Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Asus PG348Q 34 IPS Curved 100Hz/G-, PG348Q

Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2016

Great monitor enough said....Overclocked to 100hz no problem, no gama issues, slight backlight bleed top right corner, I'm not picky. Got the monitor from another provider three weeks ago. It's Crazy I have one of the only one out in the wild, Wow! I'm going to post some pics of my small set up. Please just do your research before stepping into this 21:9 aspect ratio. PC has its own issues from jump: lack of slightly support, bad ports then at this ratio black bars are the devil. Even if supported black bars will take you out the experience not the fault of the monitor though. Download Flawless Wide screen and sub to WideAsFcuk YouTube channel to keep up on the latest 21:9 info. ENJOY!

10 people found this helpful

Helpful

SaHague

Wonderful quality display

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 13, 2017

Verified Purchase

Absolutely fantastic monitor. I have had a large amount of monitors in the past, including 4K resolution monitors, but this one is by far the best I have ever used.

Resolution:
I did hesitate a bit when purchasing it as it was not a 4K resolution (or equivalent in ultra wide), but after using it I just would not recommend any other monitor. It is fantastic for gaming as it adds a new depth with the fantastic screen width, and the curve is just about perfect. I though I would miss the 4K resolution, but after using the monitor continually, I have zero regrets whatsoever.

Refresh Rate:
One of my favourite aspects of the monitor is the refresh rate; 100hz is so smooth and friendly on the eye, it makes looking at other screens seem jittery. The smoothness of the picture is just fantastic, one of the best features about it.

Picture:
Very good colour, nice blacks and incredibly vivid without looking too sickly. Great clarity and great brightness.

Build Quality:
Good build quality, quite robust and not flimsy like many other expensive monitors I have had. Love the materials used, plus I really like the design of the product. Not truly edge to edge, but that is fine with me as their is minimal frame. Love the red light ROG logo projection on the desk too, nice touch. (Plus you can turn it off should it not be your thing).

G-Sync:
Love this feature on most games; some do not work fully and can still have screen tearing, but just switch on V-Sync as well and you are fine.

Conclusion:
Absolutely fantastic, highly recommended. If you have the money, I certainly recommend going for this as it truly I great product.

One person found this helpful

MADGulliver

Great monitor but but but...!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2017

Verified Purchase

Great monitor but i have backlight bleeding in four corners, actually when you see with your own eyes, you can't see backlight bleeding too much, but when you take picture with camera in dark room with dark background, your camera just take a picture of light and show you too much lights "Because the camera can't take a picture of darkness without flash light" and i did a little research and i find this: from asus forums; "All IPS panels especially when larger in scale will "Always" have IPS glow, this is not a defect, this is normal (you can never get away from IPS glow)." and "Asus's IPS panel with amazing backlight bleed thanks to the fantastic AU Optronics cheap panel they used (they should have use an LG or Samsung panel). but i'm not worried about this, i have 4 year's Amazon warranty 😀

Update 16/102019
i give one star only because amazon.co.uk "asus is good company" After i find the two dead pixel, I contact Amazon about my 4 years warranty, long story in short : Amazon.co.uk warranty is joke, they don't help you, they reject it easily. Before this i thought ebay was the worst place! amazon.de is much better, they listen you, they care about you in worst case scenario. save yourself from amazon.co.uk after near 10 years buything from here. in this world finding good friends or good customers is hard but losing them its really easy. fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!

update 17/10/2019
i want change the Amazon.co.uk warranty is joke to this: Almost the amazon.co.uk customer service is joke "without knowledge/experiences/friendly"
It all problem started here: Amazon.co.uk customer service gave me a wrong advice about the my issues and told me i need call the manufacturer! After talking with my friend about the my 4 years warranty issues, he gave me his friend phone number "he working in insurance company" and i told him all story and he said: you don't need call the manufacturer, you need call the "Amazon Seller - London General Insurance Company Limited" This man gave me this information, not amazon customer service, that is shame.

Update 22/10/2019
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me! I don't trust amazon.co.uk never again and amazon.co.uk warranty is really joke, they don't help you, they reject it easily. save yourself from amazon.co.uk. If you want to buy the product from amazon, just don't put extra protection "Amazon Protect"

9 people found this helpful

daniel page

Stuff of Legends

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2017

Verified Purchase

Legendary monitor for bank breaking price.
34" inch of curved glory. Aesthetics are sublime. Colours are perfect for me (with the blue filter off).
Overclocked straight out of the box to 100Hz (albeit with some mistakes on my part initially, forgot to set windows to output at 100Hz)
The different scene modes turned out to be way more helpful than originally thought by modifying the colour & gamma levels.
The inbuilt FPS counter is something that all monitors should do. Only issue is with the inbuilt crosshair, no-one needs it to be that big, literally a small dot in the centre of the screen would've sufficed.
G-SYNC works wonders. If you haven't seen it in use, do so.
Movies are finally viewed the way they were intended to be. Though normal TV programs leave black bars either side, I don't notice it so much as I sit close enough to the screen.
The swivel & height adjust are marvels of engineering requiring minimal force to adjust the screen to your liking.
My only point to make out, is that the stand takes up a LOT of space behind the monitor.
That & it didn't make me popular.

