Cooler Master GM34-CWQ2 34” Curved 165Hz|180Hz (OC) VA Quantum Dot UWQHD 3440 x 1440 PC Monitor, 2ms (GtG)|0.5ms (MPRT), Curve 1500R, FreeSync Premium, DP1.4*1, HDMI2.0*2, USB…
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- Quantum Dots Ultimate Visuals: Crafted with cutting-edge quantum dot technology, our display delivers vivid colors, meticulous light emission, precise color reproduction, and an expansive 95% DCI-P3 color gamut for an unparalleled viewing experience.
- Greater Immersion: UWQHD resolution provides extra screen space for improved multitasking and a more immersive gaming experience. With its 1500R curvature, it strikes a perfect balance, enhancing gaming and entertainment content without distortion. This enveloping curvature makes games and entertainment feel even more immersive.
- Fluid Gaming Experience: Featuring a 165Hz (Typ.) / 180Hz (OC) UWQHD panel with a rapid 0.5ms pixel response time. Leveraging Dynamic Overdrive, the display automatically adjusts the overdrive setting according to the game’s framerate, ensuring optimal pixel overdrive performance while minimizing overshoot.
- Ultra-smooth Realism: FreeSync Premium ensures smooth, lifelike gameplay, accurately reproducing a level of realism in everything you play. By synchronizing the frames outputted from the GPU to the refresh rate of the monitor, you can experience tear-free gameplay that is smoother than ever.
- 95% DCI-P3 And 6-Axis Color Adjustment: With exceptional color detail and a broad color gamut, the GM34-CWQ2 features Quantum Dot displays covering 95% of the DCI-P3 spectrum. This makes these monitors perfect for color-sensitive tasks, ensuring accurate and vibrant visuals for professional work.
Cooler Master GM34-CWQ2 34” Curved 165Hz|180Hz (OC) VA Quantum Dot UWQHD 3440 x 1440 PC Monitor, 2ms (GtG)|0.5ms (MPRT), Curve 1500R, FreeSync Premium, DP1.4*1, HDMI2.0*2, USB…
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8 reviews for Cooler Master GM34-CWQ2 34” Curved 165Hz|180Hz (OC) VA Quantum Dot UWQHD 3440 x 1440 PC Monitor, 2ms (GtG)|0.5ms (MPRT), Curve 1500R, FreeSync Premium, DP1.4*1, HDMI2.0*2, USB…
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Josue Rivera –
Hasta el momento muy contento con mi compra. El tamaño del monitor me parece excelente para mi uso (Stream+juegos), la curva es perfecta y la calidad de la imagen es espectacular, mucho mejor que mi television 4K. La base y la manera de ensamblarlo me parece extremadamente fino, se nota un material de cierta calidad y facilita mucho su movimiento (Justo ahora estoy en una mudanza) por lo que me quedo muy contento con la compra.
BV –
Overall: Great monitor for balanced use in gaming and productivity, however, some caveats to consider depending on use case scenario (multi-display) bring it down to 4 out of 5 stars.
Picture Quality
Pros: The Cooler Master GP27U is a very nice monitor for all sort of activities. In SDR, it shines and you do not need local dimming to get great picture quality. In HDR mode, it is super nice, vibrant, and immersive. The on screen display controls are easy to use even for a person like me whit low vision issues. The black levels are highly impressive for no local diming, then, just are awesome when local dimming is turned on.
Cons: Some blooming artifacts in dark scenes were hard to look at for someone with low vision issues. I think others may be okay in case their eyes are not light sensitive.
Productivity
Pros: The color accuracy is pretty good for people using this for scientific work. THe low black level makes images generated from research, such as electron microscopy and fluorescent/ con focal light microscopy, really contrasted well. Depending on how you choose the gamma setting, you can adjust the black level to allow better focus on brighter areas of the images (gamma = 2.6) or raise the black level to find regions of interest that with notable features (gama = 1.8). I kept the other settings neutral so as to not saturate images with color (for analyzing light micrographs) or gray level (for analyzing electron micrographs).
Cons: I could only hve 2 displays showing at a time on my gpu (RTX 3090). I contacted Nvidia about support for triple monitor since it did not work in my case. I found out that you cannot adjust the DSC setting in the display port 1.4 port, so, triple monitor was not supported. Even for dual monitor, you cannot span displays on the gpu because of this issue. Spanning of displays allows CAD or IMAGE-J users to see the “forest” from the “trees” so to speak when looking at large images and then zooming into finer details.
