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store. phantom.in screen protectors out there

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as well as hyperx it's been an interesting year for LG monitors we went

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from basically not really covering anything from them at all to this year

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they got like Ultra wide this and IPS that and curved whatever it's been

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absolutely crazy and they're not stopping now this one is going to be

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extremely exciting for gamers it's very

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similar to some of the ultra wides we've seen before for so it's got a 34in

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diagonal size and it's got a 2560 x 1080

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resolution but the killer app here is

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not going to be the IPS panel it's not going to be you know it's got a stand or

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whatever nice slim bezel very similar to the ones we've seen in the past the

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killer WRA here is AMD's freesync Technology support so this is a new

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standard that AMD worked with vesa worked with scaler manufacturers worked

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with panel manufacturers to try to get integrated and it is for gamers it's

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kind of like NVIDIA's g-sync in that the video card tells the monitor when to

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refresh instead of the monitor refreshing at a fixed 60 HZ which is

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what this panel is going to do and then just doing that all the time which causes screen tearing with the alternate

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being vsync on which causes stutters whenever your frame rate drops below

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your vsync frame rate below your refresh rate so right here is what looks like

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it's going to be the ultra wide for gamers and this is interesting LG in the

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past didn't really take the whole gaming monitor thing that seriously but I've

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never seen them actually quote the input leg on a monitor right next to the

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monitor before so I'm really excited to try this one out because especially with

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an IPS model that's not something you typically see but it's not just about

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gaming LG's got some other pretty interesting stuff here this is a 19 by10

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aspect ratio 4k monitor meant for

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Creative professionals now when I say 4K a lot of of the time I'm actually being

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a little bit sloppy with my terminology because UHD 3840 by 2160 is not

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technically the same thing as 4K which

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is actually 4096 by 2160 so this guy right here is a

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31 in monitor that has full coverage of

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99.5% of the Adobe RGB color space comes

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pre-calibrated and looks absolutely stunning and beautiful it could be a

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very interesting in between for very high-end consumers who don't quite want

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a 21 by9 Ultra wide want an absolutely gorgeous professional grade monitor but

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do want a little bit more width than a 16x9 I know we have one of these coming

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so you can expect a full review sometime in the next couple of months but in the

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meantime I'm just happy to have had a chance to uh to get a look at this bad

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boy in terms of inputs we've got I believe it's three USB 3.0 ports we've

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got DisplayPort Mini DisplayPort and dual HDMI in and uh man that looks

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beautiful IPS panel of course shifting over just a little bit we've got the 34

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UC 87m and they they're calling this a

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business model but honestly a lot of time I must just be an incredibly boring

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person because the business model often appeals to me more than the

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Consumer model now I on my desk right now I have a 34 UC 997 which is actually

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right next to it and the more consumer grade one and the main difference here

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is not actually the panel technology it's not the super slim bezel it's not

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the curve of the 34in 3440 X 1440 screen

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but it is the stand Design This one

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height adjustable stand now for a flat

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monitor it's important to have a height adjustable stand for ergonomics for a

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curved monitor in my mind it is essential to have the monitor at exactly

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the right height because as soon as you start looking at it from above or From

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Below you lose any benefit of the natural appearance of a curved display

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because it's going to start to look kind of weird and distorted you want to be looking at it straight on so I from what

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I can tell they're not giving me any price quotes but sort of the speculation

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is that pricing should be fairly similar to the UC 97 and this is the one that I

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would personally be all over if I was looking for a 34in curved monitor

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Phantom dog glass and a huge shout out to hyperx you can find a link to their

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