by Skouperd » Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:08 pm
Ok, guys, here's what I did: I've got myself this monitor:
Asus VG278H 27" 3D LED with NVIDIA® 3D Vision kit , Trace-free , 2x 3w speaker , 3-way adjustable ( tilt+swivel+height ) stand , Full HD 1920x1080 ( 16:9 WUGA+ ) ; brightness- 300cd/m2 ; contrast ratio - 1000:1 / 50000000:1 , response time- 2ms / 120Hz , 120Hz - D-SUB + 1x HDMi + DVi + headphone jack- 100x100mm vesa wall-mountable
for the following reasons:
1. After seeing Eggy's Samsung SA950D in action, I really liked the fast response rates
2. I've played on an el-cheapo QNIX 2560x1440 monitor, and I am not sure if my GPU (AMD6870) was unable to push the resolutions or what, but after playing a little bit of Borderlands 2 (on low settings) I ended up with a mother of a headache.
3. I was not impressed with the QNIX colours at all.
Some reading I've done which may help people in future. You get different panels, LCD, LED, TN, IPS, etc. TN panels = fast, whereas IPS panels = great colours. The above monitor is a TN planel able to produce 120Hz, and a 2ms response time from Grey to Grey. I.e. it is fast. The colour gamets on it is not that great though and yuo will get back light bleeding etc (compared to profesional monitors). Compare that with an IPS panel, IPS panels is only able to operate (thusfar) at around 60Hz with the exception of some el-cheapo Korean monitors (like the QNIX above) which you can overclock to "120hz". It is in "quotes" because it appears some of these overclocks just drop some frames... either way, your IPS panels tend to only have response rates of 5ms and higher grey to grey but it supports a very large colour range, and even 10bit colours which is why these professional monitors is so slow but the colour is so good.
I have always had 2 monitors on my desk, so my thinking is to use this fast monitor here for my gaming and then get something like the Dell U2713HM (not the "H" version as the second monitor) once my bank balance have recovered from the above shock... (and fortunately, Drive Control will only get stock in the new year) to complete my setup.
Regarding the graphics card, in order to drive these monitors, I've managed to struck a deal whereby a company rents my gaming pc for some data processing until January in exchange for a GTX780ti . Fortunately, I did not had to wait till January to get the card, so I will be posting my benchmarks and reviews shortly on this setup using my LAN PC. Unfortunately, my main gaming rig is still with said company and as such I'll not be able to get the full joy of my gaming rig as yet!
Thanks for all the inputs, really appreciated.
Ok, guys, here's what I did: I've got myself this monitor:
Asus VG278H 27" 3D LED with NVIDIA® 3D Vision kit , Trace-free , 2x 3w speaker , 3-way adjustable ( tilt+swivel+height ) stand , Full HD 1920x1080 ( 16:9 WUGA+ ) ; brightness- 300cd/m2 ; contrast ratio - 1000:1 / 50000000:1 , response time- 2ms / 120Hz , 120Hz - D-SUB + 1x HDMi + DVi + headphone jack- 100x100mm vesa wall-mountable
for the following reasons:
1. After seeing Eggy's Samsung SA950D in action, I really liked the fast response rates
2. I've played on an el-cheapo QNIX 2560x1440 monitor, and I am not sure if my GPU (AMD6870) was unable to push the resolutions or what, but after playing a little bit of Borderlands 2 (on low settings) I ended up with a mother of a headache.
3. I was not impressed with the QNIX colours at all.
Some reading I've done which may help people in future. You get different panels, LCD, LED, TN, IPS, etc. TN panels = fast, whereas IPS panels = great colours. The above monitor is a TN planel able to produce 120Hz, and a 2ms response time from Grey to Grey. I.e. it is fast. The colour gamets on it is not that great though and yuo will get back light bleeding etc (compared to profesional monitors). Compare that with an IPS panel, IPS panels is only able to operate (thusfar) at around 60Hz with the exception of some el-cheapo Korean monitors (like the QNIX above) which you can overclock to "120hz". It is in "quotes" because it appears some of these overclocks just drop some frames... either way, your IPS panels tend to only have response rates of 5ms and higher grey to grey but it supports a very large colour range, and even 10bit colours which is why these professional monitors is so slow but the colour is so good.
I have always had 2 monitors on my desk, so my thinking is to use this fast monitor here for my gaming and then get something like the Dell U2713HM (not the "H" version as the second monitor) once my bank balance have recovered from the above shock... (and fortunately, Drive Control will only get stock in the new year) to complete my setup.
Regarding the graphics card, in order to drive these monitors, I've managed to struck a deal whereby a company rents my gaming pc for some data processing until January in exchange for a GTX780ti . Fortunately, I did not had to wait till January to get the card, so I will be posting my benchmarks and reviews shortly on this setup using my LAN PC. Unfortunately, my main gaming rig is still with said company and as such I'll not be able to get the full joy of my gaming rig as yet!
Thanks for all the inputs, really appreciated.