LG - UltraGear 45" OLED Curved WQHD 240Hz 0.03ms G-Sync Compatible 800R Curved Gaming Monitor with Built-in Speakers

I have booth 45GS and 45GX (5k2k) and please dont listen to people that say 1440p is bad. It’s not bad and not that much a difference from 5k2k. I don’t understand people who sit 10cm from the screen and looking into pixels and say 1440p on 45” is awful

Check to see if you have a local best buy outlet store if you want to save money. Your local store jwipo have open box too, but less selection. You can order them online, but obviously you can't check it out. Yesterday I bought a 45GS96QB-B.AUS, prior LG 45" OLED wqhd BEFORE the 5k2k, for $779. They opened it in store to verify it's condition and it only had 49 hours on it! I used it for a few hours and I love it!!! It was worth getting the older one to not pay $1999.

Finally a raffle on product I actually care about. I have owned the previous iteration of 3440x1440 45" OLED from LG. [Huge fan of it,](https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/comments/1e7krjn/lg_45gs96qb_reascension/) despite lot of people around disliking it over curve and PPI. I would be thrilled to try new version and reaffirm my conviction to the best gaming monitor form factor ever!

45” 4/5k is ideal. I have the 45GS that I use for games and work. Would like the GX for the PPI for work, but wonder how well a 9070XT would do gaming on it.

My wife and I each have ultrawides and can not ever go back lol. I will say it is sometimes a pain in the ass with some resolutions I have a LG 45950A and she has a 49 inch asus

You can check my earlier post for reference—I picked up a different model from the same series, the 45GS96QB. It’s absolutely stunning for gaming. Surprisingly, it’s also been great for productivity—I originally bought it for games but now find myself using it even more for coding and working through Excel files. Some people mention that text can appear slightly blurry, but adjusting the text size to 110% in the accessibility settings really helps—it looks sharp and comfortable. Highly recommend going for it!

I mean the old version is currently selling for 1300. I don’t know where this 1k thought is coming. One day it will be 1k but probably 2 to 3 years from now.

I don’t think you can apply what has happened in the past. Inflation tarrifs etc. it’s not going to go down like before. It will not hit 1500 in a few months. If I had to guess would be 1700 at retail and 1500 partner store. I got it for 1550 on release. So if that’s your expectation I got a great price. Best price in the next year will be 1300 plus minus 200. I’ll still sell it used for around 1k in the next two years. Also just to add you can’t compare it to pricing on the last gen which started at 1700…this one started at 2000. To add some the obvious Lg g5 is a television 45gx is an ultrawide monitor…. Two different use cases…if I want a tv I’ll buy a g5. If I want a monitor I’ll buy a 45gx.

You notice you can’t buy it right…. This is a close out on an over two year old model. The cheapest it has realistically gotten is around 1k. The current environment will make things take much longer for this monitor to get down to that level. Expect it at 1200 to 1400 a year from now from the current price of 1500 to 1700 you can get the newest one right now. This is the listing for the old monitor https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sku/6575395.p?skuId=6575395&sb_share_source=PDP

5k… in my opinion the 1440p looks really bad. If you use it at all for browsing or for work it’s not good. But that’s just my opinion others have no problem with it.

I primarily use mine for gaming but I assume it’s your computer so it’s not purely gaming. If your on your web browser, watching a show/youtube or reading/ word processing it’s really bad. For gaming it’s fine but if you plan on doing anything else it looks pixelated. Best Buy usually has it on display at most stores so you can see what your tolerance is. If your are getting both of them the same price then I would definitely get the 5k. The 1440p monitor I would only use as a backup monitor for a couple weeks if my main monitor was broken. I liked the 45 inch form factor when it first came out but the second I used it with how low the ppi was it was just so bad. Again this is my opinion… others may feel strongly a different way. If you do dlss ultra performance or The far equivalent it would still look better then that monitor at its baseline low resolution. That’s if your concern between the two ishaving a mid tier gpu.

You might not even like curved, i thought 1800r would be perfect until i eventually realized i prefer flat.. That was the conclusion of three 34" ultrawides later, 1000r, 1500r and 1800r. But to answer, yes there are currently two 45" Oled bendable ultrawides, they can be adjusted from flat to curved. LG UltraGear™ OLED GX9 45GX990A (45" 2160p) CORSAIR XENEON FLEX (45" 1440p)

Yes, but you said DLDSR limits the monitor to 144 Hz. This is not true, you just have to follow the instructions in the video and download a tiny tool called CRU, then you will have DLDSR at 240 Hz fully available. For the 2023 model (45GR95QE), the extra brightness settings require a service remote (it's like $7 on amazon). It cannot be accessed without a service remote (not the normal remote that comes with the display, the service remote is different). For the 2024 model (45GS95QE and 45GS96QB), you have to do a special "secret" combination of button presses on the monitor's control stick.

Both, the DLDSR 240 Hz fix and the service menu brightness increasing settings, work for the 2023 and 2024 LG 240 Hz OLED 27" and 45" models, I'm assuming they work for the others too (32" and 39") but can't confirm. The service menu brightness tweaks don't make as much of a difference with the 2024 model as they do with the 2023 model but they still make a good difference.

21:9 and 800r curve make it a completely different product? It also has a display port. It has USBC charging as well. Comparing it to a C2 is nonsense. They are completely different products. I have a C242 and tried out the LG45GS version. The experience was completely different but I chose not to keep it because of the lower resolution. Telling people its a 21:9 C4 is so far from the truth . You can even test this theory by actually putting the C2-C4 into 21:9 mode @ 3840x1600. The experience is not the same. There is no 800r curve, and it isnt 5120x2160 and you have black bars. You hate the price? Cool, me too. You prefer QD-OLED? Awesome. Is it just a C4 @ 21:9 and a refresh bump? Absolutely not.

I owe you somewhat of an apology. While I still believe it’s not just a C242 with 21:9, I will say after using it, it’s not an improvement. Yes, it’s more immersive but my C2 42 is immersive as well. Plus, knowing that the dual mode is unusable (unless you already play at a lower res) and I still have to switch to my 27 inch to play cs2, I honestly cannot recommend this monitor for $2000. Like you said , $1299 makes sense. I do not see an increase in PQ over the C2, bell, id say the C2 because of its glass coating has the edge. O well, guess its the waiting gsme