Thanks for the review. I purchased this monitor a few years ago for $380 on amazon (refurbished, but it was like new) (my first ultrawide and real gaming monitor...coming from a 32" Insignia HDTV ha) and I couldn't be happier. Unfortunately, I cracked the screen by accident...and it was cheaper to replace than repair. I looked into the MSI comparison, even looking into LG and Samsung...I decided to buy another ASUS, no regrets whatsoever. The ghosting is minimal compared to my friends MSI ultrawide. I play mostly COD, Forza Horizon, and DayZ. This monitor is awesome! Movies are great to watch on this too!
I have the 32" version of this monitor. I must say, for a VA panel, it's got amazing color balance, and as with all VA panels, brightness and contrast are amazing! Very happy with my choice, and I COULD have gone 34", but the 32" works fine for me!
I’ve had the monitor for two weeks now. I’ve noticed the purple trailing in dark scenes only in two games so far, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and Cyberpunk, and ONLY WITH HDR ENABLED. If I disable hdr, the trailing disappears. Strange enough, Doom Eternal and No Man’s Sky WITH HDR ENABLED do not exhibit this problem, and although it might be only coincidence, HDR in these two games seems MUCH BETTER IMPLEMENTED than in Hellblade and Cyberpunk.
Just bought this and getting it next week...rtings rated this highly in most categories. I wasn’t even on the market for a 34” lmao, I was looking at a 27” but none of them had specs as good as this one
So I got this monitor today - so far I've very impressed. The only negative is the stand which is a bit wobbly so I replaced it with a more sturdy one that I got from Amazon.
Picked one of these up from Amazon, for some reason delivery isn't til Thursday. There were only 13 in stock yesterday, and I bought mine when the was only 3 left today. Every other store I can think of is sold out of them, hoping the hype is worth it. Currently using a 27" 1440p Dell S2721DGF monitor, the older TN version not the newer IPS one. Will use it as a secondary for discord and chrome tabs 🙌🏼
@@faizi521 hey, I haven't received it yet I ordered it last week and it should arrive on January 7th. The only concern about this monitor for sim racing is the 1500R curve, it will need to be really close to your eyes to prevent distortion, this won't be an issue for me since my sim rig monitor stand can be placed as close as I want to me but yeah. I've known other people that have purchased this same monitor for sim racing and they all love it. Other concern is if you're ever planning on going triples you will need plenty of space for it since it'll wrap around you very tightly. I only have a 1080ti at the moment so I have some upgrades needed to take advantage of all the monitor has to offer.
@@DavidGarcia-oi5nt Thanks! Let me know how it is once you get it. I will use a vesa mount to bring it closer and not rely on it's stand. The reason i am interested in this one is 165hz which will utilize 3080ti and also 1440p. Currently, i am running 5760x1080 but capped at 60fps. Planning to use triple monitors for work instead. I will order today as well.
I won't worry about the Gigabyte, this monitor blows out the Gigabyte. From refresh rate, to lower ghosting, stand design, color coverage, OSD and App OSD controls. It's redundant comparing it at this point. The only contender to the ASUS is the MSI, at the said pricepoint.
@@chehalpreetsingh6831 the Gigabyte is rated higher than the AOC in peak brights. AOC maxes out at about 250 nits. Only advantage it’s USB hub. The TUF beats them all anyways.
Had a disastrous experience with the Gigabyte G34WQC with Amazon. Had to return two of them due to what looked like dead pixels at first but it was actually specs of material stuck behind the panel, appearing as dark spots. Your review convinced me to go for the VG34VQL1B, which is 100€ more than the G34WQC where I live. I have to admit I'm a bit worried for the green artifacting as well as the G-Sync flicker. The G34WQC's I tried seemed perfect in that respect, but the defective panels screamed for return. I even wrote an e-mail to their customer support with pics attached, but never got an answer. Does the VG34VQL1B have the option to run 144Hz as well? I'm thinking my GTX 1080 might be better off than with 165Hz. Doom Eternal looked great with G-Sync@144Hz on the Gigabyte monitor. I'm hoping this Asus panel is my last run at the monitor lottery. I've been hitting the negative jackpot for the past two months! I'd be really curious to know how this monitor is working for you along the way. Mine should arrive wednesday but after the Gigabyte experience I'm definitely holding down my expectations : (
From 17:44 to 18:31, is that the infamous "G-Sync Flickering" that everyone on reddit is talking about? A lot of people are saying that it's very distracting when Freesync is on and could possibly be fixed with a firmware update from Asus. Great review by the way!
@@ToGrimmToWin not only on nvidia cards, i tried this monitor and the MSI Optix MPG341CQR with a RX 6900 xt video card and the flickering was present and annoying! it's very sad and shameful that all these VA freesync monitors have flickering problems even with AMD cards!
Thanks for this review. I'm really interested in the G5 because of that extreme curve. However, I feel conflicted because I typically run dual monitors (this would be my first monitor bigger than 24"). Overall, I am still not sure which I would prefer to go, with this ASUS TUF or for the g5 with my new gaming setup for 1440p gaming. I would definitely be more interested in comparing this with the G5.
The G5 upside is the 1000R curve but the TUF beats its with the adjustable stand, extra USB ports, better bits, better contrast ratio, and better color accuracy.
@@1UpNerdcore So I intend on using a monitor arm to up clear up desk space. And using USB ports at the moment is a low priority (haven't found reasons to use any yet?). However, the better contrast catio and color accuracy is a highlight for me. How noticeable of a difference is there? Is it big enough that it's worth leaving that 1000r Curve behind? It'll be my first curve monitor, so either is a great choice.
@Jean-Charles Robert Yeah, few others have mentioned similar things. I was directed towards, LG 34GP83A-B 34 Inch. More expensive, but supposedly, none of the issues?
Hi again, thanks for the unboxing and review. Been looking forward to this. I play a lot of online games with friends such as Fortnite, COD, Apex and Rocket League. What would you're choice be between this monitor or an IPS with the same specs? As others have indicated I'm concerned about red/green ghosting as other have mentioned in other purchase reviews. Also, how well does it work with Gsync?
