AOC - CU34G2XP

I went from the aoc cu34g2xp to an LG 34gs95qe and agree with what you said. The aoc was a decent monitor, I didn’t notice any smearing or other issues VA’s can have. The LG is beautiful, OLED looks so much better. I personally love the 800r curve it has as well.

Yes, it has a new fast VA panel and increased refresh rate to 180hz I got the XP model a few months ago and love it especially for the price. It doesn’t look as good as an my buddies OLED 34 ultra wide but that’s expected. I’ve been very happy with mine and have no complaints

I bought this monitor two weeks ago and returned it after four days. Overall, the monitor’s format is great. At first, I was even pleased that the colors didn’t look as bad as I expected (I was switching from an IPS panel). But eventually, I just couldn’t get used to the color reproduction, even after extensive adjustments. Besides that, the monitor had an interesting feature… I could feel heat coming from it when sitting in a cold room. In other words, while sitting in front of the monitor, I could feel it warming my face. I looked up this issue and even found a post from someone else mentioning the same thing. This might not be a dealbreaker for you, but for me, it was very uncomfortable. Now, I’ve bought a 27-inch MSI MAG 274QFR-QD E2 and set up my other monitor vertically. And I’m happy with it! 😅

I recently bought it and i like it alot, super crisp color if you like that ? i do not play FPS games alot, but when i do it's CS and Delta Force. Craphics card is 7800XT Colorhound OC and i have no problems with smearing. AMD adrenalin i do custom or quality settings. For me it is a very bright monitor and the colors are very saturated. I also see some flickering in color adjustment and that is not right. I have calibrated a few times trying sRGB and activating HDR support. Considering to return it, only to have the same monitor ( i think it's the model, have to speak with support ) If it turns out that it's the model or something i do wrong, i'll buy a second one! One thing is sure... i'll never go back to not using 34" UW.

I am late on answering here... I'm testing it, if i turn off Color Temperature Control, i also set the Saturation down from 100 to 80, otherwise red is very red. Still it is flickering now and then.

For the same reason there are no curved IPS panels... It's difficult. Since there are no curved IPS panels, no one wants to make 34" UW panels because it is simply horrible to use such a wide flat panel. Now, we are no longer in 2022 and earlier where only Samsung panels above the G6 were good VA panels, now panels made by TCL CSOT, using Samsung's old factories and their patents are capable of decent performance. The difficult part is finding monitors that use these panels... For now, I can confirm that AOC CU34G2XP and CU34G4Z KTC H34S18 Lenovo G34W-30 Philips Evnia 34M2C3500L TCL 34R83Q They are the only ones that do or do use these "new" HVA panels from TCL CSOT which have performance in response times much higher than the rest of the VA panels not made by TCL.

Lots of "VA bad" vibes, but this monitor is pretty solid. No black smearing that I see. Only oddity is that sometimes things colored a solid blue will look slightly striped like old CRT monitors. Only noticeable on websites and such, not in game. Do not buy for HDR reasons... not an HDR monitor.

Thanks for the swift response. Just received my CU34G2XP and pretty happy with it thanks to your review and settings. The contrast annoyingly is better with the 'picture boost' on but it reset every time you turn off the display. Still, its much better than my previous IPS panel. Black smear and ghosting not too bad in Medium overdrive setting in fairness, certainly not perfect but not enough to put me off using it. Overall for the £250 I paid, I'm pretty happy - eventually I think I'll upgrade to ultrawide QD-OLED but I'm holding out to see what panel improvements and pricing does this year. I play a lot of RPG games and Sim Racing, as much as the slight smearing is annoying the ultrawide experience more than makes up for it in my opinion!

I got mine four days ago, and my unit suffers from extensive light bleeding and color washout toward the bottom half of the screen. Dark greys appear as washed-out browns, which is very noticeable, especially when reading articles on Wikipedia.

Got it replaced by AOC. The new unit doesn’t have any of those issues.

I have this and really like it. Playing mostly arc raiders and enjoying the bit of extra peripheral vision. By no means a cultured gamer so to VA stuff doesn’t bug me enough to not enjoy it

It was pretty smooth for me to adjust as the radius isn’t super aggressive. Those 800-1000R ones I’d immune would take more adapting. But even for work and just browsing, the curve doesn’t bother me

Just wanted to follow up and say thanks - I picked up two of these while it was on sale so that I could get the beginnings of two rigs going so we can race at the same time. Very pleased with them.

I have this. It works great. https://www.bestbuy.com/product/aoc-cu34g2xp-34-va-curved-gaming-monitor-wqhd-3440x1440-180hz-1ms-freesync-hdr-400-black-silver-red/JX9GSKPJQR