Excellent monitor with great colours and fast refresh rate
by GerwynThe monitor came well packaged with accessories neatly packed in a separate cardboard carton; these included a display port cable, hdmi cable, USB cable for the 2 port USB hub and the power brick and cables. Assembling and setting the monitor up was really easy, with clear instructions on the box. The build quality of the monitor is excellent. The stand, whilst plastic, is strong and stable and I found the cable management slot effective to keep cables out of the way and tidy. Be aware that this monitor's stand does not swivel left and right (which I found a bit of a pain when accessing the ports at the back - although it is a minor niggle only), nor does it pivot. I found the height and tilt adjustments to be good for my needs. Out of the box, this monitor really impressed me: the colours were excellent if overly saturated and brightness levels are very good indeed (with good adjustments for both bright rooms and dimly lit rooms, or using the monitor at night. Using the displayport connection, the panel overclocked easily to 160Hz in the OSD; however, this is at 8 bit RGB only (without chroma subsampling). At all other refresh rates it is 10 bit (8bit +FRC). I have not used the HDMI connection as yet. This is my first ultrawide. I had previously bought a 27" 4k 144Hz Acer monitor from a different retailer and I found it had too many compromises including the need for scaling, a maximum of 98Hz whilst maintaining 10 bit colour (8 bit + FRC) and some screen flickering. I found none of these issues with this monitor. The 3440 x 1440p resolution of this ultrawide is sharp and the picture quality is excellent, with no flicker. The On Screen Display is easy to navigate and use thanks to the little joystick under the LG logo on the front of the monitor. Alternatively you also have the option of using the LG OSD software, if you prefer. This is also the means to upgrade the firmware, although you do need to have connected the USB hub to your PC for this feature to work. There were no dead pixels at all out of the box and very little IPS glow. The G-Sync compatible adaptive sync works well with my NVIDIA graphics card and leaves me able to choose either AMD or NVIDIA when I next upgrade my GPU. The delivery from OverclockersUK was fast. Overall, I am very pleased with this monitor and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a high quality monitor for gaming, video and photo editing, and general usage. It is expensive, but I feel it is worth it for my needs.