If you can get the IPS I’d go with that. I haven’t noticed the red or green ghosting personally but my eyes might not be tuning into it. G syncs seems to be running fine for the moment but I need more testing. I had some stuttering issues that I’m not sure if it was gsync, input lag from the internet, overdrive or the gpu causing it. Still lore testing to be done.
I have this. Got horrible black banding/shadowing across the entire lower section of the panel as well as left/right edges. The shadowing was around 1/4" high and once I noticed it, I couldn't unsee it. I ended up returning it for an exchange. Hopefully my replacement won't have the same issue.
This is by far the best monitor I've ever owned. I went from Acer Nitro XV340CK (absolute piece of shit with the worst customer service) to Cooler Master GM34-CW (Ebay purchase that never arrived) to MSI Optix MAG342CQRV (Awesome but wanted more than 100hz) to finally this here monitor the Asus Tuf VG34VQL1B. The colors are beautiful, comes with Freesync Premium, (48-165fps range) the menu is great and easily accessible and the 4 port usb hub is a life saver. The 100x100 vesa mounting is also great and straightforward contrary to other ultrawides that are 75x75 or even worse regressed 75x75 and require all kind of shenanigans , from extra screws to odd plates or adapters just to be compatible with your average heavy duty monitor arm that is required for such heavy monitors. Personally I have no problem with high overdrive settings but others do. Another thing that caught my attention is the fps drop you mentioned. I noticed that occasionally my fps is ping ponging all over the place and I attributed it to me goofing around with the Radeon tuning software but there might be more to it. Looking forward to your next video and your findings.
@ALONSO DÍAZ I have seen those videos of people showing the high overdrive artifacts and mine definitely does not have that at overdrive set to 40 or 60. Personally I can't see any ghosting with overdrive set to 0 but I only play WoW not those real demanding titles.
How does this compare to the MSI CQRV, so the 100Hz version (and not the 144 Hz CQR) in terms of color coverage and black smearing? I've read that the CQRV is very good in those. I'm not a big FPS player, I prefer Baldur's Gate like RPGs.
Great Video, is there any chance you will review some IPS ultrawide? such as the LG 34gn83a or Acer x34gs? I'm really warried over ghosting and black smearing, is IPS worth the extra "500" for it or those problems still persists?
Awesome review! Will the 27 inch monitors be the same height as this one so i can evenly have a triple monitor set up or is this one bigger or smaller than those? I want to have this monitor in the middle and a 27" curved asus on each side.
@@kdtheporchpodcast5785 just got mine. The od is pretty bad, but if you set the frame rate to max 120 then youll be fine. Im still adjusting from a 4k tv to a 1440p monitor, big difference haha
Just flickering on some games with radeon control panel having the adaptive sync on. Turn it off just as smooth but no flickering. The monitors control panel still shows freesync is on
I had the mag for 400 at microcenter I took it back I had 8 plus dead pixels returned same day and got the acer flat 34inch 3440x1440 144hz ips for 440
I couldn't deal witht the ghosting so I returned it and got an LG 34gn850 instead. Muvh better overall, although the VA wins over the LG in terms of contrast.
Mine does... but it is not that often noticeable, for instance on Apex Legend this monitor is really doing fantastic ! No inverse ghosting at all and the motion clarity is great. So I'm worried that most reviews won't even notice it, because it's harder to spot on testufo or eizo test unless you pick very specific dark colors some colors transitions won't show inverse ghosting some other will, if you pick just greyscale you won't see it. On some games, I often need to lower the OD to 20 which is the minimum. Regarding FreeSync, the monitor behave much better on my RTX 2080 than on my 3080... that's surprising... I don't know if it's something to do with Ampere card or if my 3080 simply has a problem with VRR, because even on my previous display (34" 1440p Philips 40-100Hz freesync), FreeSync would work very well on the 2080, it was basically always enabled, but I often had issues on the 3080 sometimes forcing me to play without. And the problems are not even the same on the old and new panel with freesync enabled. With the ASUS paired with the 3080, with freesync enabled, it looks like the cards messes up the OD. On some random frame, it will display excessive inverse ghosting. Also a strange behavior, with the Asus menu I can see that the HZ often missmatch the fps and fluctuate way more, it also often tries to double the Hz (ex: 60fps 120hz) I know that can be normal it's what LFC does but usually LFC kicks in when your FPS is below the VRR's range. But I am not sure the monitor's HZ reading is correct as I don't see tearing and Freesync do add some smoothness as expected. The messed up overdrive for some frame simply never happens with the 2080. And the Hz and FPS are much better matched and the HZ doesn't fluctuate that much. I'm not sure but it seems a little bit smoother on the RTX 2080 but I could be biased with the better OD + FreeSync behavior. With the 2080 FreeSync off or simply with 300 fps in games, there are still some rare transitions that will display green/purple inverse ghosting. But again it seemed like the overal motion clarity was slightly better and with a little bit less overshoot. I need to test it further.... I have already made a video on my channel showing the inverse ghosting (freesync OFF 300+ fps) with the RTX 3080.
@@1UpNerdcore The ghosting/overshoot is very prominent on medium/bright objects over dark backgrounds, this when using the 165hz mode with Overdrive on, the lesser the overdrive setting the less prominent the overshoot, it looks like duplicate purple shadows. This is present with Freesync On or Off with 165hz/OV On.
What are your settings? I have the same monitor and every game I play has a red green blurring on all edges of the picture when it motion. I have no clue how to get it to go away.
Do you have access to an Xbox Series X? On the verge of ordering one of these, but curious if you can run 1440 @ 120hz with this monitor. I just got the Dark Matter 34 and it can't. Also FreeSync only runs at 21:9 but not 16:9
@@1UpNerdcore I already found that out for myself. My question was about what functions the monitor allows to run when at 16:9. I returned the Dark Matter because it wouldn't allow FreeSync at 16:9.
I’ve seen a lot of comments on the asus complaining of issues like color trails, smearing and ghosting but I haven’t had any issues my eyes can detect. I need to spend more time with it but as of right now I’d take the asus.
