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Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023

It just works with my macbook pro. I am able to charge it from the thunderbolt 3 cable off of the monitor. Additionally, I appreciate the other usb-c, hdmi, and display port cables provided. The screen is more than enough for what I need for my programming work. Love this monitor.

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Tommy the magnificent

ASUS ProArt PA34VC

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2019

This is a good content creator's monitor however, my copy developed bubbles from poor anti glare coating installation within few days of light uses.
There was also dark spots on the edges, like opposite of light bleeding.

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Bernard

Great Thunderbolt Monitor

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2023

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EnJay

The 34" ProArt is a hidden gem.

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2019

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I bought this monitor used, like new, on a whim after debating between it and the LG 34GK950F-B. It was much cheaper than the LG new and seemed worth a shot. Factors for the decision: 1) I knew I'd use the monitor for work (photography) and a little gaming on the side, with an emphasis on the work side of things. So I wanted something uniform and color accurate straight out of the box (and something to work with my iDisplayPro if I wanted). 2) I also knew my newly bought 1660 TI wouldn't likely reach the full 144hz potential of the LG anyway.

My monitor was, for all intents and purposes, brand new. Aside from a few fingerprints on the monitor and a few OSD settings off their default values, I could hardly tell the box was opened. So don't be afraid to try and buy used - like new. My monitor has zero dead pixels, with very minimal backlight bleed in the lower corners in a dark room on a black background. Uniformity seems stellar and there is an option to enable a uniformity compensation in the menu (which I have done). It has "sharpness" and "vivid pixel" settings, which I have set to 0. I found leaving "trace free" to 60 (default) seems the most optimal for ghosting/coronas. Freesync at 100hz seems to work beautifully with my 1660 TI.

Color accuracy for photography is perfect. I shoot and work in the sRGB colorspace, so I knew a wider gamut was unnecessary. Oddly, you can't modify the color in sRGB mode of the monitor, but can while in Rec 709. But this monitor really doesn't need to be tweaked at all, so it's a non-issue. Brightness and contrast are fantastic. Colors are true and correct, nothing more, nothing less. As a photographer, you can't get any better than this straight out of the box.

All that said, there's three things that bother me slightly: 1) the amount of IPS glow from the corners is at my limit for what I'd consider tolerable. Thankfully it's only noticeable if I'm looking for it on a black screen with the lights off. And I knew this was an issue with IPS technology itself, so I can't really dock a star for it. 2) The screen is more glossy than I'm used to. Coming from Dells with thick matte coatings, it was an obvious difference, but nothing I haven't gotten used to quickly. Similar to #1, this is my personal limit, and for some this may be a deal breaker depending on tolerance for glare in brighter environments. 3) The audio is abysmal. But I've never used sound from a monitor in lieu of a good pair of headphones or speakers, so I can't really bring myself to dock a star for this either. I can't recommend the monitor enough. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat if I needed to. It's well worth the money.

Edit (1 month):
I wanted to provide a short edit after 1 month of use. Asus recently released a firmware update to this monitor (MCM102). You can update the monitor if you download the firmware from the product page on their website and put it on a blank thumb drive. Put the thumb drive into the designated USB 2.0 port (there's only one underneath) and press and hold the two lower buttons on the side (above the power button). Let it run for a couple minutes and it

One game that doesn't seem to be taking advantage of freesync with this monitor is CS:GO (somehow I'm not surprised). If you limit the frames below 100 (I've done all the way down to 60) you will still see noticeable tearing, despite a freesync range of 40-100. I've tried a multitude of different settings and at the end of the day, I just turn sync off in the NCP. I fail to see any noticeable tearing with no sync. Fast sync does seem to make it slightly smoother, but at the cost of a smidgeon of latency, that's just enough to be bothersome in CS. YMMV.

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dreampancake

Beautiful Display/Colors for Professionals. Painful PBP/Sound

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2022

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Short summary: If you need good a color correction display designed for professionals and kind on your eyes, this is good. It swivels forward/back/side to side on a quality lift. The Picture-by-Picture (PBP) function is fussy and the supported resolutions aren't ideal in split screen. Custom resolutions will save you. The sound is irredeemable - get an external speaker. Not recommended if you don't need the advanced color features because there's cheaper monitors out there that will cause you less woe.

