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06 May 2017
Pro's and Con's
This is a great monitor! Can be overclocked to 75hz if you don't have an AMD gpu. So no biggy. Because it is refurbished I assumed there would be some minor damages, there was a small scratch on the screen. but other than that, zero dead pixels. Perfect if you're a graphic artist, the IPS helps immensely with color matching to paper. The width of the screen is fantastic. Much larger than I expected. If you're using this for games, it does not cut off the top and bottom of the screen. Imagine the center of it to be 1920x1080 and just add the additional pixels to the sides instead of the top and bottom.
This is a freesync monitor, so in order to use that you'll need an AMD graphics card.
If you're an nvidia user. I'd look for a g-sync monitor instead of this one.
if you're not picky, or you're just looking for an IPS monitor. This is amazing.
The major thing that really bothered me was that even though the bezels look ultra thin. keep in mind that there is still about a half inch of border around the monitor. The bezels are just there to make it look nice when it's off.
Resolution is 2560x1080. It is not 4k. Also, if you're looking for this as a gaming monitor. I would ultimately pass and go for something better if you have the money. 16:9 is a better option. Ultra-wides are a pain for gaming. The first game i tried to play was Fallout 4, and i had to edit .ini files in order to run at that the correct resolution, and i needed to install a 3rd party program in order to keep the UI from stretching.
08 May 2017
Perfect expect for one problem.
I bought a second gtx 970 so i could mess with sli. Worked great! except it was running idle at 45 C* which is ridiculous. So i tried to offset it on my motherboard placing it into a lower pci-e seeing as my motherboard supports up to 3 cards. Now, by doing that it worked for a day or two. and then it was back up to the 45 degrees. where as the top card which should run hotter, was at 28-30C*. The issue turned out to be that the ACX 2.0 Cooler was put back with an ungodly amount of thermal paste. There was so much thermal paste on the Graphics Processor, that it was caked into the metal heat fins on the ACX 2.0 cooler, and was completely covering the whole processor and it's inlay as well as a portion of the board.
So it was running at 45 C*. and after the fix of cleaning it up and replacing the thermal pads and thermal grease. It now runs at 28-30 C*.
PS. do not! DO NOT!! Use thermal grease as a replacement for your thermal pads on the Vram. It's not meant to cover the distance gap and when it heats up it'll ooze out of the gap it was in and then your Vram will die. Meaning good bye graphics card.