27" QNIX QX2710 Evolution 2 impressions

The only reason you want to run a monitor at multiples of 24 is to display 24 fps content like blu-ray films without judder. This would be noticeable on camera pans as a slight "hitch" every few seconds in the motion.

Otherwise pick the refresh rate that works for you. 120 hz would only be useful if your video card can drive games at close to this speed. At 120hz you could display up to 120fps in gaming and avoid obvious tearing. At 2560x1440 this is not so much of a problem. Otherwise the only real advantage is a smoother mouse experience and possibly less motion blur during scrolling.

I just received mine yesterday and I'm ecstatic with this purchase. After disappointments with the Achieva Shimian 27" and the Overlord Tempest 27" (no overdrive), this monitor has been a beyond pleasant surprise.

I bought the "QniX Matt(e) pixel perfect" version from dream-seller for $307.00 U.S./$328 Canadian plus $52.88 taxes and duties (supporting my govt for doing nothing). It is indeed pixel perfect and back-light bleed is non-existent. I have perused it over and over again looking for flaws and it doesn't have any. Uniformity on black and whites is quite solid, and whites show no yellowing in corners or sides.

Right now I'm running it at 96hz and am happy that I can drive it with my SLi Titan setup at this refresh rate in most games.

Very impressed and relieved so far. Now to calibrate via BasicColor and use Color Profile Keeper to make this ICM profile persistent in games and enjoy. The whites are a tiny bit cold and the gamma is very slightly off but otherwise this monitor has drastically exceeded my expectations.

Thank you for the reply, I have bought 3 non pixel perfect ones, and so far the one that arrived seems good to me.
I have to issues though. When I overclock the refresh rate, my video card will not do 32bit color scheme. If I put it to 32 bits, it knocks it out of the over driven refresh rate back to 60Hz.

Second thing is, when I overclock the refresh rate, and this may be due to the drop to 16bit color scheme, things seems to get darker and more contrast. Not in a bad way ,but just different. Is that normal? Do I need a separate color profile for the 120Hz refresh rate?
 
Got my Qnix perfect pixel up and running, and wow no bleeding, no dead pixels very very impressed.

First thing I did was remove the crappy stand, and put my NEC monitor from my old 23 inch that died on it.

Man it looks very nice with an adjustable stand.

Best $300 spent in awhile.
 
Thank you for the reply, I have bought 3 non pixel perfect ones, and so far the one that arrived seems good to me.
I have to issues though. When I overclock the refresh rate, my video card will not do 32bit color scheme. If I put it to 32 bits, it knocks it out of the over driven refresh rate back to 60Hz.

Second thing is, when I overclock the refresh rate, and this may be due to the drop to 16bit color scheme, things seems to get darker and more contrast. Not in a bad way ,but just different. Is that normal? Do I need a separate color profile for the 120Hz refresh rate?

I had this happen on my old 8600GT video card in my Macbook pro, but on my PC at home I made sure to select 32-bit in the custom resolution under NVcontrol Panel. For some reason sometimes it changes to 16-bit when you select custom resolution and then it uses that as the setting when making the custom resolution. 16-bit will show banding and color blocking on gradients.

I can't do 120hz, as I get "green snow" on the upper left to middle, so 96hz is fine for me. The Titans will be going under water in my Micro-ATX case soon and with some OC we'll see if I need to go this high to avoid tearing.

So far I'm very happy with the motion performance. Much better than that Overlord Tempest I had received last year. It's obviously not going to match the Lightboosted TN panels at 120hz but I'll deal with the trade off for far superior image quality, uniformity, and viewing angles any day. I also don't have $10,000.00 to spend on Eizo's CG232 Black frame inserting(similar to lightboost), 120hz IPS/PLS panel built for broadcasters and moneybags.

I got mine with tinted screen. Any ideas on how to fix this? Can I buy replacement LED backlight strips somewhere?

