1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:06,799 Ultrawide monitors. This is not the first one I've seen, but it is the first 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:16,230 I've seen that targets gamers so directly. Welcome to my video of the LG 3 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:26,560 34UM67. Fractal Design listens and the Define R5 case was made with feedback 4 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:31,439 from you, the community. So, click my face to learn more about that and give 5 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:35,480 your feedback. So, let's start by having a look at her physically. H if you 6 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:40,160 watched my video on the 34UM95 just under a year ago, you 7 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:45,360 already know pretty much how this story goes. The stand is see-through, which is 8 00:00:42,719 --> 00:00:50,800 neat, but it's otherwise subpar since only its tilt and angle can be adjusted 9 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:55,199 without removing and replacing the two screws that let you change the height a 10 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:59,280 grand total of like an inch. And there's some unfortunate stuff at the back as 11 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:03,600 well. That glossy plastic is going to do what glossy plastic does best. Although 12 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:06,960 we might have an idea for a solution, so make sure that you're subscribed for 13 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:10,720 that video. And while the standard vasa mount and included sticker to protect 14 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:15,520 the back of your monitor are welcome sites, folks who want to wall mount this 15 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:20,799 puppy will need to buy lowprofile angled connectors for anything but the second 16 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:26,880 HDMI input. So, the audio pass through HDMI 1, DVI or DisplayPort ports. No 17 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:31,600 USB hub back here. Something I would have liked to see on such an expensive 18 00:01:29,119 --> 00:01:36,400 display as well. Moving around to the front, things get quite a bit better in 19 00:01:33,759 --> 00:01:44,479 a hurry. The bezel around the matte anti-glare coated 2560x 1080 75 Hz IPS 20 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:49,840 panel is super slim, and LG's joystick for navigating the onscreen menu is 21 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:53,040 present. And what an onscreen menu it 22 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:55,840 is. It lacks an sRGB color profile, even 23 00:01:53,040 --> 00:02:00,399 though 99% sRGB coverage is a selling point on the monitor's web page for some 24 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:04,960 reason. But if you've got a calibration tool, the six-axis color adjustments 25 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:09,360 will let you take care of that easily. And just about anything else, you can 26 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:13,360 set it to six bit or 8 bit color, adjust pixel response times, although as usual, 27 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:17,680 I found medium was the best compromise and much better than older IPS panels. 28 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,319 By the way, you can tinker with their black stabilizer feature, which is 29 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:26,160 similar to Ben Q's black equalizer, a contrast reducing effect that makes it 30 00:02:24,319 --> 00:02:30,879 easier to see objects in shadows in games without washing out all of the 31 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:35,920 colors on screen. You can use any of the preconfigured gaming modes that monkey 32 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:39,280 around with color, gamma, and sharpness, or you can make your own that you can 33 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,879 switch to by pressing up on the joystick twice. And then you can enable and 34 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:49,440 disable a couple of LG's other killer features for the 34UMM67 as well. The 35 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:51,440 first is DAZ or dynamic action sync. 36 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:55,360 This one is pretty simple. It's designed to reduce display lag or the time 37 00:02:53,519 --> 00:02:59,440 between the monitor receiving a frame and displaying it on the screen. 38 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:05,040 Usually, this feature is labeled on TVs as a game mode or similar and results in 39 00:03:02,959 --> 00:03:08,840 dramatically worse image quality thanks to less pixel processing. But in the 40 00:03:07,519 --> 00:03:14,400 case of the 34UMM67, I can't find any reason with my 41 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:19,280 bare eyes to turn it off. It looked exactly the same to me. And the second 42 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:25,200 killer app, compliance with the optional adaptive sync portion of the Display 43 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:27,440 Port 1.2A standard and AMD free sync 44 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:32,560 certification. This monitor supports dynamic refresh rate gaming where your 45 00:03:30,239 --> 00:03:37,040 supported system can effectively tell the monitor when to refresh the image 46 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:42,879 eliminating the issues associated with VSYNC on. So that is stuttering and lag 47 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:45,040 and VSYNC off that tearing effect where 48 00:03:42,879 --> 00:03:48,159 there seems to be a horizontal line through the image where there's half of 49 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:52,720 one frame and half of the next one on the screen at the same time. There are 50 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,319 some caveats here though. In addition to a compliant display, you'll need a 51 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,920 supported AMD dedicated or onboard graphics solution. You'll need a display 52 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:03,920 port cable, curiously not included in the box. And you'll need a Freync 53 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:09,280 compatible driver. So, I used a beta 1 provided by AMD for my evaluation of 54 00:04:06,319 --> 00:04:13,519 this monitor. Yes, friends, NVIDIA graphics card owners will not be able to 55 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:18,400 take advantage of the dynamic refresh rate of this monitor unless NVIDIA 56 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:22,720 decides to go down the DP1.2A open standard route sometime in the future. 