Reviews of Samsung LC27F398FWNXZA Samsung C27F398 27 Inch Curved LED Monitor

Excellent Monitor, Excellent Quality, and Excellent Value.
The Monitor is Excellent... I have the 27" CF591 Model, and now the CF398 Model. The CF398 has a slightly different refresh rate than the 598 but not a noticeable difference. And The 398 has no speakers. But for me the biggest difference that in my opinion is a game changer is the 598 isn't natively mountable, you
have to buy an adapter. I purchased the adapter with was metal fitting into the plastic backing of the monitor and it just is not sturdy and I am afraid the Monitor will break. The 398 is mountable with no adapter... And the Monitor mounts well and is extremely sturdy. This Monitor is a steal for the Money.

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 My first curved screen
I work from my home office as a software engineer so I'm in front of my screens practically all day. I bought 3, two for me and one for my wife. I replaced two 24" HP flat screens with these bad boys. These being my first curved screens, I was a bit concerned that I wouldn't like the curved effect (it seemed a bit gimmicky to me), however, I couldn't be happier. The brightness and clarity of these screens are also superior to my previous screens. I fiddled with brightness, sharpness, contrast but, in the end, I didn't have to tweak them all that much. The default settings are pretty nice. While these screens are larger, they still have a max resolution of 1920 x 1080 so don't expect a super fine HD quality image.

They were a breeze to assemble. Just snap the base into the slot in the monitor. I like the stand itself. It's very low profile and leaves more space on my desk for my keyboard (wireless, illuminated, Logitech K800 - I suggest picking one up) and mouse (Microsoft wireless laser mouse 5000 - nothing fancy, gets the job done). When I bump my desk there is a bit of a wobble to the screens but it's not bad or very noticeable. Sometimes when I'm vigorously typing away, I will get a little wobble, but, again, I remain unperturbed. I was crossing my fingers (figuratively of course) when I pulled the screens from the box and examined them for damage. The surface of each of the three screens I purchased was in flawless shape and after getting them hooked up, I looked for any dead pixels, color lines, etc. that would be a no-go. I'm pleased to say that all three screens were in top shape.

I primarily use Visual Studio and I found that I had to change the font from the default Consolas to another, finer, monotype font (I found a free one called Monofur that works perfectly at 12pt) in order to optimize font clarity and lines of code on the screen. With these screens Consolas at 12pt was way too big. And simply reducing the font made it ugly (pixelated, blocky, etc.) so I wanted something better. I'm not sure how well the screenshot will translate to your current screen but I've captured a little snippet to share how clear my screen looks to me.

As for the curved effect, I was a bit concerned after reading other reviews, some of which go on about how terrible they are for spreadsheets. I'm not sure what that's all about since I find that these screens are ideal for looking at long lines of text across the screen for extended periods. When these screens are in front of you the curve itself is almost imperceptible. As I mentioned, I use two screens sitting side-by-side and I find that these perfectly wrap my work area in a more immersive way that my previous non-curved screens. My wife works on the other computer as an editor (so again lots of text and spreadsheets) and she absolutely loves it.

The ONLY complaint I have at the moment is that when I sit these two screens adjacent to each other, the tops/bottoms don't line up perfectly. One edge is raised about 1/4" over the other. I haven't fiddled with the monitor positions too much to see if I can correct it since I don't really notice it while I'm working. I have a few thoughts on how to remedy it if it actually starts bothering me so I really can't complain.

Overall, if you're looking for a nice upgrade to your current screen without breaking the bank, these screens will do the job nicely.

Love these monitors
Love these monitors. I've got a duo setup on my desk and I can't believe how much eye strain these things save me. It took a total of maybe 2 hours to get used to the curve look, but it makes my desk feel more roomy and comfortable without blowing my eyes out trying to look 54 inches across my desk just to look from one end to the other.

 I can see! I can see!
Using this monitor for my laptop. Getting old and blind. Laptop screen very small. This monitor has made a huge difference for me. My biggest worry was editing text. Was afraid text would be too pixelated. But it all worked out great! Characters look just fine. Videos and web apps look great as well. Would very much recommend this monitor.

Massive bang for your buck, your new compact desktop theater!
Upgraded from a 22" Dell flat screen and the photos do not do this piece of tech justice. It took a few hours to adjust not only to the size but the curve being it is my first curve product. Once you adjust, it is completely immersive — the wife calls it my mini home desktop theater lol. I recommend getting a DP (display port) cable as opposed to HDMI if your pc supports it as it brings much more color, detail and less screen flicker/tearing for movies and gaming. I'm able to get 72Hz with my gpu. It is full 1080p with no 4k support, though until 4k becomes the absolute standard, this thing is plenty for me. Huge bang for your buck — there are always better products out there for much more $$$, but for the price, it's uncanny.

nice stop gap until the price of curved 4k monitors come down
I purchased two of these to use in a multi-monitor configuration. I had planned to add a third so I could use eyefinity (the bar down the bezel bar down the center makes it unusable with two monitors). I found one monitor is plenty for gaming and I use the secondary for other tasks. Together, these monitors have a width of around 48" which is exactly the width of the desk they're mounted to. There were no dead/stuck pixels and I'm happy with the image quality. I'm using an r9 280x video card so I can't enable freesync but I was able to verify these monitors are freesync capable via the OSD menu. don't plan to game in anything higher than 1080p for a while so these are a nice stop gap until the price of curved 4k monitors come down.

