On December 14 2014 12:10 EngrishTeacher wrote: What's the cheapest 27+ inch 4K monitor I can get right now? From Toronto, Ontario. I don't care much for color accuracy/contrast levels etc., just need something reliable and cheap. Ty much in advance.
I don't really feel like scouring through every Canadian shop right now, so here are the common models to look for: Dell P2815Q (warning: 4K at 30 Hz only), Planar IX2850, AOC U2868PQU, ViewSonic VX2880ml, Asus PB287Q (not to be confused with PB278Q and other models), Samsung U28D590D, Lenovo ThinkVision Pro2840m.
Those are all pretty similar except the Dell with the refresh rate limitation. Should all be from the first crop of relatively cheap 28" 4K TN monitors. If the Dell P2715Q is available, that is likely significantly better. The most common and available of the above are probably the P2815Q, PB287Q, and U28D590D.
On December 14 2014 12:10 EngrishTeacher wrote: What's the cheapest 27+ inch 4K monitor I can get right now? From Toronto, Ontario. I don't care much for color accuracy/contrast levels etc., just need something reliable and cheap. Ty much in advance.
I don't really feel like scouring through every Canadian shop right now, so here are the common models to look for: Dell P2815Q (warning: 4K at 30 Hz only), Planar IX2850, AOC U2868PQU, ViewSonic VX2880ml, Asus PB287Q (not to be confused with PB278Q and other models), Samsung U28D590D, Lenovo ThinkVision Pro2840m.
Those are all pretty similar except the Dell with the refresh rate limitation. Should all be from the first crop of relatively cheap 28" 4K TN monitors. If the Dell P2715Q is available, that is likely significantly better. The most common and available of the above are probably the P2815Q, PB287Q, and U28D590D.
looking for a 22-24" around $175 CAD, any suggestions? I saw the P2314H suggested earlier, seems to be around $300 CAD according to Amazon (http://www.amazon.ca/Dell-YDPKC-23-Inch-LED-Lit-Monitor/dp/B00EMB4KVS/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1418898276&sr=1-1&keywords=P2314H)
Posting again. Ordered a rog swift but it is back ordered so I had some extra time to think and read reviews, and they don't look pretty with respect to quality control. Looking at the Qnix 27" again and have some questions about over clocking. From what I've seen only the single input dual dvi monitors can over clock without frame skipping, but the main one available is dual input but claims that it has over clocking without frame skipping http://m.ebay.com/itm/QNIX-QX2710-LED-Evolution-II-Multi-TRUE10-SE-27-2560x1440-QHD-DVI-HDMI-Monitor-/121362611435
I do for some first/third person games, but usually when it is something like locked FOV. Shadow of Mordor was 65fov for example and i had to use a memory hack to play it more than an hour or two
CSGO is higher but still locked so if you have a solid 2-3 feet between you and the monitor that shouldn't be an issue, if it's that. Also, strobing can do weird/unexpected things to you if you're not used to it and you're trying to use it
I once used a 26" TV as a monitor, but since upgrading the PC a few years ago, I got a proper 22" PC monitor. They're both depressing now, one being small for a TV and the other being small period. I've narrowed it down to these two. Again, one is a PC and the other a TV.
I've read some of the warnings about plasma TVs as monitors. However, it appears this TV is not plasma but LED backlit (unless it's both).
I'd like to go with the TV, as it's much larger. I also don't care much about very high resolutions anyway, plus I could use a nice TV. Over the last year, I acquired Netflix and a Wii U as well, so I will have more use for a TV than before. Still, I spend more time gaming on the PC.
Anyway, I am leaning toward the TV, as it would be all-around useful, but it is more expensive. I've read a lot of Amazon reviews and Q & A, but I ask fellow TLers for their opinion. I probably won't check for responses til tomorrow. One thing I'd like to know is if this TV would be less susceptible to burn-in, as it's apparently not a plasma.
Hi guys, i have an Asus Gtx 670. I plan to get one TN 144 HZ panel for gaming and one IPS panel for other stuff. Assuming i use display port and DVI, will my TN be downcapped by my Graphics Card since my IPS will be limited to 60-75HZ ?
What do you guys thing about G-sync? is it worth paying the price for? Im staring at you AOC g2460Pg vs its non gsync equivalent?
