BenQ EX3501R Ultrawide Wide 35 Inch QHD 100 Hz Curved Computer Monitor with AMD FreeSync, Brightness Intelligence Plus, USB-C, HDMI and DP for Optimum Gaming Experience

I've had this monitor for about a month and a half. I wanted to come back and review this monitor because I wanted people to know my experience so far.Most importantly, this monitor has a beautiful picture and it is very easy on the eyes when using for long hours. My biggest concern about this monitor is it is a VA panel and not an IPS panel like the majority of monitors out there. VA panels have some trade-offs both positive and negative. One of the positives is it has great contrast ratio, and this monitor definitely has awesome contrast. The scary negative is that VA panels can have ghosting issues. This monitor has some ghosting when running at 60Hz. That said, if you buy this monitor I highly recommend you run it at 100Hz. It's a 100Hz panel so you should be running it at 100Hz anyway. As a regular user looking for ghosting, it appears to have virtually no ghosting at 100Hz.As a gamer, I turn VSYNC off in games and use the RivaTuner app (suggested by a friend) to cap output frame rate to 96Hz. Then I use nVidia's new drivers that support Freesync for GTX 1080 and up, and have had great success with this. All of the games I like to play work without issue. Of course if you don't want to mess with Freesync, just leave your games frame rate uncapped and let 'er rip.I paid full price for this monitor (around $750 USD at the time) and have no regrets. I give this monitor high marks all around. It's a beauty.

I'm not a gamer so I can't attest to it's gaming performance, but for office applications like having multiple spread sheets or word documents open side by side I love it. Truly, there's a lot of acreage on this screen. I also use it for music and video editing where the extra wide screen lets me see more scrubber area on timelines. The brightness is very good and colors are decently accurate for photo editing too. My eyes not being what they once were, I have the desktop resolution of my Radeon RX5600 XT set to 3440x1440 at 100Hz with 175% zoom. This allows me to sit with my eyes almost 3 feet from the screen and at this distance the 1800r curve seems natural and is perfect!I also have a small NUC PC connected to the monitor that I use with the monitors built in PBP (picture by picture) feature, very handy.I have run color and dead pixel tests recently, great color results and no dead pixels after 11 months.Overall, for the $560 I paid, I still very pleased.

UPDATE: I have had this monitor for a year and 2 months as my primary workstation for my job and it is still working absolutely perfect no screen flicker no dead pixels.. I highly recommend buying this monitor if you're looking for a widescreen!I just had it delivered a few days ago and This monitor is worth every penny (so far)..I will say it's heavy but the vivo arm works great with this . You do need to buy a benq vesa adaptor from their website as it's not a normal vesa on the back monitor.. If you can get this for 550 to 600or so def worth it. if it's 700 or more I would refrain. only because there are some that are lower millisecond response with higher hrtz than 100 for $700 to 1000...Update as of 2/6/2021. Iam still extremely pleased with this monitor .Everything and more for Work and play !

I was on a quest for the best monitor to replace my former dual Asus PA248's from 8 years ago. Looking to use for CAD and web browsing primarily, but I also game so gaming performance is a nice to have. Biggest criteria are no backlight bleed, text must render crisply, zero flicker, and no dead pixels on arrival.I went through four other monitors in a month, all with issues, before settling on this one. The samsung 43, 34, 34 quantum dot, and a Dell U3818DW. VA panels are superior, IMO. IPS is great, but the rich black and no backlight bleed is worth the minor hit in image response time. It is imperceptible on this panel, really. I am hyper-aware of lag/blur, and I am 100% satisfied.The samsungs all had awful menus. The worst ever, out of the 20+ monitors I have used, of basically every brand readily available. Insultingly bad. Also, the qled panel had worse contrast than the non-qled. The dell flickered like crazy at 60hz, but was otherwise amazing. Its USB kvm and auto-switch thing was superior.The Benq, hands down, has the best panel, EXCEPT FOR ONE THING: as others have pointed out, there is a small band of dark/blur on the vertical edges, as well as a quarter inch of dead space all around the thin bezel edges. The blur distorts the picture if you are looking straight on at the dead center of the monitor. If you shift your head to the side, and look exactly perpendicular to the curvature of the screen, it is perfectly clear. I don't know why this is, but it is disappointing for sure. Other than that, this is the most beautiful panel I've ever had, save for my LG C7P 65in OLED TV.One other gripe is the USB setup. One type C upstream, and two downstream ports. If it had two type B fullsize ports, and did USB switching, like the dell did, this would be the ultimate monitor. Switching inputs is quick, otherwise, so I am putting up with a external Sabrent USB switch for now.

This monitor is simply amazing!!!! Clear, dark, bright, crisp, no blur and just badass looking. I feel so much more productive and excited to gets things done when I’m working or browsing or gaming.It very solid, sturdy and built well. Was easy to assemble and get up and running. Setting features are neat also.One caveat, is make sure your laptop supports ultrawide resolution. My work laptop does not. But my Lenovo l340 i5-9th generatio with GTX 4MB and 16GB of ram is running top notch on this.I was also lucky to get this on an installment plan so easy on my budget. I highly recommend to get this monitor for the price.