@@TotallydubbedHDAgain: Bad cable? Defective Monitor? I had flickering, instability and black screens with a dying DP to HDMI cable. Fun fact - the severity of this issue was OS dependent! With Windows it didn't work most of the time while it worked with MacOS - same machine same GPU just different VM. I looked for errors in my config and couldn’t find any - until I changed the cable…but this was an active cable and after 2 years the chip in the cable just failed.
Personally, mini led feels like the only option for anyone who values excellent contrast and HDR, but that uses their PC for mostly desktop work and with some gaming. The main issue is how hit and miss the dimming algorithms can be with some models. I went through several models before settling with the Neo G8 that works great for me. Although some manufacturers offer good burn in warranty’s for oled displays, with my use (8hours a day desktop and perhaps 1-2 gaming) I would almost certainly get burn in on any oled monitor which makes them a no go 😅
Couldn't agree more. BTW: I bought the AOC AGON PRO AG344UXM (it was priced 975€ - so considerably less than 1200£) and did not experience problems with G-Sync over DP or any flickering so far. I use this 95% of my time for work and only 5% of my time for gaming - and as a work day for me can easily be up to 18h straight an OLED is a no go. As Monitor Unboxed said it - if you use an OLED for its intended purposes like content consumption and gaming - it is great...but for anything else, it has some (=many) disadvantages.
@@bladewraith I had an AOC AGON AG271QG. And this is of course night and day and a big upgrade. I also have several medical displays (EIZO and LG) that are equally capable in terms of brightness, color accuracy and clarity but aren’t very useful for HDR or gaming.
@@m.l.9385 hey dude how is the monitor for HDR content in gaming? I am thinking of swapping out my AW3423DW simply because I cba with baby sitting the thing. I can get this thing for 664 right now and really thinking of pulling the trigger on it. I use my PC far more for desktop usage now and still want great dark areas and good highlights.
For me the main concern is burn-in and sort of burn-in anxiety. I am looking for a 34 inch monitor and OLED looks amazing, but as I WFH 3 days a week there is a lot of hours of static/similar UI's in teams and Excel etc. For that case mini-led would actually be a decent alternative without the though of burn-in risk bothering me constantly. However at these prices (1.099 euros where I live) you just cant justify such a purchase vs OLED..
Another great monitor review from you. When i look at the prices, this AOC Agon is 70€ more expensive than the Samsung G8 in Germany. So i would choose the OLED display for 999€.
First thanks for nice Video :) I've had the monitor myself for few month and I'm still divided. First of all, it has great colors so you don't have to fiddle with it for long. But the reason I bought it was for a 21:9 with a flat display and, as you know, there aren't many of them. What bothers me about my device. There are IPS-Glow in the entire left area of the monitor, which you can see immediately with darker backgrounds and also in games. No cable management possible on the monitor stand. High power consumption in RGB mode at 30% brightness is still 90 watts. With HDR active and local dimming activated, it is a crazy 176 watts, the disadvantage is that you can no longer regulate the brightness on the monitor when both are active, so your electricity supplier will be happy. Incidentally, even with brighter backgrounds such as yellow or bright green, there are clearly visible halo effects when Local Dimming is activated, the advantage being that you will find your mouse pointer very quickly in the heat of the moment. Fun fact: the device is advertised with local dimming at over 1100 zones, but the local dimming function on the monitor is deactivated ex works. I wonder why that is? The menu is sluggish and looks out of date and doesn't suit a monitor with an RRP of €1599 In general, the monitor is overpriced, even today for €899 in Germany If you're still thinking about buying this device today, you should rather go for an OLED in 21:9 like the G8 from Samsung, which can do pretty much everything this monitor wants to do but can only do half-heartedly.
It's also cheaper than OLED, definitely the go-to if you also work using your PC since it's a flat panel. Weird of him to say OLED is strictly better when that's very much not the case.
Nice review mate! This monitor has been on my radar for quite a while and this review (and TFT Central's review) are the only proper ones I've found. The only non-OLED HDR capable monitors that have the specs I want are this one and the Neo G7, but the mini LED tech still seems to have quite a few technical problems which is a shame.
@@TotallydubbedHD I'm viewing this from a price-performance angle. OLEDs don't provide enough of a benefit to justify the price over miniled IPS. In some ways they're even worse, can't use them for productivity and their brightness is much worse.
@@anitaremenarova6662 really depends on what you value most. Usually, high end Mini LED monitors are just as expensive as OLEDs. At which point, it goes back to the above. Btw, I'd never buy an OLED for productivity/text clarity alone, so take it from someone like myself that OLEDs are not ideal for everyone, but in terms of gaming only are very hard to beat.