57 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:26,800 instead of asking monitor vendors to buy their own G-Sync scaler chip, something 58 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:31,280 that at this time is quite expensive and only supports DisplayPort input, but 59 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:35,520 NVIDIA claims will have other advantages down the line. We can talk about that 60 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:39,680 when that comes, but first, let's talk about the usage experience of this 61 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:45,680 monitor. I still love ultrawide for productivity, but I'm also still not 62 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:47,840 super stoked on 2560x 1080 for that 63 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,919 particular use case. I found myself frustrated with the number of vertical 64 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:56,400 pixels, scrolling a lot, the same way that I always was way back in the day of 65 00:04:53,919 --> 00:05:02,240 the dinosaurs when 16x10 monitors went out of fashion to be replaced by 16x9 66 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:04,800 1080p monitors. And this issue if for me 67 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:09,919 is made worse by the size of this display thanks to its IPS panel. 68 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:16,320 Contrast, color vibrancy, and viewing angles are non-issues. But with pixel 69 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:19,600 density this low, even with no scaling, 70 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:22,400 text looks abominable and no amount of 71 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:26,680 low blue light reading modes made it feel comfortable for me to use compared 72 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:33,199 to its 3440x440 brethren, also from LG. But I 73 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:37,759 understand why LG did it this way. They didn't really have a choice. From the 74 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:41,720 marketing, this is a gaming monitor first and productivity monitor second. 75 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:48,400 And 3440x440 is just about 80% more pixels 76 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:52,000 than 2560x 1080, which might make graphics card companies happy with all 77 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:56,720 the video cards they'll be selling just so folks can play games at native res, 78 00:05:54,000 --> 00:06:01,280 but might not thrill gamers too much. And in games, the pixel density bothers 79 00:05:59,039 --> 00:06:06,720 me a lot less. I don't find anti-aliasing unnecessary like I did 80 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,479 with Dell's 5K monitor, but four times 81 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:12,960 AA was a good balance between playability of very demanding games like 82 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:17,280 Crisis 3 at very high settings on an R9 290X and image quality. Gaming on this 83 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:24,720 screen this size is going to be immersive pretty much no matter how you slice it. And thanks to its very low 84 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:27,759 lag, solid motion blur performance, and 85 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,800 75 Hz panel that really does make a big 86 00:06:27,759 --> 00:06:34,639 difference over 60. By the way, the 34UMM67 is a pleasure to game on. But 87 00:06:33,280 --> 00:06:39,199 hold on a second, Lionus. You didn't even mention Freync yet. You're right. I 88 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:44,000 didn't. But I will now hear in the conclusion. In spite of this monitor's 89 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:49,280 presence in AMD's Freync media materials and the prominent logo on the box, I 90 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:55,280 didn't find the implementation of Freync to be as useful as it can be in this 91 00:06:52,639 --> 00:07:00,560 case. But it took me a few hours and a lifeline call to my buddy Ryan Shrout 92 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:03,120 from PC Perspective to figure out why I 93 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:08,560 was encountering stuttering and tearing with Freync enabled when it was clearly 94 00:07:05,759 --> 00:07:14,639 working in AMD's windmill demo. It's because this monitor's adaptive refresh 95 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:18,400 rate window is from 48 hertz to 75 96 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:22,400 hertz, only 27 hertz. That means even if 97 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:24,880 you enable freync with VSSync also on 98 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:29,280 the experience is pretty good as long as your frame rates remain pretty high 99 00:07:27,039 --> 00:07:33,520 other than the very slight input lag penalty similar to VSync that is caused 100 00:07:31,599 --> 00:07:38,479 by capping your frame rate like that. And with it off, so with VSync off, 101 00:07:36,479 --> 00:07:44,560 you'll actually still get tearing anytime your game runs above 75 FPS. And 102 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:50,400 there's more bad news, too. You'll get lag under 48 FPS thanks to LG's 103 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:56,000 selection of 48 hertz as the low-end cut off of the adaptive refresh rate window 104 00:07:52,639 --> 00:07:58,400 on this monitor. But to be clear, this 105 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:04,240 is not a knock-on freeync. There are monitors with much wider like 100 Hz 106 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:09,759 plus Windows that go down to 40 Hz. And the spec actually allows for Windows as 107 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:15,599 low as 9 hertz once panel technology improves. And it's actually not a 108 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:21,840 condemnation of the 34UM67 as a gaming monitor either. Its size, IPS panel, and 109 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:26,160 ultrawide aspect ratio along with its incredible responsiveness for 110 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:30,560 considering all of those things still make it a totally unique gaming 111 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:34,880 experience. It just means that those two technologies didn't complement each 112 00:08:32,399 --> 00:08:40,080 other as well as I was really hoping for in this case. So, this is cool. Well, 113 00:08:37,680 --> 00:08:44,000 we're giving away 30 one month XSplit professional codes. All you got to do is 114 00:08:41,839 --> 00:08:49,760 enter in the form thread in the video description and winners will be selected 115 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,920 one week from today, April the 2nd. 116 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:55,920 Pretty cool stuff. Not today, April the 2nd. On April the 2nd. Yay. 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