Do you have an xbox series x / s that you can connect to this monitor? As you mentioned in the other comment, you can theoretically play at 1440p / 120hz with freesync active, but unfortunately without hdr, as freesync is only "premium" and not "premium pro". Having said that, I think it would be interesting to see if it performs well 😊
I don’t have a series x. The bigger issue is it doesn’t support native 21:9 aspect ratio as far as a i know so it’ll be a stretched image or have black bars on the outside of to
I'm torn between this and the Samsung G5 34inch, and maybe if i win a quick lotto the alienware 38inch lol which is better between the Samsung and the Asus.
@@1UpNerdcore Went with the Asus. I notice some purple green smearing or tearing when dragging black tabs really fast or menus in games but other than that it's been nice so far.
I have the monitor right now, the MSI. I'm exchanging it for this one later today. The monitor isn't bright by any means, so it comes no where near this monitor in HDR consumption. The menu is a pain in the ass to use unlike my other MSI monitor.
@@ethancrouse8060 thanks for the feedback, very much appreciated. The MSI has 250 nits and the Asus, 550 nits, that'll be a good switch. How's the color reproduction on the MSI, red are brick and not washed ihr right?
@@hey.godson I found the colors to be okay, but not good enough for color accurate work. I'd say it's good for gaming, but there are much better panels for color even at this price point.
@@1UpNerdcore I am already playing on a 21: 9 monitor and the image does not seem stretched, but unfortunately I have hdmi 1.4 thanks anyway for the reply 😊
@@Giveitallyougot yes it will, you can for sure olso play with 1440p/60 Hz However, I will buy this monitor this afternoon, so tonight I will be able to accurately tell you all the possible configurations
Couldn't figure out why I could not adjust picture mode... I guess when you enable HDR, you're locked into Racing Mode with very little adjustments possible.
This monitor is very attractive, 550cd/m for this price is the very cool and the main advantage of this model on market, but why ASUS does not increased the brightness a little bit more, to 600cd/m? In this case, the monitor would have an HDR600 certificate. And this moment that this monitor is to close to HDR600 but doesn't have it very confusing me. Mby 550cd/m is just marketing and typical brightness(95% of cases) at boring 300cd/m?
I own it and I can tell that, side by side, it can be much brighter than my older Philips 349X7 3440x1440 34" Samsung VA panel 100Hz 300cd/m² 3000:1 117%sRGB With a similar brightness it's easy to tell the Asus has a higher contrast. Colors are even more vivid and a bit more saturated on the Asus. It's my first HDR monitor so I'm not the best to judge but with the following games, HDR looks significantly better than SDR : Cyberpunk, Doom Eternal, RDR2 and to some extend Far Cry 5 (but there I need to switch to HDR cinema in the monitor otherwise, whites are a bit too burnt while Gaming HDR is much better in RDR2). And I can tell a strong light or the sun, or explosions etc in those games feel really bright with a wow effect I haddn't in SDR. But FALD monitor are certainly much more impressive. Also it supports 10bits RGB up to 144Hz without chromasubsampling in nvidia control panel, at 165Hz it's 8bit + FRC or 10bits with chromasubsampling. I can't measure the brightness but VESA DisplayHDR Tests tool can read the EDID and here is what it reports : "Supported PQ Values : Max Effective Value: 707PQ (577.009399 nits) Min Effective Value: 717PQ (631.506531 nits)" "Max peak luminance: 603.70 max frame-average luminance : 603.69843 min luminance: 0.07 " "Gamut Coverage based on reported primaries % sRGB : 98.536652 % AdobeRGB : 91.965034 % DCI-P3 : 90.975861 % BT.2100 : 67.577156 % Human eye : 38.752079" So in my opinion... it's really could be really close to HDR600 certificate but we will know better with proper review. It just lacks local dimming :/
@@alexmuliar4615 You're welcome, if you're considering buying it, I'd advice you to wait for more reviews, because we're many to notice strong overshoot on some specific transition. Sometimes it's a bit annoying but motion clarity is very good. You can check an exemple of the overshoot, I recorded it with my camera : ruclips.net/video/i297xSB9B6o/видео.html As I'm far from the only one reporting such issue, I believe they mostly behave similarly. But I wonder if these issues aren't more pronounced on nvidia hardware... tftcentral showed it in the past with some freesync monitor and I've also notice that my 3080 freesync support is not perfect (yet, could change with driver updates) on this monitor whereas it is absolutely flawless on my RTX 2080 (funny isn't it ? it might also be my 3080 that has a problem as it behave even worse with my older monitor that was also freesync and again the RTX 2080 was flawless...). But image quality ? fantastic ihmo. 165Hz is really awesome too and it is definitely giving me an advantage in some games even compared to my old 100Hz ultrawide.
@@hey.godson Yes I know it makes no sense... It's like if it was too good value to be specified. By the way, rtings' review is out : www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/asus/tuf-gaming-vg34vql1b It's basically the best 34" ultrawide at the moment, excluding the montruous HDR1000 panels. And it is not very expensive for such kind of monitor. BUT... you must accept some strange rainbow like overshoot that sometimes you just can't avoid unless you disable the OD which I can't consider. I have a video showing the overshot strangeness... I believe rtings' protocol isn't able to accurately measure every overdrive behaviors... But I can agree that the response time is great ! motion clarity is very good on this panel !
Guys, does this Asus have black bars when doing pbp (picture by picture)? Or is it stretching the inputs to full screen? Want to connect laptop + consol n would need stretched full screens in pbp so i can play why working…..
@@ToGrimmToWin I wish there was s a micro center where I live but ordering from the online store shipping is almost $200 to hawaii. So I’ll just wait till Best Buy it Amazon gets it back in stock.
Hi, Just wanted to kindly ask if there was any colour distortion or changes from 144hz to 165hz? if so is it something noticiable? Thanks in advance! - Lam
Can't figure out how to remove the plastic piece for cable management, seems locked in place and I'm afraid to snap it. Not good if I have to return the monitor for artifacting problems after testing it tonight. Anyone?
anyone know if u can manually change the aspect ratio to 16:9 in the osd? im looking for an ultrawide that can do that so i can connect it to my ps5 as well, with black bars on the side instead of stretching
I tried this monitor and the MSI Optix MPG341CQR with a RX 6900 xt video card and the flickering was present and annoying! it's very sad and shameful that all these VA freesync monitors have flickering problems even with AMD cards!
