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as well as hyperx it's been an interesting year for LG monitors we went
from basically not really covering anything from them at all to this year
they got like Ultra wide this and IPS that and curved whatever it's been
absolutely crazy and they're not stopping now this one is going to be
extremely exciting for gamers it's very
similar to some of the ultra wides we've seen before for so it's got a 34in
diagonal size and it's got a 2560 x 1080
resolution but the killer app here is
not going to be the IPS panel it's not going to be you know it's got a stand or
whatever nice slim bezel very similar to the ones we've seen in the past the
killer WRA here is AMD's freesync Technology support so this is a new
standard that AMD worked with vesa worked with scaler manufacturers worked
with panel manufacturers to try to get integrated and it is for gamers it's
kind of like NVIDIA's g-sync in that the video card tells the monitor when to
refresh instead of the monitor refreshing at a fixed 60 HZ which is
what this panel is going to do and then just doing that all the time which causes screen tearing with the alternate
being vsync on which causes stutters whenever your frame rate drops below
your vsync frame rate below your refresh rate so right here is what looks like
it's going to be the ultra wide for gamers and this is interesting LG in the
past didn't really take the whole gaming monitor thing that seriously but I've
never seen them actually quote the input leg on a monitor right next to the
monitor before so I'm really excited to try this one out because especially with
an IPS model that's not something you typically see but it's not just about
gaming LG's got some other pretty interesting stuff here this is a 19 by10
aspect ratio 4k monitor meant for
Creative professionals now when I say 4K a lot of of the time I'm actually being
a little bit sloppy with my terminology because UHD 3840 by 2160 is not
technically the same thing as 4K which
is actually 4096 by 2160 so this guy right here is a
31 in monitor that has full coverage of
99.5% of the Adobe RGB color space comes
pre-calibrated and looks absolutely stunning and beautiful it could be a
very interesting in between for very high-end consumers who don't quite want
a 21 by9 Ultra wide want an absolutely gorgeous professional grade monitor but
do want a little bit more width than a 16x9 I know we have one of these coming
so you can expect a full review sometime in the next couple of months but in the
meantime I'm just happy to have had a chance to uh to get a look at this bad
boy in terms of inputs we've got I believe it's three USB 3.0 ports we've
got DisplayPort Mini DisplayPort and dual HDMI in and uh man that looks
beautiful IPS panel of course shifting over just a little bit we've got the 34
UC 87m and they they're calling this a
business model but honestly a lot of time I must just be an incredibly boring
person because the business model often appeals to me more than the
Consumer model now I on my desk right now I have a 34 UC 997 which is actually
right next to it and the more consumer grade one and the main difference here
is not actually the panel technology it's not the super slim bezel it's not
the curve of the 34in 3440 X 1440 screen
but it is the stand Design This one
height adjustable stand now for a flat
monitor it's important to have a height adjustable stand for ergonomics for a
curved monitor in my mind it is essential to have the monitor at exactly
the right height because as soon as you start looking at it from above or From
Below you lose any benefit of the natural appearance of a curved display
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
I can tell they're not giving me any price quotes but sort of the speculation
is that pricing should be fairly similar to the UC 97 and this is the one that I
would personally be all over if I was looking for a 34in curved monitor
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