LG - UltraGear 45" WQHD OLED 240Hz 0.03ms G-SYNC FreeSync Premium Pro Gaming Monitor with DisplayHDR400 TRUE - Black

TL;DR perfect for work from home, good response rate, clear images, amazing single player experience what else can I say. *****Pros***** Clear, sharp, and crisp images Bright panel Great response time for 2k gaming webOS integration. AI scaling is good *****Cons***** speakers can be a bit on the quiet side Honestly, what can I say about OLED that has not been said by everyone. In the box, you get the basics: cables, controller, and the monitor. Setting up the base to the panel is easy, you just screw the base to the arm and click the monitor to the whole thing. Ports wise, you can hardwire the internet to the monitor or use WIFI, and you also get a USB C, 2 HDMIs, and 1 DP port. Coming from a 2K IPS, is just an experience you only live once. Image is crisp, sharp, and clear; image can be a bit saturated but with some calibration, it should be good to go. The whole OS is based off their LG TVs OS and works in a very similar manner with a few things added. You also have the option to customize certain settings for gaming, which is something that is appreciated. Sound, well I did not expect much since it's a monitor, but it’s decent, it's clear but just on the quiet side. I also tested the AI upscaler on a Nintendo switch and did ok and tried to smooth some things out but at the end it was the switch doing switch things. I wanted to try it with my PS3 but that thing is on its last leg. Another big thing is multitasking. For work sometimes I need to have several windows open, and I had gotten used to it with my triple monitor set up, but this monitor just makes things so much easier to navigate. Would I recommend this to someone looking to buy a large monitor? Absolutely. OLED coming from some of the best in the TV market is just something you really cannot pass up.

I really love this display for gaming. That is where it really excels. To be clear, this is indeed a gaming monitor which means that the refresh rate is very fast in order to keep up with the action in a game. Generally speaking, the resolution on gaming monitors is not at the high end of the spectrum (4K). The UltraGear resolution comes in at 3440 x 1440 (somewhere between 2K and 4K based on it's large width). This resolution is known as “Ultra-Wide Quad High Definition”. It gives you the vertical quality of 2K but offers a much larger horizontal space than a standard 2K format does. You can feel comfortable using this monitor in either a gaming or office environment, but there are several features that make it very suitable for gaming. So let's start with gaming. This monitor is absolutely made to game. And not only allow you to play games on it, but to render the games like you've probably never seen them before. This is a killer gaming monitor. The OLED panel makes colors look amazing. Vibrant, deep, rich... they are all valid words to describe the way colors look on it. If you've never actually tried out or owned an OLED, you should really try to see, or even better, use one. You probably won't believe how long you've denied yourself the absolute joy it will bring you. Combined with the 240 refresh rate and HDR, you have a monitor that will play most any game in stunning realism. It's also compatible with NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync Premium. And depending on your graphics card, you'll be able to play with the graphics settings turned way up. The 800R curve is perfect for sitting anywhere from about 16 to 26 inches away. At that distance, the screen wraps around you at a comfortable distance that allows it to be a pretty uniform distance away regardless if you're looking at the left or right edge, or dead on in the middle. It's fantastic for games (especially FPS), and it's even good for office work. I have a curved display at work as well, but the curve radius is just too big, probably up around 1000 or 1200, and I find myself actually moving over to the left or right when viewing things at the edges. The curve is just too shallow. The UltraGear is right at the sweet spot. I play mostly FPS games like the DOOM series, Resident Evil series, Star Wars Jedi series. Playing Resident Evil 4 or Resident Evil Requiem is an incredible experience. The level of crystal clear detail is stunning. The light bloom from torches is so realistic you squint your eyes until you're past the torch. The contrast between the shadows and lights or torches is crazy realistic. Shadows are frightening, and so true to life you keep doing double takes to make sure you didn't just see something move. In a fast action shooter like DOOM The Dark Ages, the display keeps up with the action. No tearing, no anomalies, just clear, sharp graphics. The rain and water sections are hugely realistic and beautiful. To help you understand my setup, I play on an HP Omen Desktop with a Core i7 CPU, an RTX 5070 graphics card and 32GB of RAM. This all plays into getting the best graphics for games, but without a good and capable monitor, the best machine specs won't matter. Despite being an OLED panel, the brightness can be set quite high. You can easily watch it in a bright room without any difficulty and the matte finish on the screen means there isn't any reflections off the front. So, for office work, this is a great monitor too, but if you're looking for sharp, absolute crystal clear text (like a 4K monitor provides), it's just not quite there. For that type of work you really want something closer to 4K to make everything sharp. I'm not saying things like text look bad on the UltraGear, but I am saying if you're used to 4K resolution for text and office work, it may seem a little lack luster compared to what you're used to. For office work, the 45” curved screen looks really good, no question about it. There's plenty of real estate to drag windows around and no matter where you place them, they're facing you. You don't have to move your desk chair to see the left and right sides better. I use this monitor 100% as a PC monitor for everyday office and gaming, but LG has provided it's LGOS as well. This is the OS of the monitor. I have the same OS on my 77” OLED tv. It's set up well, and easy to use. You can add any streaming app you like and watch it on the monitor. It comes with a remote to help you do that. I prefer to just use it as my PC monitor alone, and you don't need to do anything special in order to do that. The apps are there if you chose to use them. On the back of the monitor you have a Display Port jack, two HDMI jacks, an RJ-45 network jack, a USB-C and two USB-A jacks and a headphone jack. I'm using the Display Port jack. It also has a substantial stand alone power supply, and comes with internal speakers. The rear of the monitor also has some cool RGB LEDs on it. If your desk faces into the room, they look awesome, otherwise you can use them to backlight the wall behind it. The build quality is very sturdy and while I was mounting it on my desk arm, I didn't notice any flexing of the housing at all. It has standard VESA mount sizes of 100x100 and 75x75. Although you can certainly use the included stand if you want. I'm loving this monitor. It's deep rich colors and blacks are amazing and make anything look great, especially games. It has ample ways to connect to it along with a dedicated remote. If you have the space, you won't regret using a monitor this size. The curve really immerses you in any game action and lends itself very well to office apps too. The build is sturdy and only has about 1/4” bezels on the bottom and sides, slightly larger across the top. If you want, you can use the LGOS and watch any streaming app you like. LG also gives you a 2 year warranty. This is truly a beautiful display.

