LG 34" 34UC79G

Is the above an old model of ultrawide with a ratio of 21:9 called ultrawide Full HD at a resolution of 2560 x 1080?

Hope I am not posting this on the wrong thread again.

This model no longer in production. This monitor release in year 2017.

You are correct this is Ultrawide.

I had show you all the common x:9 resolution and type in another thread. Re-attached here for your references.

Many thanks for the info.

Ya, I saw the chart in another thread, thanks! (And I am replying to that thread too).
I was curious about that chart because the old ultrawide model above just came into my head when I went deeper on UW stuff.
I remember trying a display model of it in one of the stores but that model was already sold out at that time.

That also means such a resolution (a low one) is obsolete, I guess.

I think Windows did not do it perfect on HDR.

My Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 actually can make FALD auto switch and only on when in HDR mode if I set my desktop to SDR.
But set desktop to SDR = No HDR for streaming video included YouTube and Netflix.

Gaming and local playback HDR movie do can auto switch.

Another issue, I think Nvidia G-Sync is not perfect in Windows mode, when turn on my monitor from time to time flickering. I though my monitor rosak. lol
Default is only ON in full screen mode. So I set back but this also means if games set Windows Borderless will be not smooth and can happen tearing.

Wonder who should be blame, Windows or Nvidia.

Or Samsung should be the one to be blame. 😅

Also Finally manage put in all the cables inside the monitor leg and closed the monitor back cover. Now it looks very clean and tidy. 🥰

bro off topic... what DAC are you using under the monitor.. looks sweettt

Agreed it is kind of obsolete as this resolution is not a good pick for 34" and above.

They still have some 2560 x 1080 Ultrawide release by LG but I suggest only pick this resolution if you prefer smaller screen size like 29" and also if only not demand on higher refresh rate or HDR.

• 29" is equal to 16:9 aspect ratio 24" monitor.
  
• 34" is equal to 16:9 aspect ratio 27" monitor which 1080p is not really sharp on such size and to me everything just look way too big. 😅
  

LG 29WP60G-B is one of the example of 2560 x 1080 Ultrawide Monitor, this monitor is only 75hz not 144hz, the LG official website using a wrong image which indicate it is 144hz.
Even though this monitor support HDR but the spec is way too low and it won't look nice in HDR.
https://www.lg.com/my/monitors/lg-29wp60g-b

Cool! Great info.

That means there are 2 sizes (29" and 34") for the old resolution of 2560 X 1080 ultrawide. Good to know!

Since I have an existing 34" 3440 X 1440 ultrawide monitor (21:9), if I am going to get another monitor(s) to pair with it (either another ultrawide or widescreen), I should use back the same resolution at (variable) x 1440, as in the table from rtings.com, where (variable) is either 2560, 3440 or 5120?

Thanks.

Yup, so you will not facing cursor jumping or windows box size different when moving across multiple monitor.

hey fellow UW monitor gurus, I am currently looking for a new UW monitor (first time!) and I was wondering what will you recommend?

I use it mainly for 3D/visual work (maybe gaming, soon?)

If anything, I am quite used to 27inch 1080p display. I've read some of this forum threads about uw monitor, in order to have similar pixel density, it is recommended to have 32 inch UW at 1440p. So I think my range would be 32~34 inch, 1440p.

Budget wise, I do prefer cheaper, but color and resolution (eye comfort) is far more important.

Please check following image for common screen size of Wide, Ultrawide and Super Ultrawide.
32" is Wide not Ultrawide.
Recommended to get 34" in 3440 x 1440 resolution for Ultrawide.

Sweet! Thanks, this is very helpful

So do you have recommendation for a 34" with 3440 x 1440 curved monitor?

Here is Top 5 Best Ultrawide monitor 2022 by Rtings.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/ultrawide-gaming

My personal preferable is LG 34GP950G-B as I own before LG 34GN850G-B and it was great. It still with me but now I move to office for productivity usage.
This is high-end model and it is not cheap though. Around RM 4.4k (Shopee).