It might be a driver issue. My rtx 3080 and 3070 has no flickering with both panels. Did you contact customer support to see if they could resolve the issue?
Guys, do not buy this Monitor, there is a severe artifact issue with this model, it happens with bright images over dark backgrounds, it is a extreme purple color overshoot (not your typical overshoot), the Pixel response changes do not help much, even at 0 or 20 it is present but that introduces blurriness do to the slow response pixel time, I had it for a few days and return it for refund, stay clear until Asus fixes the issue with newer revision, mine was manufactured in Nov. 2020
Yo what do you thnk about this monitor and G7 32inch? Guys if you have information please let me know cuz am between that monitor and Samsung g7 32inch.
@@BigPlanetful Disabling overdrive introduces ghosting because the monitor is working at native pixel response, btw the overshoot is still present at a lesser degree, lowering the HZ to 120hz only makes the panel behave even worst.
I had it for a few days and the overshoot ghosting is the worst I seen in any monitor, it looks like the items multiply training and overshooting a purple shadow, get something else.
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2 days in great so far best va I've had. Worth the small ghosting to have this level of contrast and Brightness. Really brings out the shadow depth
@Double-Edge 30 day full refund 2 year in store credit microcenter I don't see any purple green smearing
I just got mine. IT's pretty awesome. I got it off Amazon for $450.00/US, refurbished. They still have some left at that price.
Thanks for the review. I purchased this monitor a few years ago for $380 on amazon (refurbished, but it was like new) (my first ultrawide and real gaming monitor...coming from a 32" Insignia HDTV ha) and I couldn't be happier. Unfortunately, I cracked the screen by accident...and it was cheaper to replace than repair. I looked into the MSI comparison, even looking into LG and Samsung...I decided to buy another ASUS, no regrets whatsoever.
The ghosting is minimal compared to my friends MSI ultrawide.
I play mostly COD, Forza Horizon, and DayZ. This monitor is awesome! Movies are great to watch on this too!
Excellent overview and first impressions! Keep up the great work! Excited to see the full review
I have the 32" version of this monitor. I must say, for a VA panel, it's got amazing color balance, and as with all VA panels, brightness and contrast are amazing! Very happy with my choice, and I COULD have gone 34", but the 32" works fine for me!
I think I am going to get this monitor. Has everything I need and want.
Thank you for review,: Not a gamer, but got it for an okay price. Appreciate love :)
I’ve had the monitor for two weeks now. I’ve noticed the purple trailing in dark scenes only in two games so far, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and Cyberpunk, and ONLY WITH HDR ENABLED. If I disable hdr, the trailing disappears. Strange enough, Doom Eternal and No Man’s Sky WITH HDR ENABLED do not exhibit this problem, and although it might be only coincidence, HDR in these two games seems MUCH BETTER IMPLEMENTED than in Hellblade and Cyberpunk.
WOW! This is a great review, I've been watching your videos on ultrawides, and they have been so helpful 👌🏼👌🏼
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Best monitor review i have seen so far! I ordered this model and I'm super excited! Thank you for your great review.
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waiting for that "after month review", hope you can give some nice user settings for better look, thanks for all, greetings from Chile
Just bought this and getting it next week...rtings rated this highly in most categories. I wasn’t even on the market for a 34” lmao, I was looking at a 27” but none of them had specs as good as this one
So I got this monitor today - so far I've very impressed. The only negative is the stand which is a bit wobbly so I replaced it with a more sturdy one that I got from Amazon.
Best in class! Can't beat the value and performance...
Picked one of these up from Amazon, for some reason delivery isn't til Thursday. There were only 13 in stock yesterday, and I bought mine when the was only 3 left today. Every other store I can think of is sold out of them, hoping the hype is worth it. Currently using a 27" 1440p Dell S2721DGF monitor, the older TN version not the newer IPS one. Will use it as a secondary for discord and chrome tabs 🙌🏼
Just bought one this week, the 1ms latency is a must have for sim racing
How's the experience on sim racing?
I am planning to move from my triple monitor 60hz setup to this monitor.
Should i do it?
Running 3080ti
@@faizi521 hey, I haven't received it yet I ordered it last week and it should arrive on January 7th. The only concern about this monitor for sim racing is the 1500R curve, it will need to be really close to your eyes to prevent distortion, this won't be an issue for me since my sim rig monitor stand can be placed as close as I want to me but yeah. I've known other people that have purchased this same monitor for sim racing and they all love it.
Other concern is if you're ever planning on going triples you will need plenty of space for it since it'll wrap around you very tightly.
I only have a 1080ti at the moment so I have some upgrades needed to take advantage of all the monitor has to offer.
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Thanks! Let me know how it is once you get it.
I will use a vesa mount to bring it closer and not rely on it's stand. The reason i am interested in this one is 165hz which will utilize 3080ti and also 1440p.
Currently, i am running 5760x1080 but capped at 60fps.
Planning to use triple monitors for work instead. I will order today as well.
Thank you so much for all the time nd effort really helped me out on my decision.
WOW! All the info packed into this. New subscriber alert !!
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Awesome video. I just got that monitor and liking it so far. Can you recommend settings for best visual quality? Would be appreciated!
Hopefully I’ll have some down the road, I’m still tweaking them.
Ordering two😌 thank you for the vid
Great video! Would love to see a comparison across all of the ultrawides you mentioned (G5, Gigabyte, MSI, and the Asus)!
I won't worry about the Gigabyte, this monitor blows out the Gigabyte.
From refresh rate, to lower ghosting, stand design, color coverage, OSD and App OSD controls.
It's redundant comparing it at this point.
The only contender to the ASUS is the MSI, at the said pricepoint.
@@hey.godson what about the aoc cu34g2x b/c Im confused between these two
@@chehalpreetsingh6831 the Gigabyte is rated higher than the AOC in peak brights. AOC maxes out at about 250 nits. Only advantage it’s USB hub. The TUF beats them all anyways.
