Review on LG UltraWide 34WK650 W: 31.5" 2560X1440P, 75Hz, Anti-Glare, Wall Mountable - Compatible with 32QN600-B HD by Juan Rogers

Like many others now working from home, I wanted to do away with the separate areas for work and home computing. I wanted to easily switch between work and home with 2 32" monitors. I was willing to pay a high price for one of the gaming monitors, but I didn't care as much for the second. I wanted both monitors to be QHD. My home PC is a new RTX 3070 gaming system. My work PC is an HP Elitebook laptop. For a gaming monitor, I bought an LG 32GK65B-B VA panel with 144Hz and Freesync for $399. For a second monitor, I bought an LG 32QN600-B IPS panel with 75Hz HDR10 and Freesync for $209 from the Revain Black Friday sale. Both monitors were easy to mount on the adjustable bracket. Each installation took less than 2 minutes. When switched off, both monitors look the same from the front. I can place them touching and you can't tell they're not the same panel. The back looks different, but that's not a problem. Both monitors can be set up immediately via the display port of my gaming PC. It took a few minutes of fiddling with the menus to get Freesync working, but menu navigation is fast and intuitive, and soon the gaming monitor was running at 144Hz and the secondary at 75Hz. The main panel had VA 32GK65B-B struggling with my work laptop via HDMI. The screen goes completely blank every 2 seconds, even at the Windows logon screen. The optional IPS 32QN600-B panel worked immediately on my work computer without any problems. After playing around for a few minutes I found that the gaming monitor was trying to hit 75Hz and the secondary monitor was trying to hit 60Hz. Since I don't need a higher refresh rate on a work computer, I went into Windows 10's display settings and locked the refresh rate at 60, which fixed the issue immediately. I switched between displays several times and was pleased that all the settings and window layout stayed the same with no issues. After completing the initial setup I started actually using the computers and everything seemed great, but I soon noticed that the gaming monitor didn't look as good as a cheaper monitor. At some point I realized that I was sitting too close. The cheaper IPS panel has a great viewing angle, so everything looks fine at 2.5ft from the monitor. The more expensive VA panel faded heavily around the edges when I got too close. After some testing, a VA monitor looks terrible compared to an IPS if you get too close. As long as you're about 3.5 feet or more away, they look the same. As I pushed them back a bit I realized I had no reason to sit so close as they are huge. In the end, both monitors look and work great. The quality of a cheap IPS panel is impressive. If you don't care about refresh rates above 75Hz, you'll be very happy with a few of these. Otherwise, if you need a 144Hz refresh, the VA panel is well priced and performs very well. If you're looking at it from a certain angle for whatever reason, or there are a ton of other people around you, you'll probably want to find something with a better viewing angle, but I think most gamers tend to sit in front of their monitor. I'm not sure I'll ever notice the lack of HDR on a gaming monitor, but so far games look amazing without HDR. I'll be updating this in a few months but for now I'm giving both 5 stars.