The alternative by Rtings is Dell S3422DWG (official RM 1.9k). This model is cheap but it got some issue, dark smearing issue and also out of the box color accuracy issue. The rating is very low and many user complain over saturation and it also white balance off. This model required professional calibrator tools to fixed the bad color accuracy issue. https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/s3422dwg If you got professional color calibrator tools or any of your friend have, it is a good monitor after calibration. Not worth to buy the calibrator tools as it mostly will over this monitor cost. If you are not very important to color accuracy, this model is great to choose and maybe just use eye to try tune a bit the color to reduce the over saturation issue.

Rtings give best budget to Acer Nitro XV340CK (RM 1.7k) but this model is not curved and also have poor SDR brightness and HDR is basically disaster, I will not consider at all.
Gigabyte M34WQ vote the best but this is also not curved. Not my preferable as well. Around RM 2.3k (Shopee)
They is another model which is curve - Gigabyte G34WQC but this is old model release in year 2020, it is quite cheap now around RM 2.1k, this is VA panel which means not suitable for screen sharing due to poor viewing angle and it may have dark smearing issue which is common of VA panel.

Currently Samsung do successful eliminate the VA dark smearing issue, this included following model.

• Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Super Ultrawide (you can get around RM 6.7k (Shopee), official RM 8k),
  
• Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 Wide (official RM 6.7k),
  
• Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 Wide (official RM 5.7k) and
  
• Samsung Odyssey G7 Wide, G7 had 3 model, G7 27" Curved Wide and 32" Curved Wide is VA panel 1440p, G7 Flat 28" is 4k IPS. No price in either as Samsung already replace it with Neo G7 (4k Curved Wide VA).
  

But too bad the only Ultrawide in this series which is Samsung Odyssey G5 (official RM 2,488) is older VA panel and had dark smearing issue.

They is another great monitor for gaming and watching movie but not in list as it got some drawback where the text clarity is not good with purple fringing issue - Dell Alienware AW3423DW (official RM 5.6k) - https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell...enware-aw3423dw
The reason it got text clarity issue was due to this the only OD-OLED Ultrawide monitor is Triangular RGB arrangement instead of traditional RGB arrangement - three subpixels in a line.
This Triangular RGB  alignment is a diamond pattern where it is 2x Green pixel with 1x Red and 1x Blue, the reduce of Red and Blue make this monitor had text clarity issue. I am not buying this at the end due to this.

Here is Top 5 Best Ultrawide monitor 2022 by Rtings.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/ultrawide-gaming

My personal preferable is LG 34GP950G-B as I own before LG 34GN850G-B and it was great. It still with me but now I move to office for productivity usage.
This is high-end model and it is not cheap though. Around RM 4.4k (Shopee).

The alternative by Rtings is Dell S3422DWG (official RM 1.9k). This model is cheap but it got some issue, dark smearing issue and also out of the box color accuracy issue. The color accuracy rating is very low and many user complain over saturation and it also white balance off. This model required professional calibrator tools to fixed the bad color accuracy issue. https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/s3422dwg If you got professional color calibrator tools or any of your friend have, it is a good monitor after calibration. Not worth to buy the calibrator tools as it mostly will over this monitor cost. If you are not very important to color accuracy, this model is great to choose and maybe just use eye to try tune a bit the color to reduce the over saturation issue.

Rtings give best budget to Acer Nitro XV340CK (RM 1.7k) but this model is not curved and also have poor SDR brightness and HDR is basically disaster, I will not consider at all.
Gigabyte M34WQ vote the best but this is also not curved. Not my preferable as well. Around RM 2.3k (Shopee)
They is another model which is curve - Gigabyte G34WQC but this is old model release in year 2020, it is quite cheap now around RM 2.1k, this is VA panel which means not suitable for screen sharing due to poor viewing angle and it may have dark smearing issue which is common of VA panel.

Currently Samsung do successful eliminate the VA dark smearing issue, this included following model.

• Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Super Ultrawide (you can get around RM 6.7k (Shopee), official RM 8k) - This is Super Ultrawide which is 2 unit of 27" Wide screen combine. It maybe too wide for you.
  
• Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 Wide (official RM 6.7k), this is Wide not Ultrawide.
  
• Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 Wide (official RM 5.7k), this is also Wide not Ultrawide.
  
• Samsung Odyssey G7 Wide, G7 had 3 model, G7 27" Curved Wide and 32" Curved Wide is VA panel 1440p, G7 Flat 28" is 4k IPS. No price in either as Samsung already replace it with Neo G7 (4k Curved Wide VA). All G7 is Wide as well not Ultrawide.
  

But too bad the only Ultrawide in this series which is Samsung Odyssey G5 (official RM 2,488) is older VA panel and had dark smearing issue.

They is another great monitor for gaming and watching movie but not in list as it got some drawback where the text clarity is not good with purple fringing issue - Dell Alienware AW3423DW (official RM 5.6k) - https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell...enware-aw3423dw
The reason it got text clarity issue was due to this the only OD-OLED Ultrawide monitor is Triangular RGB arrangement instead of traditional RGB arrangement - three subpixels in a line.
This Triangular RGB  alignment is a diamond pattern where it is 2x Green pixel with 1x Red and 1x Blue, the reduce of Red and Blue make this monitor had text clarity issue. I am not buying this at the end due to this.

Thanks for the recommendations! But dang these curved screens sure is priced on the higher end. I might get flat screen instead =/ I supposed it doesn't make too much of a difference for 1x 34 UW monitor vs 2x 27 W monitor, in terms of viewing experience, yes?

If money concern issue, I recommended following two.

• Dell S3422DWG (official RM 1.9k) - I personally never seen this monitor before, I had no idea how bad the color accuracy are but from review and some user feedback, it is over saturation. Saturation not Vivid, to me use saturation means crazy vivid color. Beside color accuracy issue, this monitor is awesome in nearly every part for such low price.
  
• Gigabyte G34WQC (Shopee RM 2.1k) - Everything is comparable with Dell S3422DWG except the HDR performance where Dell better. But this Gigabyte with good color accuracy out of the box.
  

Here is the comparison of both https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/compar...&threshold=0.10

Two monitor cannot let you play games in immersive feel on Ultrawide screen.
Two monitor also cannot let you have more column view for excel or database for productivity.
Two monitor screen also cannot have better working space for video and photo editing.

1x 34" Ultrawide is around 1.5x units of 27" wide.
1x 49" Super Ultrawide is just the exact of 2x units of 27" wide. (It is not 54" because of the way how monitor calculate the screen size).

Ultrawide not in curve may have issue on viewing due to it longer screen, also not immersive feel.
But off course certain people prefer flat especially some said curved not suitable for productivity due to the distortion on side, but I did not have those feel in all curved monitor I use.

If you are ok with Flat, then this Gigabyte M34WQ (Shopee RM 2.4k) is actually a great Ultrawide monitor with great color accuracy out of the box.
This is IPS, so no worried of dark smearing issue or bad viewing angle issue of VA but it come with IPS issue like uniformity, light bleeding and blooming issue. In short IPS is awesome but not suitable to use in dark room (except they came with local dimming then the price is double or triple up).
https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/gigabyte/m34wq

I see.. Thank you very much for your enthusiastic sharing I just ordered Dell S3422DWG!! I've seen some reviews of the monitor and the smearing issue sure is pretty obvious, but it can be reduced, and the settings recommended by reviewers gives a reasonable result, so I think I can live with that

For the color wise, maaaaaaaaybe it won't bother me much. I usually tune my color/contrast to a point where it doesn't strain or hurt my eye over a long period of usage, so it's usually some what washed out. (Also I am a bit color blind so... =/ )

Anyway, thanks again!!

Congratulation for the order, give some review / comment after you received it.

aaaaaaaand it arrived today!!

Verdict:
At a RM1900(Dell Malaysia website) price point, it is actually a decent buy. I like how it looks, how it feels, and the extra functions it provided. Getting the right color can be a pain in the ass, but it is definitely not the end of the world.