@@hey.godson ok so the asus is the best choice
@@chehalpreetsingh6831 for sure.
Had a disastrous experience with the Gigabyte G34WQC with Amazon. Had to return two of them due to what looked like dead pixels at first but it was actually specs of material stuck behind the panel, appearing as dark spots. Your review convinced me to go for the VG34VQL1B, which is 100€ more than the G34WQC where I live. I have to admit I'm a bit worried for the green artifacting as well as the G-Sync flicker. The G34WQC's I tried seemed perfect in that respect, but the defective panels screamed for return. I even wrote an e-mail to their customer support with pics attached, but never got an answer. Does the VG34VQL1B have the option to run 144Hz as well? I'm thinking my GTX 1080 might be better off than with 165Hz. Doom Eternal looked great with G-Sync@144Hz on the Gigabyte monitor. I'm hoping this Asus panel is my last run at the monitor lottery. I've been hitting the negative jackpot for the past two months! I'd be really curious to know how this monitor is working for you along the way. Mine should arrive wednesday but after the Gigabyte experience I'm definitely holding down my expectations : (
How did it go?
Mine will be here Thursday. Fn stoked.
From 17:44 to 18:31, is that the infamous "G-Sync Flickering" that everyone on reddit is talking about? A lot of people are saying that it's very distracting when Freesync is on and could possibly be fixed with a firmware update from Asus. Great review by the way!
Seems to be common on a lot of panels with free sync 2 on an Nvidia card
@@ToGrimmToWin not only on nvidia cards, i tried this monitor and the MSI Optix MPG341CQR with a RX 6900 xt video card and the flickering was present and annoying! it's very sad and shameful that all these VA freesync monitors have flickering problems even with AMD cards!
@@mikehcl no I was saying it only happened on my 5700xt it's gone with my 3080
Great review, man. It helped a lot on the decision to buy it.
Got it yesterday best va 21:9 I've had. Smearing ghosting is super low almost on par with acer ips xv340ck
Thanks for this review. I'm really interested in the G5 because of that extreme curve. However, I feel conflicted because I typically run dual monitors (this would be my first monitor bigger than 24"). Overall, I am still not sure which I would prefer to go, with this ASUS TUF or for the g5 with my new gaming setup for 1440p gaming.
I would definitely be more interested in comparing this with the G5.
The G5 upside is the 1000R curve but the TUF beats its with the adjustable stand, extra USB ports, better bits, better contrast ratio, and better color accuracy.
@@1UpNerdcore So I intend on using a monitor arm to up clear up desk space. And using USB ports at the moment is a low priority (haven't found reasons to use any yet?). However, the better contrast catio and color accuracy is a highlight for me. How noticeable of a difference is there? Is it big enough that it's worth leaving that 1000r Curve behind? It'll be my first curve monitor, so either is a great choice.
@Jean-Charles Robert Yeah, few others have mentioned similar things. I was directed towards, LG 34GP83A-B 34 Inch. More expensive, but supposedly, none of the issues?
Hi again, thanks for the unboxing and review. Been looking forward to this. I play a lot of online games with friends such as Fortnite, COD, Apex and Rocket League. What would you're choice be between this monitor or an IPS with the same specs? As others have indicated I'm concerned about red/green ghosting as other have mentioned in other purchase reviews. Also, how well does it work with Gsync?
If you can get the IPS I’d go with that. I haven’t noticed the red or green ghosting personally but my eyes might not be tuning into it. G syncs seems to be running fine for the moment but I need more testing. I had some stuttering issues that I’m not sure if it was gsync, input lag from the internet, overdrive or the gpu causing it. Still lore testing to be done.
Best ultra wide good price and good pic quality.I have zero ghosting issues and is doing 120 hz in cold war for ps5
How can I get it to 120hz, I don’t see the option. I am playing on 60. Need help please!
Thank you for your review. I have one now too.
I think I found a use for my tax refund.
same here :D
lol
Literally using my tax return also 😂😂
How? How do I do that?
I have this. Got horrible black banding/shadowing across the entire lower section of the panel as well as left/right edges. The shadowing was around 1/4" high and once I noticed it, I couldn't unsee it. I ended up returning it for an exchange. Hopefully my replacement won't have the same issue.
How was the replacement unit?
This is by far the best monitor I've ever owned. I went from Acer Nitro XV340CK (absolute piece of shit with the worst customer service) to Cooler Master GM34-CW (Ebay purchase that never arrived) to MSI Optix MAG342CQRV (Awesome but wanted more than 100hz) to finally this here monitor the Asus Tuf VG34VQL1B. The colors are beautiful, comes with Freesync Premium, (48-165fps range) the menu is great and easily accessible and the 4 port usb hub is a life saver. The 100x100 vesa mounting is also great and straightforward contrary to other ultrawides that are 75x75 or even worse regressed 75x75 and require all kind of shenanigans , from extra screws to odd plates or adapters just to be compatible with your average heavy duty monitor arm that is required for such heavy monitors. Personally I have no problem with high overdrive settings but others do. Another thing that caught my attention is the fps drop you mentioned. I noticed that occasionally my fps is ping ponging all over the place and I attributed it to me goofing around with the Radeon tuning software but there might be more to it. Looking forward to your next video and your findings.
@ALONSO DÍAZ I have seen those videos of people showing the high overdrive artifacts and mine definitely does not have that at overdrive set to 40 or 60. Personally I can't see any ghosting with overdrive set to 0 but I only play WoW not those real demanding titles.
How does this compare to the MSI CQRV, so the 100Hz version (and not the 144 Hz CQR) in terms of color coverage and black smearing? I've read that the CQRV is very good in those. I'm not a big FPS player, I prefer Baldur's Gate like RPGs.
Great Video, is there any chance you will review some IPS ultrawide? such as the LG 34gn83a or Acer x34gs? I'm really warried over ghosting and black smearing, is IPS worth the extra "500" for it or those problems still persists?
Hopefully down the road. I’m waiting on the new monitors from CES this year also
@@1UpNerdcore when the ces will be ?
