ASUS TUF Gaming VG34VQL3A: 34-inch UWQHD Display with 180Hz Refresh Rate

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Unless they've tweaked the previous model, the VG34VQL1B, I'd suggest avoiding this lineup like the plague. The horrid inverse ghosting is almost impossible to eliminate unless Freesync is turned off and refresh rate set to a much lower value than what the monitor is sold for. I'm still tweaking my VG34VQL1B, had to lower refresh from 165 to 144, reduce Freesync range drastically using CRU monitor utility and find a compromise with the useless overdrive setting: at 0 there is black smearing which can be terrible in some games, at 20 inverse ghosting is already present and barely acceptable. This mess cancels the few positive aspects the monitor has, i.e. decent HDR and color accuracy. Would never buy again. Between OLED and new GPU I had to opt for the latter as I was still on a GTX 1080. Oh, and there's annoying brightness flickering as well.
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Unless they've tweaked the previous model, the VG34VQL1B, I'd suggest avoiding this lineup like the plague. The horrid inverse ghosting is almost impossible to eliminate unless Freesync is turned off and refresh rate set to a much lower value than what the monitor is sold for. I'm still tweaking my VG34VQL1B, had to lower refresh from 165 to 144, reduce Freesync range drastically using CRU monitor utility and find a compromise with the useless overdrive setting: at 0 there is black smearing which can be terrible in some games, at 20 inverse ghosting is already present and barely acceptable. This mess cancels the few positive aspects the monitor has, i.e. decent HDR and color accuracy. Would never buy again. Between OLED and new GPU I had to opt for the latter as I was still on a GTX 1080. Oh, and there's annoying brightness flickering as well.
I had a 1440p UW that was 100hz max, Freesync 1. Thankfully it had a solid low range but now LFR. But didnt get ghosting with freesync on. No brightness flickering. Now my 1080p Superwide, 48-144hz LFR, man that thing had terrible brightness flickering, terrible ghosting with freesysnc 2 on, HDR on or OFF, even with firmware updates on. I got a 1440p Superwide with 32-120hz, LFR, and it runs basically pefrect with freesync 2 on, no flickering, and no ghosting. The overdrive setting breaks everything that works ironically. 120hz is perfect for this kinda of resolution. I dont even know people need to push for more when already at a high refresh rate on such higher resolution monitors. I cant really tell a difference between 144 and 120, but could tell a massive difference from 60 to 75, and then 75-100. 100-120 was much but 100-144 was. I was gonna get a new monitor when I had my 1080pSW but stupid lucky and bought the 1440 version for $500, and sold my 1080pSW for $550 lol. So now Ill get a new GPU this Nov since this one works like a dream. Maybe one day Ill get a 45 inch ultrawide or superwide OLED and we will have a much better HDR standard then too. That sucks your having to deal with some much on a monitor. I wanted to punch my sometimes.