LG 34GK950G-B 34" 21:9 Ultragear WQHD Nano IPS Curved Gaming Monitor with NVIDIA G-SYNC and Sphere Lighting (2018)

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Received a defected item. The screen of the monitor is broken and can’t display as 21:9. My old 34UC89G is better.

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Best 34inch gsync monitor so far. I used aw3418dw from dell and pg27uq from asus. LCD quality is better than aw3418dw but not better than pg27uq. Personally, Pg27uq is 10/10 point at 1000 nit HDR 9.2/10 at 350nit SDR. Aw3418dw is 7/10 at 250 nit SDR. 34gk950g is 8.5/10 at 400 nit. I received 100% perfect product. No dead pixcel, No screach, No strong edge light dimming. Only defact is product package box. It is torned down when it came to my home. Beside of that, It was perfect.

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strengths: 120 Hz, g-sync, 1440p, and ultra wide weaknesses: does not have g-sync 2.0 and cost the cost will probably come down soon.. LG has a promotion on their website that lists the monitor for $200 cheaper editv1: now Amazon has it listed for $200 less than originally, where I bought it. Hopefully, they will refund me. editv2: Amazon recommends that I ship the monitor back for a refund, then buy a new one. How does that make sense? Answer - it doesnt. Shipping this huge monitor is a hassle and I also would go without a monitor.. regardless, Visa is super helpful and has a price protection service - so Visa will refund the price difference. The monitor is still amazing, no dead pixels, no issues. Satisfied.

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I just got this monitor yesterday afternoon. I was transitioning from an Acer 1440p 144hz TN panel and was looking to make the jump into ultrawides. The monitor looks really nice, not too "gamer" like some of the other ridiculous looking monitors out (Asus). The picture looked pretty good right out of the box, but the brightness definitely need to come down for me. The back RGB ring is pretty nice and bright, and I actually ended up really liking it for bias lighting. Colors are very bold, reds were noticeably redder but not a huge deal. It looked pretty good overall though with ZERO dead/stuck pixels. 120hz OC worked no problem with no flickers, scan-lines, artifacting, etc... Maybe its because Im not used to IPS glow, but when I booted up the new Resident Evil 2 I realized that blacks are basically gray, and then I started to notice the entire left side of the screen is considerably brighter than the right side no matter how I adjusted my head. I started to notice the uneven brightness on the desktop and while watching movies too. It was extremely distracting, and for a $1k monitor I will be sending it back unfortunately. The G-Sync version is gimped at 120hz compared to the 144hz F model due to G-Sync module limitations, but I didnt notice the drop from 144 to 120 at all. There is no sRGB mode, and there is also no HDR mode which the F version has. None of that bothered me though since HDR is almost pointless on edge lit displays anyways right now. TFT Central has a wonderful review and comparison of both models you should check out as well. Edit: I added a picture I took with the monitor turned on but not hooked up to the PC. I know cell phone cameras showing IPS glow/blb are super exaggerated, but it does give you an idea as to how uneven each side is.

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Ive got the first monitor with a bright dead pixel (green one) and ordered a replacement. Just received the replacement and this time it has a red dead pixel and as a bonus, it also has a line on the bottom across the width of the screen. Man, this model is huge and packing and shipping it back is a real hassle. I guess Im not going to buy LG monitors for a while :/

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Let me preface this by saying I do NOT play "twitch-reflex" style games such as Fortnite, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, etc. I cannot comment as to the upper end of things regarding pixel response times or ghosting. 1. Design/Looks/Useability : It looks great, period. Very thin bezel area, cool backlighting (though I wish it were a bit more configurable), and a relatively small footprint for the monitor type. I really only have one small gripe here, and it is the OSD. Its not TOO bad, but it does take some trial and error to understand how the navigation works. 2. Picture quality : Though this version lacks HDR, the colors are gorgeous. I have a small to moderate amount of IPS glow, but it isnt so bad that I feel like it really is an issue. Ultimately it is an acceptable tradeoff for what you get otherwise versus VA. 3. G-sync : Worked perfectly once I turned it on. This is my first adaptive sync monitor of any kind, and ... wow ... what a difference. No dead pixels, no scratches, and a lowish amount of IPS glow...so I think I made out ok. One small gripe I do have is the size of the included displayport cable : it is only 3 long, and with a monitor that takes up so much space, I think thats a little underwhelming. They certainly could have bumped it up to 4.5 or 6 feet and it would have been a much more comfortable fit. Anyway, summary : If youre on the fence, I say give it a whirl as the worst thing that could happen is you have to return it because you got a dud.

