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MSI MEG 342C QD OLED, 34" Curved Gaming Monitor, 3440 x 1440 (UWQHD), OLED, 0.1ms, 175Hz, FreeSync Premium, HDR 400, HDMI, DP Port, USB Type C $799

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MSI 342C has a $100 coupon with Amazon. This is the cheapest I've seen it. Makes it the same price as the standard Alienware DWF discount.. except the MSI has HDMI 2.1 for the consoles and USBC power delivery.

Uses the same screen as the Alienware.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C15JDWF4
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02-26-2024 at 07:12 AM.
02-26-2024 at 07:12 AM.
Are these reliable? I'd rather buy an Odyssey at this price
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02-26-2024 at 07:45 AM.
02-26-2024 at 07:45 AM.
Quote from Caravaner :
Are these reliable? I'd rather buy an Odyssey at this price

It's the same panel as the Samsung 34in OLED. MSI has a 3 year warranty and covers burn in.

Nothing wrong with getting the Samsung but it has micro HDMI and display ports. The Samsung also has some issues with consoles that the MSI does not. The MSI supports a 4k 120 input.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...sb-s34bg85

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...2c-qd-oled
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02-26-2024 at 11:41 AM.
02-26-2024 at 11:41 AM.
You are comparing VA panels to OLEDs. OLED monitors are all expensive. When you use an OLED or have an OLED TV it's difficult to go back to IPS.

Personally I don't have this monitor but it is the lowest price it's been. I have a 27in OLED and it was expensive as well.
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02-26-2024 at 05:32 PM.
02-26-2024 at 05:32 PM.
How is a curved monitor for movies/TV? I'm looking for a monitor for gaming but also streaming video. I've never used a curved monitor.
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02-26-2024 at 05:46 PM.
02-26-2024 at 05:46 PM.
Quote from jaredalanmitchell :
I've been building computers and gaming for 25 years and yes it's insane to buy a 34" UW for $800 right now.

Plenty of better monitors for gaming at a lower price. If you are a casual gamer, get a monoprice 35" UW for 300. If you are a pro video/photo person, go mini-led or OLED. If you have a 800 dollar budget and want a big gaming monitor, get the Odyssey on sale at 600 via BB. This monitor seems to cater to a niche I don't quite understand.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sams...Id=6529218
I just returned the Samsung Odyssey neo g8. The VA panel colors were extremely disappointing when you're used to IPS and OLED screens.
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02-27-2024 at 06:42 AM.
02-27-2024 at 06:42 AM.
Quote from jaredalanmitchell :
I've been building computers and gaming for 25 years and yes it's insane to buy a 34" UW for $800 right now.

Plenty of better monitors for gaming at a lower price. If you are a casual gamer, get a monoprice 35" UW for 300. If you are a pro video/photo person, go mini-led or OLED. If you have a 800 dollar budget and want a big gaming monitor, get the Odyssey on sale at 600 via BB. This monitor seems to cater to a niche I don't quite understand.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sams...Id=6529218
Monoprice 35 UW is 400 and out of stock... i think a better option is the dell 34 uw for 349.
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02-27-2024 at 01:25 PM.
02-27-2024 at 01:25 PM.
Quote from jaredalanmitchell :
I've been building computers and gaming for 25 years and yes it's insane to buy a 34" UW for $800 right now.

Plenty of better monitors for gaming at a lower price. If you are a casual gamer, get a monoprice 35" UW for 300. If you are a pro video/photo person, go mini-led or OLED. If you have a 800 dollar budget and want a big gaming monitor, get the Odyssey on sale at 600 via BB. This monitor seems to cater to a niche I don't quite understand.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sams...Id=6529218 [bestbuy.com]
People that care about color accuracy will get an IPS or OLED. If you don't care about that stuff, then get a TN or VA

It's very "niche" to care about color accuracy
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02-27-2024 at 01:26 PM.
02-27-2024 at 01:26 PM.
Quote from jaredalanmitchell :
I've been building computers and gaming for 25 years and yes it's insane to buy a 34" UW for $800 right now.

Plenty of better monitors for gaming at a lower price. If you are a casual gamer, get a monoprice 35" UW for 300. If you are a pro video/photo person, go mini-led or OLED. If you have a 800 dollar budget and want a big gaming monitor, get the Odyssey on sale at 600 via BB. This monitor seems to cater to a niche I don't quite understand.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sams...Id=6529218 [bestbuy.com]
As someone who had an AOC VA UW monitor they're 100% not worth it. The LG Ultragear IPS UW I have now is miles ahead of those cheap VA ultrawides. The cheap VA ones become a smeary mess when scrolling dark backgrounds or with fast movement in gaming.
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02-27-2024 at 05:02 PM.
02-27-2024 at 05:02 PM.
Quote from lunesta2 :
It's the same panel as the Samsung 34in OLED. MSI has a 3 year warranty and covers burn in.

Nothing wrong with getting the Samsung but it has micro HDMI and display ports. The Samsung also has some issues with consoles that the MSI does not. The MSI supports a 4k 120 input.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...sb-s34bg85 [rtings.com]

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/re...2c-qd-oled [rtings.com]
I don't understand how this monitor can do 4K?
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02-27-2024 at 06:15 PM.
02-27-2024 at 06:15 PM.
I got this a few weeks ago at microcenter.
The display is amazing, it genuinely changed how I game, enjoying turning off all of the lights putting on all headphones and getting fully immersed. It is by far the best quality panel I have ever owned.
Also when in the rgb accurate mode it has really worked well for doing photo work.

Downsides:
Currently it is sitting at a mandated oled cleaning phase that I was not able to cancel so it is totally off for 3-4 minutes while it does that. I understand they are putting out a firmware update to fix this but right now it is *very* annoying, you can only pause it a couple of times before it forces the refresh.
The pre-defined color profiles for it are a bit finicky it and has taken a bit to find ones that work well for what I do.
The default text in windows was a little fuzzy. (This is a larger issues with oled monitors). I had to get an alternative to cleartype app to get them back to sharp.


With any very-widescreen monitor it takes some getting used to. You can split it a bit to have side by side apps but if you need to have side by side monitors just get two normally sized ones it will play nicer.

I am happy I got it, but if you are primarly focused on productivity I would go for a good mini ips monitor in a standard form factor. But for gaming and movies it is fantastic.
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03-02-2024 at 10:07 AM.
03-02-2024 at 10:07 AM.
Quote from muckymucks :
How is a curved monitor for movies/TV? I'm looking for a monitor for gaming but also streaming video. I've never used a curved monitor.
It would be great if not for the way streaming platforms make it pretty difficult to get a high end image streaming from a pc. You will usually be able to get the correct 21:9 aspect ratio, but it will be capped at 1080 and hdr is hit or miss. There are alleged work around but I think they are regularly made obsolete by updates to the streaming platforms. It's mostly due to anti piracy concerns so it'll always be an uphill battle.

Then streaming devices like Rokus and gaming consoles won't output a 21:9 image.
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03-22-2024 at 06:34 AM.
03-22-2024 at 06:34 AM.
Does this have that weird triangular pixel pattern?
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