PSA: Decent and Cheap Ultrawide

smilodon · January 07, 2021, 04:42:15 PM

And that is a cue for a complete rundown of recommended settings for this monitor, over to you Mr C.

It's not like you have got anything much else to do during the lockdown. I'm assuming the NHS has furloughed you all?

Chaosphere · January 08, 2021, 12:45:41 AM

Fat chance, I wrote that last post in my work carpark! :roflmao:

I'll get back to you with some suggestions soon, but the best way to find out what your eyes like is to play around!

albert · January 08, 2021, 10:39:03 AM

I settled on brightness 20 and a warm colour profile. Nothing else on, not even FreeSync, HDR or otherwise after giving most options a run. I think out of the box it's the least I've tuned the settings to get a satisfactory outcome.

On the other note, These Invision VESA mounts are very good quality indeed.

They are so well balanced whilst setting them up I didn't even have to fully tighten them when screwing the monitor on. The base perfectly overlaps the desk and counter balances the monitor.

So now I have the new panel on one side but shiftable to the centre, and my 4K Acer monitor to the other side also able to move into the central position for gaming.

SithAfrikaan · January 08, 2021, 06:40:47 PM

Quote from: albert;444361Interesting bit of info for new users of this monitor. The Windows 10 display settings and the GeForce Config Panel both recognise the monitor as 60Hz by default. By setting the monitor resolution in the nvidia config to 144Hz then windows also recognises the monitor true refresh rate. Doing so also allows an nvidia card to use the FreeSync feature of the monitor.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-enable-freesync-display-nvidia-gpu

The monitor also has Overdrive, and MBR. Both add extra voltage to the panel to make colour appear faster, in other words refresh at the 1ms claimed.

Man, dude, thanks so much for this tip, I've just switched mine over, my monitor is freesync, if I experience anything whacky I'll report back, but cheers for this tip!

Chaosphere · January 09, 2021, 03:22:44 PM

Quote from: smilodon;444363And that is a cue for a complete rundown of recommended settings for this monitor, over to you Mr C.

It's not like you have got anything much else to do during the lockdown. I'm assuming the NHS has furloughed you all?

So I have freesync on for most games (I turn it off for Overwatch where I want no input lag at all).

Enabling freesync turns off HDR, but as I have explained above I don't consider this monitor sufficient for HDR anyway, so I am not interested in it.

I stick with the default 'normal' colour profile. Warm or cool just shift the colour temperature. I don't imagine you are using this monitor for colour-sensitive work, but of course it would require proper calibration first if you wanted to, and absolutely not with anything beyond 'normal' for its colour profile. As I think you mentioned, it's colour space coverage is pretty limited either way, as can be expected from a budget panel.

Eye strain reduction, or whatever it is called, is just a blue light filter. I have windows set to apply one at sunset via 'Night Light'. Again, this wreaks havoc with your colours, but reduces eye strain in the evenings when you're winding down and getting towards bedtime!

Brightness I've turned right down, currently it is on 25. Contrast default, black tuner I have set to -2. IPS have naff blacks and this helps to my eyes, but no doubt also crushes shadows and reduces the actual dynamic range of the panel. Probably best leaving it off if you're ok with the blacks.

Overdrive I have to +1. There is notable ghosting beyond this, I wouldn't recommend it. Leave it on 0 if you don't find the monitor at all sluggish.

Advanced contrast off. I don't know why you would use this and the black tuner together.. you could play and see which you prefer.

Eco mode off, X-res off (the latter is essentially a sharpening filter applied to the panel... eww).

Much of this is subjective. Play around and see what you like. I would keep the OD to 0 or +1, everything else is really down to preference.

A Twig · January 12, 2021, 01:50:44 PM

Quote from: albert;444375I settled on brightness 20 and a warm colour profile. Nothing else on, not even FreeSync, HDR or otherwise after giving most options a run. I think out of the box it's the least I've tuned the settings to get a satisfactory outcome.

On the other note, These Invision VESA mounts are very good quality indeed.

They are so well balanced whilst setting them up I didn't even have to fully tighten them when screwing the monitor on. The base perfectly overlaps the desk and counter balances the monitor.

So now I have the new panel on one side but shiftable to the centre, and my 4K Acer monitor to the other side also able to move into the central position for gaming.

I bought a double arm wall mounted job a while back for my home office, again to maximise desk space, as have two laptops and two monitors on the go during the working day. Mine looks very similar to the invision one, but nominally different manufacturer - been absolutely faultless though, so good my wife bought one for her office as well:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N5IBU9F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

TeaLeaf · June 21, 2021, 11:50:19 AM

Mine arrived and has a nice large impact crack in the top right of the screen. RMA'd to Amazon and interestingly they say they cannot replace with identical item, despite them showing up as 'in stock'.

Just my luck, it will take a couple of days to see the Amazon credit show up before I can re-spend it due to their inability to replace.

Chaosphere · June 21, 2021, 02:14:21 PM

How weird.

Well keep an eye on the sales, maybe you'll get lucky and end up paying less for it!

TeaLeaf · June 21, 2021, 04:49:52 PM

Thanks Ben. Had a trawl through Prime deals and I didn't seem to find anything particularly interesting. I might just have to buy it again and use the credit over the rest of the year. :sad:

TeaLeaf · June 23, 2021, 08:05:19 PM

Replacement monitor arrived today, a day earlier than expected. Initial impressions are very good. No dead pixels spotted (yet) and no adjustment made yet, but it looks really nice. Very pleased so far.

Thanks for the original PSA Chaos! :thumbsup:

Chaosphere · June 24, 2021, 09:17:08 AM

Good stuff.

Really quite decent monitors for the money these.

TeaLeaf · September 15, 2021, 09:03:59 AM

Sad to report that I've started an RMA process on this monitor (iiyama G-MASTER GB3461WQSU-B1).

My first one was damaged on arrival and successfully (and swiftly) got replaced by Amazon. This second one arrived undamaged, no dead pixels (that I have yet noticed), but it is suffering from what is reported to be a fairly widespread problem of it not waking up from standby, or from boot. Symptom: you wake up monitor from sleep, or cold boot, and the monitor does nothing, it just sits there with its orange power led and it never turns blue, you never get a picture. Solution, unplug the monitor, plug it back in. It happens randomly, but about once per week on average. This morning it happened again after a windows update shutdown from last night. Now this sounds like a moan, after all how hard is it to unplug and re-plug in your monitor? Well it's quite a big pain in the rear when the monitor is on the far side of a big desk and also mounted on an arm which is difficult to get behind once you have completed your cable management. So it's a hassle. Not impossible, just a big hassle.

Posting this issue in case anyone has also seen this behaviour and not realised it is their monitor causing the issues and not their gfx card.

Might try and get a refund and upgrade to something else.

A Twig · September 15, 2021, 08:02:19 PM

Do you have to unplug and replug the power or the "signal" cable? If it's the power, easy enough to wire in a cheapy inline switch shirley? Obviously shouldn't have to but if needs must etc

A Twig · September 15, 2021, 08:09:00 PM

If you are using DVI is there not something you can do around disabling DPMS in the monitor config? That would stop the monitor going to sleep based on the signal from the PC so you'd have to manually turn it off, but then there would be nothing required to wake it up, you'd just turn it on yourself when you wanted it?

If you're using HDMI though - can't help you, never played with it, sorry

smilodon · September 15, 2021, 08:28:29 PM

That's not good. Work arounds might work but monitors should just go to sleep and wake up as required. To be honest I have never had that specific problem. I once had the same symptoms but it required a reboot of windows to fix, so I put it down to the OS not the monitor.