Be warned:
This monitor has an unusable vertical viewing area.
I have one in front of me now, and looking straight at the screen, the top 2 inches of it are much much darker than the rest. If I move my head slightly up, the top brightens a bit and the lower part gets much darker.
There...
So, every 12ms response monitor will have this terrible vertical viewing problem?
It's back to CRT with me.
EDIT:
Earlier this morning I was trying to do some texture work on this monitor. I realized that not only was the top of the monitor too dark, but the bottom was as well. I'd...
What would you guys suggest I get in the pricerange of this monitor ($400). The reason I went with the 712N was that it had the 12ms response time and amazing visual quality (hah!).
Also, is it true that if you run in a non-native resolution, your response time goes up? If so, by how much?
Let me just add that I'm not that nit-picky about my monitors. But this problem is very bad... as an example:
When playing World of Warcraft, if I don't keep my head in the exact "sweet spot" for the monitor, my health bar becomes almost unreadable as it's red on a black background. The whole...
Oh man... this is not good at all... not at all...
It looks simply terrible. I really hope I can somehow convince BestBuy to let me return it.
I did extensive research on this model before I bought it, and I read nothing but absolutely glowing reviews of it. Never once was this problem...
I recently bought a 712N from BestBuy. I plugged it in and had 3 bright red bad pixels in the middle of the screen. I also noticed that if I moved my head slightly down when looking at the monitor, the top inch of the screen would become much darker.
I initially wanted to just get my money...