The hardware is impressive, the screen is incredible but connectivity is a massive pain. The power button only works when it wants to, I'm forced to consistently plug the power cable in and out to turn on the screen. I tried different HDMI cables and different HDMI ports... still nothing, for the amount of money you pay, this should've came with built in speakers and some sort of remote cause the buttons do no work. Read more

She's big and runs hot but a very good screen, amazing colour and picture quality. Read more

If you are looking for a monitor for productivity/working and gaming, this is unequivocally without hyperbole the best monitor that you can buy, and for a great price. I purchased it recently and have nothing about amazing things to say. The size of this thing is so perfect that once you start using it you'll never want to go back to any other sized monitor. And the resolution and pixel density is absolutely stunning, this thing looks better and more dense than most 27 or 32 inch monitors which is a feat with how big it is. I use mac and although you can only get max 120 HZ, you still can get full native resolution 7680 x 2160 as long as you use DP2.1, which is more than enough for just working which I presume is what most mac users will be doing. The brightness, colors, contrast and HDR on this thing is also amazing everything looks so vibrant and this monitor has an extremely high max brightness. And for work it is SO convenient having literally two 32 inch screens side by side and having this much screen space, you can have so many applications open at once. As long as you have the money to afford this monitor, the desk space to have the monitor on your desk (which is important because the stand takes up a lot of space and this monitor is very heavy so I wouldn't trust it with an arm), and a rig that can run this at full resolution with good FPS/refresh rate, it is an absolute no brainer in my opinion and is one of my favorite purchases that I've ever made. The build quality does feel a bit flimsy I will admit, but honestly it doesn't matter when the monitor works and performs as well as it does. Just make sure out the box that you calibrate the picture settings, enable HDR, set your Display port/HDMI input to 2.1 (by default it is on 1.4), and tweak the settings to your liking. For me I am using original picture mode, 50 brightness, 50 contrast, 10 sharpness, 22 color, local dimming on HIGH (very important setting), contrast enhancer off, active HDR tone mapping, natural color tone, and native color space settings with the rest of settings on default. Make sure to DISABLE any eye care settings for best quality. Read more

This monitor is amazing! It replaced my dual screen setup, and while in terms of screen space I have neither gained, nor lost, it does have flexibility to split my screen into 3 or 4, which is very handy. Though I believe it is marketed as a gaming monitor, I use this monitor almost entirely for productivity, and a little bit of media. The curvature is great for me, no eye strain and I do not have to swivel my neck around which is great as I have some neck issues. Text, and I work with text all day long plus some, is very clear. The instructions for assembly were clear, and while I could do most myself, I did need to get someone to help me actually lift it out of box and onto my desk. It is heavy! I have a sit-stand add-on on my desk and this monitor is too heavy for the sit-stand to "lift" (maybe I can adjust with settings though I suspect I exceed the weight limit). A sit-stand desk may be better in that case. Also be prepared to have a lot of room to set up and breakdown materials, as this is a big monitor in a big box with a lot of protective wrapping. I am so pleased I went with this size. It was expensive ($2,199 at time I purchased, though $1,998 at the time I am writing this review) however I have zero regrets. It was well worth it as it has really boosted my productivity, and even made my day job more pleasurable. I'd recommend this even for the non-gamers amongst us who are more interested in productivity uses. If you work in a relatively boring office environment though, be prepared for people to ask when your space suit is coming back from the dry cleaners. The rear of the monitor definitely has a futuristic look. Read more

The screen is not circular. It has a very aggressive curve in the middle, but then the curve tapers off and the panel becomes completely flat on the sides. This makes it very difficult for my eyes and brain to get used to it, and can easily trigger dizziness and headaches. Other wide screen monitors have consistent curve throughout the whole screen width, which makes it much easier to get used to it over a few days. It has a poor quality VA panel with a very pronounced color shift depending on the angle you look at it. The curve in the middle helps with this, but the flat parts of the panel on the sides will show different color saturation than the middle. Also, the top part of the panel has nice and rich colors, while the bottom part of the panel has washed out colors. This is because the screen height causes your eyes to look at the top and bottom of the screen at different angles. It is NOT officially on Nvidia's G-Sync compatible list, and it shows. There is a lot of flickering/flashing with G-sync engaged in the native resolution of 7680x2180, making it unusable. Once you lower the resolution to the regular 4K, the flickering/flashing goes away. Speaking of the regular 4K resolution of 3840x2180, it does a pretty poor job of scaling the screen automatically to 16:9. In many cases, it just stretches the screen to fill the whole width of the panel. It has an option to force aspect ratio and size of the screen, but it maxes out at 27-inch equivalent, which results in black bars on top and bottom of the screen. Waking up from sleep is a big issue. I heard this mentioned in reviews, but I didn't really appreciate the magnitude of this problem. You have to either restart your computer (and risk losing data in your open applications) or disconnect and then re-connect the cable from your video card (and risk damaging your video card) multiple times a day every time your monitor goes to sleep. After 4 or 5 firmware upgrades this problem still persist, so it looks like it is some sort of hardware issue that cannot be fixed in firmware. This monitor has to be turned on all the time your computer is on, and you need to manually power it down and up when you stop and start your computer. Read more

