I took delivery of one of these earlier in the week. Disclaimer: I’m not a hawkeyed display fiend like some people - this is my first “gaming” monitor and my experience is limited in this space. I’m a large-format display die-hard though and I’m coming from a 43" LG 43UD79-B - the latest in a long line of 37"+ displays I’ve used over the last ~15 years. None of which were high refresh rate or even terribly nice panels. Just big.
First impressions were great, everything after that had me strongly considering a return. I had problems with text rendering, especially white text on grey/black backgrounds. Also I couldn’t view my system BIOS because the monitor seemed to have issues with at-boot resolution changes and would just shut itself off. The on-screen display was also generally slow and sometimes buggy. The panel itself had promise though so I tried to live with things for a few more days.
The firmware updates available on the Aorus website (f02 and f03) didn’t fix things. However the same unit has a product listing on the Gigabyte support page which links to beta firmware f04. This, so far, seems to have remedied all of my above complaints. No issues with boot splash screens/system bios, text rendering is significantly improved, and the OSD is much nicer to operate.
Now that it works properly I have it running at 4k 144hz with HDMI 2.1 on a 3090 and couldn’t be happier. My take is that this display doesn’t cede any ground at all on the productivity side, while feeling like a whole new world when it comes to gaming. My only real complaint is that there is some color shift near the edges of the screen. That’s just part of the territory with VA panels of this size and it’s not enough to really bother me, but might be a problem for some people. Those people can hopefully afford to buy and replace LG OLEDs or will just have to wait for new products, because there isn’t a better LCD panel available today.
That’s the best I’ve got. It does everything real good. Buy it if you want a big monitor in the ~1000 USD range.
@Eruluthien , let me know if you have any specific questions regarding the FV43U or large-format computing in general. Large-format 4k displays can be a compelling option if you’re looking to replace a bunch of small units. I’m a spreadsheet monkey by day and 100% prefer my real big home display over the side-by-side standard issue 1080p Dells at my office. Big 4k is basically regular-size 1080p tiled two-by-two but with no bezels, and that is as awesome as it sounds.