ASUS TUF Gaming VG34VQEL1A Curved Gaming Monitor – 34 inch UWQHD (3440 x 1440), 100Hz, Curved design, Extreme Low Motion Blur, Freesync, 1ms (MPRT),125% sRGB, HDR

This is a fantastic Monitor, with great graphics and sharpness and built in speakers. Works great with a Xbox series s and offers 120fps when gaming, speakers are very loud and the built in cross hair is also great.

Incredibly good picture quality, it's my first curved ultra wide and I've never had such an immersive experience in games.At 1440p the panel looks great, had no dead pixels and supports freesync out of the box.The menu is easy to use, it has a mix of HDMI and display port. I like the addition of a 3.5mm jack on the rear also, so useful when using older headsets.Great value for money - it feels like having 2 monitors side by side.Mount is pretty good, offers reasonable range of movement and adjustment - but it has full VESA mounts if it's not right for you.

I went from a previous gen model, 27" ASUS 4K 6HZ to this 32" 24 165HZ Curved and I was not disappointed. 4K gaming is overrated and only reserved for top-end GPUs. 2K Ultra settings with a high refresh rate is the ideal target. I play a ton of games and I also create and develop mods for a few popular games so I spend a lot of time in Blender doing design work, Adobe Substance Painter doing texturing and in VSC doing codding. Overall this monitor performs well in all scenarios. I would not however, recommend it for Photoshop, being a curved VA panel, becuase its not the best panel tech for true colours, but if youre into Photoshop then you should already Know that

I've owned pretty much every monitor and TV you can imagine so I have a lot to compare against.I once owned a 34" Ultrawide in the mid-2010's and it was £900. For that you got a 60hz display and the image quality, particularly text and colour accuracy, left a lot to be desired.For not much more than £300, it's crazy how much better this 165hz Asus is in 2024.Positives:No dead pixelsVERY brightNo glare issuesSubtle curve - immersive but nothing too crazyColour accuracy - good enough for me as a pretty serious amateur photographerExcellent textBest VA screen I've ever used.Indistinguishable from IPS quality, but with superior VA blacks/contrastHigh refresh (I use 120hz and 10bit)Large number of inputsNegativesVRR Flicker in some gamesNot true HDRRegarding the negatives, I'm not fussed that it isn't true HDR as let's be honest, you need an OLED and a lot of money for that (anything less is a waste of time). I don't want an OLED for my PC due to burn in. At this price and with how bright the screen is, you aren't actually missing much compared to gaming with my PS5 on my LG OLED TV. Shocked how good Diablo 4 for example looks versus my PS5 version on the OLED. It's not far off thanks to the brightness and typical VA deep blacks.The VRR flicker is the real big negative. My previous freesync monitors never exhibited the problem, so there is no excuse here. World of Warcraft Retail in the main city hubs (unstable frame rate) suffers terrible flicker (it's utterly catastrophic) and I have to disable freesync entirely. Meanwhile I tried games like Dragon's Dogma 2 and Diablo 4 and didn't notice anything. Geforce Now had no issues either. So your mileage may vary depending on what you play.I've tried all the so called "fixes" online and it's all twaddle. If the game flickers there is nothing you can do about it.For that reason I'm knocking a point off and giving 4 stars. Whilst it's cheap, I've had other IPS and VA monitors that didn't flicker at this price range. You can consider this a 5 star monitor if you are using it just for productivity, or playing games that don't flicker.

Would have given this monitor 5 stars were in not for the dead pixel and terrible colour bleed on the right corner of the screen.... This monitor was by far the best I had seen reviews wise for colour accuracy and value but the lack of quality assurance is unacceptable... Alienware AW3423DWP is only around 650 and arguably the best ultrawide on the market right now... I'll be picking that up instead... Maybe some else will be more lucky