korean Monitors...I know I'm late
If you check out reviews, both AnandTech and TFTCentral does very in depth monitor review of them, you can see how crap they are. This excludes their warranty service which is filled of conditions to not cover you, and you have to pay shipping to ship the monitor to them. Canada/U.S to South Korea is not cheap, especially a monitor.
Here are some:
qnix_qx320qhd
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/qnix_qx320qhd.htm
Not even close even back light, stuck at 100% brightness, no control on that. Near 0 input lag, and multiple inputs, BUT 12ms AVERAGE response time measured, this is the slowest by considerable amount from other monitors they reviewed.
Power light is overly bright and large. Decent color reproduction out of the box, but contrast is poor. Very poor interpolation.
QNIX QX2710
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/qnix_qx2710.htm
PWM driven back light at only 156Hz, which means you can have a headache (the product page says "flicker free". I don't think they know what I mean, or it's stolen marketing material, which is usually the case), decent colors reproduction, 6.6ms response time, which is nice, but input lag is on the high side with 15.40ms. It is as slow as other monitors not targetted for gaming, but rather professional work, which contains fancy things like color processors. This monitor is barebone sadly, but multiple inputs.
Drops a lot of frames when overclocked.
Achieva Shimian 27" IPS Zero-G
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/achieva_27_ips-zero-g.htm
Glossy screen, brightness is fake, it plays with the colors, and not actually adjust the back light. Back light stuck at 100%. Good colors, poor contrast, heavy back light bleeding, good response time at ~7ms, but input lag is once again in the territory of fancy monitors, reaching 22.75ms.
Of course, as manufacture rejects are used, your results may vary. Keep in mind that rejection can be due to:
-> Back light bleeding.
-> Faulty pixels (1 or more stuck on black or a color, or no LCD liquid inside).
-> Improper grid forming at a location or area, leading a star light effect on black as you move your head, or blurry.
-> Durability (Physical durability, and/or life span).
-> Doesn't follow expected specifications.
However, they are cheap. Many people don't care about the downside, many do get a great monitor with no issue THEY see (then again many of them comes from far worst monitors, just something to keep in mind).
But as dizmo mentioned, if you wait and look for specials, you can find some nice branded monitors for very close to the same price (of course the better brands like Dell or ASUS (compared to AOC, for example) costs more), and you know what you'll get for sure, you know that you'll get a A+ panel, the build quality is there, the monitor is full feature. You have a full warranty, especially ASUS and more so Dell (Dell allows you to keep the monitor while they ship you the replacement, the replacement monitor in teh box, has a pre-paid shipping label for you to swamp the monitor and ship back the monitor to Dell. Dell pays shipping both direction). great dead/stuck/bright pixel policy, long 3 year warranty, and well the whole package for the monitor.
It is all good if you get those ebay Korean monitor, I have to admit they do seam to take some effort in picking the best panel before selling, and not blindly putting them in their monitors, but consider what you are getting.
Keep in mind that you have shipping cost as well. While some brands like Dell, has free shipping (although Dell, even on good specials is more expensive ~500$ for 2560x1440 monitors)
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