IPS Recommendations

[segfault122]

So I bought an Asus VG278 about two months ago. Before purchasing this monitor I was using an HP ZR24W. I do a lot of things on my computer other than gaming, such as web development. After two months of using a TN panel, I am ready to switch back to an IPS panel. I found out that I prefer color reproduction over fast response times. What 27 inch IPS panel do you guys recommend? I was looking at Asus's pro art series.

[target39]

Get a cheap korean 1440p IPS, or even PLS panel for less than $400. Make sure you order the perfect pixel versions so you end up with less dead pixels.

[segfault122]

Has anyone tried the Overlord Tempest or Auria?

[target39]

A lot of people like their Yamakasi screens. They're known to have fairly weak stands, so if you want a better stand, get one, or get the Yamakasi 30" 1600p Leonidas screen, the one Paul from Newegg has. 

[target39]

The Yamakasi Leonidas comes in at about $700 on their website, sports a 30" 2560x1600 16:10 panel with 10 bit color (1,073,741,824 colors) according to their website.

[GoodBytes]

What is your budget?

If you are low in cash and really desperate for having a 27inch 2560x1440 monitor for little as possible even thought it's a manufacture rejected panel, then yes, get what target39 suggests.

 

But if you want something solid, and feature rich as your HP ZR24W, then look at what ASUS and Dell has to offer.

Of course they are other brands, but it depends on your budget.

[segfault122]

Yea I can afford the asus hp and dell 27 inch monitors but I was wondering if shelling out the money for them is worth it since chesper options are out there.

[target39]

I guess it really depends on your priorities, but sometimes people get lucky with their cheap korean panels and end up with a panel with no bad pixels. If you can tolerate 6 bright pixels, and single Dual-Link DVI input only, then go for the korean panels, if not, then go with the ASUS Pro Art. I would suggest looking at reviews first though, and Paul seemed like he was very happy with his Leonidas. I don't think he got any bad pixels with his screen, and it is 30" 2560x1600 with support for 10 bit color. Make sure your graphics card supports 10 bit color though. Not even a GTX Titan supports 10 bit, but there isn't a very discernible difference between 8 bit and 10 bit color. If you were fine with TN panels, you will definitely be fine with the S-IPS panel the Leonidas sports. I'd also suggest some korean PLS panels.

 

 

 

[GoodBytes]

All Nvidia GeForce 200 series and up that has DisplayPort support 10-bit colors.

http://www.nvidia.ca/docs/IO/55506/GeForce_GTX_200_GPU_Technical_Brief.pdf

I don't know about AMD graphic card, I never checked.

Dual-link DVI at 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 doesn't have enough bandwidth for 10-bit colors. You need to use DisplayPort. As these are shitty Korean monitor where to reduce cost, the panels are directly connected to the DVI port, practically, skipping color processor and Look Up Table (so horrible for color critical work), you don't get enjoy this feature. Also, what you didn't realize, as you seam to push 10-bit panels a lot, is that 100% of the content you interact with, is encoded in 8-bit colors per channel (red, green, and blue).

The only time you'll have a 10-bit image or more (12, 14 or 16-bit), is if you look at a RAW camera picture from supported cameras, or you are a professional working on a magazine or something and the printer press support such colors (usually they do. Magazine printers are quite impressive in colors and resolution). Oh another purpose is medical and clinical purposes, where colors are at the at most important. FOr example looking at a digitize X-ray or mammogram, these specialized monitor displays 1.07 billion shades of gray. No colors, and super well calibrated, with very expensive calibrator. This is needed to avoid miss diagnostic a patient... lets say a mammogram of a breast, signs of incorrect shades of gray can miss lead a doctor in thinking the patient has breast cancer, or not.

Surgery monitors, used for when the surgeon passes a camera into a patient, is another example (they use color screens, of course). If something of color pink appears red.. then this might lead into miss diagnostic the situation.

So while 10-bit is cool to have, you are not going to enjoy it one bit.

[daDonn]

I can comment on the Samsung S27A850T 27" PLS panel, as I have it. It's awesome!

 

I haven't really used too many other equivalent panels, except on phones :P.

[goodforyou19]

going on with what people are saying about korean 1440 monitors, i just recently (last week) picked mine up from ebay.

i have been looking into them for quite some time, and it seems that alot of them are pretty low build quality in terms of their stand, so i decided to order a crossover 27q.

i was previously using a normal acer 23" LED monitor, and switching over to this is seriously night and day... the amount of screen space you have is just INSANE (but obviously nothing compared to a 4k monitor)

i got pretty lucky with my monitor... no dead pixels and barely any back-light bleeding on my bottom right corner. i ordered mine last wednesday night, and it arrived on friday noon from korea.... talk about fast shipping.

i ended up paying $370 for mine. a bit more expensive than yamakasi or auria, but i think it was well worth the extra cost since the build quality of crossover is just amazing. everything is metal. and it looks amazing too

as for Overlor tempest, from what i heard, they use the same panels as yamakasi does. the owener (someone originally from OCN) figured out that you can overclock those badboys from 60 to 120 refresh rate, so he decided to sell monitors with only the correct PCB for overclocking and re-brand it to his own. 

 

as for gaming, i honestly can't tell too big of a different between 120hz - 60hz. maybe my eyes aren't as sensitive to these things. i could definitely tell a HUGE difference between 1080p and 1440, and the color difference of an IPS panel vs traditional LED panels.