Probably have to replace the panel. You can try replacing the strips but this may be a different issue in the polarizer layer or the back-light "light tracks".

This is also a very tricky mod and without really good dust control you could end up with dots behind the panel.
 
So no perma solution to the 16bit drop?
Also do you guys use different color profiles for the 120Hz refresh rate versus 60?
 
Well I have a refresh rate issue now, When I only use the EVGA refresh rate utility, in some cases which involve SLI, I get a screen lockup and black screens between Al-Tab's take forever and mouse starts to glitch every 30 seconds or so.
When I get the refresh rate to stick, then some games don't recognize it and lock me in to 60fps with v-sync.
Is there another overwrite i need to do to get this thing working?
 
I also don't have $10,000.00 to spend on Eizo's CG232 Black frame inserting(similar to lightboost), 120hz IPS/PLS panel built for broadcasters and moneybags.
I'm curious if it uses black frame insertion via the LCD panel itself (pixel transitions to black and then back), or if it uses black frame insertion via the backlight strobing (like LightBoost).
And I wonder what ratio the black frame insertion is?

Motion blur reduction on a modern LCD can be made directly proportional to the strobe length, I am pretty curious how long the black frames are. Black frames that are as long as the refresh itself, will only reduce motion blur by 50%. LightBoost is equivalent to a 5:1 ratio of black frame insertion (black frame 85% of the time, visible refresh 15% of the time), so it reduces motion blur by 85% relative to regular 120Hz. Or 92% relative to regular 60Hz, as seen in 60Hz vs 120Hz vs LightBoost.
 
Just bought 2 more , both are excellent , no dead pixels , both overclock to 120hz without artifacts , panel uniformity is pretty great as well (slight bleeding but totally acceptable).

For the money , this seriously is the best monitor you can get. If you could only add lightboost tech to this monitor it would be absolutely perfect.

I think I've convinced about a 12 different friends of mine to buy these monitors , no one has had any major defects.

This monitor reminds me of the good ole days of hardware bargins. The Celeron 333mhz CPU that would overclock to 400Mhz without breaking a sweat , the old Voodoo 1 cards.

If you are on the fence its understandable considering the risk , but its paid off far more than not.
 
Just bought 2 more , both are excellent , no dead pixels , both overclock to 120hz without artifacts , panel uniformity is pretty great as well (slight bleeding but totally acceptable).

For the money , this seriously is the best monitor you can get. If you could only add lightboost tech to this monitor it would be absolutely perfect.

I think I've convinced about a 12 different friends of mine to buy these monitors , no one has had any major defects.

This monitor reminds me of the good ole days of hardware bargins. The Celeron 333mhz CPU that would overclock to 400Mhz without breaking a sweat , the old Voodoo 1 cards.

If you are on the fence its understandable considering the risk , but its paid off far more than not.

Funny I had a Celeron 333 overclocked to 400 (my first time ever overclocking) and a voodoo1.

God I am old.
 
Funny I had a Celeron 333 overclocked to 400 (my first time ever overclocking) and a voodoo1.

God I am old.


I had an overclocked celeron and the first voodoo also!

Quick question, I have 3 of these monitors and if I use the reduced lcd option for the refresh rate rpfile, i can overclock them 120hz, but then in games, i rarely see an odd horizontal line flash across the screen. This is what I am using for my center, does that mean 120 is too much for that guy. I can easily switch a side one to center to see if it performs betters.
Funny thing, under desktop environment, there are no issues.
 
I'm curious if it uses black frame insertion via the LCD panel itself (pixel transitions to black and then back), or if it uses black frame insertion via the backlight strobing (like LightBoost).
And I wonder what ratio the black frame insertion is?

Motion blur reduction on a modern LCD can be made directly proportional to the strobe length, I am pretty curious how long the black frames are. Black frames that are as long as the refresh itself, will only reduce motion blur by 50%. LightBoost is equivalent to a 5:1 ratio of black frame insertion (black frame 85% of the time, visible refresh 15% of the time), so it reduces motion blur by 85% relative to regular 120Hz. Or 92% relative to regular 60Hz, as seen in 60Hz vs 120Hz vs LightBoost.

