**A Comprehensive Review of the LG 34 UM67 Monitor**

When it comes to gaming monitors, the LG 34 UM67 is a highly sought-after option due to its impressive features and specs. In this review, we'll delve into the details of this monitor, exploring its strengths and weaknesses.

One of the standout features of the LG 34 UM67 is its display resolution, which boasts an astonishing 3440 x 1440 pixels. This is a significant upgrade over the more commonly seen 2560 x 1080 pixel resolutions found in many gaming monitors. However, it's worth noting that the manufacturer, LG, opted for this slightly lower resolution despite the potential benefits to graphics card companies. According to our review, the resulting difference in pixel density was not as significant an issue for gamers as might be expected.

In terms of performance, the 34 UM67 is a joy to use. The monitor's IPS panel provides excellent color accuracy and a wide range of viewing angles, making it perfect for both gaming and productivity tasks. The ultra-wide aspect ratio of 21:9 also adds to the overall immersive experience, drawing you into the game like never before. The monitor's responsiveness is also noteworthy, with minimal lag and delay between input and output.

Another notable feature of the 34 UM67 is its support for AMD's FreeSync technology. However, our review found that the implementation was not as seamless as expected. We encountered stuttering and tearing when using FreeSync enabled, which was later attributed to the monitor's limited adaptive refresh rate window (48-75Hz). Despite this, we were still able to enjoy smooth gameplay with vsync disabled, although there is a slight input lag penalty.

The 34 UM67 also boasts an impressive panel size of 3440 x 1440 pixels, which offers stunning visuals and a truly immersive experience. The monitor's response time is also noteworthy, thanks to its low leg solid motion blur performance. This, combined with the 75Hz refresh rate, makes for a silky-smooth gaming experience that will leave you breathless.

In conclusion, while the LG 34 UM67 may not have lived up to our expectations in terms of FreeSync implementation, it remains an excellent gaming monitor due to its impressive display resolution, IPS panel, and ultra-wide aspect ratio. The monitor's responsiveness, motion blur performance, and low input lag also make it a pleasure to use.

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**The Verdict**

In our review of the LG 34 UM67, we've seen a monitor that checks all the boxes for gamers and content creators alike. While it may have some minor drawbacks, such as FreeSync implementation, its impressive display resolution, IPS panel, and ultra-wide aspect ratio make it an excellent choice for those seeking a top-notch gaming experience.