Thank you for this great review! I have a few questions about this monitor's KVM functionality. 1. Does this monitor have coal whining while charging the laptop via USB-C? 2. If the monitor is plugged into PC (via DP) and simultaneously into laptop (via USB-C), does the monitor automatically detect the source (DP or USB-C)? 3. Does the monitor automatically change between USB-B and USB-C based on source? I read that for e.g. in Acer Predator X34 GS you have to manually change the source and also manually change the channel for peripherals between USB-B and USB-C.
Glad you enjoyed the review! 1. Didn't experience any issues. 2. Think there's an option in the OSD for that, so yes it would switch if required. Check the manual to be sure. 3. Presume your question is in relation to the KVM here, as in the peripherals working with one source or the other? If so, yes, it'll auto switch. Whatever source is being used on the monitor (say DP), then your desktop will be the one using the peripherals. Very odd that the Acer doesn't do that btw! Hope that helps!
@TotallydubbedHD I've just purchased this monitor and I'm having a strange problem, I can only discibe it as "grainy" screen, on desktop it looks lovely..but on Google Chrome tabs the txt is awful, also in games like CS2 and WoW it's grainy as..... When I alt tab and click on desktop but then WoW you can see in the back ground it's smooth and beautiful pixels but when I alt tab back into the game it looks awful. I've tried all the settings I can think of. It's almost like when I use these applications my monitor is somehow stretching to a 40" monitor but with the same res? It's very hard to describe the problem, but it's very annoying - I'm using a high end DP cable, not tried any others yet. Do you have any ideas? Thanks!
@@TotallydubbedHDmorning mate, I'll try hdmi2 today see if it changes, I'll turn off HDR and see what happens, really weird problem though, have you got a way I can send videos too you? Maybe if you see the problem your get some ideas :)
Fixed, the dining zone option ON was somehow displacing the pixels in a way to make things grainy, turned that off and it looks smooth again, not great 😅 but atleast it doesn't look awful now
I don't know which one to choose between this one and the qd oled from Alienware, this monitor is mini led, so no burn in, but a lot of people said to me that the flat screen is bad for a ultrawide, what do you think?
Hey man, I got a question. I'm currently looking for a 1440p monitor, coming from a 144hz 1080p VA monitor, with a contrast ratio of (says the amazon description at least) 3000:1. Even after a lot of research I wasn't able to find many fine monitors in my budget ($300-$400). The best picks I could find were the MSI G274QPF-QD and the Gigabyte M27Q. At all the MSI one seemed a bit more of an allrounder to me. The only problems I have with it, is the contrast ratio and the IPS glow. Monitors Unboxed states that the MSI monitor has a contrast ratio of about 930:1 wich is about a third of my current one. I personally watch a lot of RU-vid, a bit of movies and series and play games like Red Dead Redemption 2, Subnautica and Call of Duty (in general mostly singleplayer titles). Do you think the difference is so noticeable (in terms of contrast, blacks, immersion and IPS glow) that I should look for a VA monitor instead?
do you think this is worth 664? I am going to be gaming in HDR a lot, going to be using it for a lot of work flow and replacing it from an OLED, I know it cant compete but how good did it look in games? Were the blacks well enough? was haloing an issue?
Watch the video, blacks aren't infinite but for practical use you won't notice a difference unless you're specifically looking for it in a completely dark room.
I spotted this monitor at 700€ in france. I think to replace my iiyama GB3467WQSU-B5 by this screen for great HDR experience and wide color gamut (8bits+FRC with 99% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage). I'm playing gamepad with gamepad on my TV (QE55QN90B mini led panel with 2000nits peak) and i love the deepness provided by HDR. What is your feeling about motion clarity of this screen, compare to the iiyama GB3467WQSU-B1 without MBR (VRR enabled) ? I think to tweak my driver and OS settings to make this screen less bright for SDR content PS: I don't want OLED panel, because i use my screen for work 8H/day, and i'm affraid about OLED Burn-in and OLED are not good as LCD for text rendering.
As someone that is doing 75 percent productivity and 25 percent gaming and content watching, Oled juat isnt an option. If i could afford a good mini Led monitor i would go for that.
Mini LED is cool but I think it's still in that early adopter phase looking at the price tag, not sure many people could justify the price when you can get a seriously kick ass display for even a 3rd of the price but a cool piece of tech none the less.
@@dnsean03No curve is fine, only really starts being an issue if you go above 34 inch. Also IPS miniled is better for people who also use their monitor for work.