6 people found this helpful

R. Le Moignan

Stunning, only occasionally.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2016

Verified Purchase

Had quite a bad experience with this order and item all round in honesty. I ordered the monitor directly from Amazon - they listed a 2-3 day delivery service. After the unit had been shipped the shipping estimate had changed to 14-16 days delivery time. Over two weeks for a delivery is insane in this day and age. I contacted Amazon and managed to get it delivered earlier, great.

Now on to the item itself. After unboxing the monitor, building the stand and putting it together, it simply looked amazing! It's clear to see they went the extra mile when it comes to presentation, looks and design. However, this is where my experience started to go downhill. I connected the monitor up to my PC running SLI GTX 1080 (plenty of power for 3440x1440) and I started to notice really bad back light bleed on the display. At first it didn't appear to be too bad, until the lights went out in the room and it looked even worse. I have attached a picture to show how bad I feel the back light bleed is - which is unacceptable for a monitor that cost the best part of £1,000!

I have given the monitor a two star review because at times the picture can look stunning. Unfortunately I see the back light bleed more than I want to see it, it's also the kind of thing once you know it is there you look for it, almost like a dead pixel. You might not be able to see it all the time, but when you do it is very annoying and simply shouldn't be a talking point on an item that is so expensive. I get that with IPS there is always a chance of this issue, however I don't think my panel is acceptable the way it is.

I'm currently awaiting for Amazon to do something about it but due to the items value apparently it can take up to 4 days to get the go ahead on a replacement.

15 people found this helpful

Alexander

Simpler the best gaming monitor made

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2019

Verified Purchase

I had a 144hz 1440p non g-sync monitor and upgraded to this. Going from that to 100hz g-sync, you don't notice the difference that much and the size and quality make up for the drop in fps so much. You loose 44 fps but your gpu then puts that lost use of power into running almost 4k at 100hz. Running a 2070 oc'd and can hit a solid 100fps in all titles at Max settings.

The quality is amazing and I would recommend this to everyone who has the hardware to run it! Don't waste your money on a smaller monitor. You'll upgrade your CPU and GPU every few years but you'll keep your monitor for five+ years, probably more! So why waste money on a meh monitor when you can have the best.

The curve is sutle at a distance while watching movies and while playing games up close it draws you into the game for an amazing effect.

The stand is large and thick but serves its purpose, it houses cable management for your whole desk, mice, keyboard and keypad with the monitor cables too. It makes your setup look clean. It can be tricky to get everything in the cable management but doable.

All in all if you're looking for a monitor that is 4k (you couldn't tell the difference between this and a 4k monitor, let's get real here) and can reach the 100hz mark no problem, with g-sync and ultrawide, you really shouldn't look anywhere but here. It's so stupid to buy something else, this monitor is literally perfect.

6 people found this helpful

Pixel-Bully

Very disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2020

Verified Purchase

Brought this screen expecting top of the range picture quality, however I was very disappointed. For starters it doesn't support 10 BPC color, only 8. How can one expect to get full HDR with that?
The colours in general seem very washed out and not clear at all and you can forget about low light gaming as there is terrible light bleed round the edges of the screen.
The 7 year old Dell u2711 it replaced had far better picture quality.
On the plus side the response is fast and the picture is very fluid at 100 Hz.

Gary B.

Game like a King

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2016

Verified Purchase

Well I bought the monitor after weeks of thought and review checking. It was between this one and the Acer Preditor. I decided to go for the ASUS because the build quality looked better, using better materials and im glad I did. The quality is outstanding and it all worked straight out the box, very easy to assemble. The product came discretely packaged and the polystyrene insets kept the monitor nice and snug for transport.

I can honestly say that this is the nicest monitor my eyes have ever seen, I actually use to have a 4k TV and this is a bigger WOW factor when playing games. Its very immersive and the colours are great. the on screen interface is simple and easy to use with lots of features.

The only thing I will warn you about is think about your graphics card before buying this monitor. Im using a MSI GTX980 4gb GPU and although I'm able to use it still it has hindered performance a bit. For instance while running games at 3440 x 1440 i am getting less frames. in GTA on ultra im only getting 25-30FPS, on Arma 3, im again only getting 30 FPS. Now I haven't actually attempted to use Gsync yest or overclocking but I will try and update later. Im also personally thinking of buying either a better GPU or getting another 980 to run a SLI.

But so far out of the box, i'm very impressed. although it might not be worth the £1000 i paid for it. I recommend waiting for a sale, if you can get for Less than £700 then don't hesitate.

7 people found this helpful

Herc

Almost perfect.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2016

Verified Purchase

So, besides the fact that DPD messed up the delivery, again, the monitor itself is quite nice.

TL;DR: If this was a 700 pounds monitor I would've given it 5 stars, but given the price, I would expect perfection so read below my notes on it.

I know it's a long post but if you're buying this it might be worth reading every bit of information you can get before doing so.