Whether you're a seasoned gamer or just starting out, the LG 34 UM67 is definitely worth considering. With its silky-smooth performance, stunning visuals, and feature-rich software suite, this monitor is sure to deliver hours of entertainment and productivity bliss.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enultra wide monitors this is not the first one i've seen but it is the first i've seen that targets gamers so directly welcome to my video of the lg 34 um 67 fractal design listens and the define r5 case was made with feedback from you the community so click my face to learn more about that and give your feedback so let's start by having a look at her physically if you watched my video on the 34 um 95 just under a year ago you already know pretty much how this story goes the stand is see-through which is neat but it's otherwise subpar since only its tilt and angle can be adjusted without removing and replacing the two screws that let you change the height a grand total of like an inch and there's some unfortunate stuff at the back as well that glossy plastic is gonna do what glossy plastic does best although we might have an idea for a solution so make sure that you're subscribed for that video and while the standard vase amount and included sticker to protect the back of your monitor are welcome sights folks who want to wall mount this puppy will need to buy low profile angled connectors for anything but the second hdmi input so the audio passthrough hdmi 1 dvi or display port ports no usb hub back here something i would have liked to see on such an expensive display as well moving around to the front things get quite a bit better in a hurry the bezel around the matte anti-glare coated 2560 by 1080 75 hertz ips panel is super slim and lg's joystick for navigating the on-screen menu is present and what an on-screen menu it is it lacks an srgb color profile even though 99 srgb coverage is a selling point on the monitor's web page for some reason but if you've got a calibration tool the six axis color adjustments will let you take care of that easily and just about anything else you can set it to 6-bit or 8-bit color adjust pixel response times although as usual i found medium was the best compromise and much better than older ips panels by the way you can tinker with their black stabilizer feature which is similar to benq's black equalizer a contrast reducing effect that makes it easier to see objects in shadows in games without washing out all of the colors on screen you can use any of the pre-configured gaming modes that monkey around with color gamma and sharpness or you can make your own that you can switch to by pressing up on the joystick twice and then you can enable and disable a couple of lg's other killer features for the 34 um 67 as well the first is daz or dynamic action sync this one is pretty simple it's designed to reduce display lag or the time between the monitor receiving a frame and displaying it on the screen usually this feature is labeled on tvs as a game mode or similar and results in dramatically worse image quality thanks to less pixel processing but in the case of the 34 um 67 i can't find any reason with my bare eyes to turn it off it looked exactly the same to me and the second killer app compliance with the optional adaptive sync portion of the displayport 1.2 a standard and amd freesync certification this monitor supports dynamic refresh rate gaming where your supported system can effectively tell the monitor when to refresh the image eliminating the issues associated with v-sync on so that is stuttering in leg and v-sync off that tearing effect where there seems to be a horizontal line through the image where there's half of one frame and half of the next one on the screen at the same time there are some caveats here though in addition to a compliant display you'll need a supported amd dedicated or onboard graphics solution you'll need a displayport cable curiously not included in the box and you'll need a freesync compatible driver so i used a beta 1 provided by amd for my evaluation of this monitor yes friends nvidia graphics card owners will not be able to take advantage of the dynamic refresh rate of this monitor unless nvidia decides to go down the dp 1.2 a open standard route sometime in the future instead of asking monitor vendors to buy their own g-sync scaler chip something that at this time is quite expensive and only supports displayport input but nvidia claims will have other advantages down the line we can talk about that when that comes but first let's talk about the usage experience of this monitor i still love ultrawide for productivity but i'm also still not super stoked on 2560 by 1080 for that particular use case i found myself frustrated with the number of vertical pixels scrolling a lot the same way that i always was way back in the day of the dinosaurs when 16x10 monitors went out of fashion to be replaced by 16x9 1080p monitors and this issue it for me is made worse by the size of this display thanks to its ips panel contrast color vibrancy and viewing angles are non-issues but with pixel density this low even with no scaling text looks abominable and no amount of low blue light reading modes made it feel comfortable for me to use compared to its 3440 by 1440 brethren also from lg but i understand why lg did it this way they didn't really have a choice from the marketing this is a gaming monitor first and productivity monitor second and 3440 by 1440 is just about 80 percent more pixels than 2560 by 1080 which might make graphics card companies happy with all the video cards they'll be selling just so folks can play games at native res but might not thrill gamers too much and in games the pixel density bothers me a lot less i don't find anti-aliasing unnecessary like i did with dell's 5k monitor but four times aa was a good balance between playability of very demanding games like crysis 3 at very high settings on an r9 290x and image quality gaming on the screen this size is going to be immersive pretty much no matter how you slice it and thanks to its very low leg solid motion blur performance and 75 hertz panel that really does make a big difference over 60 by the way the 34 um 67 is a pleasure to game on but hold on a second linus you didn't even mention freesync yet you're right i didn't but i will now hear in the conclusion in spite of this monitor's presence in amd's