New Monitor query

SirReallySam · May 14, 2020

Hi guys!

Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for me for a new monitor.

I'm looking for an IPS panel as I do some colour critical work on it. But I'd also like a relatively high refresh rate as I also game on it. Probably over 120hz and looking for a sub 5ms responce time.

The real kicker is finding something like this for around £200 ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Sam

SolarNova · May 14, 2020

47 minutes ago, SirReallySam said:

Hi guys!

Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for me for a new monitor.

I'm looking for an IPS panel as I do some colour critical work on it. But I'd also like a relatively high refresh rate as I also game on it. Probably over 120hz and looking for a sub 5ms responce time.

The real kicker is finding something like this for around £200 ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Sam

An IPS is no good for color critical work if ur not going to calibrate it, and a calibrator costs around £180 currently.

Additionally, at £200 ur going to be hard pressed to find a tested and reviewed monitor as there are not many reviewed in that price range, those that have are not great.

Your likely going to have to take a gamble and purchase something based purely on specs, which is not recommended.

SirReallySam · May 14, 2020

1 minute ago, SolarNova said:

An IPS is no good for color critical work if ur not going to calibrate it, and a calibrator costs around £180 currently.

Additionally, at £200 ur going to be hard pressed to find a tested and reviewed monitor as there are not many reviewed in that price range, those that have are not great.

Your likely going to have to take a gamble and purchase something based purely on specs, which is not recommended.

I will calibrate it. I work in the film industry as an engineer lol. I understand, in a perfect world I'd take the Sony BVM-X300 home from work, calibrate it and only use it in a completely dark room lol

If there's anything with a bigger budget (perhaps £300 - £450) you'd recommend, any suggestions would be appreciated. It's not properly colour critical I just don't want a yucky TN panel if I'm doing some editing work on it.

SolarNova · May 14, 2020

16 minutes ago, SirReallySam said:

I will calibrate it. I work in the film industry as an engineer lol. I understand, in a perfect world I'd take the Sony BVM-X300 home from work, calibrate it and only use it in a completely dark room lol

If there's anything with a bigger budget (perhaps £300 - £450) you'd recommend, any suggestions would be appreciated. It's not properly colour critical I just don't want a yucky TN panel if I'm doing some editing work on it.

Ah ok fair enough. Serves me right for "assuming", in my defense people usually dont have a calibrator

See if any of these are available in ur area for the right price, and if there overall specs and test results are to your liking.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/table/29211

EDIT:

If your not going to be doing HDR work, and thus dont particularly need the higher DCI-p3 gamut coverage, then the :

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/benq/ex2780q

is probably a safe bet as it has rather good AdobeRGB coverage and volume, acceptable uniformity, and ofc is good enough for casual gaming. Its about £460 from what i can see. Most options will be in that price range tbh. As i mentioned tested example of very cheap IPS displays are few and far between.

SirReallySam · May 14, 2020

32 minutes ago, SolarNova said:

Ah ok fair enough. Serves me right for "assuming", in my defense people usually dont have a calibrator

See if any of these are available in ur area for the right price, and if there overall specs and test results are to your liking.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/table/29211

EDIT:

If your not going to be doing HDR work, and thus dont particularly need the higher DCI-p3 gamut coverage, then the :

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/benq/ex2780q

is probably a safe bet as it has rather good AdobeRGB coverage and volume, acceptable uniformity, and ofc is good enough for casual gaming. Its about £460 from what i can see. Most options will be in that price range tbh. As i mentioned tested example of very cheap IPS displays are few and far between.