Are Ultrawide Monitors Worth It?

If you're stuck between purchasing an ultrawide monitor to replace your existing monitor and grabbing an additional monitor to extend your setup, there are a few things to consider.

As always, skip around in the chapters below:

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Use Cases
3:23 - Flat vs. Curved
4:05 - Regular vs. Ultrawide
7:00 - Conclusion

[ryanbg]

You have great content - I have two of those desks from Home Depot. They are great for the price.

[diogogames]

How’s that Dell screen for gaming? Hear there are some flickering issues with Freesync/G-sync? Is the ghosting okay? Is the screen fluid?
Thanks in advance and nice video!

[NecroMoz]

The best reason I've found not to do it is in-home streaming. It's a nightmare trying to stream 21:9 to 16:9. Other than that, go for it. I upgraded from a 38" ultrawide to a 32" 4k OLED and don't regret it personally.

[vrollroll]

Great vid! Could you play games 16:9 and then use the remaining 5:9 portion for productivity for browser or other apps?

[kiekiek]

For simracing and Flightsimming 21:9 or even wider is a must, a true game changer. For most triple AAA open world games or 3rd person action, fps-games (maybe if competitive) it is more of a luxury and I can live without. It is also quite demanding, so I switch to regular 16:9 1440p often if the framerate struggles on Ultrawide. For office work or otherwise, well I do not really do that outside of Words, so not really an opinion about that.

[DelScully]

funny because I just bought that same Dell monitor to go with my alienware ultrawide oled lol, basically will just use the oled as a purely gaming monitor or movies, and the dell for basic content consumption, work, etc.. Want my oled too last for years so less static content on it the better! Now I need to set up my cinema display as a vertical monitor too lol, hope my gpu can handle it.

[playman]

Hi there, please what distance from table to lower side of monitor if you move monitor to max height ?

[Ylvloha]

Ultrawides are great but honestly, I feel like 21:9 isn’t worth it the larger aspect ratios though are so worth it