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LG 45GR95QE-B 45" OLED Curved UltraGear Gaming Monitor $2249 + Bonus 10% Gift Card + Delivery @ Harvey Norman

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LG 45GR95QE-B 45" OLED Curved UltraGear Gaming Monitor $2249 + Bonus 10% Gift Card + Delivery @ Harvey Norman
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rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 10:09 harveynorman.com.au (282 clicks)
Last edited 01/12/2023 - 14:19 by 1 other user

Today Only! It was the gift card that triggered the purchase for us. Picked this up this morning using my Latitude Creditline Card, gift card issued on the spot enabled us to pick up some other items for the kids. Very good price. Amazing screen, normal RRP is $2999. Details below

45" WQHD (3440x1440) Curved (800R) OLED
HDR10 / DCI-P3 98.5%**
Anti-Glare / Low Reflection
240Hz Refresh Rate
0.03ms (GtG) Response Time
WQHD@240Hz from HDMI 2.1
NVIDIA® G-SYNC® CompatibleAMD FreeSync™ Premium**
Manufacturer Link: https://www.lg.com/au/it-monitors/lg-45gr95qe-b

Note: The concern over PPI were tested and it makes no difference to the Windows 11 experience. Verified by poster.
Note2: The price subtract the gift card at the end leaves you out of pocket for $2024 Not bad at all.

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  • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 10:16

    Ahh so you don't count the gift card as a discount. The $224 gift card that came with this was effectively cash back in my pocket. So my price came to $2024 hence why I listed it that way. All good, glad I can share the news anyway!

  • BLB1984 on 01/12/2023 - 10:17
    +1

    Was $2249 or that is the price?

    • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 10:18

      $2249 is the price then they gift you a %10 gift card aka $224 with it. So effectively you pay $2024

      • BLB1984 on 01/12/2023 - 10:19

        Gotcha

    • CrazySurfaNZ on 01/12/2023 - 10:59

      Yeah confusing having 'was' in the title

  • LikezDaBargainz on 01/12/2023 - 10:18
    +6

    Hope you like your purchase. For me, that resolution for the screen size would be a deal breaker - especially at the price point.

    • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 10:21
      -1

      Too expensive to run 2160p 4K on a widescreen at 100+fps. Your looking at $3k GPU's alone.

      • xrailgun on 01/12/2023 - 10:52

        Majority of people getting $2000++ monitors don't even hesitate a second about spending $3000 on the GPU.

      • jasswolf on 01/12/2023 - 12:25
        +2

        There's 49" Samsung DQHD QD-OLED ultrawides with 240Hz refresh rate that have been going for between $1400 and $1700 on sale depending on how you stack your discounts. Comparatively, the LG is an enormous waste of money.

        But the 4K argument is reductive given how widespread DLSS is, and frame generation will serve most gamers well in pushing FPS. A few basic graphical tweaks and a 4070 Ti can do plenty.

        Buying a monitor to suit your current graphics cards' frame rate on ultra is a surefire way to bastardise the visual fidelity of your setup.

        • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 14:26
          -2

          Yep and it's about a foot tall. Enjoy it. Yes a 4070Ti is on par with my RTX3080 , it can do plenty but on 4k? be my guest, prove me wrong. Providing advice based on uninformed opinion it a little reductive don't you think? Your welcome to it though while I will sit in front of OLED 1440p with crystal fidelity and I don't have to rip a whole in my wallet to drive it.

          FYI My daily driver is dual 4K screens so you know, also had one of the very first 32" GSYNC 4k IPS screens to hit Australia (XB321HK Predator) as i was very keen to game at UHD resolution. Sadly it was not to be. See my other response below - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/14665119/redir

          • jasswolf on 01/12/2023 - 15:03
            +1

            @rtfmoz: It's a 49" 32:9 5120x1440 quantum dot OLED panel, it's not taller than the LG? Wider, sure, but it's also more pixel dense and doesn't use a matte coating that marrs image clarity and perceived contrast. It's the superior monitor tech at this point, but even glossy WOLED has its flaws against glossy QD-OLED.