freesync media materials and the prominent logo on the box i didn't find the implementation of freesync to be as useful as it can be in this case but it took me a few hours and a lifeline call to my buddy ryan shrout from pc perspective to figure out why i was encountering stuttering and tearing with freesync enabled when it was clearly working in amd's windmill demo it's because this monitor's adaptive refresh rate window is from 48 hertz to 75 hertz only 27 hertz that means even if you enable freesync with vsync also on the experience is pretty good as long as your frame rates remain pretty high other than the very slight input leg penalty similar to vsync that is caused by capping your frame rate like that and with it off so with vsync off you'll actually still get tearing anytime your game runs above 75 fps and there's more bad news too you'll get lag under 48 fps thanks to lg's selection of 48 hertz as the low end cutoff of the adaptive refresh rate window on this monitor but to be clear this is not a knock on freesync there are monitors with much wider like 100hz plus windows that go down to 40hz and the spec actually allows for windows as low as 9 hertz once panel technology improves and it's actually not a condemnation of the 34 um 67 as a gaming monitor either its size ips panel and ultra wide aspect ratio along with its incredible responsiveness for considering all of those things still make it a totally unique gaming experience it just means that those two technologies didn't complement each other as well as i was really hoping for in this case so this is cool we're giving away 30 one month xsplit professional codes all you got to do is enter in the form thread in the video description and winners will be selected one week from today april the 2nd pretty cool stuff not today april the 2nd on april the 2nd yay anyway if you don't know what xsplit is it's basically a broadcasting software that personally i absolutely love we use it every friday for our live show it allows us to change scenes it allows us to take a wide variety of different inputs and basically switch them around move people around we can import skype callers so that we can have people you know joining us for our podcast or video podcast as it were and it's awesome for game streamers especially when it's paired with xsplit gamecaster so there's broadcaster and gamecaster so gamecaster is great for gamers because it allows you to bring up a little overlays you can easily stop and start your stream and all that kind of good stuff and one of the coolest things about xsplit is that it is absolutely free for the basic version so all you gotta do is head over to xsplit.com linus to start streaming and recording in hd today so guys thanks for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it sucked leave a comment uh hopefully at the link in the video description to our forum if you want to discuss it with our community members also linked in the video description you can give us a contribution you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one and you can change your amazon bookmarked one with our affiliate codes we get a small kickback whenever you buy stuff on amazon like maybe this monitor for example that kind of stuff helps us out a lot thanks again for watching as always don't forget to subscribe and follow and all of that good stuffultra wide monitors this is not the first one i've seen but it is the first i've seen that targets gamers so directly welcome to my video of the lg 34 um 67 fractal design listens and the define r5 case was made with feedback from you the community so click my face to learn more about that and give your feedback so let's start by having a look at her physically if you watched my video on the 34 um 95 just under a year ago you already know pretty much how this story goes the stand is see-through which is neat but it's otherwise subpar since only its tilt and angle can be adjusted without removing and replacing the two screws that let you change the height a grand total of like an inch and there's some unfortunate stuff at the back as well that glossy plastic is gonna do what glossy plastic does best although we might have an idea for a solution so make sure that you're subscribed for that video and while the standard vase amount and included sticker to protect the back of your monitor are welcome sights folks who want to wall mount this puppy will need to buy low profile angled connectors for anything but the second hdmi input so the audio passthrough hdmi 1 dvi or display port ports no usb hub back here something i would have liked to see on such an expensive display as well moving around to the front things get quite a bit better in a hurry the bezel around the matte anti-glare coated 2560 by 1080 75 hertz ips panel is super slim and lg's joystick for navigating the on-screen menu is present and what an on-screen menu it is it lacks an srgb color profile even though 99 srgb coverage is a selling point on the monitor's web page for some reason but if you've got a calibration tool the six axis color adjustments will let you take care of that easily and just about anything else you can set it to 6-bit or 8-bit color adjust pixel response times although as usual i found medium was the best compromise and much better than older ips panels by the way you can tinker with their black stabilizer feature which is similar to benq's black equalizer a contrast reducing effect that makes it easier to see objects in shadows in games without washing out all of the colors on screen you can use any of the pre-configured gaming modes that monkey around with color gamma and sharpness or you can make your own that you can switch to by pressing up on the joystick twice and then you can enable and disable a couple of lg's other killer features for the 34 um 67 as well the first is daz or dynamic action sync this one is pretty simple it's designed to reduce display lag or the time between the monitor receiving a frame and displaying it on the screen usually this feature is labeled on tvs as a game mode or similar and results in dramatically worse image quality thanks to less pixel processing but in the case of the 34 um 67 i can't find any reason with my bare eyes to turn it off it looked exactly the same to me and the second killer app compliance with the optional adaptive sync portion of the displayport 1.2 a standard and amd freesync