This LG UltraGear 45" WQHD OLED Premium Pro Gaming Monitor (Model: 45GX90SB-B) is one of those rare tech items that will feel state of the art for a really long time. With its 240Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro, AND G-SYNC Compatible synchronization technologies, It can be an endgame-type of display for even the most picky of gamers. LG just kills it with their OLED displays. With colors so rich and vibrant and blacks so deep and inky, you'll be hard pressed to not see your games in an entirely new light. I know I was. I'm a bit old school so the first game I loaded up was Portal RTX. It's still one of my favorites. The combo of my RTX 5080 gpu and this display was just incredible. I think a 45" curved is a sweet spot for a truly immersive experience. It felt like I was really inside the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. One thing that struck me was how much more detail I noticed with this monitor than with my previous gaming monitor. There were times where I could almost see a really detailed reflection of Chell that didn't just look like the color blur I was used to. If I had to note something that might be a bit of a shortcoming, I suppose the 3440 x 1440 resolution on a 45" monitor doesn't quite give you enough pixel density to have things like really sharp looking text when trying to browse the web or perform some productivity tasks. It's not bad by any means, it just feels like a little bit of a letdown because of how incredible this thing looks while gaming. And if I'm being fair, it is a monitor designed specifically for gaming after all. The only other nitpicky thing I'll mention is not exactly specific to this monitor or company, but something that still rubs me the wrong way which I wish companies would fix. Why, if I want to use the apps that are already preinstalled on WebOS, do I need to log into an LG account first? The apps area already there. I have my YouTube Premium account name and password ready to go. Don't make me create yet another login and password. Just let me watch the ad free cat videos I'm paying for! In all seriousness though, this is an absolutely beautiful monitor and anyone would be happy to own one. If I had to do it over again, I'd perhaps go with the pricier 5K2K version since about 65% of the time I'm using this external monitor for my work laptop and would appreciate the sharper text, but I'm perfectly happy to stick with this one since I already have it.