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When your viewing still images, then fine, but reading text while scrolling, or moving images and gameplay is just awful.
I managed to snag an Amazon Warehouse "Used - Like New" on this, snapped it up straight away and eagerly awaited my order. It was delivered 2 days later so I took the through to my man cave, made myself a brew then proceeded to open the box, only to realise that I had also fallen victim to this whole mix-up between the flat and curved versions.
Saying that, these are identical otherwise. So, as the box was already opened, I took it out set it up, and it was as described (apart from the lack of curve), but I was still rather peeved that an Amazon Warehouse product, which is meant to be fully checked, was still the wrong item. I paid for the curved variant, so, off to customer services I go. After a friendly suggestion of a partial refund for such a mix-up, I've ended up with a fantastic monitor that was around £100 off the RRP (15% partial refund off the used price I paid)
So, my rating is for the monitor, not amazons mix-up. Although, I think AOC should be making the differences between the two models a bit more obvious. The box only seems to have the flat versions model number on it though.
Fantastic monitor, after playing about with the settings a little, I've got it the way I want it. There is very light smearing compared to my old 24 inch TN panel, but with this being a VA that's to be expected, but it's the best VA panel I've seen (just remember to set overdrive to "Strong").
The stand is kinda flimsy due to it being plastic, but once it's set into position i'll very rarely be moving it so that's not a problem.
No dead pixels, everything working as it should so far after all the usual monitor tests you can do via software.
I'm really happy with it, just wish it was the curved variant, but for the price I paid, I'm very happy.
Monitor 4/5 Stars
Amazons warehouse overlooking proper product serial numbers 2/5
Hope this helps someone, just be careful and if you take the plunge, expect to receive the wrong monitor. Errors are easy with this product and we're all humans at the end of the day.
You have the wrong infomation on your website about it
The image quality is very good with good range of colours, very sharp images and detail and depth in the blacks. Looks great for movies, games, reading and coding. The 2k / 1440p resolution is perfect for this size screen.
The stand is excellent allowing height and tilt adjustment. It even supports mounting in portrait mode.
I have since replaced this with a desk arm (it supports VESA mount) to hold 2 screens to free up desk space and to have them aligned without books propping up my second screen.
Note it comes with a Displayport cable and HDMI. To get the most from this monitor definitely use the DP cable and if you only have a mini display port get a mini-dp to dp cable. The HDMI cable is only capable of about 60hz at 2k and 120hz at 1080p. DP cable can get you full 144hz at 2k.
This monitor has good brightness and contrast, not amazing but then not £200-400 more expensive then alternatives. its response rate is perfectly fine for work and nothing to complain with games, i dont have the means to test colour output or accuracy but i would say its largely irrelevant for what i use it for, which is mostly work (excel based) and games, initial inspection suggests the green and blue is out but since you need to remove some of the blue for work anyway its fine. Compared to my 29in IPS screen which was initially calibrated until i had to reduce the brightness and blues for work, i cant see any obvious difference, for most people i would expect this to be similar.
I did need to knock down the brightness somewhat as it was giving me a headache, i reduced this to about 40
Used Gamma3 and colour temp set to user, i reduced green by about 6 points
Overdrive set to medium and reading mode set to internet, ecomode set to standard, gamemode off.
The curve which ive heard quite a few people moan about is absolutely fine if your sitting the normal distance from a monitor, in fact, id say that an 1800 at a normal distance on a desk i has a negligible effect, this 1500 is feels like a great compromise, if you were seated slightly further away and the monitor was on a wall, this might be a different story. Like wise, if this were a 3 monitor setup for surround gaming, its probably a bit too curved.
For work in particular, i find it pleasing and a dream to work with, for gaming, i find it immersive without being too fishbowl when sitting on a desk at a typical distance from the screen.
overall, i give it a big thumbs up, i would question the logic of getting the G-Sync Version unless you have something more powerful than a 1080ti, you will not be pushing 21:9 at 1440p at 144Hz unless you drop the settings, my 1060 plays most games with highish settings at about 40-60fsp, getting the 144 for me was pointless, that said, if you have a 1080 or a 2080 then yeah, go for it, but anything less than a 1070, forget it, save the cash and get a better GPU down the road that will max out the 100Hz on this
Thankfully I have a DPD receipt for the pick-up but am still waiting for my refund from Box and I bought it over a week ago.