The problems:

First, the cable management holes are so tight that I could barely fit the three cables through there (DP, Power, USB up-link). On the plus side, it comes with all the cables you could possibly wish for except a DIV-D one, which, come on, get a decent GPU before getting this screen.

Second, as with all IPS panels, BLB (back-light bleed) is an issue. It's not eye watering bad, at least on mine but not as good as it could be either. I think it looks worse in the picture than it actually is.

Third, dead/locked pixel. Yup, even on a 1000 pounds screen they can't be bothered to individually check for dead or locked pixels in the panel. Fortunately enough mine is turquoise locked (rather than black dead) which makes it very hard to spot even now that I know it's there and it's also as far left as it could be, 2 or 3 rows away from the edge and about 2/3 from the top. So, yes, just one, not bothering me very much (except for the occasional OCD crisis) but still.

Fourth, the red light at the bottom, which looks amazing and has a great "WOW!" factor, doesn't turn off when the monitor goes into sleep, just when the monitor is turned off altogether.

Fifth, this thing is huge and will take up all the space on your desk. Yes, it seems rather obvious. What isn't as obvious is the fact that this monster will eat up 33 cm (about 13") of your desk's depth. The base looks nice and it is very solid, with no wobble what so ever even when I occasionally smash the keyboard due to some "hacker" in BF4 but it is also very big. I would've very much preferred a solid base so it could be pushed a bit off the desk.

The good and amazing:

The pixel density on this panel is great and a perfect balance between 1080p and 4k. It's high enough that the image looks a lot crispier than on a 1080p display and yet not even close to as hard to run as 4k would be, making it great for gaming.

The 100Hz wouldn't be worth anything if not for G-Sync. I run an OC'd GTX1080 and in most games I play I can barely get them looking good and over 100FPS which without G-Sync would result in a 50 (or less) FPS actually displayed but since G-Sync is hard at work games look amazing on this thing.

The 34", 21:9 panel, together with Windows 10's multiple desktops and the MaxTo tool make me feel like I'm in a control room. Keeping 20 or so apps opened and being able to easily to get to each of them makes my life so much better.

The only thing that it's not so great at is consuming web media since most of it is either 16:9 or 4:3 would result in huge lateral black bars. 21:9 content, most movies and some web content, looks amazing perfectly filling your screen.

The design on the back is beautiful. The pattern is visible, extremely so under light and since I have my desk facing the door to my room it makes a great impression when people visit.

The last thing is the curve. I'm not sure how I feel about it. It makes it harder to keep straight lines straight in design work and I don't really feel more immersed than with a flat panel so other that it looks cool I'm not sure what it's supposed to do.

12 people found this helpful

Popey

Awesome... but I swapped it for the wrong reason...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2017

Verified Purchase

I bought this screen and decided the glow was too bad so returned it in exchange for the ACER X34A... note that this decision was wrong... the glow was the same on the ACER replacement.

This screen was incredible while I had it (if you can accept the glow). I wasn't a massive fan of the stand and the light projection etc. so glad I changed for that reason but if you are looking at that IPS glow and thinking there is something wrong, just read my review of the X34 below which applies to this screen aswell (same panels). Note that I actually think the build quality and QA of the ASUS is better than the ACER but I did stick on the ACER in the end...

"Awesome screen BUT you do need to just ignore the glow... I went through 3 screens from different suppliers. I actually originally ordered the ASUS ROG ultrawide and changed to this becuase of the glow. Glad I did in the end becuase the stand is much nicer and subtle of the Acer. The stand on the ROG is certainly an acquired taste but back on track... I sent them all back thinking there was an issue... You just need to accept it's an IPS panel, IPS panels have glow in the corners which looks exactly like back light bleeding (for clarity the ASUS was the same as the ACER's). They all do it to a certain degree. Anyone that says they have no glow at all is either lying or they just haven't noticed it. If you are after perfect blacks and no glow, go for the Z35P which is a VA panel... there is a pay off though... do your research and decide what you're willing to accept between them. For me, the glow is there but if you just accept it, you won't notice it... I fell into the trap and wanting perfection but the reality is, this screen is incredible in every other way and it's a small price to pay (although it's not a small price to pay, you know what I mean...). If you are currently looking for a 1440p Ultrawide with GSYNC and 100hz I can guarantee you have the same list as I did... the ASUS ROG, AOC, the OMEN... etc... let me save you the effort... just get this one! ;)"

2 people found this helpful

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star

Asus PG348Q 34 IPS Curved 100Hz/G-, PG348Q

›

Customer reviews

Customer reviews

Asus PG348Q 34 IPS Curved 100Hz/G-, PG348Q

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

From the United States

There was a problem loading comments right now. Please try again later.

From other countries

Questions? Get fast answers from reviewers

Asus PG348Q 34 IPS Curved 100Hz/G-, PG348Q › Customer reviews

Customer reviews

Asus PG348Q 34 IPS Curved 100Hz/G-, PG348Q

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

From the United States

There was a problem loading comments right now. Please try again later.

From other countries

Questions? Get fast answers from reviewers

Asus PG348Q 34 IPS Curved 100Hz/G-, PG348Q

›

Customer reviews