I pretty much stay in PBP-mode all day split between two Windows computers and sometimes rotating to a 3rd macbook, doing work that requires me to stare at the screen for hours and require a fairly accurate color display. Here's the main pain points I encountered and what I did:

1a. Getting PBP/PiP to work at all: If HDR/Dynamic display is enabled in Windows settings or your mac settings on any connected device, you won't be able to turn on PBP/PiP. Go to your machine display settings and turn it off.

1b. PBP requires one of the inputs to always be the DisplayPort, which is silly but I've heard of this limitation before. If you need to stay in PBP all day like me and have more than 2 machines, just make sure your main one is DisplayPort. They sell HDMI to DisplayPort cables, and also USB-C to DisplayPort.

1c. The default resolution in PBP is godawful. At native resolution full screen, this display is gorgeous. The issue is when you switch to PBP, it still keeps reporting its native HD resolution, even when you update the desktop and active signal resolution in Windows settings/your graphics card utility (I have NVIDIA cards). When you first enable PBP, you'll have two tiny displays side by side trying to stick to a 3440x1440 or 3440x2160 resolution. You'll have to resize it down, but since it's still reporting the full HD resolution, any lower resolution you pick always looks not quite right and it never fills the screen. Installing the official monitor drivers from Asus made no difference (but do it anyway for the fix below). The closest I could get to full-screen was 1280x1024 (yikes). The fonts were fuzzy and way too soft in all applications but especially Chrome. So how SHOULD this monitor ideally behave in PBP? My older Samsung SE790C when switched to PBP or PiP would update its reported native resolution to the max resolution in that mode. So, turning on PBP would make the Samsung monitor report to Windows that the new native resolution was 1720x1440, and Windows would update the resolution automatically. I had no idea how good I had it.

There's some fancy pixel settings on the monitor and some more in Windows with ClearType that try to address the fuzzy pixels in PBP, and I spent a couple days pulling my hair out trying to make my fonts look good and while getting the picture to fill as much of the screen as possible. My fonts need to look good for OTHER people as well, since I share my screen via Zoom/screenshots, not just in the monitor settings for me alone. So forget all of those tweaks and set a custom resolution. This monitor is essentially the same size as my old one, so I knew what custom resolution to try first for PBP. In my NVIDIA Control Panel under Change Resolution, I set a custom one for 1720x1440, with the Timing set to GTF (I wouldn't recommend Automatic or Manual). After saving this and switching to it, my fonts and display were beautiful again in PBP. I couldn't believe it. This singlehandedly saved this monitor for me from getting returned, because I can't deal with a display that looks like it came out of 1998. I'm still shopping for a decent custom macOS resolution tweaker for the few times I need to use the macbook in PBP.

2. The monitor speaker is terrible. There's no way around this; it's awful. You think you have the tolerance for it, but really, no you don't. I sat in stunned disbelief, tweaking the sound on two different machines before I started laughing. It sounds like a kid's toy speaker trapped in a soup can and is terrible even for Zoom meetings. There's no equalizer or sound settings. If you have a system one, you can redeem it by cranking the mid range down and adding back some bass and treble. Or, just get a low profile under-monitor speaker like I did, because I only use the monitor sound for Zoom. I'm disappointed that a $1k monitor has this problem, but it's not a dealbreaker and apparently other Asus monitors are known for this too.

3. The OSD controls are sensitive and weird. I still haven't figured the "right" way to navigate using the little stick on the back of the monitor. Just double-click it to get into the full menu. I had to remove the default shortcuts because I kept turning down the brightness on accident. The bottom button is power. The button under the stick is a lock feature if you press and hold it. The middle ones don't seem to be necessary. You're welcome.

4. You can't disable the auto-switch input setting. My old monitor would allow me to set input switching to manual only so it won't try to change inputs if it lost signal. This is a big annoyance because in PBP if I reboot one of my machines or they go inactive and turn off the display, it resets the PBP inputs. I put a long timeout and longer screensaver option on my machines so it won't disrupt me during work time.