Perhaps this is the perfect monitor for gaming but is definitely not suitable for anything else, including general use. If you're planning to use it at all for general/office use I'd strongly encourage you to go into a store and see this monitor in person to ensure that you're OK with the blurry text. I've exchanged this for an IPS panel of same size/resolution and couldn't be happier.
Picture quality is excellent.
Minimal tweaking of settings to get them to run at 144hz.
Great for gaming or just generally having things look better and smoother.
Initially had an issue with one of the screen's going black for a second or so every now and then, this was most likely due to me using HDMI and Displayport inputs at the same time, (one for each monitor) after switching to Displayport for both screen's this issue has not returned.
That being said, this monitor is definitely worth the money FOR GAMING. If you’re looking for top notch picture quality and color for editing videos photos and you’re just in it for the bigger screen etc etc; then u can probably spend your money better elsewhere.
But as far as gaming goes.. this is the right purchase. 144hz Ultrawide 3440x1440 1ms rt, you can’t beat the price. Any other monitor with the same specs will be way more expensive and even if it is a bit better in other areas you won’t notice the difference.
Would recommend to anyone who is looking for a more immersive experience. 10/10
For instance, I am using a Mac and the driver CD that comes with the monitor has only a PC version of the driver. Nothing for Mac. You may think; ok I'll go to the AOC website and get one.
Wrong!! The website is not working, or non existant. Neither Safari nor Chrome can find it.
I don't know if it is a temporary thing but it definitely does not work. Awkward!
Ah! I forgot if you want to use it with your mac you need a video type-c connector.
The monitor comes with a couple of HDMI cables. So you definitely need an adaptor to use it with the Type-C connectors of a new MacBook Pro.
The monitor build quality is great and isn't over the top like others with RGB and elaborate cases. The only gripe I really have is the fact that the menu's are driven with the old fashioned side by side button arrangement rather than utilizing a small joystick which would make adjustments much easier. However there is a simple remedy to this and that is to download AOC's g-menu utility from their EU site. Once installed all the monitor tweaks and customizations can be accomplished with the utility. You obviously need to have the monitor plugged into your PC via the provided USB cable, but that's it.
The monitor comes with a really good stand which is spring loaded to go up and down, turn left and right and tilt forward or back. You cannot rotate the screen. It also comes supplied with a display port cable, HDMI 2.1 compliant cable and the previously mentioned USB cable. The back panel offers several USB 3.0 ports as a hub.
Now talking about picture quality and refresh rates, ghosting, etc. is very subjective and I don't have professional tools to really give a data driven review here. I can tell that the very edges have a very small amount of diminished brightness, which is most abundantly noticeable with white background. I have yet to play any games with freesync turned on as I am still building up my Ryzen 9 3900X with 5700 XT card, but the couple of games I played (Control and Assassins Creed) the monitor has met my expectations. There are several customization settings available to fine tune the monitor to RTS, FPS and racing style games and each of them can further be optimized.
All in all this is a great monitor and I can't wait to see when this is first reviewed by one of the big outfits on YT.
Sturdy stand, height adjustment and angle adjustment
Nice black levels, good colour reproduction for media consumption
27' is a suitable size
Has build in speakers(don't expect anything decent though)
Thin bezels
144Hz on 1440p
Comes with display port and HDMI cables
Has a headphone jack behind it
Cons:
Lacks monitor rotation
No HDR
Doesn't come with the USB cable for the USB hub so you will need to buy a separate cable if you want to use that
Brightness isn't as high as other monitors, only 250cd, but plenty for indoor use, except when there is direct sunlight
Some response time issue but not too noticable if you turn overdrive to Strong
OSD can be hard to control at times
TLDR; Fantastic monitor, colours as accurate as my previous Samsung panel 10/10 would recommend, only downer would be the low brightness, but if it doesn't bother you, nothing in this monitor would.
