Asus PB287Q 28" ?

[Aphala]

Does anyone have one of these monitors?

 

If so can you tell me if it's good or not as I plan on buying one soon, what issue other than common monitor faults like bleed and dead pixels?

 

Right now it's £399 via OC UK (I am using a 6970 for now until I replace it with a new card, yes I know 6970 doesn't do 4K )

[byalexandr]

Does anyone have one of these monitors?

 

If so can you tell me if it's good or not as I plan on buying one soon, what issue other than common monitor faults like bleed and dead pixels?

 

Right now it's £399 via OC UK (I am using a 6970 for now until I replace it with a new card, yes I know 6970 doesn't do 4K )

I would upgrade the GPU first.

[Aphala]

I would upgrade the GPU first.

I would but I am waiting for Fury X / 980ti DX12 bench marks once Win10 comes out. I know that my GPU is stale (I bought the blower version....lol)

[byalexandr]

I would but I am waiting for Fury X / 980ti DX12 bench marks once Win10 comes out. I know that my GPU is stale (I bought the blower version....lol)

They'll be better than your 7950 in any case. I don't think you need to wait for DX12 to see that.

[Aphala]

They'll be better than your 7950 in any case. I don't think you need to wait for DX12 to see that.

I only have £400 for a GPU come the 28th I will have £600 so then I will buy a sparkly new GPU.

[GoodBytes]

I have it at work. It sucks.

The view angle, due that it uses a TN panel, is what really ruins it for me.

And I don't mean the overall view angle of the monitor. I mean, because the monitor is so big and using a TN panel, looking straight at the monitor the text in front of you is fine, but turning your head or eyes to see the top left, the text is blurry, and the bottom left is too sharp. Moving your head completely to either point and looking straight it is fine now, but now the center is too sharp or too blurry depending on where you look at. Very annoying. Makes it a pain to read websites.

Also, the monitor built-in speakers does an annoying "pop" sound every time you turn on your computer or change resolution. You can turn off the speakers from the monitor on screen menu and that fixes that problem, but come on, for the price of this monitor this is not excusable. Budget grade monitor don't have this issue with their built-in speakers.

The colors are meh, despite the specs. The monitor has trouble reproducing colors. It looks like a normal TN panel. Nothing more or less. An entry level IPS will beat it in color reproduction.

The monitor on screen menu is difficult to navigate because the buttons on the back, and you are guess what you are pressing and hoping, every single time, that you are pressing the right button. Very frustrating.

The monitor cable management is not great, and feels flimsily. It feel like it will break especially is a cable is pulled, and doesn't do a great job at hiding the cable.

Honestly, the only 2x compliment I can give the monitor are:

- It is not glossy

- It has a fully adjustable stand.

That is all. Expect to use the monitor at 125%-150% DPI settings under Windows. So make sure most of your programs are high-DPI aware.

Firefox 40 beta is FINALLY high-DPI support. Office 2013 and coming up 2016 are as well. Visual Studio 2015 is as well. Latest Photoshop is, I beliive, high-DPI supported. Windows 10 has improved DPI support, but no miracles, your programs needs to support high-DPI. Skype desktop isn't, which I find funny. They are more programs than what I listed of course, you just have to test and see. Steam isn't if you wonder. It will look blurry.

Look at the Dell 24 (P2415Q) and 27inch (P2715Q) 4K IPS 60Hz monitors. While I never seen one physically, it seams to have good reviews.

The big upside of the Dell 24 4K monitor is that you can play games 1080p on it and look fine, as 1080p is perfect on a 23/24inch monitor, and that 4K (UHD) is 4x 1080p, and that the monitor has a really good interpretor, it will look almost like a a native 1080p monitor. You'll definitely not do that for text on your desktop, but gaming it will look very good, apparently.