Awesome review! Will the 27 inch monitors be the same height as this one so i can evenly have a triple monitor set up or is this one bigger or smaller than those? I want to have this monitor in the middle and a 27" curved asus on each side.
New subscriber. Thank you for another amazing review. You are my go to guy now thanks bro hammer
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love the all the videos. Definitely helped me pick this monitor out and came in today. What settings do you recommend? I also have a 3070.
Excellent video!!! I just want to know if you need to overclock the monitor to get the 165hz please :3
I don’t believe so, I haven’t had this monitor in a while after moving on to other reviews.
LETS GOOO !!! FINALLY !! THIS IS NOWHERE ON RUclips !!! I JUST ORDERED THIS AND WILL BE HERE TOMORROW !!!
I sent it back it's got terrible pixel reconstruction or whatever it's called and fast movements it just duplicates the image 🥺
@@countershader9240 damn , so what you get instead ?
@@kdtheporchpodcast5785 got any update bro?
@@TheblackMClord honestly haven’t opened it yet , I’m the middle of a moving process . But I’m excited to use it
@@kdtheporchpodcast5785 just got mine. The od is pretty bad, but if you set the frame rate to max 120 then youll be fine. Im still adjusting from a 4k tv to a 1440p monitor, big difference haha
Just flickering on some games with radeon control panel having the adaptive sync on. Turn it off just as smooth but no flickering. The monitors control panel still shows freesync is on
SOLD I just got one :) Great video thanks.
I had the mag for 400 at microcenter I took it back I had 8 plus dead pixels returned same day and got the acer flat 34inch 3440x1440 144hz ips for 440
Will it be long till the full review? Im looking for at monitor at the moment and I cant decide
Hopefully within the next week. My normal job is slammed at the moment so content is taking longer
Okay thank you!
Would you recommend it for video editing and content creation.
I couldn't deal witht the ghosting so I returned it and got an LG 34gn850 instead. Muvh better overall, although the VA wins over the LG in terms of contrast.
These videos are great, dude.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Does your panel have the green and purple issue when using the OD settings?
I didn’t notice any personally but I’ll keep and eye out for it as I spend more time with it for the review
Mine does... but it is not that often noticeable, for instance on Apex Legend this monitor is really doing fantastic ! No inverse ghosting at all and the motion clarity is great.
So I'm worried that most reviews won't even notice it, because it's harder to spot on testufo or eizo test unless you pick very specific dark colors some colors transitions won't show inverse ghosting some other will, if you pick just greyscale you won't see it.
On some games, I often need to lower the OD to 20 which is the minimum.
Regarding FreeSync, the monitor behave much better on my RTX 2080 than on my 3080... that's surprising...
I don't know if it's something to do with Ampere card or if my 3080 simply has a problem with VRR, because even on my previous display (34" 1440p Philips 40-100Hz freesync), FreeSync would work very well on the 2080, it was basically always enabled, but I often had issues on the 3080 sometimes forcing me to play without. And the problems are not even the same on the old and new panel with freesync enabled.
With the ASUS paired with the 3080, with freesync enabled, it looks like the cards messes up the OD. On some random frame, it will display excessive inverse ghosting. Also a strange behavior, with the Asus menu I can see that the HZ often missmatch the fps and fluctuate way more, it also often tries to double the Hz (ex: 60fps 120hz) I know that can be normal it's what LFC does but usually LFC kicks in when your FPS is below the VRR's range. But I am not sure the monitor's HZ reading is correct as I don't see tearing and Freesync do add some smoothness as expected.
The messed up overdrive for some frame simply never happens with the 2080. And the Hz and FPS are much better matched and the HZ doesn't fluctuate that much. I'm not sure but it seems a little bit smoother on the RTX 2080 but I could be biased with the better OD + FreeSync behavior.
With the 2080 FreeSync off or simply with 300 fps in games, there are still some rare transitions that will display green/purple inverse ghosting. But again it seemed like the overal motion clarity was slightly better and with a little bit less overshoot.
I need to test it further.... I have already made a video on my channel showing the inverse ghosting (freesync OFF 300+ fps) with the RTX 3080.
@@1UpNerdcore The ghosting/overshoot is very prominent on medium/bright objects over dark backgrounds, this when using the 165hz mode with Overdrive on, the lesser the overdrive setting the less prominent the overshoot, it looks like duplicate purple shadows. This is present with Freesync On or Off with 165hz/OV On.
What are your settings? I have the same monitor and every game I play has a red green blurring on all edges of the picture when it motion. I have no clue how to get it to go away.
Mines coming soon!
help me to do a right choice between samsung g5 34 vs ASUS TUF VG34VQL1B 34 which you recommend me, you are the only one who review those monitors
TUF - better colors and more nits
My dad is going to get me and my sister one when we get our permits for practicing driving
Do you have access to an Xbox Series X? On the verge of ordering one of these, but curious if you can run 1440 @ 120hz with this monitor. I just got the Dark Matter 34 and it can't. Also FreeSync only runs at 21:9 but not 16:9
As far as I know series x doesn’t support native 21:9 aspect ratio so it’ll be a stretched image
You need new series x and s to run 21:9
@@1UpNerdcore I already found that out for myself. My question was about what functions the monitor allows to run when at 16:9. I returned the Dark Matter because it wouldn't allow FreeSync at 16:9.
I've read on rtings that gamma is off. Does the OSD offer gamma adjustment? I know not all monitors have this as an option.
No gamma control
in my country, this is 773.54 USD and g5 is 515.68 USD which one do you recommend?
If I don’t make content or play on console then the TUF, if I do then the G5
It took me 20 minutes to get it out of the box very nice monitor
Which one is better? The asus or MSI OPTIX MPG341CQR
I’ve seen a lot of comments on the asus complaining of issues like color trails, smearing and ghosting but I haven’t had any issues my eyes can detect. I need to spend more time with it but as of right now I’d take the asus.
