Sceptre 35" UltraWide Curved QHD Monitor 3440 x 1440p up to 120Hz HDR400 99% sRGB 300 Lux PIP PBP Build-in Speakers (C355B-QUN168)

This is a top-mid gaming monitor. If you are looking for "the state of the art", this is not it. This is a 120 Mhz refresh rate, 3440 x 1440 ultra wide curve monitor. Not quite heavy as I was expecting it, so the desk mount it a bit oversized. Still, the desk mount allows me to pivot and have more control about the position of the monitor and also more free space around.One thing to keep in mind is that this monitor has an amazing picture quality out of the box. 4K movies in 21:9? no problem. I had a Samsung Odysey G9, 49"... pretty cool but the refresh rate was not enough and my video (GeForce 3060) card simply could not deliver full power due to the large real estate. With this one? piece of cake.Wholehartedly, I like this monitor better than an ultra wide 49". Yes, the super large one seems better for work, but this one seems to be right on the sweetspot between gaming and productivity.Piece of advise: get a good DisplayPort cable, not the cheap ones, and you will get the full power of this monitor (better than HDMI).

I've had the 2020 Sceptre 35-inch as my primary monitor for a little over a year. I'd originally purchased it to be a secondary monitor to a beautiful LG 3440x1440 UW, but the Sceptre was so impressive I made it my primary.Fast forward to this past weekend: I decided to give my LG monitor to my college age daughter to use as her primary and bought myself the upgraded Sceptre here. I was mostly curious about HDR in gaming; plus, I have just enough OCD to really, really want both monitors to be the same brand. (The secondary monitor is setup to be vertical -- side note: a vertical ultrawide as a secondary monitor will change your life.)On my gaming PC, I flipped HDR on in Windows and then in Elden Ring, but didn't really notice much difference; after a bit of googling I discovered that it's best to leave HDR off in Windows and just enable it in game. Voila! The difference is subtle but definitely there -- particularly in elemental spells like fire, frost, etc. The animations are just _gorgeous_. Enabling HDR disables the ability to manually configure color and picture settings, but that's okay; everything looks fantastic. (At some point I'll test it on other games, but right now Elden Ring is life.) I also have FreeSync Premium enabled, despite having an nVidia card & the monitor not officially certified as being G-Sync compatible. It works.I also use my setup to work from home, and while my general configuration didn't change, having HDR switched "on" in the monitor settings -- despite not having the option to turn it on in Windows on my work laptop (likely a limitation of the docking station) -- I can definitely tell that the colors are richer. I use VS Code on the primary monitor and the color variants in the text are definitely more noticeable, as is the richness in the dark gray and black elements on the screen.As for the panel being VA vs IPS, well, that differentiation between the Sceptre (VA) and the LG (IPS) I just gave away was why I'd originally assumed I'd be keeping the LG as my main. I've been blown away at how wrong I was with that assumption. Maybe it's because the screen is curved, or maybe they're just really baller panels, but neither monitor has given me any distortion or variance in contrast, color, or hue at all. (Typically with a VA or TN panel, particularly when compared to an IPS, the display quality can vary depending on view angle -- especially when the panel is as large as this one is.) Even on the vertical monitor there's no difference in quality between content at the bottom, top, or middle of the screen.An added bonus to this model over the 2020 model is that this one has 2x DisplayPort connections and 2x HDMI, whereas the 2020 model has 1x DP and 3x HDMI.Neither panel has had any issues with dead pixels etc., and both looked stunning right out of the box.Whether you're considering this monitor for gaming or for productivity, you simply cannot go wrong with the quality for the price. If you're considering this monitor or the 2020 model (since it's still available to purchase)... well, that'll depend on how much HDR, an extra DisplayPort connection, and 120Hz vs 100Hz matters to you. You can't go wrong with either option, and if the savings is worth more than the upgrades, go for it. For what it's worth, particularly for gaming, I would advocate for the newer model just for HDR and 120Hz. I mean, it's 24Hz away from 144Hz.And for the record, I did not receive anything for this review; I purchased both monitors at retail price just like every other pleb.

The monitor is great. Great quality, picture, etc. Easy to use. The only down side is that Amazon falsely advertises this as build-in speakers. This has no speakers. Amazon needs to get with the program. I'm keeping this, but shame on Amazon. I wanted to have the speakers in the monitor as I use 2 computers at once, but I can at least plug in desktop speakers to the monitor and still have sound.Bad Amazon!

Overall, this is a decent monitor. The image quality is generally good, text is crisp, and the screen has plenty of available brightness. The specs claim the brightness is 300 nits; I don't have a way to measure it but it looks brighter than that compared with other monitors I have tried out. I haven't detected any appreciable backlight bleed at the edges, and it doesn't suffer from the "IPS glow" that IPS panels have, so dark scenes should display as intended.If you are a gamer, you will probably like this monitor. However, if you are planning to use it for general computer use like web browsing and photo editing, you may not be as happy with it. One of the issues for me is the claim of 99% sRGB. I think it could be more than that, depending on which input you use (see update below). Yellows, Blues, and especially Reds are overly saturated, as you would expect on a monitor with a wider gamut.Update: I discovered that the oversaturated colors only occur when using the HDMI inputs. When I switched to the DisplayPort input, the colors seem pretty close to 99% sRGB, so using DisplayPort is an acceptable work-around, at least for me. Still, it seems pretty odd that using the HDMI input would produce such a noticeably different range of colors.When using the HDMI input, I was able to tame the colors to an acceptable level using the RGB and CMY fine-tuning controls, but I discovered that the monitor doesn't remember the settings after waking up from sleep or after switching inputs. The colors you see on the screen revert to their default settings of "50" even though the numeric values have stayed where you set them. If you drill down through the menus, select a (fine tuning) color, and press either the up or down arrow, the color on the screen snaps back to where you set it, but it's not practical to do that for every color every time you wake the computer or change inputs. I contacted Sceptre tech support about what I observed and after investigating they confirmed that it is a bug in the firmware.Another issue I discovered is that there is something wrong with the backlighting of the screen of the unit I received. (See uploaded photo.) On the right side of the screen you can see some hot spots and non-uniformity in the brightness, and there seems to be a darker band running horizontally along the middle part of the screen. To be fair, these irregularities are not really noticeable in everyday use of the monitor, but they are an indication of either poor design or quality control. Interestingly, I saw a screen photo on another review that shows a much more uniform backlight than what I see on mine, so the one you get may be better (or worse).Something unexpected – it hums – and the brighter the backlight setting, the louder it hums. It's not very loud even when the backlight is at 100, but unless you're wearing headphones, or have a computer with a noisy fan, you'll probably hear it.Update: Here's a helpful tip... when the "Color > Temperature" is set to "User" (which allows you to adjust the overall color balance by tweaking the Red Green and Blue levels) the Tint and Saturation controls are greyed out. *However* I found that if you change the Temperature mode to one of the presets (like Normal), you can then adjust the Tint and/or Saturation, and the setting you choose are retained when you switch back to "User". So if you want a little more or a little less saturation in "User" mode, you can still attain it.One last thing - I contacted Sceptre customer support a couple of times to discuss the issues with the color settings not being retained, and the uneven backlighting. Both times I received prompt and thoughtful replies - not the boilerplate brush-off some companies provide, or in the case of MSI, no response at all.

Works well and goes up to 120hz 1440p without having to set a custom resolution using Display Port. Not using it for a multimonitor so couldn't comment on pip, but works well as a single display and cleats up alot of desk real estate. Colors are good and with some menu tweaking the HDR does work well enough. Great for my needs (gaming and music production/office).