Hi guys, I'm looking to upgrade my Acer Predator X34 monitor for another, newer ultrawide. I was looking around at the current enthustast monitors and it would appear that the ROG PG35VQ is still the "top dog" when it comes to ultrawides? 35" 3440x1440p 200Hz (144hz limited if you want to keep 10-bit colour) Quantum Dot VA HDR 1000 512 FALD zones G-Sync Ultimate It appears it been the best since it came out in late 2019/2020. Is this a wise decision to go ahead and pick one of these badboys up now? (thoughts and opinions welcome!) I've been offered a brand new one for £1575.

Thoughts on purchasing a ROG PG35VQ in 2021/2022?

By Altecice
December 3, 2021 in Displays

Go to solution Solved by Stahlmann, December 3, 2021

I bought one this summer and it's still one of the best HDR gaming monitors even by today's standards. It offers a REAL HDR experience and fairly good response times. The 200Hz refresh rate is not much of a feature but a nice bonus. There is some dark smearing but that's to be expected of a VA monitor and it's not so bad that it will ruin the experience. Picture quality is great and as soon as you turn on HDR in a supported game you will not regret buying this monitor. Even for the high price.

Basically the HDR monitor market didn't move an inch since the PG35VQ and X35 were released, which is why they're still good choices today.

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Problem with the rog is that it is another bleeding edge model from in 2019 which also suffers from flickering and scanline faults if you don't get a good unit. That and colour inaccuracies/backlight differences. Ultrawides as of right now are in a rather sorry state as the only actual good ones are ones that are using existing tech and refining it by just not pushing limits.

I don't think this is a good deal for a couple year old monitor with known problems. Then again for these stupid high end ones there is basically not a single one without a glaring issue (just look at the samsung g series).

This monitor has no wide-spread issues to speak of anymore.

I had 3 different units of this monitor due to an RMA problem with Asus (RMA reason was a dead internal fan, the reason it took 3 new monitors was shipping damage). They all had very consistent colors (not just subjectively, but also by the measurements i've taken when calibrating them) and none of them had scanline or flickering issues to any degree.

The LG 34GN850 is better in only two ways: No dark smearing, 5% more DCI-P3 coverage. Everything else is objectively worse. Keep in mind you're talking about a very high-end VA monitor with very good response times basically on-par with LG's current gen IPS panels.

(Data from Hardware Unboxed, the Acer X35 and Asus PG35VQ are basically the same monitor so the response times still apply here, the Asus was just reviewed before he introduced his detailed response time charts.)

Here is a more detailed chart. As you can see, response times are impressive for everything but the darkest transitions, overshoot is there, but not in a critical range yet. So basically not really noticeable. And it's easily fast enough to keep up with it's 200Hz refresh rate.

Yes it's still expensive, but that is because both the Asus PG35VQ and Acer Predator X35 are still amazing monitors that are basically unrivaled especially once HDR also comes into play. (I don't see the Neo G9 as a rival in it's current state)

And afaik the issues that were present on launch have been fixed by now. That is more than i can say about Samsung monitors that were released in the last two years. I had my issues with Asus's support, but that still doesn't make me talk smack about a great overall product.

I paid 1700€ for mine and imo it was worth it. You'll have to judge yourself if the hefty price is worth it.

It's also worth to mention that currently there are no rivals on the horizon, so prices likely won't drop significantly.

Posted December 8, 2021

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5 hours ago, Stahlmann said:

Happy you also love it!

Like i said above turning it to 0 results in around 100 nits peak, which is the reference value for SDR. And yes, the lower you turn this setting, the less obvious and distracting the FALD backlight is on desktop.

I hope my information will help you getting the best possible image out of your monitor. If you have any further questions or stuff i (or my colorimeter) can help with let me know.

Yeah so I've set the SDR brightness (the slider in Windows 11) to 30/100. Much better, I find 0 just too dull/dark for me haha.
Do you bother with the AutoHDR setting within Windows?