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The guy on Reddit possibly got a bad unit, it's far from unknown with Samsung. I briefly owned a pair of 27HG70s and absolutely hated them. The uniformity problems were terrible, with weird graffiti-like patterns clearly visible over much of the screen. Viewing angles and contrast were fairly...

I hope it works for you. Last time I ran up against this problem I sourced an active HDMI/DVI converter that apparently supported 2560x1600, but would never give an output on the monitor.

Some of the DVI-only 30" monitors are quite strange with regards to supported resolutions. You get the full 2560x1600 or 1280x800. That's it, only those two resolutions are supported as the Altera scaler chip used in those models can't do fractional scaling. Only basic 2x2. If your Dell is one...

Samsung have a 34" 100Hz VA model with Freesync coming out soon. That's about as good as it's going to get for large VA monitors for some time, I suspect.

Oh oh, that looks familiar! This is one of my BenQ BL3200s, same panel as the Omen. Looks like AUO are having quality control issues again. (I sent this picture to BenQ and they replied that the panel uniformity is within specification and refused an RMA...)

There's no way to get more than 1280x800 out of a 305t via HDMI. It only supports two resolutions, 1280x800 via SL-DVI or converted HDMI, and 2560x1600 via DL-DVI. The 'scaler' chip really only has one scaling mode, 2x2 upscaling.

Reballing, either done professionally or the oven bake hack, may fix it temporarily. But the scaler will overheat and die again unless fitted with a cooling fan. I don't think there's any way to run a 305t from VGA; HDMI will work with a suitable cable or converter, but only as single-link so...

I have a pair of PowerColor Nanos and at stock they are nicely quiet. The fan only becomes clearly audible with the power limit pushed up, and even then they're still quieter then the Gigabyte Windforce 290s they replaced.

I think you may have a faulty unit. My BL3200PT has little visible blur, just some faint trailing in very dark scenes, nothing out of the ordinary compared to other VA monitors I've owned.

There shouldn't be any difference between DP and MiniDP, but you may want to try a new cable as the MG279Q is hugely sensitive to cable quality - I found I couldn't get 144Hz to work reliably with any DP cable I tried, including the bundled MiniDP one. The fuzzy text is, as far as I could...

When Freesync is on and functioning the frequency on the OSD will roughly track with the game's frame rate. If it is just sitting at one value then FS isn't working.

FreeSync on the MG279Q only works if you set the refresh rate of the screen to 90Hz or less. 120/144Hz can't be used with FS, selecting either of them disables FS completely and the OSD shows a warning.

Don't worry about that, lots of monitors can't display that test correctly. It's just a side effect of the way some LCD panels work. 3 of the 8 monitors I own have problems showing that page.

It's purely subjective, but personally I find it a little the small side for my less than perfect eyes. I use a 32" 1440p screen day-to-day and that's probably as much pixel density as I want until Windows gets UI scaling that actually works.

Couldn't agree more. Because IPS' image quality hasn't really improved at all in recent years, VA's contrast and black depth advantage is now so huge that I wouldn't use an IPS screen for anything but colour sensitive design work. VA is just plain better for general desktop, video and to a...

That's pretty strange. I've been playing since Premium Beta and the updates almost always come down fast enough to max out my 18MBit connection.

I was referring to the banding on the green/magenta test page. That happens on lots of monitors and is not something that occurs in any circumstance other than showing a 1-pixel crosshatch pattern.

It's quite normal. Plenty of other monitors show the same banding with that pattern, it's not something what will have any impact during normal use.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the technology, older BL3200PTs like mine don't show any of the flickering/flashing issues of current ones. AU Optronics have obviously had a run of faulty panels that their QA system didn't pick up on, which is why Samsung and Acer models using the same...

I think that's just a peculiarity of the way some VA panels work. It isn't restricted to the BL3200PT, my Samsung 305t+ shows exactly the same issue - look at the end of this video where I drag the window from the BenQ to the Samsung and it's quite clear...

Okay, just tried the Benq with my laptop (a Dell XPS 15 w/ Nvidia 525 graphics) and it works fine, no sign of flickering on Google Earth at all. My BL3200 is one of the first batch I believe, manufacture date is March 2014.

Using a Radeon 290 here. I've put up a video of my BenQ with Google Earth, and the dead pixel test page on both the BenQ and Samsung 305t+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTk7biz2f1Q My laptop has an NVidia chip in it, if I get time later I'll hook the BenQ up to it and see if there's...

Something strange going on here; That page doesn't cause flickering on my BL3200PT (well, the cross-hatch pattern itself flickers when moved, but all LCDs do that. The rest of the screen is fine). But if I drag the window over to my second monitor (a 30" Samsung 305t+) I do get flickering and...

I just tried scrolling around the same area on Google Earth that you've shown in your video and there's no flickering at all on my BL3200PT. The picture is nice and solid. Have you tried connecting it to another PC?

Have to agree on that. I have both a 32" 2560x1440 and 30" 2560x1600 monitors on my desk, and there's really very little difference in day to day use. The 32" acts as my primary screen purely because it has better image quality.

Probably bad capacitors, it's a very common fault on the 281D. My brother has one that started showing lines of corruption and I fixed it by replacing two small caps on the logic board (the 10uf ones, I think).

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 has been around for almost three years now and there doesn't seem to be any reports of degradation problems with its OLED panel, so it would seem longevity isn't a major issue (although the costs involved may be).

Seconding the BL3200PT. I moved to one from a 30" Samsung 305T and like it a lot. Can't say the slight reduction in pixel density is an issue, if anything I think the BenQ is right in the sweet spot.

I don't think the Samsung 2333t is much use as an example as those old cPVA screens had absolutely horrible black crush. As for the picture of the boy, I dunno what's up with that but my VA screens (which, admittedly, are not budget models) can reproduce his legs quite clearly.

It's worth pointing out here that this only applies to TN and IPS panels. Modern VA screens regularly achieve in excess of a 3000:1 ratio in independent testing.

I think 4K LCD is going to struggle against OLED unless the price gap is substantial. OLED has the advantage of immediacy - replace a 1080p LCD TV with a 1080p OLED and everything looks better right away; pure blacks and infinite contrast, more vibrant colours and less blurring. (Just how...

I think it's a little bit misleading to state in the review that the P8P67's second 16x PCI-e slot is really a 4x slot without explaining the situation further. By default the second 16x slot is electronically just a 1x slot. Forcing it up to 4x can be done via the BIOS, but that has the major...

All 28" 1920x1200 panels are TN, I believe. There are 27" PVAs with that resolution, though.

Not sure this is much help, but on my 2407WFP-HC the memory indicator pattern shimmers a bit when moving, though not really any worse than a TN (I don't have an IPS handy for comparison atm). But I tried it on a P-MVA monitor (AUO M240UW01 panel) and there's a significant darkening effect.

50Hz is the standard for TV and video in most of Europe. 50Hz video played back on a monitor working at 60Hz is jerky and uneven, so it's very useful if the monitor can do 50Hz correctly. OP: try using PowerStrip or similar to force the monitor to 75Hz.