msiOptix MAG342CQR 1500R Curvature 21:9 Aspect Ratio Narrow Bezel 1ms 3440 x 1440 (UWQHD) 144Hz Refresh Rate Tilt/Swivel/Height/Pivot Adjustment 34" AMD Freesync Gaming Curved Monitor, Black

I believe I paid around $200 for this monitor, and for that price, the monitor is insane.I bought it for work use, and it replaced two 27" monitors, so I'd just have this one 34" ultra wide and 1 27" monitor, and it worked great.The size is perfect, plenty bright under florescent lights. Works great for my case use.

Got this one as a present for my cousin and he loved it. Image quality is on point.For gaming is great, for office even better, overall is a great monitor!100% recommended.Keep in mind this thing is a bit bigger than most monitors cause ultrawide and can be quite woobly.

Great monitor for general productivity use. Colors are sharp. Text is clear. The vast amount of display area is amazing. The curve seems just right: the whole screen stays clear at normal working distance.Many 3440x1440 (UWQHD) monitors are available. I chose this one in part because it is a good value, but also for the adjustable stand. The stand is a triangle with widely spread legs: it is very sturdy. I've used large monitors with tiny stands and they tend to bounce around. The stand is fully adjustable: I was able to get the height and tilt exactly right -- without using packs of printer paper as for other monitors.The 3440x1440 resolution and 34" size is the sweet spot for everyday, boring text-based apps such as text editors, IDEs, the command line and so on. I use Linux Mint which is a great Linux distro. However, support for high resolution monitors is limited. I tried using a 27" 4K monitor. While that monitor worked great with a Mac, Linux Mint just can't use it correctly. Scaling is either normal (text far too small) or 2x, which makes text blocky and provides no more space than the 1080p monitor.So, a better solution is this monitor. The larger size, coupled with greater resolution, gives about the same dot pitch as the 1080p monitor, so no need to mess with scaling. Text is clear at normal scaling, if just a bit smaller than with the old monitor. To see how this will work for you, measure your old monitor's height and divide by 1080. Compare that to the specs of your new choice. Confusingly, some specs list dpi (dots-per-inch), some list "ipd" (inches per dot). One is just the inverse of the other.I've not used newer OLED monitors, so I can't compare colors with one of those. On the other hand, unless you are watching movies or playing games, it hardly matters. On this monitor, web pages are amazingly crisp. There is more space for my development tools. PDFs now display full page large enough to read without having to zoom in and scroll each page. There is plenty of space to display two apps side-by-side to minimize Alt-Tab window switching. Display technology has come a long way: this monitor is amazing when compared with the five-yer-old one it replaces.The monitor is rated at 144Hz refresh. My poor old hardware delivers only 50Hz at this resolution. Perhaps it would be higher if I used display port rather than HDMI. This seems to not be a problem for development work: I can't type that fast anyway. Videos seem fine. Perhaps the higher refresh rates are most important for gamers.In short, this is a cost-effective upgrade for work use when coming from an old-school 1080p monitor. I'm very pleased so far. Just make sure your graphics can handle the resolution.

One of the best monitors I’ve had! Worth every $ will always own this brand. Outstanding quality and picture best of best!

Everything about this looks beautiful and well constructed. The only issue is the HDMI port will sometimes just die and tell me it has no connection. I have to then unplug the HDMI cable >> go back to my laptop screen >> then plug it back in >> tell it to do dual monitor just to keep it alive >> then switch back to single monitor.But then, after a laptop "goes to sleep" it must signal something to the monitor that turns off that HDMI port. Once off, it won't come back on until I do this silly steps all over again.An additional thing I'm trying is what I saw on Youtube where you go into the monitor settings and tell it to stop scanning the connection ports. This may have something to do with this bug.If this is not resolved within the next 2-3 days, I'm returning the monitor back to Amazon.>>>UPDATE 25 days later <<<<I'm returning the monitor. The port keeps going to sleep shutting off my screen. Turning off the scanning connection ports only seemed to work for a little bit. But now it's just annoying. I have to unplug my HDMI, forcing my laptop to go back to it's own monitor, then tell it to do dual monitor, then single monitor. I'm just tired. I want no more of this nonsense.My recommendation, DO NOT BUY THIS MONITOR!!! <<------------

Purchased with an M4 mac mini during prime day.GOOD: Fills my entire view at normal distance. 21:9 movies fit perfect. Or fit multiple windows in view. Color and blacks look good and resolution is good. The stand works well for me.BAD: There's some black smearing with deep blacks and fast movement. This monitor has known issues with waking with an attached computer, needing a power off and on to connect. I made some recommended changes to the settings with no effect, then moved the computer to hdmi 2 and it started waking up just fine. (?) I don't like computer voodoo, it needs to work without me throwing chicken bones. The buttons are pretty cheap feeling.OVERALL: Well worth the sale price.