Value for the money you would be hard pressed to find something better, aside from the Xiaomi Mi Surface 34", which uses the same exact panel, as does the Nixeus EDG 34. Color, specs, and performance would be equal on those 3 monitors. Only differences would be the OSD (The menu system)
If this monitor didn't cost only $450 I would have returned it by now. I also own the LG 34GK950F, which I paid full msrp for on release, 3x the cost of this monitor, for very similar specs.
Colors are great, not as vibrant as the LG, that is to be expected as the LG has a much wider color gamut at 98% DCI-P3 vs the 94% here. It doesn't seem like a big difference in the numbers but it is a noticeable difference.
Gaming, the display looks great as seen by the Witcher 3 picture above. I suggest turning on HDR Game mode for this particular game, there are a couple other modes such as HDR Picture, HDR Movie. Normally I turn on Fastest overdrive setting in monitors and its usually not too bad, especially with Freesync/Gsync enabled which can minimize the effects of overshoot depending on the monitor. However the Fastest setting on this monitor is unbearable and completely unusable. Medium setting is simply not enough and has a great amount of ghosting sort of like if you turned off overdrive completely on IPS and TN monitors. I can't really comment on black smearing as I haven't tested really dark games and content, but from the little I saw it is there and will depend on how much you're okay with.
Movies/TV content. For Tv shows aka 16:9 content, this display is okay, you'll just get black bars on the side. Tv shows and movies in wider format than 16:9, even content formatted in 21:9? Cannot be displayed fullscreen. There is no scaling or aspect ratio setting that correctly displays 21:9 content fullscreen on this 21:9 display. Check the pictures. You can scale SOME content properly through Windows, software scaling. But the monitor itself cannot.
If you're looking for a monitor that you can hook up a Firestick or Nvidia Shield or Roku to watch content on, this is a dealbreaker. My 18 year old LCD TV has more scaling options than this 2020 Monitor. Btw 1:1 scaling mode is broken and stretches images sideways, see Lost in Space img2. There is a 27" monitor emulation mode. But then you may as well buy a 27" monitor. Not a problem for the LG it had all the aspect ratios you needed and scaled all content very well through the monitor settings.
Buttons, 5 buttons on the bottom, easy to get used to, sucks to use. 5way joystick should be standard in 2020, I can overlook it as a budget monitor.
Blacks, this thing has great blacks, panel uniformity is great on my particular one. No backlight bleed unless looking at the monitor from an off angle, which then you can see there are 4 points of backlight source, 2 on top, 2 on bottom. My LG had minimal backlight bleed that was not noticeable in most content, but was almost unbearable when trying to watch a movie AND IPS Glow was a great issue on bottom left when playing games, even in bright areas. VA panels don't have IPS glow and have minimal backlight bleed so it definitely feels better in this regard.
HDR, kind of a pain to use with this monitor. With the LG HDR was pretty much plug and play like with the Firestick for example. Just turn on HDR in the firestick and the monitor automatically detected HDR and adjusted settings accordingly. With the AOC you have to go into the painful OSD again find the HDR setting and switch it from either DisplayHDR, HDR Picture, HDR Movie, HDR Game. And with those HDR modes on you cannot adjust any settings.
Pros:
Great blacks
Wider color gamut
144hz
3440x1440
No IPS Glow
Cons
Firmware bugs in OSD
Missing Aspect Ratios in OSD
No 5way Joystick
Black smearing
Ghosting (slow pixel response time)
No Gamma Control
No Color Accuracy control
All in all the LG costs twice as much as this AOC monitor and has its own problems with IPS Glow and Backlight bleed, but those issues are attributed to the panel lottery as they say and you may not have those issues. As such if you are looking to just play video games on this monitor, not a bad deal. If you need color accuracy, any sort of calibration, this isn't the monitor to get. If you want to replace your TV and watch movies, do not buy.
Personally for this price, I will keep this monitor, but I will be replacing it with monitors releasing in late 2020.
