LG 45GX950A Review: The Ultimate OLED Ultrawide?

[Scorpus]

LG's new 45-inch 4K-class ultrawide OLED, the 45GX950A, delivers major upgrades in resolution and immersion – but its aggressive 800R curve may not suit all gamers or productivity users.

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LG 45GX950A Review: The Ultimate OLED Ultrawide?

 

[yRaz]

Great panel, but 800R is just too curved. I had a chance to use Corsairs bendable monitor and think that almost any screen this wide should have a feature like that. 800R is fine if ALL you do is gaming. If you're like me and 90% of your computer time is spent arguing with strangers on the internet, that curve is useless.

It's not that I didn't like the 800R curve, it's just that I ONLY liked it when gaming. The other side to that is that not all games support the ultrawide resolution so an 800R curve on a game that doesnt' support ultrawide is, well, weird. Also, I don't like curved monitors for stratagey games. Try playing Civ or an RTS on it. Playing a game whos map is meant to be flat on a screen that is curved is disorienting and gave me a headache. I'm sure I'd get used to it overtime, the fact of the matter is I shouldn't have to "get used to it" on a luxury product.

We need more bendable OLED monitors. It's not that I didn't like the 800R curve, but my favorite thing about the Corsair bendable monitor was that I could "turn off" the bend. If someones favorite quality of your product is how they can turn off it's most notable feature at will then you have some more work to do. LG should have looked at the corsair monitor and taken notes before releasing this.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

I have a 38" LG IPS 1600p ultrawide. While I wouldn't mind going a bit bigger, I don't want to push even more pixels until GPUs get better. The step up from a 34" 1440p ultrawide was great for work as the added vertical space is very useful. But going to 50% more pixels than 4K is just asking for slow frame rates. And Tim and Raz are right, 800R is too curved. I'm not sure what mine is but it is a very slight curve.

 

[themastergoose]

If you don't want OLED burn-in issues and the aggressive curve, Dell's U4025QW fly's under everyone's radar. It's also 5K2K, IPS, 120 Hz - Supports HDR, G-Sync/Freesync and has a KVM built in. It's what I'd pick right now as it's not going to have the OLED drawbacks with longevity.

Just ignore the price (not that the LG is exactly a bargain neither).