Gigabyte AORUS MO34WQC2 34″ Ultrawide 240Hz OLED Gaming Monitor Review

A Closer Look

The AORUS MO34WQC2 features a stunning 34″ ultrawide panel, giving you a lot of extra width to fit more work on screen or get more immersed in your favourite games and movies. The panel is QD-OLED, which you can see has a slight purple tint, but this is only really visible when you shine a fairly powerful light source on it; it doesn’t make your image look purple.

There’s a slight 1800R curve to the panel too, it’s very gentle, so it sort of feels like a hybrid between a flat panel and the more extreme curved panels that seem to be becoming less popular as the technology matures.

It is a glossy panel, which is certainly preferred on OLED, as it gives the colours and contrast a lot more pop. However, it does with reflection mitigation very well, and only under a powerful light source did I find it gave me a clear reflection, and even then it’s dull and diffused, so using the monitor in a well-lit room shouldn’t be an issue.

Branding is kept pretty minimal, with just a small Gigabyte logo on the bottom bezel.

The stand is pretty heavy, with a wide and durable weighted base. There’s a cable routing hole in the back of the stand, as well as a small metal badge that says “OLED” should you ever forget what type of panel you bought.

It also says KVM series on the stand, which seems a bit daft to me. Would you need reminding what kind of ports it has on the back, too? To be honest, I would rather they just left the stand looking clean and tidy.

The stand does have a low profile though, so you can still push your keyboard back out of the way and over the stand should you need to free up some desktop space.

The panel has a reasonable amount of ergonomics, allowing you to twist it left to right, tilt it forwards a little, backwards, and some height adjustment. The only thing it doesn’t have is a portrait mode, but that’s not a common feature on ultrawide monitors anyway, as the back of the stand would have to be quite tall.

The panel itself is very thin, as you can see at the edge. However, there’s quite a bulky back section on this monitor, and that will be required for the bigger heatsinks. 240Hz OLED is going to generate quite a lot of heat, so pulling that heat away faster results in reducing image retention and keeping the monitor running at its peak performance. What I do love is that this means there’s no active fan in the back. I reviewed a few OLEDs in recent years that have a wheezing little fan in the back, and I hated the sound of it every time, but the AORUS MO34WQC2 runs completely silently.

Around the back, you’ll find a pair of HDMI ports, a DisplayPort, Type-C, USB up and downstream, as well as both headphone and microphone jacks.

From the back, the monitor is pretty standard-looking, and there are no outlandish graphics or ARGB lighting here, and honestly, that’s quite refreshing. All the extra junk they put on the back of gaming monitors only increases the price, and while some may love fancy designs, I’m going to wall mount my monitor and never look back here, so this is more my speed.