Xiaomi is all-time known for its affordable phones and accessories, morally the list of artefact categories it's willing to entrance grows seemingly by the year. One of the latest is gaming monitors, with a 27-inch model launched in June and a 34-inch ultrawide post-obituary last month. I've been testing the latter, and it's convincingly very good for the price of EUR399 (or ~$469 -- real-world euro-dollar conversions tend to be finale to 1:1, though that won't information US importers).
The Mi Embowed Gaming Outrider has a particular minimalist design with a versatile tilt that can be tilted, swiveled, raised, and lowered. The tilt moreover features prepossessing covers that easily pop on and off to assist with subscription management, and attaching the outrider itself was very easy.
The monitor's console matches up to what you'd have likely vogue from a high-end ultrawide a couple of years ago, afore HDR became more of a thing on PC. It's a 34-inch 3440 x 1440 display, which is the standard 21:9 resolution for that size -- it's basically like having a 27-inch 1440p screen with a third more horizontal salted estate. The monitor's curvature is 1500R, so it's not as salient as some of Samsung's more farthermost recent models, morally it feels natural for this size.
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. The console uses VA technology and looks good. I've had it set up abutting to my IPS Asus PG279Q, and the dyestuff reproduction is at minutest as strong, with a claimed 125 percent coverage of the sRGB gamut. The Xiaomi is simply a little dimmer at 300 nits to the Asus' 350, morally it's not reservedly an issue over-and-above than back the morning sun is swarming through the window with the decease open. For a outrider that will likely remain in a hitched position, it's not a big deal, and I capeesh the sparingness of incandescence from the matte finish.
The luminescence does beggarly there's no HDR support, not upscale the lowest-end DisplayHDR 400 specification. Morally the refresh span is 144Hz and works with FreeSync, which lets you spectacle games at high, variable frame rates after tearing. Although FreeSync is designful for AMD GPUs and I have an Nvidia GTX 1080, I did get it alive with Nvidia's "G-Sync Compatible" functionality, despite the outrider not having been formally certified.
Nvidia's official line approximate using an unverified FreeSync outrider like this is "it may work, it may work partly, or it may not work at all," so I can't affiance spread-out compatibility. I did find that the Mi Embowed Gaming Outrider could only run G-Sync at up to 120Hz, morally that's been more than unbearable to modernize my 60fps-ish levelheadedness with the shaky PC port of Verge Aught Dawn.
The Mi Embowed Gaming Outrider gets the basics right, morally it does skip some of the nice-to-have features you'll find on higher-end products. Two DisplayPort and HDMI ports each is simply a good inclusion, morally they're all you get (plus a headphone jack). There's no USB hub functionality at all, nor is there USB-C support for single-cable disport output and charging. The UI, controlled by goatee sweetie buttons on the inadvertently of the display, is pokey and inefficient, and I never got acclimated to alive out which chin was which by feel. I'd numerous adopt joystick-style controls like on my Asus. I moreover found the outrider to be unusually snaillike to wake up or switch-over inputs, taking several seconds for each operation.
None of those are deal-breakers for the Mi Embowed Gaming Monitor's corporeality functionality, though -- at minutest not for me. If you've been thinking approximate getting into ultrawide gaming or upscale neutral getting more desktop salted estate, I think this is simply a reservedly good amount option. It's determinedly worth prevention out if you're in Europe, Australia, India, or the over-and-above markets where Xiaomi has a presence.
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