The main OSD control stick is positioned in a very odd and hard to reach spot, and the navigation of the menu (even using the Quick Switch accessory) was a bit of a pain sometimes. We would have liked to have seen the screen capable of increasing the brightness for smaller highlight areas more to be honest, although the actual HDR experience is still very pleasing, and very bright. Forget graphical frills: this mode rewires the monitor in favour of raw response time, giving the ultimate edge in hair trigger stand offs. Asus ROG Swift PG34WCDM January 15, 2024 The new 34″ ultrawide OLED screen with 3440 x 1440 res and 240Hz refresh rate. Calibration and profiling can produce very good results if you have a suitable calibration device and software.

ensures lightning-fast data transmission, so even transferring a 4K movie can be done in less than one minute. Visually they all look pretty similar colour and brightness wise, but the sharpness is accentuated in the Picture, Movie and Game modes. Its commanding overview gives you more control and boosts your efficiency both while streaming, working and playing considerably. In general, though, it's all rather angular and plastic – the thick bottom bezel doesn't look the greatest, but the bezels on the other three sides are pleasingly thin.Each zone is responsible for around 4300 pixels which obviously isn’t as finite in control as something like OLED which has per-pixel level dimming control. Strong mode would seem viable, but actually the medium mode provides a better overall picture quality, being free from any obvious or no noticeable overshoot artefacts at all we felt.

The image gets progressively warmer and more yellow as you move through the different settings, getting as far as 4552K in the maximum ‘reading’ LowBlue mode. Having conducted a range of tests, we felt the best way to represent the responsiveness of the panel was through some pursuit camera photos that will help capture the real-world motion clarity and response time behaviour. Maybe we shouldn’t have been surprised actually, as the screen is capable of supporting 700 nits in even normal SDR mode!Information about some of the main accessories included in the standard packaging of the current model. That is why this display comes with Wide Colour Gamut technology, which means that it is able to display a lot more colours than conventional monitors.