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Hello,
I received my Tempest OC yesterday. I'm in Ontario, Canada. This is how it went down
Left california - Dec. 11th
Border Crossing - Dec. 15th
In my hands - Dec. 18th
Costs:
Screen $459.99 USD
Shipping Cost: $87.89 USD
Taxes + Brokerage: $68.75 CAD
I had no issues unboxing. Good packaging (as can be seen in pictures posted by others).
Connecting the monoprice 24AWG DVI cable was not a pleasant experience, the display stand is too short for the cable. Having it connected applies alot of stress to the DVI connector on the LCD. I ran it for a while with it, but decided to be prudent and switched to a tiny DVI cable for now (I can still run at 120hz no issues).
I started this thread mainly to add some solid color fill pictures I took. Basically I wanted to show some yellow tinting I get. But it doesn't show up on the pictures lol...
The following pictures all have the SAME camera exposure and the same White Balance. The black screen is pretty much what I see (including the stuck pixel)
As for blacklight bleed, I can honestly say I can't notice any at all in normal viewing. I've overexposed the following picture like crazy + exposed it even more in lightroom, just to try and see where it does bleed. (I have absolutely NO idea what that faint crosshair is! at first I tought it was a reflection of something in the camera... but my viewfinder does not have anything remotely resembling that crosshair. The black pattern is me in Paint that created a png with black color only...)
My quality check inspection sheet said I have 1 dead / 1 stuck pixel. I have not been able to find the dead pixel. I have found the stuck. It's a green. I took the following pictures because I wanted to see if I could guesstimate its brightness level.
What happens is on a black background I can see it pop out. But as soon as I go a bit grey (i'm guessing 20% black) it blends in. It's almost like the pixel can only scale from like 40-255 instead of 0-255. I'm pretty happy with this.
Animated GIF
http://imageshack.us/a/img545/884/druneautempestocstuck.gif
Overclocking
Getting 120hz took me almost 2 full minutes. Thanks to toastyx's tools this was super easy. I took some timings from this forum, created 60, 96, 100 and 119.880hz entries. 1 reboot, and it all worked.
This is my first LCD with no OSD/Scaler and I'm impressed by the resolution change speed. Takes less than 1 second to switch. (This is a big change from my AW2310 that took almost 6 seconds to go 120hz...). Very annoying when switching from 23.976 to 25fps material all the time.
The Bad (for me)
-Some yellow tinting at the bottom. I would estimate around 30% near the middle has a yellow tint. I'm still learning about this issue from the web. And I have some hope of figuring it out since I can make it worse by displaying certain pixel patterns at different locations on the screen. (especially if I have this on the left half of the screen and resize it dynamically. http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/DeadPixel/BlackWhite.html)
Noise
I try and keep noise to a minimum at my desk. At 60hz there is almost no audible noise from the monitor. I have to get very close to hear it. But at 120hz the buzzing is incredibly loud. I will most definately take it appart soon and try the epoxy/hot glue fix from the catleap 2B forums. I'm hoping at least dampen it alot.
I received my Tempest OC yesterday. I'm in Ontario, Canada. This is how it went down
Left california - Dec. 11th
Border Crossing - Dec. 15th
In my hands - Dec. 18th
Costs:
Screen $459.99 USD
Shipping Cost: $87.89 USD
Taxes + Brokerage: $68.75 CAD
I had no issues unboxing. Good packaging (as can be seen in pictures posted by others).
Connecting the monoprice 24AWG DVI cable was not a pleasant experience, the display stand is too short for the cable. Having it connected applies alot of stress to the DVI connector on the LCD. I ran it for a while with it, but decided to be prudent and switched to a tiny DVI cable for now (I can still run at 120hz no issues).
I started this thread mainly to add some solid color fill pictures I took. Basically I wanted to show some yellow tinting I get. But it doesn't show up on the pictures lol...
The following pictures all have the SAME camera exposure and the same White Balance. The black screen is pretty much what I see (including the stuck pixel)
As for blacklight bleed, I can honestly say I can't notice any at all in normal viewing. I've overexposed the following picture like crazy + exposed it even more in lightroom, just to try and see where it does bleed. (I have absolutely NO idea what that faint crosshair is! at first I tought it was a reflection of something in the camera... but my viewfinder does not have anything remotely resembling that crosshair. The black pattern is me in Paint that created a png with black color only...)
My quality check inspection sheet said I have 1 dead / 1 stuck pixel. I have not been able to find the dead pixel. I have found the stuck. It's a green. I took the following pictures because I wanted to see if I could guesstimate its brightness level.
What happens is on a black background I can see it pop out. But as soon as I go a bit grey (i'm guessing 20% black) it blends in. It's almost like the pixel can only scale from like 40-255 instead of 0-255. I'm pretty happy with this.
Animated GIF
http://imageshack.us/a/img545/884/druneautempestocstuck.gif
Overclocking
Getting 120hz took me almost 2 full minutes. Thanks to toastyx's tools this was super easy. I took some timings from this forum, created 60, 96, 100 and 119.880hz entries. 1 reboot, and it all worked.
This is my first LCD with no OSD/Scaler and I'm impressed by the resolution change speed. Takes less than 1 second to switch. (This is a big change from my AW2310 that took almost 6 seconds to go 120hz...). Very annoying when switching from 23.976 to 25fps material all the time.
The Bad (for me)
-Some yellow tinting at the bottom. I would estimate around 30% near the middle has a yellow tint. I'm still learning about this issue from the web. And I have some hope of figuring it out since I can make it worse by displaying certain pixel patterns at different locations on the screen. (especially if I have this on the left half of the screen and resize it dynamically. http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/DeadPixel/BlackWhite.html)
Noise
I try and keep noise to a minimum at my desk. At 60hz there is almost no audible noise from the monitor. I have to get very close to hear it. But at 120hz the buzzing is incredibly loud. I will most definately take it appart soon and try the epoxy/hot glue fix from the catleap 2B forums. I'm hoping at least dampen it alot.
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