5. There's a ton of color profiles and settings. If you want a quick look at the brightest, most popping color, change it to the HDR Simulation. It's a bit bright for all day use, so you'll probably have to adjust the brightness down. The blue light filter does what it should do, but its levels are too strong for me, and remove so much blue light that the output looks brownish and dingy.

All in all, the display is gorgeous and most of this won't be an issue if you just use one output.

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Pk7

Wonderful monitor.

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2023

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Quality is great. It came better than I had thought.

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Exia

HDR is a game changer.

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2019

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This has to be one of the most balanced monitors out there. I can game, edit video/pictures, do my work, browse the internet, watch YouTube, etc. I have it at 60hz for normal use and one click and I can game at 100hz. HDR gaming is simply amazing, especially Assassin's Creed Odyssey. An RTX 2070 Super has no Issues with this baby.
The color accuracy is stunning right out of the box. If you edit pictures or video or if you are a creator of some sort, this is a game-changer. It will take your craft to a whole other level.

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Marilyn PM

Awesome Monitor!

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019

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I took a chance on this monitor as it is new and there were no reviews yet. I read several professional reviews elsewhere that rated it very highly. Most ranked it as great for video-editing, photography, and graphics, which is just what I wanted it for. At first check for missing pixels when it arrived, I was impressed that it was not missing a pixel anywhere, in any color. The curve is perfect, and allows me to see three full screens side by side. I'm not a gamer, so can't speak to that aspect. But as a monitor for professionals, it's awesome!

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Adam

A monitor that sort of does it all.

Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2019

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"Almost 4K". Almost a pro monitor, almost a gaming monitor. Sorta HDR. Decent adaptive sync. Big AF. Love that ultrawide. 100 Hz is enough of a jump to make an obvious difference over "normal" monitors.

There are better gaming monitors. There are better productivity monitors. There are better professional color monitors. There are better monitors for movies.

I don't think there is a better compromise between it all though. If you have to have one monitor to do it all, this is the best.

You'll need a hell of a GPU to pump those pixels though.

Biggest con - NO OVERCLOCKING AT ALL.

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Richard S

fantastic monitor, great for 3 side by side windows!

Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2020

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Like many others, I got this to improve my home office due to the shift to "work from home" that COVID-19 has caused (I sure hope I can look back on this review in a few months and reflect on the "bad old days").

In any case, I got this to replace a smaller Dell 27" monitor. This monitor has a distinct advantage that regular widescreen monitors can't match... the width of the monitor allows me to have a web browser in the center and 2 separate windows open (one on each side). So like many others, using G-Suite, I have my email in the middle, a calendar in a separate window o the right (and a slack window open below that) and on the right I have room for a document that I'm writing or reviewing.

The color tuning very closely matches my work's MacBook Pro 15 (mid 2018), so blue backgrounds match on both screens! I also run this monitor off my personal Razer Blade 15 (mid 2019) and use it to play some games and the extra width is great for situational awareness, although the frame rate from the NVidia RTX 2070 in the Razer drops since there are more pixels to push with the larger screen. this monitor is only capable of 100Hz, so it's not ideal for a gamer, but since I didn't get it for twitchy type games (Overwatch etc), the refresh rate is fine for me/work purposes.

My only complaint is that I couldn't get the USB-C video feed to work. Neither my MBP15 nor my Razer could send it a signal via USB, so I ended up running the signal out via HDMI... this meant buying the overpriced Apple USB-C to HDMI adapter. Other than that issue, this is a great monitor and very well suited for work!

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Bef

Nice Monitor to use, especially at Night

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2019

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Back Light Bleed is pretty good. Very nice monitor to work with and do coding in late hours. Menu is very slow to respond. Connectors are at the bottom, which are hard to use. I bought the monitor for thunderbolt and laptop charging features and so far I am very happy with this functionality.

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Unboxinghaven

Ok I guess

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2021

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Good for gaming but ultra wide some games cannot be played very will. Plus to expensive

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