBay monitor the reason
that I didn't care was that I thought it
was pretty similar in Spec but just cheaper compared to any other Ultra wide
you could get what I didn't realize until I looked a little closer was it's
3440 by 1440 34in ultrawide at 100 Hertz
with free sync for $400 to $500 less
than what you would pay for either an Acer Predator or a susus Rog
equivalent at that size with gsync so
you are definitely giving up the tearing resistance of G syn and you are giving
up the like A+ panel or whatever it is
that you would get with a brand name but you're still getting the ultra wide
experience which I personally think is amazing you're still getting high
refresh rate anything above 60 is a very
noticeable Improvement going past 100 to 120 I'd say the gains start to drop off
but up to 100 it makes a huge difference
and you're getting it at a way lower price so Inside the Box we get a display
port cable we get a Korean power cable with a North American adapter that's
bent but that's okay we get an ARM oh
look there's an ARM in there that kind of ARM we get a foot oh
look there's a foot in there it's
fun we get some screws and we get some
instructions entirely in Korean but
there are a few useful specs in here so it's using a Samsung VA panel that's
good to know it runs at 60 HZ according to this but it's at 100 HZ on the eBay
page r1800 so this is a very very curved
monitor look how happy that makes me so let's put this baby together the foot
bones connected to the ARM bone the
screw bones connected to the foot bone
the ARM bones connected to the
backbone the backbones connected to the
monitor bone and we lift it all up and it goes a
little something like that overall I got to say I'm pretty impressed I think they
did a pretty good job aesthetically for like an off-brand monitor uh the bezels
are pretty thin it does get a little bit fat near the back but I like the silver
chin bar uh it's not that big I like that it's made of metal it's got like
these screws on the bottom that give it kind of like a an industrial kind of
look um I wish the foot and the ARM were
not so glossy and such fingerprint
magnets if you take such a heavy monitor like this and you put it on a really
tall ARM as soon as the user goes to type you get a lot of monitor wobble and
that's really not the case with this one another polarizing bit is these little
covers at the back I personally am not a fan because all they seem to really do
to me is force this wire to come out at the bottom where you're going to see it
from the front whereas if they were like over
here and they routed over here or something I would see more of a
justification for them but like you can't really do that Ed likes them
though so I think that tells us everything we need to know about Ed's
taste the microboard monitor is missing
an audio output so if you wanted to pass through to your headphones you will not
have that capability but what it has is
DisplayPort 1.2 HDMI 2 and DVI of all
things so what I don't know yet is exactly what resolution and refresh
rates it's going to run at for all of those interfaces but darn it I'm going
to find out so we're running off a GTX
1080 here 6950x 128 gigs of RAM is it
turning on the onscreen control buttons and
placements are not a strong point although from my perspective you can
actually use the bass as a mirror to see them hey and it turned on anyway no
there's no other way to see any of the buttons no that's not intentional I
refuse to accept that that was their
intent okay so we got it fired up and I will say this uh any sort of uncertainty
with respect to the specifications of the refresh rate we can put that to rest
because this is clearly running at 100 htz let's go ahead and fire up a game
well if there was any doubt that it magically had a g-sync module in it that
tearing should put that to rest but uh dang it actually looks pretty good oh
and the menu is in Korean okay there we go oh oh this
navigation is awful what do the buttons do okay sometimes you get what you pay
for okay so free sync is included uh response time is off usually
the medium setting is best I had noticed immediately that motion blur was more
than I'm accustomed to in modern monitor so let's see if that helped a little bit
so motion blur still definitely a thing
um even with the higher refresh rate that's not going to compensate for the
pixels themselves not switching that quickly and Samsung's MVA technology is
not known to be like the fastest
especially compared to things like OLED or TN with that said and I've said this
before the higher refresh rate makes a
huge difference to the responsiveness overall
of the feel of the game and I would take that over a crisper 60 HZ image any day
of the week so gaming experience actually pretty solid um but one risk
that you take with these monitors is
dead pixels so we're going to use dead pixel buddy and have a quick look now
the odds of them sending a reviewer one that has a bazillion dead pixels is
obviously a little lower and
actually I'm impressed there are no dead
pixels at all cool I like that dead pixel buddy is just a website now coming
back to that whole 10bit mode thing um
there's a 10bit test ramp Photoshop file that you can get to find out if your
display is actually 10bit and that looks like not but just
because the panel is not 10 bit and it never promised to be so I was like o did
we get a little bonus well we didn't doesn't mean it couldn't be used for
basic content creation this on the other hand does these are about the most all
over the map results that I've seen since I got my i1 Pro from xrite and uh
this calman uh ultimate for business software from Spectra Cal I mean I look
at these points some of them aren't even in the same neighborhood as the colors
that they are supposed to be hitting here okay so the last thing that's left
is to check out all the different interfaces so I've never used an ultra
wide with DVI before but there you go dual link DVI 60 HZ 3440 X
1440 actually not bad I never actually run the numbers to see what we were
going to get but I know that on HDMI 1.4
you've been stuck with 50 htz on most ultrawide monitors the good news though
HDMI 2.0 seems to work perfectly so it
just switch switches on its own and boom there we are 3440 by 1440 I'm pretty
sure we're running at 100 HZ and the UFO test on blur Busters will back me up
there so bottom line then uh I had Ed play
some Counter-Strike Global Offensive and his conclusion is pretty much this if
the option is between this and a faster pixel response time display like the 144
HZ TN that he has at home he'll take the 44 Herz TN but if the choice is between
spending another $100 to get 25 fewer
Hertz somewhat more accurate color I actually did review this display from
Acer in the past and no HDMI 2.0 then
this one actually looks like a pretty darn good option if you're only planning
to game and you don't plan to do any serious color work because that was not
as compelling of a story
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