Do you have an xbox series x / s that you can connect to this monitor? As you mentioned in the other comment, you can theoretically play at 1440p / 120hz with freesync active, but unfortunately without hdr, as freesync is only "premium" and not "premium pro". Having said that, I think it would be interesting to see if it performs well 😊
I don’t have a series x. The bigger issue is it doesn’t support native 21:9 aspect ratio as far as a i know so it’ll be a stretched image or have black bars on the outside of to
@@1UpNerdcore The image is a bit stretched only in the home, but not while playing. Thanks anyway 😊
I'm torn between this and the Samsung G5 34inch, and maybe if i win a quick lotto the alienware 38inch lol which is better between the Samsung and the Asus.
I’d go with this over the g5
@@1UpNerdcore Went with the Asus. I notice some purple green smearing or tearing when dragging black tabs really fast or menus in games but other than that it's been nice so far.
You dont notice the green smearing on dark objects? I literally see them from the video. I have the asus for almost a month and its annoying.
I watched my footage again and played last night and didn’t notice any, so I might not have the eye for it
@@1UpNerdcore @12:57 . Notice the walls, especially the left wall window. You can see the green-ish color.
vg34vql1b vs s3422dwg
wich one is the best ?
Can u do a direct comparison with MSI Optix-MAG342CQR most regarding the color?
That seems to be the only power move from the MSI.
Great job man.
I have the monitor right now, the MSI. I'm exchanging it for this one later today. The monitor isn't bright by any means, so it comes no where near this monitor in HDR consumption. The menu is a pain in the ass to use unlike my other MSI monitor.
@@ethancrouse8060 thanks for the feedback, very much appreciated. The MSI has 250 nits and the Asus, 550 nits, that'll be a good switch. How's the color reproduction on the MSI, red are brick and not washed ihr right?
@@hey.godson I found the colors to be okay, but not good enough for color accurate work. I'd say it's good for gaming, but there are much better panels for color even at this price point.
@@ethancrouse8060 1.7 billion colours, 10 bit Color support, was advertised. I imagined it will be crazy good.
is this monitor mountable? just wanted to make sure before purchasing
Yes it is 👍🏻
What are the panel types on the G5 and Msi. Like I mean is it Va or ips
All of these are VA
So this monitor does allow you to turn on GSYNC in the Nvidia control panel?
Yes you can enable gsync compatibility but it’s not officially certified
Hi, a question, can I play with this monitor, on my xbox series s at 1440p / 120hf with freesync active?
You could but since it doesn’t support native 21:9 aspect ratio you’ll either stretch the image to fit that or have black bars on either side.
@@1UpNerdcore I am already playing on a 21: 9 monitor and the image does not seem stretched, but unfortunately I have hdmi 1.4
thanks anyway for the reply 😊
I am a complete noob to monitors but I do know that 1080p 60fps is fine with me I have a series x will this pair well with it?
@@Giveitallyougot yes it will, you can for sure olso play with 1440p/60 Hz
However, I will buy this monitor this afternoon, so tonight I will be able to accurately tell you all the possible configurations
@@GranFatto82 thanks for the reply I'm gonna get it too!
is this monitor better than the AOC 34 inch ultra wide 1440p 144hz?
Couldn't figure out why I could not adjust picture mode... I guess when you enable HDR, you're locked into Racing Mode with very little adjustments possible.
This monitor is very attractive, 550cd/m for this price is the very cool and the main advantage of this model on market, but why ASUS does not increased the brightness a little bit more, to 600cd/m? In this case, the monitor would have an HDR600 certificate.
And this moment that this monitor is to close to HDR600 but doesn't have it very confusing me. Mby 550cd/m is just marketing and typical brightness(95% of cases) at boring 300cd/m?
I own it and I can tell that, side by side, it can be much brighter than my older Philips 349X7 3440x1440 34" Samsung VA panel 100Hz 300cd/m² 3000:1 117%sRGB
With a similar brightness it's easy to tell the Asus has a higher contrast.
Colors are even more vivid and a bit more saturated on the Asus.
It's my first HDR monitor so I'm not the best to judge but with the following games, HDR looks significantly better than SDR : Cyberpunk, Doom Eternal, RDR2 and to some extend Far Cry 5 (but there I need to switch to HDR cinema in the monitor otherwise, whites are a bit too burnt while Gaming HDR is much better in RDR2). And I can tell a strong light or the sun, or explosions etc in those games feel really bright with a wow effect I haddn't in SDR.
But FALD monitor are certainly much more impressive.
Also it supports 10bits RGB up to 144Hz without chromasubsampling in nvidia control panel, at 165Hz it's 8bit + FRC or 10bits with chromasubsampling.
I can't measure the brightness but VESA DisplayHDR Tests tool can read the EDID and here is what it reports :
"Supported PQ Values :
Max Effective Value: 707PQ (577.009399 nits)
Min Effective Value: 717PQ (631.506531 nits)"
"Max peak luminance: 603.70
max frame-average luminance : 603.69843
min luminance: 0.07 "
"Gamut Coverage based on reported primaries
% sRGB : 98.536652
% AdobeRGB : 91.965034
% DCI-P3 : 90.975861
% BT.2100 : 67.577156
% Human eye : 38.752079"
So in my opinion... it's really could be really close to HDR600 certificate but we will know better with proper review.
It just lacks local dimming :/
@@SagittariusAx thanks, this comment is very useful for me
@@alexmuliar4615 You're welcome, if you're considering buying it, I'd advice you to wait for more reviews, because we're many to notice strong overshoot on some specific transition. Sometimes it's a bit annoying but motion clarity is very good.
You can check an exemple of the overshoot, I recorded it with my camera : ruclips.net/video/i297xSB9B6o/видео.html
As I'm far from the only one reporting such issue, I believe they mostly behave similarly. But I wonder if these issues aren't more pronounced on nvidia hardware... tftcentral showed it in the past with some freesync monitor and I've also notice that my 3080 freesync support is not perfect (yet, could change with driver updates) on this monitor whereas it is absolutely flawless on my RTX 2080 (funny isn't it ? it might also be my 3080 that has a problem as it behave even worse with my older monitor that was also freesync and again the RTX 2080 was flawless...).
But image quality ? fantastic ihmo. 165Hz is really awesome too and it is definitely giving me an advantage in some games even compared to my old 100Hz ultrawide.