Amazing Picture very reasonable price!
After finally purchasing a couple MiniPC's for both business and personal use, and using an old LCD 21" Wide Screen Monitor I had, I was finding that I must be spoiled by my 4K TV because the picture on that monitor which I thought was wonderful, just seemed so dull and it did not support 4K which I have come to love to watch 4K videos etc.

I wasn't really sure what monitor to get, but I wanted something much larger, supported 4K, and that was at a very reasonable price. I did a lot of searching Amazon's product lists for monitors, and I came across this monitor, and I noticed that it was a curved screen. While I have never owned a curved screen anything, I had seen them at the local electronics store and was darn impressed. So I was very curious about this monitor because it had all the specs I was looking for, at least 27", Wide Screen, Support for 4K, Native Resolution of 1920 x 1080, LED, and had a curved screen. When I also noticed that it was a Samsung, I was pretty excited to learn more because I have always had very good luck with Samsung products and in fact, I have only had one Samsung product ever fail, and that was a mobile phone that should have stopped working years ago with what It went through.

Not knowing much about monitors these days, I started reading the reviews that were written on this monitor and I asked the community a couple questions. The answers I got back to my questions sealed the deal for me. Everyone who responded had nothing but great things to say about this monitor and provided me in info I needed. So I decided to go for it.

When it got here, unfortunately the first one had a broken screen. It appeared that it was packaged that way since the packaging was factory sealed but the packing was broken on the inside. Needless to say I returned it but Amazon really stepped up to the plate and sent me a replacement next day, so I was only delayed by 1 day getting to use it. Because the first monitor came with a broken screen, I am going to assume that the screen may be a bit on the frgile side as my old monitor has been dropped, and the LCD screen never had any issues, I don't know jf the screens on LED monitors are more easily broken, or If this was something that someone really dropped hard before packaging, for this reason I gave the durability 4 stars)

Setup was a breeze! Just had to put 1 screw to put the base stand together, and that was it. The stand is about the only thing I really don't like because the base that sits on the desk is an upside down chevron shape, which sticks out in front of the monitor a few inches. This makes putting it on a small desk where your keyboard would be in front of it a bit of a pain because the keyboard has to be pulled closer to me and just gets in the way to me. I managed to get around that by putting the monitor up on a little shelf I made out of a box and an old Laptop lap desk that I had. It perfectly raises the monitor by about 4-5 inches, and let's me push the keyboard further back to where I now have more room on my desk. (Images added to show the base and how I worked around the chevron styled base to give me more room).

The monitor has one HDMI port and one Display Port. Now I am not familiar with the Display Port, but all my devices are HDMI, so plugging in a PC is simple. In fact, I have 3 MiniPC's that I need to connect to this monitor so I bought a 5 port HDMI switch. This allows me to easily switch between each MiniPC with just a click of a button.

The picture on this monitor is absolutely phenomenal! Once I plugged in the HDMI plug, turned on the monitor, it automatically scanned for the signal which it found right away and WOW! What a gorgeous picture. The colors are very bright and vibrant. The dynamics between the Black and White colors are stunning and the color definition is very vivid. For never using a curved screen before on a computer monitor, I am very impressed. It almost immerses you in to the picture and almost gives it a extra dimensional view, almost 3D in nature... The thing I worried most about with a curved screen was is there going to be any distortion with a curved screen and I am happy to say. "Absolutely Not!". The images looks perfectly flat, but because of the curve, it pulls the outer edges our of your peripheral vision and closer to your focused view when looking straight forward.

Learning how to use the toggle button on the back for adjusting the settings van take a bit of getting used to, however, at this point, I haven't really needed to use any of the options other then Sleep and Shut Down as the defaults seem to be perfect for my setup.

Unfortunately this monitor does not have built in speakers however, if you have speakers connected to you computer or use a set of Bluetooth Speakers you will be just fine.

Overall my impression of this monitor is fantastic! The picture quality is stunning, and the size with the curves screen is awesome. I would recommend this monitor to anyone who wants an excellent monitor for home or office at a more then reasonable price. While I have not used the monitor for gaming, I have used a monitor that has the same 4ms refresh rate and that has the same native resolution of1920 x 1080 and that monitor is over 10 years old and still holds up today, so I can only imagine that this monitor would be perfectly fine for today's games. I am definitely glad that I went ahead and purchased this monitor, and should I need to replace the monitor that I amusing as a secondary monitor, I will likely purchase another one of this model! Again, Highly recommended and over all this monitor gets a full 5 Stars from me

This monitor is perfect for the price!
When I saw how cost effective this monitor was, I was a bit skeptical. Once it arrived, I unboxed it, everything was wrapped up really well and I could tell that there would be no room for damage in transit, this is a key detail of buying anything with a screen from online!

A few of the key features that I personally love:

Design:
The base is minimal and matches the curve of the screen. It isn't large or clunky, and blends well with the curve. The edges and back/side of the monitor are very slim, it can blend in with most surroundings while still feeling immersive. The curvature is perfect if you have it elevated about 8inches off of your desk like I do.

Quality:
The pixel resolution is perfect. I sit around two feet away from the monitor and I can't see a single pixel. For the size of the display, that is very impressive.

Overall:
I love everything about this monitor. The only thing I would change, is that when my computer is off, the power light on the monitor flashes, which can be fairly annoying at night. Otherwise everything is perfect! If you are looking for a curved monitor and for something in this price range, I would highly recommend this display!

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