So, I returned the LG 34uc97...I just couldn't live with the awful backlight issue in all 4 corners, 3 of the corners were just plain silly. I'm surprised it passed QC before shipping out!!
I will post some pics so others can see and be forewarned. If you really want 21:9 and curved, I would wait for rev 2 or even rev 3 of the displays.
On a related note, after looking to see what else was out there for new monitors, I decided to go a totally different route and picked up an LG 4k TV, model 49UB8500 and am running it via HDMI 2.0 with 2xGTX970's.
Holy crap is it great fun to run at a 4k resolution, 60hz refresh, max out the eye candy settings in the games (I turn off AA...you don't really need it at 4k res, imho) and enjoy a 49" PC monitor
I will add more info on this to the 4k discussion section.