CU34G2XPD

I've always said I'd never get a va panel but seeing the reviews for the AOC CU34G2XPD I decided to chance it and I'm honestly blown away by how good it is for the price. £270

I got the AOC CU34G2XPD, Fast VA, 180Hz and I’ve read decent reviews about motion clarity. I come from IPS so we shall see - I’m hopeful I’ll like it, if not I will be considering OLED. VRR Flicker is my main concern, which unfortunately affects OLEDs too, as on IPS it’s a non issue and I find it very helpful for smooth gameplay, especially with my current CPU bottlenecked system. Due to DDR5 prices I’m not inclined to upgrade currently so it’s quite vital for the time being.

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.

I'm using 2 stacked. Top is aoc cu34g2xp 34" and my main is my Samsung Neo G9 49".

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.