In the past it's always been BFI with a black frame artificially inserted for a short burst between each frame, but this was before LED back-lighting. This was the way Samsung did it with their crappy MPAA, and BenQ with there less-crappy-but-still-somewhat crappy Perfect Motion on the BenQ FP241VW.

I would lean towards the back-light way of doing it, as this has more control and will probably cause less eyestrain.

Funny I had a Celeron 333 overclocked to 400 (my first time ever overclocking) and a voodoo1.

God I am old.

I had a 386-25 that I overclocked to 28 mhz by replacing the crystal with a socket. No heat sink. Fully naked. And I was legal to drink at the time.

Who would you say is the best person to purchase this monitor off of ebay?

Thanks.

I am very happy with mine from Dream-seller, as he seems to have really checked it. Now, I've seen on occasion an IPS develop a dead or half-dead sub-pixel after the fact, but that has been super-rare.
 
Can you search ebay via seller? I just did a general search on UK site and nothing. Not used to ebay!

You can change your "View" settings. If you customize the View you can add Seller Information. After that you should be able to just do a standard browser search for Dream-Seller.

I just did a quick search for "QNIX QX2710 LED Evolution" this way and Dream-Seller was 3rd and 4th in the list...
 
With glossy I find that I get alot of reflections unless I turn off all lights except a couple of lamps either side. But then my black level does not look that great any more and sort of shows up a greyer black.

If I decide to purchase a new monitor like this one in this thread I am tempted to go matte as the IPS have better colour over TN in the first place.

A light matte would help out with lighting and still have great colour.
 
My PC sits in the basement where it is pretty much always dark. So I really don't have much to worry about reflection (lamp on the side).
 
I've been looking at these pretty much since the beginning and finally pulled the trigger on 3 of them today to replace my Dell U3011's. I briefly had BenQ 27"ers with lightboost a couple months ago. I just couldn't take the resolution. I'm hoping these are going to give me the size that I need, resolution, less motion blur, and stay relatively cool. If not, my friends will be getting $300 monitors for their birthdays...haha.
 
I had a similar experience. Went with a 27inch 120hz 1080p monitor and could not handle the resolution.
much happy with 1440p.
 
Guys, I have an ATI HD6950 (with a 6970 bios)

WIll I be able to run this monitor at native resolution for daily web tasks, and play games at lower resolutions (1080p or less) without it looking jacked up or terrible?

I'm concerned if I'm forced to game at 2560x1440p that framerates might suck (especially in the future as more intense games are released)
 
Guys, I have an ATI HD6950 (with a 6970 bios)

WIll I be able to run this monitor at native resolution for daily web tasks, and play games at lower resolutions (1080p or less) without it looking jacked up or terrible?

I'm concerned if I'm forced to game at 2560x1440p that framerates might suck (especially in the future as more intense games are released)

6950 with 6970 bios will run one of these guys for any application you want at more than decent speeds. It will have trouble with demanding games with everything turned on. You may be looking at sub 20 fps for 16x antialliasing and ultra high textures etc.. however if you don't mind just giving up a slight amount of graphics settings, there is no reason for you to not to be able to game using your card at 1440p with 30-40 fps. With low graphics setting, I am sure you can hit 60fps. Just don't lower the resolution of the monitor. You are always better off running native resolution with low detail than low resolution high detail.
 
I just got one of these today, ordered via Amazon (sold by MiseMet). It only took a day to ship all the way from South Korea to NYC, even stopping in Cincinnati.

I was lucky enough to get zero dead pixels and seemingly low BLB, but I haven't fully tested the latter yet. I didn't order a pixel perfect monitor either, so I think I just got lucky. I was not able to get it up to 120hz, after a few seconds both connected displays spaz out (the secondary is just a garbage 1080p Acer). I'm running at 110hz currently, though the secondary display shows some vertical lines on it. Oddly the QNIX is showing none.