The screen itself is really good and is well built.
You can't see pixels even if the resolution is not a 4k and the screen is huge.
The ultra-wide setup allows you to work on 3 different things all together without moving your head from left to right on different screens.
Good color accuracy (also using this screen for photo retouching and editing).
Really satisfied by the product, worth the price.
For the negative side of things, I only had the monitor for two months before it went dead and would not turn on. Just a black screen. I filled out a RMA form and was issued a refurbished monitor in its place, but it took a long time before I received the replacement monitor. From the time I submitted the RMA form to receiving the replacement, almost five weeks had passed. Thankfully I had an old Dell to get me through. The first contact from them only took about 48hrs like their RMA submission form stated, but it took 2 weeks without any form of communication from them and a complaint to Amazon Customer Service before they contacted me to proceed with the RMA. The RMA submission process was very third-rate, in that I felt like I was speaking to someone that was enjoying their meal at a restaurant, and with very little info (and no troubleshooting) was very quick to say that the monitor needed to be returned. The entire time spent on the phone with support was less than two minutes before they determined it was a bad monitor.
I gave four stars because the monitor is really great at a $450 price point, but left off one star because of the lack of communication and lengthy RMA process. So if you're in the market for a new monitor or wanting to purchase your first gaming monitor on a medium budget....this is a really great monitor for that. I honestly would buy again even though the first time around was not perfect.
Pros
-Adjustability – height, swivel, and tilt - the swivel was the only one that was too resistant, I couldn't swivel it without moving the feet of the base, even though it is capable of rotating a few degrees, but not a big deal for me.
-Curvature – 1500R is a bit more aggressive than the usual 1800R (meaning, 1800mm or 1.8m radius) – for me this works great since the display is so wide on the sides that the more aggressive curvature works better to face the user at a more desirable angle.
-Picture quality – to my everyman’s eye the pictures are fine if oversaturated a little bit. If anyone has the best OSD picture settings suggestions for this display, I’d love your input.
-Adaptive Sync – with my RTX 2070 the G-Sync works flawlessly without any flickering or additional adjustments. The adaptive sync option was enabled out of the box for me.
-144hz Refresh Rate – this is where the display shines for me, coupled with the adaptive sync feature. No more super annoying and horrible looking screen tears while gaming.
-Viewing Angle – the side to side viewing angle is excellent, and with the curved surface area it’s even better, there’s no discernible off-axis desaturation for me.
Cons
-Design – personal preference completely, but I would have liked the design to be more “productivity” based, or more business-like. But the design is not horribly “gamer-y” either.
-OSD – the controls are located toward the bottom right of the frame with five discrete buttons. They are poorly spaced so it’s difficult to distinguish by feel and are very clunky to operate.
-Documentation – I wish the manual contained more information about what each specific setting does. There’s hardly any documentation included, other than the basic setup, which is practically useless.
This is a fantastic display with all its wonderful features, especially at its price point. Just look at the list of pros vs cons. The pros are all the reasons you would choose to get a monitor of this kind.
Now that I’ve experienced 21:9 I cannot go back to 16:9 configuration (as a very, very casual gamer). The ultra-wide orientation is also great for video editing. The only thing I would wish for is now for the monitor to get larger in size at a similar price point. Highly recommended.
My Specs
Ryzen 7 3700x
32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200Hz RAM
Gigabyte RTX 2070
Asus TUF X570
The downside of this monitor is that in some reviews the panels pixel response time means that it cant achieve a true 144hz but is actually around 120hz. My graphics card is struggling to get above 100 fps in most game with this screen anyway. I feel an upgrade coming on!!
Update: My monitor is currently being RMA'd. I will update my review to take this into account once I get a working monitor into my hands.
I will speak about my warranty experience so far. It's really not bad at all. Unfortunately the original box got thrown away by a family member without me knowing, so it made me get creative on how to send it back. I have had to have a laptop repaired from dell several years ago, and they sent a box to me for shipping. I wish AOC did that, but I also understand. Big difference between 2,000 laptop and this very nicely priced monitor.







