My journey to the Agon ag493ucx2 49" Initial impressions, some issues I experienced and their fixes
I wanted to post a little about my initial experience as I thought it might be helpful for others.
I work from home and I primarily bought this display for productivity with a mild emphasis on gaming (PC needs some upgrades). My old configuration was 1x 1080p display 1x 4k display plus my laptop screen. All of these different sizes and resolutions became kind of frustrating so I started looking at new displays. The idea of running dual 4k displays was nice, but honestly I don't have that kind of money to spend on a video card. I don't know what made me consider an ultrawide display, but I came across the ag493ucx2 and it really spoke to me.
The features that probably appealed to me post in this display was the built in KVM, resolution, and price point. The thought of only having a single keyboard/mouse on my desk or not having to manually switch USB cables between devices was very appealing. I bit the bullet and made the purchase justifying it as a belated Christmas present to myself.
I found the monitor fit perfectly on my corner L shaped desk without the need of a monitor arm. The arm has height and tilt adjustments and supports the display quite well.
I have my mouse connected to my das keyboard connected to the display. This freed up the additional USB ports on the display for my Yeti X and web cam. It already really cleaned up my desk as now all of my peripherals run to the display and be switched between my laptop and PC.
Powering on my PC everything looked great and functioned well,. However, my laptop experienced some screen flickering on the display. I did a little bit of research and ultimately determined I should power my laptop separately from the display. So, I connected my laptop back to it's power brick and used the other thunderbolt port for just the display and peripherals. Flicker gone, problem solved.
I also ran into an issue when using this as a KVM where it would not switch back to my previous device. I believe this was caused by windows turning the display off after 15 minutes and without the display connected the KVM does not seem to switch over. Changing my power settings to never turn the display off appears to have resolved this issue to my satisfaction.
As my primary motivation for this display initially was productivity I have to say I am very satisfied with it for this use. I've been using fancy zones on this display and absolutely love it. I currently have basically a single 27" zone dead center of my display and an ancillary zone off to each side. This combined with virtual desktops has left me feeling significantly more productive with my workspace.
Sadly my desktop gaming rig has suffered years of neglect and cannot run recent titles on this display, but it plays wow just fine and that will do until I can afford to do some massive PC upgrades. That said, my initial impressions of gaming on an ultrawide was in a word, immersive. Having so much of your field of view consumed by game has been a very enjoyable experience even at sub optimal frame rates.
Prior to my purchase I was worried that being restricted to a single display and less overall desktop space by pixel count with be a negative I have been pleasantly surprised. However, Not having a bezel to distract and divide my field of view just makes computing such a more pleasant experience, I can't really see myself going back to a multi display configuration. Happy to join you all.
Pic of things as they are today, still waiting on some cable management to arrive.
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Posted Jan 6, 2023, 6:11 PM UTC · edited
Thanks for this. I’m in the market for a 49 and seem to have missed this one in my research and it looks to tick all my boxes..
3 questions for you:
How is the remote? Can you quickly change inputs and it also changes the kvm?
How is the picture quality overall? Do you find it bright enough next to your windows and how do you find text for productivity?
I don’t suppose you have a Mac? Any issues there?
Its three button clicks on the remote to change between display port and USB-C inputs. Changing the inputs changes the kvm as well. KVM is only supported on the display port and USB C port connections. There is a separate USB type B to USB type A downlink that can be connected to the PC using display port (not sure if it's really needed I haven't tried unplugging it).
The USBC port does provide 65w power, but as I mentioned above I noticed a screen flicker which may be more specific to my model of laptop. There are three usb ports on the monitor one which supports charging but also functions as a normal usb port and switches with the kvm.
I'm pretty satisfied with the picture quality, but most of my day is spent looking at text and spreadsheets, text is clear and while things are not as sharp as my smaller 4k display this was an expected trade off. I do not do the type of work that really requires the extra pixel density of 4k and this seems like a great middle ground.
Your mileage may vary, happy shopping :-)
Thank you :) my life is spreadsheets so that’s good to know.
Was just reading a review and it said changing inputs takes up to 12 seconds for it to register change! Has that been your experience?
Id say about 8 seconds or so before my mouse is responsive on the second display.
Oh one thing I will note, the IR receiver is in the far right of the monitor near the controls, I feel like a better design would have been to have them in the center. Im not quite used to having to point the remote off the right yet to switch displays.