Coming from a Samsung S27A950, I'm definitely noticing more ghosting but the colors are much better. It's an interesting tradeoff. I'm not sure which I actually prefer, but I'm certainly leaning towards the QNIX since it also has the resolution going for it.

I originally had the 326.19 nVidia drivers installed but those do not work with this monitor at all. You must use 326.01 or previous drivers. I went back to 320.49 WHQL, used ToastyX's patcher, and created the resolution in the nVidia control panel. ToastyX's CRU didn't seem to work for me, but perhaps I was using it wrong. I'll probably inch up towards 120hz a little at a time, but I'm currently satisfied with 110hz.

Highly recommended purchase!
 
This has to be the most ridiculous day of my life. I just tried to achieve 120 Hz, and then I noticed that a horrendous cluster of like 20 blue stuck pixels had appeared on the left side of the monitor :D can't help but laugh, and wait till I can throw this piece of shit out of the window.
 
Are these genuine Samsung PLS panels?

I just ordered a perfect glossy from dream-seller. Shipping seems to be a full 7 days...did he not ship it expedited like stated in the item?
 
Are these genuine Samsung PLS panels?

I just ordered a perfect glossy from dream-seller. Shipping seems to be a full 7 days...did he not ship it expedited like stated in the item?

Yes. They are A- grade panels which means they did not meet Samsung's level of QC and therefore be viable enough to ship. These third party companies simply buy the defect panels and rebrand them.

More often then not they are actually quite great but vendors who buy from them (the more well known kinds like Apple) might have standards that are higher than normal and therefore that's why these lower grade panels exist.
 
Finally broken down and got the pixel perfect matte from dream-seller (w/ SquareTrade warranty). Hopefully its a good one.
 
Is there a tool to overclock refresh easily? Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.
 
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Is there a tool to overclock refresh easily? Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

If you're using an nVidia card, you need to patch the drivers with this. For ATI, use this. After that, you can test custom refresh rates using the nVidia control panel (unsure about ATI), and once you find your optimal rate you can create a low level built-in refresh rate using this.
 
If you're using an nVidia card, you need to patch the drivers with this. For ATI, use this. After that, you can test custom refresh rates using the nVidia control panel (unsure about ATI), and once you find your optimal rate you can create a low level built-in refresh rate using this.

Worked like a charm....goes to 120hz fairly well, some faint scan lines every so often, but only noticable on a solid color.

Extremely vivid colors, perfect for 3rd person games. However, I'll probably stick to my lightboost xl2420tx for most fps though.
 
Worked like a charm....goes to 120hz fairly well, some faint scan lines every so often, but only noticable on a solid color.

Extremely vivid colors, perfect for 3rd person games. However, I'll probably stick to my lightboost xl2420tx for most fps though.

Yeah, noticing the ghosting? I am going to just force myself to get used to it since the colors and resolution are too awesome to pass up in all games IMO :)
 
Yeah, noticing the ghosting? I am going to just force myself to get used to it since the colors and resolution are too awesome to pass up in all games IMO :)

Yea, ghosting is a but much for games like BF3. The action gets messy. Oh well.

It makes me appreciate the benq though, even without lightboost, the response time and AMA feature make action smooth.
 
Yea, ghosting is a but much for games like BF3. The action gets messy. Oh well.

It makes me appreciate the benq though, even without lightboost, the response time and AMA feature make action smooth.

If you're noticing darkness when running at 120hz, you can try some of the custom color profiles linked from the fist post here.
 
Almost bought one. Lovely people seem to have the best policy for $310 or best offer. They pay return shipping costs for a year if it breaks. Their 0-2 dead pixel policy is the same as dream-sellers perfect pixel.

Will probably get it next week.
 
there it is
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