WYP
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5120x1440 or 3840x1600 anyone?
Read more about LG's Ultra series of professional and gaming monitors.
Read more about LG's Ultra series of professional and gaming monitors.
LG to reveal "Ultra" series super-wide monitors at CES 2019
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Pretty cool, Expect super ultrawide prices to match ^_^
I'm content with 3440x1440P, I don't imagine I'll be moving on from that any time soon.
I'm content with 3440x1440P, I don't imagine I'll be moving on from that any time soon.
Dawelio
Active member
Isn't this the monitor which Austin Evans just showcased in his new setup?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUkIdYBocWU&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUkIdYBocWU&t=1s
jimma47
New member
No doubt - at least the Sammy 49" has dropped nearly $900 AUD since launch. At $1749 it's a good comparison to the 100hz 34" range.
They're still pretty niche and not all games will look great but I love flight sims, Elite and racing games and they look amazing. A great way to replace multi monitor setups and I reckon if you give it another 12 months there will be a lot more models in this aspect ratio. Remember what everyone said about 21:9 when it came out. Too wide. Not enough Vertical res, too expensive, too slow.
Absolutely perfect for a sim rig.
Fanatec had a heap of them on their rigs at the Sim Racing Expo. So neat and tidy compared to triple screen setups.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
No doubt - at least the Sammy 49" has dropped nearly $900 AUD since launch. At $1749 it's a good comparison to the 100hz 34" range.
They're still pretty niche and not all games will look great but I love flight sims, Elite and racing games and they look amazing. A great way to replace multi monitor setups and I reckon if you give it another 12 months there will be a lot more models in this aspect ratio. Remember what everyone said about 21:9 when it came out. Too wide. Not enough Vertical res, too expensive, too slow.
Absolutely perfect for a sim rig.
Fanatec had a heap of them on their rigs at the Sim Racing Expo. So neat and tidy compared to triple screen setups.
I love Ultrawides of every type, I'm waiting for an Ultrawide that has 144Hz, 1440P, Full HDR, Freesync and around 35", I know a few will be releasing within 1 year but I'm waiting for the manufacturing costs to come down a bit, I don't need the bleeding edge of tech.
jimma47
New member
Sounds pretty perfect!
Dawelio
Active member
No doubt - at least the Sammy 49" has dropped nearly $900 AUD since launch. At $1749 it's a good comparison to the 100hz 34" range.
They're still pretty niche and not all games will look great but I love flight sims, Elite and racing games and they look amazing. A great way to replace multi monitor setups and I reckon if you give it another 12 months there will be a lot more models in this aspect ratio. Remember what everyone said about 21:9 when it came out. Too wide. Not enough Vertical res, too expensive, too slow.
Absolutely perfect for a sim rig.
Fanatec had a heap of them on their rigs at the Sim Racing Expo. So neat and tidy compared to triple screen setups.
Only downside to the 21:9 aspect ratio at 3440x1440p is that Youtube has black bars on the sides and many others as well. Unless it’s a movie that has that aspect ratio, then it will look amazing. This is the reason I went back to a 27”.
jimma47
New member
Yeah I have a 21:9 3440 and full screen you tube does have the bars but I don't mind. I really should put my overhead monitor back up but running 980s I run out of VRAM to play games at decent frame rates and have YT or a movie on as well.
When a movie does make use of the whole screen though it looks amazing.
Me too and that won't change anytime soon, because I have to get rid of my 4770K bottlenecking my 1070 before I will touch anything above 1080p. G-Sync is also too expensive for me
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Me too and that won't change anytime soon, because I have to get rid of my 4770K bottlenecking my 1070 before I will touch anything above 1080p. G-Sync is also too expensive for me
Good news... your 4770k isn't bottlenecking anything. It's just as good as modern intel 4 cores mate
Depends on the game, I guess. But checking the recent GPU reviews, I got confused �� seems like my buddy was lying about "running Wildlands @1080p max settings with 6700K and a 1070 and getting around 120FPS"
//EDIT: argh, you're right from what I just read around the web >.< Of course more cores help, but only if the game utilises them *facepalm*
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The CPU still has to keep the GPU fed, so demand does increase somewhat with GPU power & load, but still the demand is minimal especially with modern APIs so that shouldn't be an issue with any Intel quad core from the last half decade or so. Although at higher framerate gaming(120+) the CPU can still become the limiting factor in certain titles, though that's not really an intrinsic system bottleneck.
The one thing LG is bad at when it comes to monitors is the time it takes for them to come to market. It often takes up to 8-10 months before the monitors are released after being first shown.
The LG Ultragear 34GK950F-B that was shown off at last years CES has was made available for puchase just weeks ago.
The LG Ultragear 34GK950F-B that was shown off at last years CES has was made available for puchase just weeks ago.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Yeah that's why I said modern 4 cores because otherwise it's not a fair comparison
Though they will give a performance uplift but worth the money? Probably not. Unless you need the 240fps on a 240hz monitor.
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