P2314H or U2414H

[Shatal]

Hello.

Soon I am going to buy a new monitor, and I'm looking for a 23-24" IPS monitor! And these are the two I've found so far which peaks my interest. 

My question is, which one over another? Anyone have any personal experiences with one or both of these monitors.

Also looking at recommendations!

Thanks in advance :3

 

P2314H

U2414H

[Geekazoid]

@Shatal, personally I would go with the U2414H because you have more options in the menu to calibrate the display, plus the U2414H is a higher end monitor than the P2314H. I have the P2314H and because of the many problems I've had with it I would really recommend you go with the U2414H.

[Geekazoid]

@Shatal, what do you plan to mostly do with the monitor, games, video editing, what?

You may wish to take a look at the U2414H review by Simon Baker over at TFT Central.

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2414h.htm

[Shatal]

Plan on mostly using it for games and movies

So far I'm personally more attracted towards the U2414H compared to the P2314H

[Geekazoid]

Plan on mostly using it for games and movies

So far I'm personally more attracted towards the U2414H compared to the P2314H

Ah okay. Well either of those would be fine, however I will tell you something that you may want to know about the P2314H, the way it's red green and blue colours are striped is backwards from what the usual standard is, it's IPS panel is BGR striped as supposed to the standard RGB striped panels and these can lead to blurry looking text and sometimes using Windows' ClearType Utility can't fix the this and the ONLY way to mend this is to mount the monitor upside down, which is rather inconvenient. So I would urge you to go for the U2414H for all of the things I said before plus the fact that you should get the standard RGB IPS panel.

[hawaiims]

@Shatal, personally I would go with the U2414H because you have more options in the menu to calibrate the display, plus the U2414H is a higher end monitor than the P2314H. I have the P2314H and because of the many problems I've had with it I would really recommend you go with the U2414H.

>problems with P2314H

 

such as? I was considering buying a couple P2214H monitors because I'm absolutely in love with the S2240M (140$ 21.5" IPS monitor) I own right now. The way you say it makes it seems like they are really deal breaking problems and not just minutiae. 

[WayToWenzhou]

I'm curious about those problems as well. I own the P2314H too and I haven't encountered any problems.

[Geekazoid]

Okay I have mentioned the problems associated with at least my P2314H monitor before on these forums but I will discuss them again as needed.

PIXEL OVERDRIVE

Okay the first and most annoying thing is the fact that, unlike most monitors, you can't turn Pixel Overdrive (OD) off in the user-accessible OSD menus, the ONLY way in which this can be done, as discussed on http://tftcentral.co.uk/ by Simon Baker, is to delve into the Factory Menu (which I have personally not done) and turn OD off in there. The problem with this is that if you choose to access this menu you actually void your warrantee and so this makes turning off the OD implementation inaccessible to the average user.

Now you may be wondering why I would want to turn off OD control. Well this is because I believe that the OD isn't implemented well on the P2314H because when I played back a video on It vs my HP 23" display the video would judder and not playback smoothly like on my 23" HP display. The reason I know it's this OD control causing the issue is because when I temporarily enabled the Pixel Overdrive control on my HP, the video played back with the same judder effect and was not pleasant to watch, once I disabled OD again video playback returned to it's normal smooth self that I am used to on my HP display. I do realise that OD implementation is really mostly for gamers and since I'm not that much of a gamer I don't like to use it. I really don't mind if a display as a ghosting effect on it because it doesn't bother me at all and so I personally believe that OD control should be left to the user to decide whether they want it on or off. This is why my next display will be an ASUS or LG one because I know, well at least ASUS anyway, allows the user to decide whether or not they want to enable or disable pixel overdrive control and I believe that this shouldn't be a hidden thing in a Factory Menu like most, if not all, Dell monitors have. This is my main, if you can't tell already, problem with the P2314H monitor.

COLOUR PRESETS & CONTRAST PROBLEMS

Okay this was another big annoyance with the P2314H, at least with mine anyway, and it is the fact that the colour presets are pretty messed up on the P2314H yet they seem fine on the P2414H and what the problem is is when you go through each of the colour presets (except 'Movie' and 'Cool' presets which emit a very noticeable reddish colour) they all appeared with a yellow cast on them and this came as quite an annoyance as I know the P2414H didn't have this problem. I believe that each preset should have shown a noticeable difference in colour temperature and this was not the case with the P2314H as it was with the P2414H. It was only after accessing the 'Custom Colour' option that you can obtain a decent white point but this presents a problem in itself that is connected to the contrast control of the display. When you set the contrast below the value of 75 to just 74 (yes just 1%) it goes from a noticeable clean white to a VERY noticeable yellowish white colour temperature and if you set it above the value of 80 you get weird looking colours. You may suggest "Why don't you just leave it on the default of 75" and unfortunately yes you would need to leave on 75 to prevent any weird colour issues, but I don't believe that you should have to do this. Contrast should behave like it does on most other displays and just adjust the contrast of the monitor without these weird colour issues.

Another issue was with the displays colour itself. I really don't know how best to explain this but I'll try my best. For the most part the displays colour was pretty good and vibrant, like most IPS displays, but there were one very noticeable problem that this display exhibited and that was with one specific shade of grey. For the most part the display displayed most greys pretty well but there was one shade of grey that was not grey at all but yellow (yes you read that correctly, a certain shade of grey was appearing as yellow) and the reason I noticed this is because Windows uses this shade of grey a lot throughout the OS. The most noticeable was when opening the NVIDIA Control Panel. Most NVIDIA GPU users would know that the NVIDIA Control panel is predominantly grey but that was not the case on my P2314H monitor, it pretty much appeared as a very noticeable yellow colour and I couldn't find anyway to fix it but this shouldn't be the case with such, what would normally be, a good display.

Now I'm not saying that all P2314H models will exhibit these problems but it is worth noting if you plan on buying one. If you wanted to go with ANY of the P series of monitors then I would urge you to go for the P2414H model that, as far as I know, doesn't have these annoying problems at all.

SCREEN DISCOLOURATION

Now the final issue was the fact that the bottom-right quarter of my P2314H had a noticeable yellowish tint to it and was quite annoying to say the least, so trying to calibrate a display with this issue was rather frustrating. Now I know not all P2314H models will have this problem, just sometimes you get a bad unit (luck of the draw really).

CONCLUSION

Whilst you may feel that the problems I've detailed are rather picky you need to understand that if you're at all fussy about colour like I am than you will want a display that displays accurate colour in all shades and has no colour or screen issues at all. Now for the most part any of you who choose to buy the P2314H and are lucky enough to get a near perfect unit, lucky you. But for those who want to have the best chance of avoiding such problems that I've detailed then I would advise you to either go for the P2414H or the U2414H as you should hopefully have no issues with those. It seems to be that the more you pay the better IPS panel you get and so the very familiar saying "You get what you pay for" proves very true with my P2314H monitor.

MY RECOMMENDATION

Go with the P2414H or the U2414H. You should hopefully have next to no issues with either of those.

For a full review of both these models go to the following links below where Simon Baker of TFT Central gives a very good review of each display.

P2414H: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_p2414h.htm

U2414H: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2414h.htm

[Geekazoid]

Sorry for the novel of a post but some of you wanted me to explain my problems with the P2314H...so I did.

[WayToWenzhou]

Wow, it seems that either I was really lucky, or you were very unlucky

Stay strong pal

[Geekazoid]

Wow, it seems that either I was really lucky, or you were very unluckyStay strong pal

Ha yeah. Well I think you must've been lucky.

Yep, sure will stay strong.