(This review was collected as part of a promotion.) So far so good, was a nice upgrade! Mostly use it for sim racing and shooting games. So far no complaints!
hada 1st gen IPS LG that died on me after 8 yrs that cost me more then the quality of this Asus VA panel only con was the sale price was the original price. This is now my 2nd one & going strong . The viewing angles from 75 and 45 degrees was clear too once you fixed the settings Would recommend ANYDAY.
I had a aging crappy LG IPS that died on me that cost me a bomb long time ago after 8 yrs. This Asus VA panel nails the perfect balance of 1st gen IPS & good to colorsd as a va does. View angles were pretty crisp too from a 45 degree angle from 4 feet away. it was clear. I would recommended it Anytime. Just wish the price wasa real sale not reg price labeled as sale.
This was a replacement for my old 35" Asus Predator monitor I had for 8 years, after it kicked the bucket.
It's a good looking monitor. The screen is pretty light, so it's and easy to mount on an arm - it's VESA compatible. I'm pleased with it's brightness, colour, black/white contrast and resolution.
The speakers are ok - nothing great. I use a small sound bar for better sound quality, so it wasn't an issue. (Monitors aren't really known for their amazing sound anyways imo.)
I've had it for a few weeks now and have no regrets!
If you have used a high quality, high resolution flat screen monitor for the past few years, you are in for a treat if you decide to try a curved screen instead. I have used ASUS pretty much exclusively the last 17-18 years. Other brands were used before this, but with constant gaming, the ASUS RoG series were the best choice. TUF, this monitor’s series, if just as good in my opinion, the features for gaming are easy to access and setup with the OSD buttons in the center of the monitor’s bottom frame area. A maximum of 180 Hz screen refresh makes the monitor keep the fast paced graphics data flowing to it very smooth and best yet are additional quality of life options to filter out blue lighting if you so desire.
Once you have plugged it in, your PC can automatically detect it and set the Microsoft generic driver to run the monitor, or if you own a Pro version of Windows, you can disable the automatic driver update and then after downloading the ASUS TUF driver for the monitor from the manufacturer’s website, you can update to the original ASUS driver and coluor profile.
I found that my MMO and ARGP games played extremely well after increasing my screen refresh to 120 Hz as I had initially left it at the default 60 Hz. You do this by right clicking anywhere on your desktop background, choosing “Display Settings” then in the list, find “Advanced Display” click on it, and then choose a new refresh rate (mid window) which can be up to either 165 Hz or 180 Hz.
As I explained earlier,the monitor itself can be preset to have a maximum refresh of either 165 or 180, you need to set this on the actual monitor through the use of the control buttons in the center bottom area of the monitor’s frame. Using a higher refresh rate just increases power consumption, but with a maximum of 27 watts of power used by this particular monitor, that is not even worth noting.
For normal everyday use, such as opening a webpage and browsing, the expanded area is great, almost staggering in how much information is available. I decided to also increase my text/font sizes to make it easier to read. This is also done by right clicking on the empty desktop background, and again, selecting “Display Settings” you will find it under “Scale & Layout” choose 125% and that was quite enough of a change to make reading text much easier. The resolution is 3440 pixels wide by 1440 pixels in height. I would recommend finding specific new wall papers as Windows stretches your current wall paper to fit, but cuts off the top and bottom of those images.
From my own perspective.after setting the monitor up, the curved image was really great to see, it brings the sides a bit closer to your eyes, so that the picture and any motion you have in gaming, looks better, more in depth and brings a quality to gaming that was never there before. I hope that if you have never tried a curved monitor, you enjoy the experience as much as I have! Best wishes all!