            Yes a 4070Ti is on par with my RTX3080 , it can do plenty but on 4k? be my guest, prove me wrong. Providing advice based on uninformed opinion it a little reductive don't you think?

            If you smartly dial things down a little from ultra settings with a focus on maintaining perceived image quality (typically 25-40% increase in performance) then turn on DLSS quality (typically a 30-50% increase in performance at 4K), 4K is absolutely possible. In fact, there are games where pathtracing occurs due to this technology in concert with frame generation (50-80% increase in FPS with RTX 40 series), and that number will increase over time.

            And you've completely ignored my point on not buying a monitor for your current graphics standard. People should be pushing the price-fidelity curve on display technology, squeezing more out of their dollar in terms of angular resolution, refresh rate, response times, and HDR presentation. QD-OLED - which I'm again naming because I think you've read it as QLED - hits a really good balance today, with the 2nd gen panels having incredible colour volume and balance between black levels, clarity and contrast depsite lacking a polariser.

            This monitor is a tech demo being sold at retail. The flex panel was interesting, but it gets completely walked over by current Samsung offerings.

            • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 15:51

              @jasswolf: Bought the G8… returned it, too small. The one you’re referring to is super wide but not high at all. The 45” is much much higher vertically in size so the immersion is great. Know all about QD-OLED , did a lot of comparisons to pick the G8 over its competitors. Saw the 49”at PAX, hugely wide but again very thin.

            • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 16:10

              @jasswolf:

              And you've completely ignored my point on not buying a monitor for your current graphics standard. People should be pushing the price-fidelity curve on display technology, squeezing more out of their dollar in terms of angular resolution, refresh rate, response times, and HDR presentation. QD-OLED - which I'm again naming because I think you've read it as QLED - hits a really good balance today, with the 2nd gen panels having incredible colour volume and balance between black levels, clarity and contrast depsite lacking a polariser.

              No I didn't. I did exactly that when I bought the 60Hz 4k IPS 4 years ago and patiently waited for new monitors to arrive, better graphics cards to drive them and standards to support the throughput. Over a year there was nothing above 60Hz. Then announcements about coming tech and finally something above that magic limit arrived and the price was ridiculous. Expected really, they have to pay for the R&D. So two more years I waited, and more monitors have arrived but only recently the OLED monitors have started emerging. Now we have this weird state of affairs now where super wide loses all its vertical size for what? PPI? Who gives a shit about PPI in a game that's throwing pixels everywhere. The only people that deeply care about PPI in a computer game are those watching Lara Croft's ass climb a mountain in tomb raider. But FPS? yeah no.

              The real enemy is sheer volume. The more pixels the greater the grunt so now technologies such as Vulcan, DLSS2/3 are emerging to find more efficient ways to render the image across the same space. Sure the cards will get faster but then ray tracing is pretty damn cool too but still we are stalled on the number of pixels we have to render. That magic UHD resolution is going to take a 4090+ to render her nicely at speed and not all of us, especially the mainstream market can afford it. Thats why I didn;t go 4k and that's why i didn't go the 49" 5120 x 1440? Serious? Rather do my 3440 x 1440 on a much taller screen with 800R immersion. I thought that curve was too strong but because of its sheer size, it's not. For everyone complaining about the cost… she is a big, beautiful panel and QD-OLED have nothing close to this in size… yet.

              • jasswolf on 01/12/2023 - 18:50

                @rtfmoz: Literally can buy a 42" 120Hz OLED TV with ALLM that meets your vertical immersion requirements for $1000-$1200, but sure.

                The real enemy is sheer volume.

                Mesh shaders, DLSS 3.5 (upscaling, frame generation, ray reconstruction), DirectStorage, Sampler Feedback. Feel free to have a read, and then look into future tech like neural radiance caching, neural texture compression, neural volumetrics, AI-accelerated physics models.

