Cooler Master coming this month with two gaming monitors – update
Cooler Master has announced two curved gaming monitors. The company comes with a 144Hz ultrawide model with a screen diagonal of 34″ and a 165Hz model of 27″ with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The screens will be released in the US in February.
The Cooler Master GM34-CW is an ultrawide monitor with a screen diagonal of 34″ and a resolution of 3440×1440 pixels. The screen has a curvature of 1500R, has a refresh rate of 144Hz and supports FreeSync 2 HDR. The monitor has a brightness of 400cd/m² and has received VESA’s DisplayHDR400 certification.The GM34-CW features a quantum dot va panel, and can display up to 95 percent of the dci-p3 color gamut. Cooler Master also advertises a 1ms gray-to-gray response time. .
The screen comes with a monitor base that is height adjustable, although it can also be replaced with a 75x75mm vesa mount. The GM34-CW has two displayport connections, two HDMI ports and a 3.5mm jack for audio. The monitor will be available in February, according to Cooler Master, and will have a suggested retail price of USD 799, which, converted and including VAT, amounts to approximately 863 euros. It is still unknown when the screen will be available in the Benelux.
The GM27-CF in turn is a smaller variant with a 27″ panel. This screen has a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels, a refresh rate of 165Hz and a brightness of 300cd/m². This model also has a VA panel and a curvature of 1500R. The screen does not contain quantum dots and does not support HDR. The screen is also certified for FreeSync and can display 90 percent of the dci-p3 color space. According to Cooler Master, the GM27-CF has a gray-to-gray response time of 3ms .
This screen also comes with an adjustable monitor base that can be replaced with a 75mm vesa adapter. The monitor contains a single displayport output, two HDMI connections and a 3.5mm jack. This screen would also be released in February and has a suggested retail price of $299. Converted and including VAT, this is about 323 euros.
Update, 13:47: Cooler Master announces that the products will be released in February in the US. This has been corrected in the article.