Make room on your desk (and in the airspace on either side of your desk) for what may be the most over-the-top gaming monitor of 2017.
It's Samsung's ultra-wide, 49-inch CHG90 display, unveiled on Friday, and it is certain to make your games feel more immersive and your desk feel, uh, too small. To get a sense of just how wide this monitor is, consider that the average screen size for a television is somewhere around 47 inches.
Unlike a TV, however, the CHG90's 49-inch measurement refers to width, not diagonal screen size. So what you get is an eyebrow-raising 32:9 aspect ratio and a 3,840-by-1,080 resolution, which is equivalent to two full HD displays placed side by side. And with the CHG90's asking price of $1,499, you could fit two decent full HD displays into both its footprint and its price tag.
Still, owning what is probably the widest monitor on the market would earn you some enviable bragging rights. As Samsung notes in its press release, gamers who buy a CHG90 "no longer need to worry about the logistics, expenses, and bezel interference that occur when combining multiple smaller monitors together for an expanded view."
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The CHG90, along with its smaller 27-inch and 31.5-inch cousins, feature 178-degree viewing angles and support AMD's improved FreeSync 2 standard for syncing monitors and graphics cards to minimize stutters and tears and reduce latency. The entire lineup also features HDR support for more vivid colors and deeper blacks.
Samsung said it is working with game developers to boost the stable of games that support HDR, which is currently mostly limited to a few TV shows and movies. Two upcoming titles with HDR support are Star Wars: Battlefront II and Need for Speed Payback.
The CHG90 is available for pre-order at Amazon, pre-orders for the 31.5-inch CHG70 are exclusively through Newegg, and the 27-inch is at Samsung.com.
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