Cooler Master 34" UWQHD Curved Gaming Monitor | CMI-GM34-CWQA-US
$234.99
$449.99
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Condition: New
Screen Size: 34"
Model: CMI-GM34-CWQA-US
Top positive review
2 people found this helpful
I never thought I'd have a Cooler Master monitor on my desk, let alone two, but here we are
By Jason Stanfield on Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2023
I was ready to move away from 60hz devices for good, with my reliable Dell U2415's the last "slow" refresh rate monitors I owned, and probably the screens I spend the most time looking at. I wanted to be sure I found something that felt like a genuine upgrade yet would be able to reach the high color accuracy of the Dell's, and also hoped to find units with native USB-C Alt-mode DP for my Surface Thunderbolt Dock. I'm a bit of an OLED snob, I'll admit, but I also really wanted to go 4K this time around for some future-proofing and to give me maximum flexibility of screen real estate vs. image and font sizes. I knew that MiniLED was my best shot at getting closer to the OLED blacks, I didn't want bigger than 27", I wanted at least 120hz, 4k, and ideally the USB-C support. There's a very short list of screens out there that fit this bill, and when I stumbled across this display I was skeptical because of Cooler Master's limited experience in the monitor space, but I'm really glad I gave them a chance. These monitors are as close to perfect for my needs and wants as I can imagine, and I've even found myself gaming on them as opposed to the larger OLED TV I use normally as my gaming screen, they're just that great. Excellent color accuracy, great pixel response, smooth transitions between inputs...really couldn't be happier. I am not using the stands as I have a VESA mount I wanted to continue to use, but the stands seemed very nice and consistent with the quality of the displays themselves. In all, I highly recommend if you're looking for a monitor with these specs and in this price range. Note: If I have any regret, it is not considering the GP27Q more fully. For what seems to be a nearly identical monitor save for the lower resolution (QHD) and HDMI 2.0 vs. 2.1, the cost savings is huge.
Top critical review
19 people found this helpful
Really good HDR, but very poor mixed usage.
By TrowGundam on Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2023
First, the good. The monitor is bright. It will give you a true HDR experience only really surpassed by an OLED (which personally I'd never want to use as a monitor due to eventual burn in). The problems start when you start doing non-HDR content while in HDR mode. Which you wouldn't think would be a problem till you realize basically all your computer software is SDR. Not too many games, although more and more are, support it and most desktop software will only use SDR. SDR content is very washed out. Seems to be a saturation or gamma issue as you can mostly compensate by turning down the Black Adjustment setting, but that starts to dim the high end of the brightness scale fairly noticeably. If that was all, I could make due with enough calibration and other tweaking. However there are two problems I just can't ignore. First, half the time when setting my Refresh Rate to 160 Hz the monitor and my other two monitors just shut off and never recover. I have to hard restart my computer by holding the power button. Then like 50% it'll come back up at 60 Hz or at 160 Hz. And it'll just randomly boot in 60 Hz after having been set to 160 Hz. I also had one time where the Nvidia Control Panel could not detect Adaptive Sync Support. I didn't have these problems when just using 120 Hz or 144 Hz. The final nail in the coffin was the local dimming behavior on SDR content. It was almost like the local dimming logic inverted on SDR content. Watch and HDR video and it is near perfect, but just browsing the web and go on a site with Dark Mode and you see the issue right away. The easiest way to test is to show an image with like a 70% gray. If you mouse over the image you can see as a local dimming zone dims as the mouse passes through it. That's not how that works. The mouse is pure white, you should instead see a halo as the dimming zone is brighter than all the ones around it due to the mouse cursor. That is just unacceptable and the only way to "fix" it is disabling local dimming which ruins your blacks, which is kind of the point with HDR. Ultimately it is this last point that forced my hand to return the monitor. 4/5 for Gaming, only loses the 5th start due to the issue with 160 Hz 1/5 for Picture quality, would be 0 if I could, for the issues with SDR (for the desaturation and local dimming issue) 5/5 for Brightness, because it really does get BRIGHT The other
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