My old widescreen crapped out so I needed another one. My old one started flickering AFTER black Friday and Cyber Monday... So turns out it was still on sale for the same price. This monitor is huge and amazing. I use it for work mostly with my laptop (which does do the full resolution though the hdmi. I use the PIP with KVM to show on screen my personal PC for youtube or looking up stuff NOT on my work PC. I tried it some with my gaming PC from Lenovo i9 RTX 4080 Super and I would get about 180 FPS in COD with medium settings. I use Zorin OS (Linux) for my personal PC and it's also an i9 3090 and it also does the full resolution and works GREAT! The monitor: It is huge. Picture is best I have seen and near oled quality. I like the simple controls and easy setup. I got a desk arm ULTRARM MA20P-S and it works great. I was a bit worried it would not hold it up, but this arm is great quality. The stand for the 57 is nice but the legs are so long... I almost kept it on the stand it came with but figured I would try the arm and it works great. For 1600 you can't go wrong with this monitor. Side note: It does take some time to get used to, even coming from another ultrawide. Figuring out where to put things on the screen and how to layout for best work use. But all in all, I love it. Using the PIP for my personal PC saves me another monitor, however I do still need to use one other monitor because I always leave teams and outlook up on the side. I would buy this one again, without blinking. Hope this helps. Read more

I've had this monitor for 3 months now and I am very pleased. I really have no significant complaints. The only down side so far for me is that my video card supports a max of 120hz at 7680x2160. That's no fault of the monitor but rather a limitation of my RTX 4080 Super. Beyond that, there are only positives. Most of my time is not spent gaming so it's important that the monitor does well at non-gaming tasks, which is really does. Text is beautifully crisp, colors are vivid - just a pleasure to use every day. Gaming performance is excellent - best screen I've had to date. Just beautiful. Overall, a monitor I can easily recommend based on my experience to date. Well worth the money. Read more

**purchased for $1900 with my own money** (maybe a double flash sale, $2000 on sale for December, additional $100 off for a few hours one day) So I've used this monitor for about a week, 12-16 hours a day (work during the day and online MBA school at night). Here are my initial thoughts. 1. HDMI was very buggy. When the monitor went to sleep, it would try a few times to wake up. Then, it eventually crashed (rebooted) my M2 Ultra Mac Studio (a great machine). Switching to a DisplayPort from the USB-C port (back of Mac) has been flawless. (I was hoping to get that port back by using the HDMI, but my previous setup took two USB-C ports, so it's still a net win of one port for me. The screen itself is bright and clear (what you would expect) no dead pixels, artifacts, or flaws of any kind. For work and school, 120Hz is more than good enough, as I didn't see a difference when I switched to 240hz. 2. The curve works great about two feet from my face. Since it's on a desk against the wall, it goes out a little further than the previous setup, it was doable, and I got back some desk space undernead having one base instead of two previously. The "wrap" around my field of view is definitely worth the extra space but see the next point. 3. The rear lighting and futuristic design were useless since they were against the wall. There's some extra bulk back there that could have been saved (and money) and made the profile slimmer had they not built all that. 4. I don't play games much, but Angry Birds was great. Getting the whole screen to show the entire landscape without having to scroll around horizontally was nice. Any side-scrolling games would benefit, assuming they programmed the game to use the extra space. 5. I would have liked them to integrate booming loudspeakers (like the other Samsung gaming monitors) so I don't have to use external speakers. 6. Also, for this price range, I would have liked to have a high-quality built-in 4K WebCam (even snap-on in the back, but still included) and mic for Zoom calls as well so I can work with two fewer peripherals on the desk. 7. Using the Mac Spaces feature, I can have three windows per space and one space per activity (work, school, reading, file management, photos, etc. It's a game-changer, for sure. All without a fat bezel in between the middle of the screen. (If Mac fixed the full-screen function to allow for three full-screen apps instead of two, that would be even better) Multi-page docs or wide spreadsheets are a huge benefactor of this super wide screen. Overall, this was a great purchase for me. I last bought monitors when the Dell 4K ultrashare UP3216Q came out (8 years ago, and they still work great, BTW) and spent $2000 each, so paying $1900 for this monitor was a great deal. Read more

It looks great with games and provides a massive productivity display. As others have mentioned, it is a bit of a workout for your neck when spanning the display during regular use (owl neck upgrade required?) but it is awesome for games that support it such as Baldur's Gate 3 (the only game I've tried it with so far). My only frustration has been the fact that it goes to sleep during BIOS POST, which makes it frustratingly hard to enter BIOS settings. I plugged in a cheap portable monitor as a secondary display to solve that problem. Read more