liyama GCB3480WQSU-B1 Red Eagle

The gaming goliath youre after?

- IAN EVENDEN

WE’VE SEEN ultrawide monitors before, but they never fail to impress. This model from Iiyama offers a good-sized 34-inch IPS screen that’s about as big as one and a half 28-inch widescreen displays, boasts nearly 5 million pixels, and brings with it some impressive brightness.

The curve in the screen means that not only is the box it’s delivered in bigger than you’d expect, but it takes up more space. We’re not entirely sold on the benefits of a gentle arc in your monitor—it means it can’t sit flat against a wall, and images in the corners are larger in your vision than those in the center. After decades of perfectly flat screens, having one that bends toward you can be a little disconcerting.