Recommendation: If using this only for single display applications or even dual display with no spanning of displays, this is a great choice. If you want to use spanning of displays for dual or triple monitor setup, then, please look at alternatives such as the Gigabyte M28U.
Note: Contact Gigabyte and tell them your software and display use case scenario. They will put int a testing ticket and give you a nice report with images of how it worked out so you can make an informed purchase. Totally great!
Terry Hiscock –
Excellent refresh rate, good resolution and colours. Very nice design with slim bezels, metal frame, usb hub, 60W usb c power delivery for laptops/MacBooks adjustable stand and of course RGB lighting. I also have the highly rated gigabyte M27Q and prefer this monitors performance and design but I do wish it had a KVM hub as is included on the gigabyte monitor.
Dave Hetesi –
I purchased a few 4k gaming monitors and this one clearly outshined the others. The HDR gaming picture is incredible and the colours are very bright.
There were some firmware issues early on but those have all been resolved.
There are issues with local dimming on HDR if you’re working. I noticed heavy blooming using VS Code in dark mode. I use SDR mode for productivity, and HDR for gaming.
I have a 27″ Asus TUF 1080p gaming monitor I use as a second monitor and the text looks so grainy compared to how smooth the text is on this monitor your think the 1080 monitor had some kind of issue.
IMO This is the best 27″ 4k gaming monitor on the market right now.
TrowGundam –
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
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TheProcess –
Will be updating this review in a few months, positive or negative.
Positives
– INNOCOOL / CM was great to deal with. I had an issue with my order and they stayed in contact with me the whole time until it was resolved.
– Amazon CS created the mess in the first place, promising that XYZ was going to happen multiple steps along the way. They were wrong every time, again luckily the 3rd party stepped in and took care of it.
– Display – It looks great! i’d compare getting a “true” HDR10 display coming from SDR alienware UW like DVD > BluRay.
– HDR – HDR10 movies are incredible, HDR native games are incredible, Auto-HDR is pretty cool and W11 native hdr is kind of annoying and inconsistent. Not CM’s fault though. (tip win/alt/b = turn on and off HDR)
– Price – I think the price is perfect and even a bit lower than it should be for the quality of the display. I have 0 dead pixels, and the refresh testing came out great.
– Color Calibration – This monitor comes with color calibration straight out of the box, included is a print out of the results too. Great touch IMO.
Negatives
– This monitor is getting a firmware update in early/mid November. Via a CM rep on reddit… my 5 star rating is under the assumption that the below will be fixed.
– You currently can not enable local dimming & async. Refer to the above on it though, I’m not too worried.
Cliente de Amazon –
Necesitaba un monitor que reemplazara mi anterior el cual solo era FullHD y se veia bien, pero la pantalla era de 24″ Quería algo muy especifico, 34″ pantalla ancha, curvo pero no demasiado, con bocinas, sin RGB, altura baja para que cupiera en mi escritorio. Solo habia visto como 2 o 3 monitores que se ajustaran a lo que quería. definitivamente mi mejor compra. quizas el unico pero fue el precio, creo que estaba unos 2K arriba de mi presupuesto
James Foley –
Not a professional reviewer so I will just give my impressions.
Positive:
– Amazing price for what you get
– Refresh rate is legit. Default mode is nice and smooth and does not require overdrive.
– Saturated colors with wide gamut, but this is a bit of a negative too (see later)
– Good contrast compared to other IPS monitors (looking at you LG)
– Stand mostly metal with a nice finish. RGB is smooth
– Extremely subtle branding on monitor front, nice and sleek
– Thin beezel on all sides, nice modern look
– Monitor sides (that you would touch to adjust) are smooth anodized aluminum, gives a really premium feel
Negatives
– Color gamut is wide but really not so accurate. Definite unpleasant red color cast, will take a lot of tweaking to render more neutral. Still better than crap non-wide monitor.
– Monitor does NOT adjust low enough, bottom of monitor is 5-8 inches above desk (big deal for me)
– Backlight uneven on sides, with vignetting.
– Overdrive modes all have overshoot – I will try them some more and update review
– OSD is painful to use
– Stand foot is a little tall and extends out middle, kept hitting keyboard on it.
– 2 dead pixels, unfortunately toward center
This monitor has a nice physical build quality, great refresh and Freesync performance. Colors are nice and saturated but not accurate and backlight has unevenness and vignette. Stand does not lower enough.
Overall a good effort, but needs some improvements to be really good. Panel is great and has a lot of potential.
Version 2 of this monitor will likely be fantastic. But this one is going back.