And what is to expect from the Acer XB270HU ? Will we finally get a new era of 144hz IPS's? Then i would me more than willing to wait.
Since you're only running the game on one monitor, having a second monitor connected won't affect it at all. If you were to run nvidia surround for exclusive fullscreen of the game across all monitors, you'd be limited to the monitor settings of the weakest link.
Gsync is either amazing and the thing that everybody should be using right now on a pentium g3250 and gtx750, or it's not even noticable depending on who you listen to - so i'm really excited to try it out @30-144hz, but it's hard to say for other people.
The XB270HU looks really nice, due to higher response times on IPS there will be more blur and bleeding between frames. 4ms grey to grey can mean 20ms or even 30ms for some of the harshest transitions (like white to black, iirc) and with a new frame every 6.94ms, that means up to ~4 frames of bleedthrough (so 1 frame of bleedthrough would be seen more often) - it still won't come close to the 144hz tn's, but it might still be awesome.
It IS 1440p 144hz though, so you would need approx ~4.25x as much GPU horsepower to run that as you would run 1080p60 (if you'd tolerate dropping to say 70% of refresh rate on either screen, etc, it's the same proportions).
Since there's no single GPU that powerful, you'd have to either stick to older games, lower settings or get ~SLI 970 to use the refresh rate well. Two way SLI works good most of the time, but alternate frame rendering has the inherent limitation of increasing input lag.
If you had one GPU rendering at 60fps, you'd have the input lag and smoothness of 60fps, but if you had two GPU's and you were rendering at a total of 100fps, you'd have the input lag of 50fps, but the smoothness of 100fps. That's very far from the dream of low latency 144hz@144fps which is a huge reason for buying 144hz for some people. For that reason, i'm very fond of the 1080p144hz tn's (but a faster ips 144hz gsync 1080p might be sweet in the future).
Overall, i think that acer is probably a really sweet monitor but i wouldn't buy it unless i had a pretty monstrous gaming setup (oc'd i5+, sli970) and i didn't care that much for either strobing or input lag. IPS @1440p144 is still awesome.
As a final note, you need a lot of CPU performance to benefit a lot on some games from higher refresh rates. A game that might be more unnoticeably CPU limited on 60hz (ceiling of 70-80fps for example, or dips to 50) can be crippled on a higher refresh rate low input lag setup, where you bring 2.5x stronger graphics but your FPS just doesn't change. I generally recommend a 4690k@overclock to go with them (4.5ghz should be hittable if you can't do 4.6-4.8) with fastish RAM (~2133c9/2400c10 etc can usually be found for like $£10-15 more, and gives ~4-12% FPS gains in several high profile engines like sc2/heroes engine, source and frostbite)
Thanks a lot for your very informative answer. It seems like i will wait another year to see where the 144 hz ips go and how G-Sync and F-Sync turn out.
I was thinking about a dual 27'' setup, but i am now gravitating towards a dual 24'' to replace my current dual 22"". Any suggestions for a nice combination?
For those who didn't read my previous post:
I'm looking for
1 x TN for gaming (AOC G2460Pqu vs ASUS VG248QE getting the AOC G2460pg which is the same as the G2460Pqu but with G-Sync would hurt the budget for the ips, but if someone convinces me... i may...)
1 x IPS for getting stuff done and media consumption. (Suggestions?) My card is a GTX 670
They have to have Vesa Mounts, since im mounting them to the wall .
So far i've been gravitating towards anything ASUS and or AOC, but im open to suggestions, It's prefectly fine and even encouraged to recommend somewhat older stuff since im ok with buying anything used on ebay.
Got my monitor, overclocked to 96 hz without issue, pushed to 110 without artifacts a well. Looking at what other people clock to, they often look at 85 hz, 96 hz, and then 120 hz as benchmarks. Is there any particular reason why these numbers seem to important? Is there anything between 96 and 120 that would be a good number to hit? I had some absurd artifacts at 120 so that's push it too much, but I could do 110 without problems like I said before
Also this stand is worse than I expected it is a steaming pile of crap
96 is probably fine, it really depends on what games you play and what GPU you have since aside from CSGO and DotA you're not getting 120hz in very many modern games unless you have like 970SLI or something
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