Renamed the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 to 'Best 5k Monitor' to be reflective of how people are searching for monitors, and renamed the LG 40WP95C-W to 'Best 5k Monitor For Work'.

monitors are a set of niche monitors that aren't very common, but are still useful. A 5k resolution is a broad term referring to monitors with 5120 horizontal pixels, but they come in various shapes with different vertical resolutions. One example is a monitor with a 5120x2880 resolution, whichis ideal for macOS because the operating system is optimized for monitors with this resolution, and ithelps produce sharp text. Added the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9/G95SC S49CG95 as 'Best 5k Super Ultrawide Monitor For Multimedia' because it delivers better picture quality than the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9. I'm looking into finally upgrading my gaming pc, which is an ASUS P6T X58 motherboard with an I7-930 cpu and upgraded to a GTX 680 GPU. Its from 2010 - was the first Core I7 cpu available and its under heavy load with almost anything, but an upgrade to the GTX680 prolonged the lifespan of the hardware for what... 4 years or so? I got tired of having two 27" monitors for work, so I treated myself a Samsung C49RG90 (49", 5120 x 1440, 120Hz AMD FreeSync 2) which is very nice - but I have now realized that finding a GPU that will be able to handle it might be a problem with an expensive solutionAnyway, I don't game that much (maybe due to old hardware) - and when I do, its mostly Battlefield4 with a few friends. A bit of GTA5 and Far Cry 5. So nothing crazy, but the pc is now on its way out and I need some recommendations. I ask here, because I suspect that my monitor is going to kind of "set the path" regarding choosing a GPU and then a suitable motherboard etc that will fit that GPU.

It has good peak brightness and good reflection handling, and it's good to use in rooms with a few lights around, but glare from strong light sources is distracting. Like the Dell, its 34-inch screen has a 3440x1440 resolution with good text clarity, but its narrow viewing angles limit its office performance because the image washes out from the sides, which isn't ideal for sharing your screen with others. On the plus side, it has excellent image accuracy, so images are life-like without any sort of calibration. I think it's foolish to drop money on a top tier flagship card when they're due to be replaced in a matter of months. Not only will you pay out the ass for it, you'll soon realize that you could have gotten better performance from a card costing half as much not even a year later. Just seems like a poor buying decision. AMD has nothing that will compete with Nvidia top tier cards. Added the Samsung Odyssey OLED G9/G95SC S49CG95 as the 'Best Super Ultrawide Gaming Monitor'; added the MSI MEG 342C QD-OLED and the Corsair XENEON FLEX 45WQHD240 to Notable Mentions.

The Samsung CRG9 is easily the most preposterous gaming monitor I've ever laid eyes on. It's not the sheer size of it that boggles the mind. Oh no. A diagonal of 49in and an aspect ratio of 32:9 is nothing after last year's equally large and equally wide CHG90 monitor. It's the resolution of the damn thing, which stands at a mad 5120x1440. That's the same amount of screen real estate as two normal 27in 2560x1440 monitors, which has been pretty much my dream setup since, well, forever. I like the single 4K Dell U2718Q monitor I normally have on my desk, I really do. But I'd swap it for two 1440p monitors in a heartbeat. Restructured article to reflect how people are looking for ultrawide monitors; removed the 'Best Gaming' and 'Best Super Ultrawide' categories because it doesn't fit into the scope of the article; added the Dell S3422DWG and replaced the Gigabyte M34WQ with the HP OMEN 34c because the Gigabyte is becoming hard to find; updated Notable Mentions based on changes.

For my current setup, I have two computers: a work one and a personal one, connected to 3 monitors via KVM. It has two USB-C ports that each support Thunderbolt 4 and 96W of power delivery, which means you can easily connect a laptop to display an image from it and charge it simultaneously. While it has decent peak brightness if you want to use it in a room with a few lights around, it doesn't get very bright. If that's important to you, the LG 38WN95C-W is another option that gets brighter but has a lower resolution and worse text clarity. I've been looking at a Ryzen 7 3800x or Ryzen 9 3900x build off a X570 board with suitable DDR4 ram (2x16 GB 3200 Mhz?) - but I'm not sure what will "fit" the GPU. Intel vs. AMD doesn't matter. Recommendations are very welcome you could buy a 2070 super and get 60 fps at BF5 but i wouldn't recommend it as playing in 60 fps is very noticeable in shooters and you seem to be playing only shooters. Before I finish, I suppose I should say something about its actual image quality, but needless to say, it's pretty much perfect straight out of the box. Out of its nine picture modes, I found RPG was the most accurate, displaying 98.5% of the sRGB colour gamut and a decent 85.2% of the HDR-grade DCI-P3 colour gamut (and that's without HDR switched on, I should add), but nearly all of them were up around the 97-98% mark anyway and barely any of them needed any settings tweaking whatsoever.

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Changed my Windows Desktop resolution to 2560x1440. Result: This makes MSFS look correct at 2560x1440 AND all other apps look correct as well, but it limits the resolution for my entire system instead of just MSFS 2020. Finding thunderbolt 3 > Display port adapters that support more than 4k is difficult to say the least. And you need it, because that huge horizontal resolution actually is considered the "top half" of a 5120 x 2880 (5K) monitor. So that was kind of a surprice. 4K gear might just not support 5120x1440, even though the actual pixel count is less than a full 4K image. Again, not the monitors fault - just a general thing to consider before buying anything with this resolution. Still, while I'd hesitate about buying the CRG9 to use as my daily desktop monitor, its allure as a gaming screen is undeniable - at least for games that actually support it. I'll be doing a separate article on the very best games to play on stupid ultrawide screens like this in the next day or two, but as you may have gathered from that aforementioned Red Dead 2 piece, cor, what an experience.