LG - 34" UltraGear™ 21:9 Curved HDR Gaming Monitor - 34GN850-B

i use lg 34gn850 for both past 3 years and I'm quite happy. Work as frontend developer.

Have this exact request and it's infuriating. All recommendations are just discontinued stuff that's no longer available as of about mid this year. The few ultrawide IPSes that remain all have either insufficient refresh rates/response times and/or ghosting issues. Hell I've seen recommendations on here for monitors like the LG 34GN850-B or Gigabyte M34WQ within the last 30 days, despite the fact that none of them are available anymore.

All discontinued, out of support and no longer available through regular vendors.

All discontinued, out of support and no longer available through regular vendors.

This model is 5 years old. I am still using it and also looking for an upgrade...

What about the viewing angles? I had an S3422DWG from Dell as well and color and gamma shifts were obvious from almost any angle. Additionally, the panel had some serious VRR flicker. Black Smearing was also noticable in some games, e.g. Neon Abyss. Had to return it and got the LG 34GN850 instead because it had none of these issues apart from poor contrast. I am still looking to find an upgrade till this day...

Yeah... got mine... maybe a slightly different model of that one back in 2020 or 2021 and I just can't justify an upgrade. Going to give it a few more years. Or bring it into my office and be that guy at work.

The best UWQHD IPS for gaming is the LG 34GN850/34GP83. There wasn‘t much development with IPS since OLED Monitors and IPS Black is too slow.

LG 34GN850-B would be/was my choice. Might be able to find one for a bit more than $300.

Ive own a 34 inch ultrawide (LG 34GN850) and now a 42" C4 and the C.s bigger screen is just more immersive to me.

I've been using a LG 34GN850-B that I picked up last Black Friday for something like $280 or so if I'm remembering correctly. Not sure what they're going for now or if stock even exists. That said, for the price, it's a hell of a monitor. UWQHD, 144Hz (160Hz OCed). It's years old tech at this point and not perfect, of course, but at the price I was able to pick it up I think it's a steal for what it offers.

Short of spending substantially more and going OLED I'm not sure I could have hoped to do too much better. Yeah, black levels are raised, obviously, it's an IPS panel. But it's got brightness to spare (I'm running 30% I think?), which is plenty useful when one's setup has to deal with elevated levels of ambient light. No doubt, when I upgrade next I'll almost certainly move to an OLED panel, or some relative equivalent. I can certainly appreciate advantages on offer as someone with a much-loved OLED-centric 4K UHD home media setup. But damn, I simply couldn't find another option at the price that could beat it when all the variables (size/resolution/refresh/panel tech/etc.) were factored. That's not to say that alternative doesn't exist, simply that the time I allotted to research on this one component didn't reveal it at the time. 🤙

Ha, I am on a LG 34GP83A-B since 2020. Sister monitor to yours. And yeah that just sounds like buggy firmware if it bugged out like that at lower refresh too.

I am currently using a LG 34GN850-B which is 34" 1440p, 144hz. I would say a 37", 4k resolution, and 144+hz would be the sweet spot in 2025.