certification this monitor supports dynamic refresh rate gaming where your supported system can effectively tell the monitor when to refresh the image eliminating the issues associated with v-sync on so that is stuttering in leg and v-sync off that tearing effect where there seems to be a horizontal line through the image where there's half of one frame and half of the next one on the screen at the same time there are some caveats here though in addition to a compliant display you'll need a supported amd dedicated or onboard graphics solution you'll need a displayport cable curiously not included in the box and you'll need a freesync compatible driver so i used a beta 1 provided by amd for my evaluation of this monitor yes friends nvidia graphics card owners will not be able to take advantage of the dynamic refresh rate of this monitor unless nvidia decides to go down the dp 1.2 a open standard route sometime in the future instead of asking monitor vendors to buy their own g-sync scaler chip something that at this time is quite expensive and only supports displayport input but nvidia claims will have other advantages down the line we can talk about that when that comes but first let's talk about the usage experience of this monitor i still love ultrawide for productivity but i'm also still not super stoked on 2560 by 1080 for that particular use case i found myself frustrated with the number of vertical pixels scrolling a lot the same way that i always was way back in the day of the dinosaurs when 16x10 monitors went out of fashion to be replaced by 16x9 1080p monitors and this issue it for me is made worse by the size of this display thanks to its ips panel contrast color vibrancy and viewing angles are non-issues but with pixel density this low even with no scaling text looks abominable and no amount of low blue light reading modes made it feel comfortable for me to use compared to its 3440 by 1440 brethren also from lg but i understand why lg did it this way they didn't really have a choice from the marketing this is a gaming monitor first and productivity monitor second and 3440 by 1440 is just about 80 percent more pixels than 2560 by 1080 which might make graphics card companies happy with all the video cards they'll be selling just so folks can play games at native res but might not thrill gamers too much and in games the pixel density bothers me a lot less i don't find anti-aliasing unnecessary like i did with dell's 5k monitor but four times aa was a good balance between playability of very demanding games like crysis 3 at very high settings on an r9 290x and image quality gaming on the screen this size is going to be immersive pretty much no matter how you slice it and thanks to its very low leg solid motion blur performance and 75 hertz panel that really does make a big difference over 60 by the way the 34 um 67 is a pleasure to game on but hold on a second linus you didn't even mention freesync yet you're right i didn't but i will now hear in the conclusion in spite of this monitor's presence in amd's freesync media materials and the prominent logo on the box i didn't find the implementation of freesync to be as useful as it can be in this case but it took me a few hours and a lifeline call to my buddy ryan shrout from pc perspective to figure out why i was encountering stuttering and tearing with freesync enabled when it was clearly working in amd's windmill demo it's because this monitor's adaptive refresh rate window is from 48 hertz to 75 hertz only 27 hertz that means even if you enable freesync with vsync also on the experience is pretty good as long as your frame rates remain pretty high other than the very slight input leg penalty similar to vsync that is caused by capping your frame rate like that and with it off so with vsync off you'll actually still get tearing anytime your game runs above 75 fps and there's more bad news too you'll get lag under 48 fps thanks to lg's selection of 48 hertz as the low end cutoff of the adaptive refresh rate window on this monitor but to be clear this is not a knock on freesync there are monitors with much wider like 100hz plus windows that go down to 40hz and the spec actually allows for windows as low as 9 hertz once panel technology improves and it's actually not a condemnation of the 34 um 67 as a gaming monitor either its size ips panel and ultra wide aspect ratio along with its incredible responsiveness for considering all of those things still make it a totally unique gaming experience it just means that those two technologies didn't complement each other as well as i was really hoping for in this case so this is cool we're giving away 30 one month xsplit professional codes all you got to do is enter in the form thread in the video description and winners will be selected one week from today april the 2nd pretty cool stuff not today april the 2nd on april the 2nd yay anyway if you don't know what xsplit is it's basically a broadcasting software that personally i absolutely love we use it every friday for our live show it allows us to change scenes it allows us to take a wide variety of different inputs and basically switch them around move people around we can import skype callers so that we can have people you know joining us for our podcast or video podcast as it were and it's awesome for game streamers especially when it's paired with xsplit gamecaster so there's broadcaster and gamecaster so gamecaster is great for gamers because it allows you to bring up a little overlays you can easily stop and start your stream and all that kind of good stuff and one of the coolest things about xsplit is that it is absolutely free for the basic version so all you gotta do is head over to xsplit.com linus to start streaming and recording in hd today so guys thanks for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you thought it sucked leave a comment uh hopefully at the link in the video description to our forum if you want to discuss it with our community members also linked in the video description you can give us a contribution you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one and you can change your amazon bookmarked one with our affiliate codes we get a small kickback whenever you buy stuff on amazon like maybe this monitor for example that kind of stuff helps us out a lot thanks again for watching as always don't forget to subscribe and follow and all of that good stuff\n"