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Ive now had this a few months. It is gorgeous. I have been playing Assassins Creed Odyssey on it and it is stunning.The Nano IPS is just great to look at. And I am picky. I made and destroyed Gordon Ramseys 9 foot head on Master Chef Jr., Alec Baldwin uses my vintage superhigh tech $13,000 microphone I made for him on Match Game (we helped the transmitter company get an Oscar), Iron Monger got blown up in my physical work on Iron Man, and my last client was the Chairman of one of the Big 3 networks developing a new game show I have a smoking PC which drives this well. 9th gen I7, MSI MEGZ390 ACE motherboard, MSI 8GB RTX 2080 gaming X Trio, Samsung 970 PRO SSD, Be Quiet case, fans and PSU At 2K resolution, I have been playing at 100 HZ and it is like I am in a movie theater. Non ultrawides stink compared to this. We also have an 27" Asus Rog PG279QZ (the newer version) which is also amazing but squeezes all games that are ultrawide. I did not realize how I played Witcher 3 that way until I did a side by side. Holy Sh....!!!! But that PC also has an MSI Armor 6 GB 1060. It struggles a bit to drive this LG at 100 HZ and at 2K. The vibrancy, crispness on websites, documents etc. is also great. Edge to edge. I still have to set up Windows Snap for splitting the window or LGs software that I think this comes with. I still use it like a wide monitor, versus the split screen, quarter screen or 3 split setup that can be done. Red dot, Green dot etc. If you see one in the middle it means you set up the gamers targeting mode. On this LG it was fairly obvious I hit that because you have to choose it through the On Screen Display. The Asus ROG we hit on accident and said "What the ?...! for a while then realized what it was. Learn about Nano IPS on this LG. I do not want to get it wrong, but it means it has a wider color gamut/range/chart this LG can hit. It is not an OLED. Do not compare it to an OLED. It is unfair to the product as there IS NO SUCH THING AS A HIGH REFRESH RATE, 2K OLED ULTRAWIDE. PERIOD! I watched some 8K YouTube videos and WOW! People who say you cannot make out high resolutions are wrong, wrong , WRONG! Look at 8k Peru and look at the hairs along the eyelid of a leopard and then look closer and see the baby hairs underneath. The actual hair under the hair is visible. I have the new RTX 2080 with G-Sync, this version has G-sync. I never saw a demo of what the 2 do together. I crossed my fingers and hoped it would be cool. HOLY COW! We are still playing with settings (and mainly using NVIDIAs control panel), but the G-sync seemed to connect automatically. I had no idea what screen tear was until I had this and turned it off. It is flat out astonishing. Assassins Creed has you running and spinning alot and moving up and down and sideways on buildings close up.. With it on , its like moving liquid glass. With it off I can totally see the screen trying to sync up at times. Someone told me that 100 + Hz and Gsync did not seem like a big deal until they tried under 100 Hz and no Gsync again and could not stand it. They were so right. IPS glow. Tough one. This is a IPS curved screen. No matter what, there is going to be some guidance of backlight that makes for less than pure black at the edged. Soooooooo...I saw pictures of IPS glow. It is totally real! And it is totally NOT....um noticeable most of the time. I cannot see it at all 98% of the time (could be 90%-100%) and it depends on what you are looking at. When the room lights are low AND the video game character goes into a super dark cave....BOOM THERE IT IS! a lightening along the edges. It is pretty mild though. And that is in a pitch black scene. Other than that, I cannot even tell it is there. Other reviews, if Ultrawide screen seems odd or does not work for you, that is a review of the Ultrawide concept. This monitor does it well. There are a lot of things I started to realize work better with Ultrawide. Websites view differently, videos fit better, other stuff

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I dont know whats up with LG but we got one of these and it was mind-blowing fantastic till just a couple of days before Amazon return window. Then, constant flicker unless we went down to 75Hz and then whats the point of this monitor? Amazon did a quick replacement. Then, weeks later, there were huge black and red bars going down the screen and tiny black lines running across the bottom. We switch between a Mac (HDMI) and a gaming PC (DP) which LG said was possible and even when we returned to factory settings, the bars stayed no matter whether we were on the Mac or PC. This monitor is wonderful in theory. In reality, they must not have tested it beyond a few weeks because its just not ready for Amazon Prime-time.

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Good picture quality but typical crappy quality control and IPS problems. For 800-1200$ I have received 2 models with very noticeable backlight bleed and dead pixels. I wouldn’t care about the backlight bleeding but it is noticeable even in bright scenes because of how intense and bright it is

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As a 1k+ gaming monitor it is very light weight. LG made this for mobile using like lap top? Ive been using Dell Alienware 34 inch IPS 3440x1440, feel that quality was so good! Another issue is there are a little bit dark area on the side of screen when I turn the screen all white page. Could be the LG IPS common failing Im not so sure. But anyway great design of the RGB Led back light. I made two star instead of one because of this :D

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