What's the monitor called? Might pick one up if the price is right (provided I can actually find it).

It was a generic topsync monitor

They're the ones you see people overclocking, dual link DVI only

Thanks, I'll take a look around for them then.

huh, I didn't know you could do that. I'd be interested to see, or to try myself, someone building their own monitor using one of these panels.

Yes. I have a couple 1440p korean monitors, one does have the imac panel iirc. I think mine are both under the "xstar" name. I've moved mine to work. Back when I got the first one, it was the only way to get a 1440p monitor cheaper than a cinema display. These were very popular for a time for early adopters of 1440p- remember that time where it seemed like for years 1920x1080 or 1920x1200 was the best you could get anywhere? The first 1440p phones came out a long time before desktop 1440p monitors other than the imac/cinema display. I mean fuck the first 30 inch cinema display was 2560x1600 and was launched in 2004! 10 fucking years later people didn't think anyone on desktop needed that. These korean monitors were the first step, and at half the price of the apple ones their popularity made manufacturers go "hmm, maybe we should demand 1440p panels and sell these ourselves" - what I'm saying is thanks these monitors for even having 1440p before we had 4k, even if it was only by a couple of years- we were seriously on track to jump from 1080 to 4k on desktop with no inbetween. 

I was very excited to get one of these after waiting so long, at the time korean monitors started coming out I was shopping used 30 inch cinema displays, which still fetched a higher price at the time since you could control like brightness and stuff  without a mac and it just needed DL-DVI. Plus, before the korean ones, the 30 inch cinema was the only way to get a high res matte display, and at the time I would have sacrificed better color for that- I could deal with gloss but not the apple glass. 

Now I'm rocking the 43ud79-b, a 4k 43 inch monitor with PIP. Little as 5 years ago I would have literally murdered someone for this screen. 
Oh yea, korean 4k screens were the first non-tv way to have 4k at size that you didn't need scaling, and those were popular too. Pretty sure it's responsible for this class of monitor as well. 

@1kv anymore they're not cheaper than name brand 1440p screens. They don't really make them much anymore, but if you're looking used they came under many, many names. Just search for 1440p korean monitor threads from a few years ago to get a good list.