@@SagittariusAx 10 Bit color ? That's dope. It's not even advertised
@@hey.godson Yes I know it makes no sense... It's like if it was too good value to be specified.
By the way, rtings' review is out : www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/asus/tuf-gaming-vg34vql1b
It's basically the best 34" ultrawide at the moment, excluding the montruous HDR1000 panels. And it is not very expensive for such kind of monitor.
BUT... you must accept some strange rainbow like overshoot that sometimes you just can't avoid unless you disable the OD which I can't consider. I have a video showing the overshot strangeness... I believe rtings' protocol isn't able to accurately measure every overdrive behaviors... But I can agree that the response time is great ! motion clarity is very good on this panel !
Hi tell me witch its the best between this One asus and msi mpg341cqr please thk
As of right now I’d choose this but I need more time testing it. That might change
Guys, does this Asus have black bars when doing pbp (picture by picture)? Or is it stretching the inputs to full screen?
Want to connect laptop + consol n would need stretched full screens in pbp so i can play why working…..
well damn was about to buy it and it is sold out everywhere now. And or places charge a rediculous amount for shipping to hawaii
My microcenter has over 25 in stock
@@ToGrimmToWin I wish there was s a micro center where I live but ordering from the online store shipping is almost $200 to hawaii. So I’ll just wait till Best Buy it Amazon gets it back in stock.
where I get that moving background that you have on your monitor, the one that you have behind your back.
Wallpaper engine off steam
Does this monitor have PIP and PBP technology?
Yes
hey can i use nvidia 3080 cart ..to this Monitor ?
Yes
Hi,
Just wanted to kindly ask if there was any colour distortion or changes from 144hz to 165hz? if so is it something noticiable?
Thanks in advance!
- Lam
I haven’t noticed anything yet but I need to test more
For the same Price which one would you pick? In my local shop both cost 650€ so it is pretty hard to decide
I’d go with either. I like the extra USB ports so as of right now the TUF is leading the list but I still need to play longer to see any issues.
hi can you share the code for the witcher wallpaper?
What's the weight of whole box ?
Can't figure out how to remove the plastic piece for cable management, seems locked in place and I'm afraid to snap it. Not good if I have to return the monitor for artifacting problems after testing it tonight. Anyone?
anyone know if u can manually change the aspect ratio to 16:9 in the osd?
im looking for an ultrawide that can do that so i can connect it to my ps5 as well, with black bars on the side instead of stretching
can't figure out how to use external speakers on one of these
Out of all monitor companies, which one has the best osd menu?
I really like Samsung’s
Would this work with my Xbox s?
Hello I need help! I dont have an Overclock setting, im stuck with 100 hz refresh rate!!
You using hdmi or dp cable?
Overclocked monitor?
Yea that’s the Visual OD I cover in the video
I tried this monitor and the MSI Optix MPG341CQR with a RX 6900 xt video card and the flickering was present and annoying! it's very sad and shameful that all these VA freesync monitors have flickering problems even with AMD cards!
It might be a driver issue. My rtx 3080 and 3070 has no flickering with both panels. Did you contact customer support to see if they could resolve the issue?
Whats the best curved monitor for freesync
This is top of the list
I was thinking about this monitor or the lg ultrawide
this monitor have multitasking ?
Multitasking?
@@1UpNerdcore like in one screen we can do multiple screen work
Like picture by picture? It has that
This monitor has flickering with gsync enabled. Anyone know of a fix?
Guys, do not buy this Monitor, there is a severe artifact issue with this model, it happens with bright images over dark backgrounds, it is a extreme purple color overshoot (not your typical overshoot), the Pixel response changes do not help much, even at 0 or 20 it is present but that introduces blurriness do to the slow response pixel time, I had it for a few days and return it for refund, stay clear until Asus fixes the issue with newer revision, mine was manufactured in Nov. 2020
The fps drop may b because you didn't update the windows 😒 😑
Yo what do you thnk about this monitor and G7 32inch?
Guys if you have information please let me know cuz am between that monitor and Samsung g7 32inch.
It depends on your rig and what you do on it like streaming vs content creation or just playing games.
@@1UpNerdcore just playing games cuz on my PlayStation 5 am suck on shooter games I need to play them on my PC
did it come with a dp cable?
Yes
Where is the full review???
Posting this weekend 👍🏻
its so difficult msi or asus tuf for ps5?
I wouldn’t go ultrawide as I don’t think it’s natively supported meaning it would just be a stretched image.
Xbox series x and s newest gen support 21:9 1440x3440 120hz not ps5 as sony is being stubborn
Could you review vg32vq1b?
It's the same monitor but just 32"
@@masterbathroom1179 No it's not. VG32VQ1B Only has 250 brightness. They're different.
Unfortunately it has issues with flickering in g-sync mode and green trailing with high override settings :-(
I have the same problem when watching movies, green trailing is really a big problem, do you know how to fix it?
@@BigPlanetful I've read that lowering override settings should help. I don't own this monitor btw.
@@Peyotl13 thanks, i fixed it turning off the oc settings 👌👍👏
@@BigPlanetful Disabling overdrive introduces ghosting because the monitor is working at native pixel response, btw the overshoot is still present at a lesser degree, lowering the HZ to 120hz only makes the panel behave even worst.
@@AstraMilitarumFodder Monitor is working perfect at 144 hertz, no ghosting at all, enabling overdrive only introduces it.
This is basically a AOC G2x 34in 1440p 144hz 2 HDMI 2 DisplayPort 4 USBs and a Upstream
More nits on this also which makes a big difference
How much the price? 🙏
499
So,it is work on Nvidia GTX 970 and Professor core i7 930?
@@donnychandra6983 I wouldn't. You need a bit of power to drive this thing.
It's honestly terrible everything else it does is great but no matter what setting if overdrive is off or on an terrible trailing ..
lower refresh rate to 120hz probably will fix that amount of ghosting
I had it for a few days and the overshoot ghosting is the worst I seen in any monitor, it looks like the items multiply training and overshooting a purple shadow, get something else.