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Enjoy video game play with sharp imaging on this Asus monitor. A curved design on an extended aspect ratio creates a 34-inch, ultrawide panoramic view. Built-in LED effects and high-quality color schemes further boost your visual experience, and the 100Hz refresh rate eliminates action lags during high-impact scenes on this Asus monitor.
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Very good gaming monitor
on December 5, 2016
Posted by: DanB
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Overall, I am happy with the monitor. Gaming performance is excellent especially when paired with a G-Sync capable video card. My rig is equipped with a 980 GTX SC and I am able to play games such as Doom and Fallout 4 at maximum settings with very good performance. Fallout 4 needed some manual adjustments to support the 21:9 aspect ration of the monitor, but that in no way detracts from the monitor itself. Gaming becomes an immersive experience with this monitor!
Also, the physical construction quality is very good! The stand is very well made and quite beefy and heavy. The cutesy little downward projecting ROG light is "on the geeky side of things" but then this monitor is meant to appeal to the PC gaming crowd!
Furthermore, viewing multiple documents simultaneously or working with wide spreadsheets is a *pleasure* thanks to the copious viewing area. My wife was green with envy since she develops training and on-line content for a living, and I believe she is plotting to commandeer my monitor during the work week!
Furthermore, viewing multiple documents simultaneously or working with wide spreadsheets is a *pleasure* thanks to the copious viewing area. My wife was green with envy since she develops training and on-line content for a living, and I believe she is plotting to commandeer my monitor during the work week!
By the way, did I mention this monitor is *huge*? I have to keep my system tower on top of my desk to provide adequate airflow for cooling, so I had to remove a lot of my desk items to make room for the monitor and I have a 60" wide desk.
Finally, there are two reasons this monitor received four stars instead of 5:
Finally, there are two reasons this monitor received four stars instead of 5:
1. Some back-light bleed at the corners. It is not obtrusive when gaming and they appear to have made progress in their manufacturing processes; one reason I did not buy this monitor a year ago was due to the number of complaints of substantial back-light bleed at the time.
2. Poor accessibility to the various connectors. They are in a recessed pocket located on the bottom of the monitor which is hard to access especially for someone like myself that has large hands. They are also very hard to see and I found myself having to tip the monitor forward so that I could see well enough to insert a USB cable; very cumbersome! Asus earns points for providing what amounts to a USB 3.0 compliant "hub" along with a connection cable, but the ports are so hard to access that they aren't very usable for day-to-day use with portable USB devices. I plan to permanently install a couple of short USB 3.0 extension cables so that I can actually use the ports. I think that Asus should abandon the current location and provide a separate hub that snaps on to the bottom of the monitor or onto the lower part of the stand (and nix the ROG lighting) so that the ports are usable.
My Best Buy number: 1004523540
My Best Buy number: 1004523540
I would recommend this to a friend!
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