                It's all getting a lot more capable for a lot less per pixel.

                Who gives a shit about PPI

                People who want to push closer to a resolution indistinguishable from reality, because it reduces eyestrain and increases immersion. You have to push motion resolution too, but if you can somewhat uncouple latency from frame pacing or mitigate it the same game streaming service do, 250 FPS via upscaling can probably become 1000 FPS through frame generation with 1-2 ms latency.

                From there it's just about pushing OLED, microLED, QNED (not the LG miniLED branding), etc to 1000Hz.

                There's no version of this argument where anyone else will recommend this monitor, I'm sorry.

    • reactor-au on 01/12/2023 - 10:21
      +1

      It does seem odd when this res is usually in the 34" ultra wide

    • Dienk on 01/12/2023 - 10:22

      Easier to get 240hz though

  • Kazusa on 01/12/2023 - 10:18
    +4

    just a warning: 1440p on this size is very low PPI

    • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 10:19

      Well aware but a gaming rig that can run 2160p north of 100fps is very very expensive.

  • xrailgun on 01/12/2023 - 10:53
    +2

    OLED + this PPI is big yikes for text

    • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 11:03

      I share your concern but the purpose of this screen is immersive gaming at a resolution that can be driven by todays GPU’s and this fits that mandate perfectly. Happy to post a review when we are allowed to use it at Xmas. Don’t know how she will hide that box from the kids though….

    • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 12:05

      Non issue, see https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/14664454/redir

  • Ryxxi on 01/12/2023 - 11:14
    +3

    Low pixel density.. not worth. Get a 42 inc c2 4k for half price ?!? How is this a deal lmao.

    • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 11:46

      Not a proper gaming monitor, only has HDMI and no DP. I looked at these when considering a monitor.

    • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 12:08

      Non issue, see https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/14664454/redir

    • bleeder on 01/12/2023 - 12:58

      You can't really find C2s anymore, even second hand they don't show up much. Going to have to go for C3 and most the deals just ended, best you're going to get is $1400 and then it's not designed as a PC monitor, it's a TV. That said, I'd go for the C3 haha

      Edit. Looks like all the C3 deals ended now, back up to $1900-$2600 it goes

      • cille745 on 01/12/2023 - 15:26

        The C2 at the discounted price is better value than anything in the monitor space, especially considering LG covers burn in for their TVs but not their monitors

  • Pebblebug on 01/12/2023 - 11:41

    The 10% back as gift card is only valid for 1 month I believe?

  • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 11:53
    +2

    Because of all the comments here I decided to talk the wife into letting me test it so we could return it if needed, within the return period. Pulled it out, put in on the desk, plugged in the DP cable and booted up Windows 11.

    Sorry to say but you guys are worried about nothing. The lack of PPI makes no difference to the Windows 11 experience. It looks bloody amazing. The ONLY place I noticed something was the icon text on the desktop. I even started up Microsoft Word and started typing. It looked perfectly fine. Then of course I spun up Starfield and marvelling at the colors across the amazing wide screen on this baby.

    It is a screen and a half and god damn if it doesn't look as good as I has hoped. Better even. Now it's back in the box for Xmas.

    • Ruddaga on 01/12/2023 - 12:18

      Should've just gotten the 42" C3 TV. 1200 in the last sales + sick as panels.

      • bleeder on 01/12/2023 - 13:00

        Was gonna say you can still get an OK deal at Appliance Central, but just checked and it's back up to $2600 there :(

      • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 13:48

        Thought.about it but reviews as a gaming monitor were not kind, console good, PC not good.

        • Ruddaga on 01/12/2023 - 23:57

          I mean I've used the 48" CX as a PC monitor for 3 years.

          It's had zero problems + looks great in pc and console gaming.

      • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 14:00

        Looked at this as well but have you seen the resolution? If you think 3440 x 1440 is hard work for an RTX3080 wait until you try 5120 x 1440!

        The vertical size is also tiny on a lot of the widescreens. The immersion would be affected as a result. Seriously why would I buy monitor that's %20-30 smaller vertically than my current screen? That why we went the LG 45". Would you believe it is the cheapest curved OLED gaming monitor that maintains the vertical size for immersion. All the other options are $3000+

        • jasswolf on 01/12/2023 - 15:12

          You're making a pretty strong case for a VR headset, which with a controlled lighting environment does a pretty good job with blacks even when they use LCD panels, provided you bother to set the brightness to an appropriate level (eg. 100 nits peak white).

          Far more immersive for sim content, with far fewer everyday compromises for computing. The Quest 3 (or Quest 2 if you can handle the fixed IPD settings), or even something like this looks far more affordable in the wake of your choice.

          • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 15:44

            @jasswolf: Have one already. Not quite there yet. Next iteration I hope

    • LikezDaBargainz on 01/12/2023 - 13:27
      +1

      I think the commenters are just trying to point out, that should you put it besides some of the other OLED options, you would see a notable difference, - ultimately as long as you're happy thats all that matters :)

      • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 14:02
        +1

        Absolutely put it against a 4k screen and you will notice it. Can you find any curved 4k OLED gaming monitors this size though? Now look at what they cost, and you have your answer. It took some months to finally land on this screen. Look at the resolution of 4k … you're now dealing with 2160p instead of 1440p. How are you going to drive 5120x2160p wide screen gaming? You're not that's what so you will end up dropping back to 1440p to get the FPS you need for your game. Since primary use is gaming machine I don't need 4k or the cost of it.

        For those wondering how this all works, multiply the resolution H x W and that is how many raw pixels you're dealing with.
        UHD 3840 x 2160 is about 8 million pixels - maxes out at 50-60 fps on.an RTX3080 GPU. This is why most people game at 1440p. It will change as moe powerful cards and better technology come out.

        • cille745 on 01/12/2023 - 15:27

          Why wouldn’t you get a C3 for almost $1000 less, put that into the GPU and get a significantly better experience overall?

          • rtfmoz on 01/12/2023 - 15:43

            @cille745: Thought.about it but reviews as a gaming monitor were not kind, console good, PC not good.

        • bleeder on 01/12/2023 - 15:42

          But as better tech comes out they will push the games harder, so they probably still won't run 4K easily.

  • eccaz on 01/12/2023 - 17:17

    Couldn’t really call this a deal when the bigger, better Samsung costs less? Am I missing something?

  • devonjaks on 01/12/2023 - 17:38
    +1

    Had the LG Oled 45 for over 5 months replaces Samsung oled G8. It was night and day. The LG is the better monitor. It long and tall almost as tall as my C2. Text clarity is great as the letters are bigger. Sold it last week for the Samsung Oled G9 for work. I actually regret it as the text is smaller on the G9 and the gaming experience on the LG 45 cant be topped!

  • Taxi01 on 01/12/2023 - 19:56

    Agree with @rtfmoz and @devonjaks, the OLED and HDR is night and day for any content that supports it, be it watching netflix, disney, gaming, or doing data entry. No screen burn ins, gaming runs at 240MHz but tbh, i can't tell the difference when it's that high a frame rate and 100Mhz.

  • rtfmoz on 06/12/2023 - 08:58

    @jasswolf and yet… here they are ^^. Like I said it’s a damn good screen and you get what you pay for LG UltraGear 45GR95QE review: a giant OLED ultrawide perfect for gaming https://www.t3.com/reviews/lg-ultragear-45gr95qe-review. For gaming you need speed. You aren’t going to get that in high end resolution that’s accessible for the typical gamer. So go ahead provide all the justification you please, but the reality is for a OLED HDR screen at this price point it can’t be beat. TV’s don’t cut the mustard so listing them as options is pointless.

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